HOUSES/HOMES
Graphite drawing on paper
2024-2026

This series is a visual inquiry into the phenomenological tension between the concepts of "house" and "home." While a house is a physical vessel, a home is a subjective experience of intimacy and stability. The project challenges the rigid, idealized architectural archetypes — the square rooms, high ceilings, and stable structures that society equates with domesticity — by superimposing distorted and imaginary forms onto the traditional concept of shelter. Through a collection of crooked and unrealistic silhouettes, I pose the question: at what point does a structure begin to offer the emotional security of a home?

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STOP DYING FOOLS
Installation, text-based art, sculpture; digital print, graphite drawings, AI-generated video and imagery.
2025

This installation is an investigation of death, memory, and symbolic systems through the lens of dark humor and linguistic subversion. The work features a digital print on a white flag — a paradoxical symbol that serves as both a gesture of surrender and a desperate, almost childlike outcry against the unstoppable nature of mortality. 

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WORT BRICHT WAND
Graphite drawing on paper
2025

This piece is a visual interpretation of the phrase itself. It centers on the contrast between dense pencil shading and rigid typography. The text functions as a physical force, literally cutting through the graphite "wall" and turning a chaotic mass into a structured statement. It is a simple play on meaning, where the typeface becomes a tool for breaking through a barrier.

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FUCK ASTROLOGY
Posters/stickers
2025


A visual experiment replacing zodiac signs with architectural forms. Growing out of the HOUSES/HOMES project, it trades stars for minimal archetypes—shifting the focus from fate to form. From a poster series to a street intervention through city-wide sticker placements.


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ÄSTE/FELSEN
Graphite drawing on paper
2021

A visual exploration of natural forms: wood and stone. Drawings from life - collections of sticks from different parts of the world, transformed into ephemeral forms.


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GARDEN
Artist’s book, graphite on paper,
mixed media installation
2024


Garden is a multimedia project exploring the boundaries of memory and the afterlife, presented through an artist’s book and a spatial installation. The narrative centers on a childhood garden that has transitioned from a place of life into a liminal zone—a purgatory of absolute stillness.

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HOME
Graphic Narrative
2023


A graphic narrative that explores the existential search for belonging through the journey of a character named Usto. The story begins in a "conditional" house—a transparent structure of sticks without walls or windows—which eventually collapses, forcing the protagonist into the unknown.

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TSUYU
Brand identity and packaging
2024-2025

The objective centered on engineering an adaptable visual ecosystem for TSUYU’s seven-product range. To maintain absolute brand integrity, the designer implemented a dual-logo architecture—merging a distinct wordmark with a symbolic icon—supported by a refined typographic framework.

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ELECTROSUN
Brand identity
2024

Tasked with disrupting a traditional industry, the designer created a high-contrast visual identity for Electro Sun that emphasizes the energy of solar innovation. 

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TUTA
Research & Design
2021

TUTA is a digital platform dedicated to research, visual exploration, and documentation, where the primary objective was to establish a clean and highly structured environment that keeps content at the forefront. 


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RUNDGANG
Visual Identity
2023

RUNDGANG is the comprehensive visual identity developed for the annual open days at Weißensee Academy of Art and Design Berlin. 

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POSTERS/COVERS
Poster design & Editorial
2023-2024

This collection is a curated selection of visual experiments focused on the structural possibilities of posters and editorial covers.


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AIGHT
Visual Identity & Card Game Design
2023

AIGHT is a card game designed to foster deep human connection and meaningful dialogue through a series of introspective questions. The visual identity and product design reflect the project’s core mission: creating a space for intimacy through structural clarity. 

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RECIPE BOOK
Editorial Layout Design
2022

This project is a study in editorial systematicity, focusing on the structural organization of information within a culinary context. The layout is built upon a rigorous modular grid designed to balance dense instructional text with minimalist aesthetic clarity. 

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polsryman@gmail.com
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My practice is rooted in graphite drawing. Across different bodies of work, I return to the absence of a subject — spaces, objects, or situations where human presence is implied but never fully appears. These images often feel suspended or slightly displaced, holding a quiet tension without resolving into a clear narrative. I move between more open, ambiguous compositions and works that carry fragments of narrative, but in all of them I am interested in how presence can be constructed through what is missing.
Language enters my work as a fragile and unstable system. I experiment with fragmentation, mistranslation, and shifts between alphabets, allowing texts to remain formally correct while losing clarity of meaning. Through drawing and text, I explore how perception, memory, and structure can become misaligned.

Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a graphic designer focusing on editorial design, visual identity, and typographic systems. My approach is based on structure, clarity, and controlled visual hierarchy. I work with publications, posters, and identity systems, developing projects from concept to production. My design practice is closely connected to my artistic work, particularly in its attention to language, composition, and the construction of visual meaning.




Education
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
BA Visual Commiunication
2019 - 2026

BBE
Graphic design
2024

British Higher School of Art and Design
Pre-Foundation Art and Design 
2016 - 2017




Work experience Freelance Graphic Designer
(since 2020)

Rodstvenniki Books
Layout Designer
(since 2020)

Betterwood
Graphic Designer
2025 - 2026

Craftly
Design Working Student
2024

Eight Space
Brand Designer
2022 - 2023




Skills
Editorial design
Visual identity
Typography
Layout and book design
Poster design
Social media design
Video editing
Illustration
Art direction




Selected exhibitions
BERLIN ART WEEK (upcoming
Berlin Art Institute
Berlin, September 2026

LUCKY CHARMS (upcoming)
Bushy Pony,
Berlin, May 2026

TO BE WITH
See Our Vision Gallery,
Berlin, 2026

HYPERSENSITIVE RESISTANCE
See Our Vision Gallery,
Berlin, 2025

CONTEMPORARY FACES
See Our Vision Gallery,
Berlin, 2025

CULTURAL LOOPS
See Our Vision Gallery,
Berlin, 2025

BAAM
Monopol
Berlin, 2025

SHIFTING RELATIONS
FeldFünf,
Berlin, 2024

PERSONAL EXHIBITION
Peresvetov Galery,
Moscow, 2021

SA)))))
Electromusium,
Moscow, 2020

POLITICAL/VIRTUAL
Shaninka Minecraft server,
Moscow, 2020






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