During the period August – September 2007 Vera held a successful and much commented exhibition in the Art-Center Berlin, Friedrichstrasse. She is now permanently exhibited in this Center and her paintings can be viewed at any time.

2008 was followed by an exhibition “Over the Rainbow” with the showing of the paintings of the artist as well as a performance of pantomime, a Shaolin demonstration, a performance of an opera-singer as well as stone-sculptures of Igor Kashkuriewitsch.

There is a dynamism and explosive energy in the work as well as a quality of radiating light.
Sasha Grishin, Prof. for Art, Universities Canberra, Harward

Vera Sell-Ryazanoff, born in Moscow, received her art education at the Sourikov Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow where as a gifted and precocious student she made little attempt to fit in with the prevailing philosophy of Socialist Realism. In her intellectual interests, she paid little attention to current Soviet literature, but looked back to the so called Russian ‘silver epoch,’ especially the writers and poets Velimir Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelshtam and Nikolai Gumelev. Very early in her thinking there was a perception that the precious spark of inner life in art that Kandinsky had spoken of, and which in the early decades of this century was evident in his work as well as in the paintings of such artists as Pavel Filonov and Mikhail Vrubel’, had been crushed by the weight of Stalinist oppression and the banality of materialist culture and that it was her mission to somehow revive this spark, foster it and see it grow into a renaissance. From the outset she believed that her art was not intended as facile decoration, but had a purpose and a mission and that she as an artist was only a willing vehicle through which a greater force could operate.