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I'm glad you're here

My name is Olena Kayinska. I'm an artist. I'm happy to do what I love the most. I want to make you happy as well with the help of my paintings.

 

My paintings-dreams take the observers inside, to the subconscious, to the core. Trying to find the inner self, the observer wanders through the imaginary world, fantastic forests, filled with symbolic images and archetypical symbols, inhabited with mysterious creatures, each of which provides a guide to the final destination – our heart. My aim is to make people happier.

 

My paintings show the endlessness of obvious and unobvious relationships in this world with the help of mysterious storylines with the metaphysical sense. Being the guide between the worlds, I mix reality and magic in a genuine meditative form of my witchcraft. Direct ascetism of the flat surfaces, completeness, and persuasiveness of the compositions, seamless statics, graphical coding of the deep sense into the schematic images, order, and rhythm of the painting focus the observer’s attention on what is underneath.

 

I want to return the observers to the pure, sincere, and spontaneous experience of the outer world, which we all had in our childhood. Children observe the world as it is, directly, without thinking. My paintings are childishly simple and straightforward. They help recall the child’s state of trust and safety, the state of interest in the world around, the state of fabulousness and love. As if you are being held in hands and told a fairy tale. When we manage to recall this fundamental state and restore the feeling of trust and pureness, the world starts showing us its magnanimous side. My paintings are portals of returning to the pure child’s state of mind and to the joy of being.

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Personal projects:

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  • 11 April – 5 May 2024 – Trauma. Body of war, personal project, Art Cluster Na Poshti, Ternopil, Ukraine

  • 18 May – 18 June 2023 – Realm of Highness, personal project, KONTORA, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 14 May 2023 - Trauma, personal project, as part of the event "Return of Strength. Meditation, poetry, post-traumatic syndrome". Presentation of Yung Pueblo's collection of poems "Inward". Moderator of the discussion. Coffee, books and vintage festival, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 27 April 2023 – House with a stone, personal project, Ukrainian People’s House, Przemysl, Poland

  • 17 March – 28 April 2023 – Trauma, personal project, gallery HallArtHall, Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 14 January 2023 – Trauma, personal project, online platform Gallery Omata, Hong Kong, China

  • 30 August – 4 September 2022 – Trauma, personal project, Our festival 8, contemporary art festival, Athens, Greece

  • 6 July – 6 August 2022 – Neighbors came, personal project, restaurant Drunken Duck, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 13 May – 13 June 2022 – Listen to Life, personal project, ART Prostir, Lviv Municipal Library, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 8 - 29 September 2020 - River inside of me, personal exhibition within the project Her (ex)position, Auction house Korners, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 20 February – 13 March 2020 – Thin Dreams, personal project, PM Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 5 – 25 December 2019 – The Light Comes from The Silence, personal project, gallery Bunkermuz, Ternopil, Ukraine

 

Group exhibitions:

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  • 6 March – 6 April 2024 – Nude, creative cluster Na Poshti, group exhibition, Ternopil, Ukraine

  • 3 March – 3 April 2024 – Senses, Lviv Gastro Studio, group exhibition, Senses Chef Table, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 10 February 2024 – February_2 February_10. Аbout the war that is still going on, group exhibition – the result of the art residency, Ukrainian People’s House, Przemyśl, Poland

  • 21 October 2023 - Duality / Shades of Ukrainian life, group exhibition in the frameworks of the forum “Ukraine of the future”, Emily Resort, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 30 September 2023 – Pop-up Open Wall, group exhibition, 31 ArtSpace, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 2 – 4 July 2023 –Both sides of the border face East, group exhibition, curator and participant, gallery HallArtHall, Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 1 – 30 July 2023  – Metamorphosis, Lacuna Festivals, annual contemporary art festival, Canary Islands, Spain

  • 30 June 2023 - Charity auction in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Long standing ovation, Lviv

  • 3 – 10 June 2023 – Freakcreative congress, group exhibition, Center of modern art “White world”, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 1 May – 22 September 2023 – Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Mowna Biennial, group online exhibition

  • 31 March 2023 – Open Walls, charity fundraiser and print sale for Ukraine, Tonbu London, 31 Art Space, London, UK

  • 29 March – 30 April 2023 – Female Gaze, online exhibition, Girl Museum

  • 27 February – 27 March 2023 – The art of solidarity, group exhibition, PEN, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 24 February – 26 March 2023 – Volnanova, group exhibition, Cherkasy Art Museum, Cherkasy, Ukraine

  • 20 – 24 February 2023 – Peace, not war, a group exhibition of Ukrainian artists, Tvoj deň, Bardejov, Slovakia

  • 16 December 2022 – The 30th anniversary of the Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, group art project, Osvitoria Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 16 December 2022 – 27 January 2023 – One day after, group exhibition, Imagine Point Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 9 December – 9 January 2022 – Layers of sense, multimedia group exhibition, Panel Magazine, Kastner, Budapest, Hungary

  • 5 – 31 December 2022 – Christmas Art Fair, Riga, Latvia

  • 3 – 12 December 2022 – The Ukrainian art wall, Hundertwasser Train Station, Uelzen, Germany

  • 3 – 10 December 2022 – Evacuated, exhibition of the results of the art residency “Aura of the city. Evacuated”, curator and participant, Svalyava, Ukraine

  • 27 November – 4 December 2022 – Walking home. Reconstruction, group pop-up exhibition, 31 Art Space, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 25 October – 20 December 2022 – Fragility, group online exhibition, Meta senses gallery

  • 7 – 27 October 2022 – Between sky and earth, group exhibition, the center of contemporary art “Solvay”, Krakow, Poland

  • 5 August – 4 September 2022 – Fight with Art, Global Online Charity Auction for Ukraine, Auction House Róża Wroniszewska, Krakow, Poland

  • 15 July – 15 August 2022 – Lviv, Kyiv, Charkiw…Kunst, group exhibition, Buckeburg, Germany

  • 2 – 31 July 2022 - Lacuna Festivals International, Contemporary Art Festival: Clash 2022, Canary Islands

  • 23 June – 17 July 2022 – Unconquerable Ukraine, All-Ukrainian cultural-art project by National Artists Union of Ukraine, exhibition halls of the Central Artist’s House, Kyiv

  • 29 May – 26 June 2022 – Femme Fragile, Point of View digital interdisciplinary art zine, Vienna, Austria

  • 30 April – 15 May 2022 – Time of war. Reflections…, group project, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 15 – 17 April 2022 – Ukrainian Days, a cultural festival, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 1 April 2022 – Modern Renaissance Magazine, Issue 11, Culturally Arts Collective

  • 10 March – 14 April 2022 – War is not peace, a group exhibition, Espace29 Gallery, Bordeaux, France

  • 28 March 2022 – Volnanova, online exhibition – International art event, dedicated to the heroic confrontation of the Ukrainian nation against russian occupants in russian-Ukrainian war

  • 18 February 2022 – Volume 2 Issue 2: Spirituality, art book, The Mobile Library, the Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture

  • 17 February – 31 March 2022 – Viewpoint, virtual exhibition, NAT gallery

  • 21 – 23 January 2022 – Warhol’s, contemporary art festival, House of Culture Nazva, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 26 – 30 October 2021 – Closely related, charitable art project, National Museum in Lviv by Andrey Sheptytsky, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 1 August – 31 October 2021 – The Sleepover, an online project about art, memories, artifacts, and rituals

  • 2 July – 1 August 2021 – Distance. Lacuna Festivals 2021, contemporary art festival, Canary Islands

  • 30 May 2021 – The Song Between Our Stars, a magazine that showcases poetry, fiction, and artworks

  • 17 March 2021 – coviDreams, a book about dreams and the pandemic

  • 26 February – 31 March 2021 – The little stories we tell ourselves, online group exhibition, Gallery MUI

  • 11 – 24 February 2021 – Visiocracy, Modern Research Art Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 17 December – 17 January 2020 – an exhibition of the results of the art residency Zhovkva-Art-Kreminna, Old Apothecary, Zhovkva, Ukraine

  • 1 – 31 December 2020 – Women Suffragists, Women Soaring Project, online exhibition, WSP Gallery

  • 23 November – 15 January 2020 – In Time of Corona, juried online exhibition, 118 Art Gallery

  • 28 October 2020 – Virtual naїve art museum

  • 17 – 18 October 2020 – Sail of Adventures, VII tourist festival of songs, photos, and cinema, a participant in an art exhibition, Palace of Culture, Lutsk, Ukraine

  • 8 – 11 October 2020 – Lviv Art Week 2020, group exhibition, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 1 – 18 October 2020 – One day after…, International art project, Museum-exhibition center of modern art, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 19 – 24 August 2020 – V International Parajanov Festival, group exhibition, curator and participant, Suputnyk, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 15 August – 30 September 2020 – There is feminism… , group exhibition, at Gender Culture Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine

  • 26 June – 31 July 2020 - The LOST festivals, Annual International Contemporary Arts Festival, Lacuna Festivals, Canary Islands, Spain

  • 4 – 30 June 2020 – International Online Painting Exhibition 2020, under Jaleswar Art Foundation, India

  • 2 – 28 June 2020 – Two Dots, online exhibition, NV Gallery, co-curator and participant

  • 22 May – 31 December 2020 – Post-COVID-19 Juried Online Art Show, Anton Art Center

  • 16 November 2019 – Oscar’s Night, a charitable evening by Rotary Club Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 18 – 20 October 2019 – AirGogolFest, contemporary art festival, Crystal factory, Vinnytsya, Ukraine

  • 28 September – 28 October 2019 – Diffusion, the final exhibition of the art residency Diffusion, Kramatorsk Museum of Art, Kramatorsk, Ukraine

  • 16 – 23 September 2019 – Waves of Reality or Excitation in Travneve, final exhibition of the NVAIR 2019 program, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 13 – 28 September 2019 – Diffusion, the final exhibition of the art residency Diffusion, Center of modern art by Arkhip Kuindzhi, Mariupol, Ukraine

  • 29 August – 30 September 2019 – Social Volume, the final exhibition of the art residency by Helikon Art Center, Kara Sanat Atolyesi Gallery, Izmit, Turkey

  • 19 – 24 August 2019 – IV International Paradjanov Festival, group exhibition, curator and participant, Suputnik, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 15 June – 4 August 2019 – Narrative about Freedom, the final exhibition of Nazar Voitovich Art Residency, gallery of the Zbarazh castle, Zbarazh, Ukraine

  • 1 June – 20 July 2019 – Mamay. Prairie. Protection, an art exhibition in the framework of the history-cultural festival Mamay-fest under the aegis of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Museum of History of Kamyanske, Kamyanske, Ukraine

  • 9 May 2019 – The Shadow of Dream* cast upon Giardini Della Biennale in Venice

  • 20 – 23 March 2019 – Lviv Art Days, contemporary art exhibition, Lvivarnya, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 13 January 2019 – Charitable auction by Ukrainian Doctors Union, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 19 – 24 August 2018 – ІІІ International Paradjanov Festival, contemporary art festival, cultural-art center "Suputnik", Lviv, Ukraine

  • 25 – 27 May 2018 – New Wave Exhibition vol.3, contemporary art festival, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 4 – 18 December 2016 – The Journey for the Inner Light, group exhibition, First Lviv Media Center, Lviv, Ukraine

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Art residencies:

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  • 22 – 29 February 2024 – Art residency in Creative Residence MC6, Slavske, Ukraine

  • 5 – 12 February 2024 – Art residency February_2 February_10. Аbout the war that is still going on, Ukrainian People’s House, Przemyśl, Poland

  • 10 November – 19 December 2023 – Art residency Grounding. Invasion, IZOLYATSIA, manager

  • 31 July – 13 August 2023 – Art residency LuppArt, Luppa Island, Budapest, Hungary

  • 3 – 30 April 2023 – Art residency in the People’s House, Przemyśl, Poland

  • 3 – 16 October 2022 – Art residency Aura of the city. Evacuated, curator and resident artist, Svalyava, Ukraine

  • 15 – 25 November 2021 – Art residency Aura of the city. Checkpoint, Starobilsk, Ukraine

  • 8 – 16 November 2020 – Art residency Zhovkva-Art-Kreminna, Zhovkva monastery of Fathers Vasylians, Zhovkva, Ukraine

  • 19 – 24 August 2020 – Parajanov art residency, curator and participant, Suputnyk, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 7 – 30 September 2019 – Diffusion, international art residency, Mariupol, Ukraine

  • 18 – 30 August 2019 – Helikon Art Center, art residency, Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey

  • 28 June – 8 July 2019 – International Art camp of Chorna Tysa SILVER LAND-ART 2019, Chorna Tysa village, Ukraine

  • 1 – 15 June 2019 – Nazar Voitovich Art Residency, Travneve village, Ternopil region, Ukraine

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Workshops and conferences:

 

  • 3 April – 3 May 2024 – Seeds of Polina Raiko. Around the Art, online-workshop

  • 21 March – 23 May, 2024 - Laboratory of Memorialization Practices, an educational and research project to find a language of commemoration of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Past / Future / Art (implemented by the NGO Cultural Practices), NGO Museum of Contemporary Art

  • 15 – 17 March 2024 – WSL-ART, program of support for artists, Transformation Platform Graham Bell

  • 29 December 2023 – 12 January 2024 - Laboratory in development, interdisciplinary narrative workshops, Dim42, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 15-17 December 2023 – The Artists at Risk (AR) Residency Network – Ukraine: Current Activities, Capacities and Future Prospects, manager

  • 22 October 2023 – Dysarium, design-conference, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 21 October 2023 – forum Ukraine of the Future, participant of the group exhibition “Duality/Shades of Ukrainian life”, Emily Resort, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 27 September 2023 – Capacity Building Workshop for cultural institutions who want to become art residencies, Artists at Risk, moderator

  • 7 - 9 September 2023 – Ukraine! Unmuted, Congress of Culture, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 5 July 2023 - Displaced Ukrainian Artists: The Impact of War on Artistic Practice, moderator of a panel discussion, Lacuna Festivals, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

  • 23 June – 4 July 2023 – Both sides of the border face East, multilingual transnational colloquium, curator of art sector, Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, Travneve village, Lviv

  • 14 May 2023 – Returning of power. Meditation, poetry, posttraumatic syndrome. Discussion, moderator. FESTRepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 10 – 25 November 2022 – Places in changes, workshop on topical transdisciplinary practices for artists, Hnat Hotkevich Palace, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 23 October – 27 November 2022 – Course Basics of drawing: theory and practice, the center of education CE, Urban Library, Lviv, Ukraine

  • September 2022 – Artists in war, program by Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 7 July 2022 – Art in the wartime, moderator of a panel discussion with Ukrainian artists, Lacuna Festivals, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

  • 13 March – 24 August 2021 – Manufacture of projects Pidzamche ultimately!, a series of trainings on the engagement of resources and project management

  • 17 April 2021 – Digital Art Mobility 2021, online international conference, moderator and assistant

  • 17 – 25 November 2020 – Counter-territories, an international urban and art competition digital workshop, Tajarrod Architecture and Art Foundation

  • 24 July 2020 – Healing with the Arts, online course, University of Florida

  • 7 July 2020 – Art and mental health, moderator of a panel discussion, Lacuna festival, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

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Curatorial practices and cultural management:

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  • 21 January 2024 – present – Board member of Artsee Advisors Group, Artsee Community, Artists4Peace

  • 15-17 December 2023 – The Artists at Risk (AR) Residency Network – Ukraine: Current Activities, Capacities and Future Prospects, manager

  • 27 September 2023 – Capacity Building Workshop for cultural institutions who want to become art residencies, Artists at Risk, moderator

  • 20 September 2023 – present – Artists at Risk, matchmaking curator

  • 1 September – 19 December 2023 – Grounding. Invasion, art residency, IZOLYATSIA, manager

  • 5 July 2023 - Displaced Ukrainian Artists: The Impact of War on Artistic Practice, moderator of a panel discussion, Lacuna Festivals, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

  • 2 – 4 July 2023 –Both sides of the border face East, group exhibition, curator and participant, gallery HallArtHall, Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 23 June – 4 July 2023 – Both sides of the border face East, multilingual transnational colloquium, curator of art sector, Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, Travneve village, Lviv

  • 14 May, 2023 - Trauma, personal project, as part of the event "Return of Strength. Meditation, poetry, post-traumatic syndrome". Presentation of Yung Pueblo's collection of poems "Inward". Moderator of the discussion. Coffee, books and vintage festival, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 3 – 10 December 2022 – Evacuated, exhibition of the results of the art residency “Aura of the city. Evacuated”, curator and participant, Svalyava, Ukraine

  • 3 – 16 October 2022 – Art residency Aura of the city. Evacuated, curator and resident artist, Svalyava, Ukraine

  • 7 July 2022 – Art in the wartime, moderator of a panel discussion with Ukrainian artists, Lacuna Festivals, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

  • 17 April 2021 – Digital Art Mobility 2021, online international conference, moderator and assistant19 – 24 August 2020 – Parajanov art residency, curator and participant, Suputnyk, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 19 – 24 August 2020 – V International Parajanov festival, group exhibition, curator and participant, Suputnyk, Lviv, Ukraine

  • 7 July 2020 – Art and mental health, moderator of a panel discussion, Lacuna festival, annual contemporary art festival, Canary islands, Spain

  • 2 – 28 June 2020 – Two Dots, online exhibition, NV Gallery, co-curator and participant

  • 19 – 24 August 2019 – IV International Paradjanov Festival, group exhibition, curator and participant, Suputnik, Lviv, Ukraine

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