Kateryna Lysovenko was born in Odesa in 1989. She studied at the Grekov Art School in Odesa, the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, and the Academy of Media Arts in Kyiv. In 2022, Kateryna Lysovenko fled Ukraine with her two children and has lived in Vienna ever since. Against the backdrop of the tragic conflict in her home country, her intensely colourful paintings, drawings, and murals explore themes such as ideological labelling, power and powerlessness, loss, and trauma.
Her work has been presented twice at the Venice Biennale. Compared with her earlier works, which are characterised by darker, opaque tones. The colours in her more recent paintings have transformed into a luminous palette of great lightness and transparency. Hybrid creatures and ghostly beings, appearing like coloured shadows, emerge within these transparent pictorial spaces. Some of the works transform personal experiences of migration, alienation, and of being made into an outsider into poetic images of vulnerability. Birds appear—migratory birds striving to overcome gravity. Home is carried into foreign places like the house of a snail.
*1977 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: Sex Medicated Rock-n-Roll
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*1984 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: Fragile of Identification
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*1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: WE ARE THE PRICE
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*1973 in Zhdanivka, Ukraine. Lives and works in Muzychi, Ukraine.
Work: MAMA 16.01. – 19.01.2019
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*1980 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Work: Drawing on Maidan
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*1988 in Kerch, Ukraine.
Work: Homo Bulla
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*1976 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Work: How to Deal with the Pigs
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*1981 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kassel and Kyiv, Ukraine.
Work: From Left to Right
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*1987 in Odessa, Ukraine. Lives and works in Odessa.
Work: Melissa
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