Apollinaria Broche

Apollinaria Broche is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working in ceramics and bronze, she creates hybrid floral sculptures that merge botanical forms with anthropomorphic and symbolic elements like skulls, arms, and mythical creatures.

Apollinaria Broche, born in 1995 in Moscow, creates places of escape and retreat that blur boundaries between the real and imagined. Working in ceramics and bronze, she crafts sinuous flowering plants adorned with anthropomorphic and symbolic elements—skulls, arms, lockets, snakes, and sprite-like creatures emerging from floral crevices. Drawing inspiration from art history and fairy tales, she populates her landscapes with fantastical flowers and shape-shifting mythical creatures informed by Fra Angelico, Henry Fuseli, Leonora Carrington, and the cinematic visions of David Lynch and Dario Argento. Her glazed ceramic blossoms with bronze stems are planted with kinetic care—some shimmer when touched—adorned with keys, daggers, and relics that make them seem like statues of saints laden with symbolism and history. The work insists that gardens harbor both beauty and danger.