Following positive discourse in contemporary art, BEYOND represents the artists whose work, along with superb aesthetics, carries the qualities of peace, aliveness, and oneness so much anticipated in our turbulent times when wars, pandemics, and economic crises, as well as digital communication, challenge our capacity to stay balanced and connected to others and to ourselves.
Art of the BEYOND comes from the space of inner silence, where one feels harmonious unity as the core of all things. It transcends the feelings of separation and anxiety, engaging viewers with the metaphysical experience of peaceful connection to the universal essence of their being.
Liza Luys-Degtiarnikova
THE FOUNDER
BEYOND is founded by Liza Luys-Degtiarnikova, a contemporary art manager with over 15 years of diverse experience in the global art world. Liza has managed the contemporary art collection of Maria and Oleg Baybakov, named #8 in the world by ARTnews. She has also managed a 3,500-square-meter non-profit exhibition space in Moscow, Russia, showing the work of the world’s renowned artists. She has been acting as an artist manager, art dealer, and art consultant in recent years. Along with her career in the global art world, Liza has been involved in spiritual and wellbeing practices since her early twenties, when she started meditating, learning to master her energy, and going beyond the perception of the mind, reaching to the metaphysical reality where the harmonious essence of things is revealed.
"BEYOND is a natural outcome of my two passions—art and spirituality. I feel that now is the moment when the world needs art that helps viewers reconnect with themselves, feel at peace, balanced, and whole. The goal of creating this platform is to bring together contemporary artists whose work, along with their superb sense of aesthetics, carries a universal and eternal quality of oneness. Those artists who, in their personal spiritual and creative search, have reached the beyond and found light that is now manifesting in their work. I’d like this art to inspire viewers into a state of enlightenment through the metaphysical properties of color and form, as well as the energy behind them. For every light is a reminder of the source we all come from."
