Julia Shutkevych is a Ukraine-based multimedia artist working in generative graphics, AR/VR, and audiovisual art, including interactive installations and performances. Despite the war that found Julia in Kyiv, the artist decided to continue working in the field of art. However, today’s events in Ukraine and their experiences have influenced Julia’s sense of herself as an artist and her artistic practice: […]
The war caught a Ukrainian artist Myron Kataran working in his studio in Lviv. Although the artist was not expecting such an abrupt invasion of the occupiers, the presentiment of a conflict had been haunting him for a long time. Over the past few years he has been working on the topic of war and peace. The peace not only […]
Ihor Bondarenko is a Ukrainian artist from Kyiv. He works mainly with photography. “Art for me is some kind of ordering of reality, as well as my self-expression in the world. Therefore, my works are focused mainly on issues of reflection of the world, time, memory, reality and truth” — from the artist’s bio. Works of Ihor Bondarenko have been […]
Olia Fedorova is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, working with photography, video, installation and text. Based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her practice is focused on the exploration and interaction with environments as semantic spaces.The war caught Olia in Kharkiv and the artist decided to stay in the city, which is exposed to devastating shelling and missile strikes, to fight on the information […]
Pavlo Bestuzhev, Ukrainian media artist, illustrator and visual communication designer from Kyiv. Co-founder of the co-lab community.Due to the high probability of shelling of Kyiv, he and his family were forced to leave their homes without any belongings other than documents and a pet in the first hours of the full-scale invasion. For more than a week he has been […]
Oleksandr Bondarenko is a Mariupol painter, who works in the field of geometric abstraction. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1988), one of the members of the Mariupol creative association “Harbarbond”, participant of Ukrainian and international exhibitions. According to the artist, the war started so unexpectedly for him that he did not even have time to […]
“Good evening, we are from Ukraine … Maybe it is a cliché, but I have the right to say hello in this way!!! – says Yevhenii Shcherbyna, who considers himself as a freelance artist. – I am a soldier in peacetime and wartime … Since childhood, I like to draw, write poetry, create books and sketchbooks, play and write music […]
Roxolana Dudka is a Ukrainian artist who works with painting, sculpture and ceramics, art in public space, XR, participatory practices. Her works are kept in the collection of the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” (Kyiv), the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv), the Center of International Cultures “Family” (Klaipeda, Lithuania), as well as in private […]
Dmytro Buryan is a Ukrainian graphic artist and sculptor from Cherkasy. Dmytro has sought to serve since the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion to Ukraine, and is now defending the state on its southern borders. He is the only artist in his department, but he is not able to engage in creativity during the service, only sometimes he has […]