Anna Sarvira is an illustrator, curator, and art director, co-founder of the Pictoric Illustrators Club (2014), from Kyiv, Ukraine, currently living in Cologne, Germany. Having graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, her graphic works and illustrations have been awarded and exhibited worldwide including the Itabashi Museum in Tokyo, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, and the Pictoplasma Conference in Berlin. She worked with UNICEF, Museum of Modern Art New York, Goethe Institute, British Council, UN Women, Coca Cola, Penguin Books, and many more. Her works were featured in CBS News, Bloomberg, The Economist, arte.tv, Deutschlandfunk and Forbes Magazine.
Together with Oleg Gryshchenko and Olena Staranchuk, Anna founded the well-known Pictoric Illustrators Club in 2014 - an independent cultural organization for illustration and graphics exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Since the full-scale war in Ukraine started in 2022, Pictoric initiated the project #SupportUkrainePIC which collects war illustrations from Ukrainian artists, sharing scenes of everyday life under the threat of war. Pictoric has organized more than 40 exhibitions from their archive since March 2022. This year they are also exhibiting at the seventh edition of the Melba Design Festival in Sofia.
Anna Sarvira is a guest speaker at the International Melba Symposium thanks to the partnership with the Ukrainian Embassy in Bulgaria.
