Official results · Published November 1, 2025
Moments of Life 2025
Only finalist works are published. All participants receive documentation by email.
Thank you to all who participated in this event & congratulations to the finalists of the Moments of Life Competition!
We received over 110 submissions from artists across different countries. The Curatorial Council and Jury carefully reviewed all entries and selected 31 outstanding works, based on theme, quality, and technical skill.
Participants offered their own unique interpretations of the competition’s theme, presenting personal stories, emotions, and perspectives that made the selection process truly inspiring.
Learn more about each artist, the inspiration behind their work, and find links to their websites by clicking on the images. Countries represented in this exhibition include the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, China, Romania, Iran, Serbia, India, Mexico, and the UK.
Jurors for this event: Elizaveta Akimova, Mosaz (Zijun Zhao), Qichao An, Lotta Glybotskaia, Olga Bondarenko, Josephine Florens, and Anastasia Mikhaylenko.
You can read more about each jury member on the Jury List page on our website.
We hope you enjoy the show!
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Platinum award
Jewels
Meryem Berrada
Canada
Awarded the highest score of the competition by decision of the jury. The work receives a numbered certificate and a permanent entry in the winners archive.
Finalist works
32 WORKSVenus Reassembled
France · Title: Venus Reassembled Series: Influence Dimensions: 120 × 80 cm Medium: Collage, acrylic, epoxy resin, plexiglass on canvas Who is she — this new Venus, reborn not from the sea, but from the glossy pages of modern desire? In this work, the artist revisits Botticelli’s Birth of Venus — the timeless image of purity, grace, and natural beauty — and overlays it with a delicate yet unsettling collage made from magazine cutouts and fragments of contemporary media. From a distance, the form remains familiar, even classical. But as the viewer draws closer, the surface reveals itself to be a mosaic of fashion, advertising, and illusion. Layer by layer, the goddess is covered — reshaped by the ideals imposed upon her. Her skin, once luminous and human, is replaced by printed perfection. Her presence, once divine, becomes curated. This modern Venus embodies the silent transformation of women in the age of influence: when beauty, instead of being born, is assembled; when identity becomes a collage of what society deems desirable. Through this dialogue between past and present, the painting asks: What remains of authenticity when the image of beauty is rewritten by imitation? And can the true self still emerge beneath the layers of what the world expects her to be?
Adam & Eve
France · Series: Lost in Code Diptych – Adam & Eve Dimensions: 120 × 40 cm (each panel) Medium: Acrylic, pigment print, laser cutting, mixed media Lighting element: Connects to a power outlet; the artwork illuminates from within when plugged in ⸻ Two figures. Adam and Eve — no longer in a garden, but in a pixelated void. Their bodies are rendered in stark black and white, devoid of color, contour, or certainty. They are not born of flesh and light, but of pixels and absence, suspended in a space where identity dissolves into data. In Adam, luminous symbols of currency rain from above — dollar signs, euros, yen — cascading down a dark digital backdrop like a code dripping through consciousness. In Eve, glowing logos of global brands replace leaves and whispers: fashion, beauty, power — sleek icons of desire. The dark background shimmers with embedded light — each canvas subtly wired with an internal glow. When connected to a power source, the paintings emit a gentle luminescence, bringing the coded symbols to life in a ghostly digital rain. The contrast between the monochrome figures and their radiant environment deepens the tension between substance and illusion. Together, these works form a contemporary Genesis — one not of creation, but of erasure. In the pursuit of wealth, approval, status, and consumption, the figures have lost their color, their definition, their essence. They are outlines of humanity — recognizable, but fading. This diptych asks: When the external world defines us through symbols, what remains of the self?
Influence
France · Titre : Heartfeed Série : Influence Dimensions : 80 × 80 cm Technique : Huile, acrylique, techniques mixtes avec éléments en relief Dans un monde saturé de notifications, de vies soigneusement mises en scène et de validations éphémères, cette œuvre saisit un instant de repli silencieux. Une jeune femme se replie sur elle-même — non pas simplement en position fœtale, mais dans la forme d’un cœur humain. Un geste de retour, un réflexe de protection instinctive. Nue, fragile et silencieuse, elle est entourée de bulles de savon translucides — à l’intérieur desquelles flottent les symboles lumineux de l’approbation numérique : cœurs, « likes », pouces levés. Facebook. Instagram. Échos de l’attention. Le fond, d’un rose doux et apaisant, semble presque tendre, mais les icônes y dérivent comme un pollen synthétique, envahissant, persistant. Ces bulles, délicates et enfantines, portent pourtant le poids du jugement contemporain. Cette peinture évoque la tension entre notre visibilité numérique et notre invisibilité émotionnelle. Elle explore la manière dont le vacarme de la validation extérieure peut éroder le sentiment d’identité, jusqu’à ne laisser qu’un refuge : celui du retour à soi — non pas dans la peur, mais dans la quête silencieuse d’authenticité. À une époque où même nos émotions deviennent des performances, ce cœur nous rappelle qu’avant les « likes », il y avait le silence. Et peut-être que la guérison commence là.
Alley in Blush & Light
Flame-Lotus in Summer’s Blue Surge
Bohdi
United Kingdom · Title: Bodhi (菩提) Artist: Huiyuan Zhang Year: 2024 Dimensions: 5 × 17 cm Materials: Ceramic, wood-fired Description: Bodhi embodies a meditative stillness born from fire and earth. The natural glaze variations reveal layers of depth and transformation, resembling moss-covered stone or weathered soil. It evokes the quiet enlightenment of the Bodhi tree — humble, grounded, and timeless. Price: £350
Every award above is issued as a numbered certificate with jury credentials, verifiable by its certificate number.
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