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      • Familiar Ground
        • Видих 2 | Breath out 2
        • Міцелій | Mycelium
        • Поговоримо | Let’s talk
        • Чорний лебідь 2 | Black swan 2
        • Serpen-Time
        • Великий горизонт | Big Horizon
        • Жовтнева композиція | October Composition
        • Осінній вибух | Autumn Burst
        • Знайома земля 1 | Familiar ground 1
        • Знайома земля 5 | Familiar ground 5
        • Знайома земля 6 | Familiar ground 6
        • Знайома земля 7 | Familiar ground 7
        • Знайома земля 8 | Familiar ground 8
      • FLOWERS OR EXPLOSIONS
        • Павутина | Spider web
        • Підводний малюк | (Sub) Sea baby
        • Контрнаступ | Counteroffensive
        • Рожевий живий | Pink’s not dead
        • Посеред поганого сну… | In the middle of a bad war dream…
        • Свідок землі | Eyewitness of the ground
        • Свободу леопардам | Free the leopards
        • Це вітер чи працює ППО? | Is it a wind or Air defense at work?
        • Ліс Київської області… | The Forest of Kyiv region…
        • Перші березневі тюльпани | First March Tulips
        • Поле квітів I | Flowers field I
        • Поле квітів II | Flowers field II
        • Рожеві півонії | Pink peonies
      • RELATIONS WITH THE IMAGE
        • Стосунки з образом I | Relations with the image I
        • Акула декольте | Shark Neckline
        • ⚡️33⚡️
        • Переправа у відсутність | Сrossing into absence
        • Викриття | Revelation
        • Здалося | It seemed
        • Фуршет | Buffet
        • Руки | Hands
        • Зайка | Bunny
        • Стосунки з образом II | Relations with image II
      • Broad perspective
        • Місце – Час | Time – Place
        • Смуги 1 | Stripes 1
        • Смуги 2 | Stripes 2
        • Смуги 3 | Stripes 3
        • Смуги 4 | Stripes 4
        • Смуги 5 | Stripes 5
        • Смуги 6 | Stripes 6
        • Смуги 7 | Stripes 7
        • Смуги 8 | Stripes 8
        • Смуги 9 | Stripes 9
        • Смуги 10 | Stripes 10
        • Смуги 11 | Stripes 11
      • GAMMA
        • Кава I | Coffee I
        • Місяць I | Moon I
        • Я | Me
        • Осіння фактурна | Autumn Textured
        • Поле Мрії II | Field of dream II
        • Субстанції | Substances
      • Ballet Mecanique
        • Композиція 4 | Composition 4
        • Композиція 7 | Composition 7
        • Композиція 11 | Composition 11
        • Композиція 16 | Composition 16
        • Композиція 17 | Composition 17
        • Просторова ситуация I | Spatial situation I
        • Просторова ситуация III | Spatial situation III
        • Квадратний поліптих | Square polyptych
        • #1
        • #5
        • #8
        • #9
        • #11
        • Act 2. 2
        • Act 2. 4
      • Overtures. Diary
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №1 | Overtures. Diary. #1
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №3 | Overtures. Diary. #3
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №4 | Overtures. Diary. #4
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №5 | Overtures. Diary. #5
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №6 | Overtures. Diary. #6
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №7 | Overtures. Diary. #7
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №9 | Overtures. Diary. #9
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №10 | Overtures. Diary. #10
      • KILL BILL
        • Кілл Білл №1 | Kill Bill #1
        • Кілл Білл №2 | Kill Bill #2
        • Кілл Білл №3 | Kill Bill #3
        • Кілл Білл №4 | Kill Bill #4
        • Кілл Білл №5 | Kill Bill #5
        • Кілл Білл №6 | Kill Bill #6
        • Спорт | Sport
        • ШУМ | Noise
      • LIQUID
        • Вікна в літо | Windows into the summer
        • Нова хвиля | New wave
        • Прекрасна зелена | Beautiful green
        • Сонячна буря | Sun storm
        • Супутники та туманності | Satellites and nebulae
      • CLASSIC ABSTRACT
        • Геометрія | Geometry
        • Етна | Etna
        • Квіточки | Flowers
        • Тілл I | Teal I
        • Тілл II | Teal II
        • Перша весняна | The first in the spring
        • Пробудження | Awakening
        • Рівновага | Equilibrium
      • Anatomy
        • Сяйво чистого розуму | Shining of the Spotless Mind
        • Aнатомія №5 | Anatomy #5
        • Анатомія №7 | Anatomy #7
    • graphics
    • sculpture
      • Перший | First
      • Ядерний | Nuclear
      • Грааль | Grail
      • Пальці диявола | Devil’s fingers
      • Зефірка | Marshmallow
      • Шишка | Cone
      • Хмарка | Cloud
      • Яєчний | Egg Mushroom
      • Близнюки | Gemini
      • Бутон | Bourgeon
    • available
    • unavailable
  • exhibitions
    • solo
      • Familiar Ground | Знайома земля (2025)
      • Flowers or explosions | Квіти чи вибухи (2023)
      • Relations with the image | Стосунки з образом (2022)
      • Gamma | Гама (2021)
      • Ballet mecanique. Act III | Механічний балет. Акт III (2019)
      • Trajectory | Траєкторія (2019)
      • Ballet mecanique | Механічний балет (2018)
      • FLUX | Течія (2018)
      • Kill Bill | Кілл Білл (2017)
      • Gravity | Г Р А В І Т А Ц І Я (2017)
      • What color do you see? | Яким ти бачиш цей колір? (2017)
      • Nature of sensations | Природа відчуттів (2016)
      • In colour | В Кольорі (2016)
      • Flesh | Плоть (2014)
    • group
      • Віднайдене у втратах | Meaning after loss (Kyiv, UA, ’25)
      • Випадкові події | Serendipitous events (Kyiv, UA, ’25)
      • Концентрація волі | Concentration of the will (Kyiv, UA, ’23)
      • Ukrainian 12 | Brussels (BE, ’23)
      • Awakening | Kyiv (UA, ’23)
      • From Ukraine with love | Copenhagen (DK, ’22)
      • … І Підіймайся | …And Get Up! | Kyiv, (UA, ’22)
      • Wartime. Reflections… | Lviv (UA, ’22)
      • The Art of Resistance | Valencia (SP, ’22)
      • Objects Art Prize (2020)
      • Bodensee Art Fair (2019) | Dornbirn (AT, ’19)
      • Verbalization (2019)
      • Anatomy of simulacre | Анатомія симулякра (Київ, 2018)
      • VALUES ON THE WAY | Berlin (GE ’18)
      • Marry me! | Виходь за мене! (2017)
      • Drawing Utopias | London (GB, ’16)
      • Place. Time | Время. Место (2015)
      • New grain | Зерна нового (2015)
      • Ukrainian landscape | Украинский пейзаж (2014)
      • Ping-Pong | Пинг-понг (2011)
  • projects
    • Self-Decommunization
    • Nearly three years
    • Horizontal links
    • To the river
    • Flowers or Explosions objects
    • Ukraine is me
    • Heterotopia
    • To scatter stones
    • Hello, mum, hello, granny!
    • Temporality
    • Daydreamer
    • Plant-Octopus
  • publications
  • implementation
  • blog

ALENA KUZNETSOVA

СУЧАСНИЙ ЖИВОПИС | CONTEMPORARY PAINTING

  • artist
  • artworks
    • painting
      • Familiar Ground
        • Видих 2 | Breath out 2
        • Міцелій | Mycelium
        • Поговоримо | Let’s talk
        • Чорний лебідь 2 | Black swan 2
        • Serpen-Time
        • Великий горизонт | Big Horizon
        • Жовтнева композиція | October Composition
        • Осінній вибух | Autumn Burst
        • Знайома земля 1 | Familiar ground 1
        • Знайома земля 5 | Familiar ground 5
        • Знайома земля 6 | Familiar ground 6
        • Знайома земля 7 | Familiar ground 7
        • Знайома земля 8 | Familiar ground 8
      • FLOWERS OR EXPLOSIONS
        • Павутина | Spider web
        • Підводний малюк | (Sub) Sea baby
        • Контрнаступ | Counteroffensive
        • Рожевий живий | Pink’s not dead
        • Посеред поганого сну… | In the middle of a bad war dream…
        • Свідок землі | Eyewitness of the ground
        • Свободу леопардам | Free the leopards
        • Це вітер чи працює ППО? | Is it a wind or Air defense at work?
        • Ліс Київської області… | The Forest of Kyiv region…
        • Перші березневі тюльпани | First March Tulips
        • Поле квітів I | Flowers field I
        • Поле квітів II | Flowers field II
        • Рожеві півонії | Pink peonies
      • RELATIONS WITH THE IMAGE
        • Стосунки з образом I | Relations with the image I
        • Акула декольте | Shark Neckline
        • ⚡️33⚡️
        • Переправа у відсутність | Сrossing into absence
        • Викриття | Revelation
        • Здалося | It seemed
        • Фуршет | Buffet
        • Руки | Hands
        • Зайка | Bunny
        • Стосунки з образом II | Relations with image II
      • Broad perspective
        • Місце – Час | Time – Place
        • Смуги 1 | Stripes 1
        • Смуги 2 | Stripes 2
        • Смуги 3 | Stripes 3
        • Смуги 4 | Stripes 4
        • Смуги 5 | Stripes 5
        • Смуги 6 | Stripes 6
        • Смуги 7 | Stripes 7
        • Смуги 8 | Stripes 8
        • Смуги 9 | Stripes 9
        • Смуги 10 | Stripes 10
        • Смуги 11 | Stripes 11
      • GAMMA
        • Кава I | Coffee I
        • Місяць I | Moon I
        • Я | Me
        • Осіння фактурна | Autumn Textured
        • Поле Мрії II | Field of dream II
        • Субстанції | Substances
      • Ballet Mecanique
        • Композиція 4 | Composition 4
        • Композиція 7 | Composition 7
        • Композиція 11 | Composition 11
        • Композиція 16 | Composition 16
        • Композиція 17 | Composition 17
        • Просторова ситуация I | Spatial situation I
        • Просторова ситуация III | Spatial situation III
        • Квадратний поліптих | Square polyptych
        • #1
        • #5
        • #8
        • #9
        • #11
        • Act 2. 2
        • Act 2. 4
      • Overtures. Diary
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №1 | Overtures. Diary. #1
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №3 | Overtures. Diary. #3
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №4 | Overtures. Diary. #4
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №5 | Overtures. Diary. #5
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №6 | Overtures. Diary. #6
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №7 | Overtures. Diary. #7
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №9 | Overtures. Diary. #9
        • Увертюри. Щоденник. №10 | Overtures. Diary. #10
      • KILL BILL
        • Кілл Білл №1 | Kill Bill #1
        • Кілл Білл №2 | Kill Bill #2
        • Кілл Білл №3 | Kill Bill #3
        • Кілл Білл №4 | Kill Bill #4
        • Кілл Білл №5 | Kill Bill #5
        • Кілл Білл №6 | Kill Bill #6
        • Спорт | Sport
        • ШУМ | Noise
      • LIQUID
        • Вікна в літо | Windows into the summer
        • Нова хвиля | New wave
        • Прекрасна зелена | Beautiful green
        • Сонячна буря | Sun storm
        • Супутники та туманності | Satellites and nebulae
      • CLASSIC ABSTRACT
        • Геометрія | Geometry
        • Етна | Etna
        • Квіточки | Flowers
        • Тілл I | Teal I
        • Тілл II | Teal II
        • Перша весняна | The first in the spring
        • Пробудження | Awakening
        • Рівновага | Equilibrium
      • Anatomy
        • Сяйво чистого розуму | Shining of the Spotless Mind
        • Aнатомія №5 | Anatomy #5
        • Анатомія №7 | Anatomy #7
    • graphics
    • sculpture
      • Перший | First
      • Ядерний | Nuclear
      • Грааль | Grail
      • Пальці диявола | Devil’s fingers
      • Зефірка | Marshmallow
      • Шишка | Cone
      • Хмарка | Cloud
      • Яєчний | Egg Mushroom
      • Близнюки | Gemini
      • Бутон | Bourgeon
    • available
    • unavailable
  • exhibitions
    • solo
      • Familiar Ground | Знайома земля (2025)
      • Flowers or explosions | Квіти чи вибухи (2023)
      • Relations with the image | Стосунки з образом (2022)
      • Gamma | Гама (2021)
      • Ballet mecanique. Act III | Механічний балет. Акт III (2019)
      • Trajectory | Траєкторія (2019)
      • Ballet mecanique | Механічний балет (2018)
      • FLUX | Течія (2018)
      • Kill Bill | Кілл Білл (2017)
      • Gravity | Г Р А В І Т А Ц І Я (2017)
      • What color do you see? | Яким ти бачиш цей колір? (2017)
      • Nature of sensations | Природа відчуттів (2016)
      • In colour | В Кольорі (2016)
      • Flesh | Плоть (2014)
    • group
      • Віднайдене у втратах | Meaning after loss (Kyiv, UA, ’25)
      • Випадкові події | Serendipitous events (Kyiv, UA, ’25)
      • Концентрація волі | Concentration of the will (Kyiv, UA, ’23)
      • Ukrainian 12 | Brussels (BE, ’23)
      • Awakening | Kyiv (UA, ’23)
      • From Ukraine with love | Copenhagen (DK, ’22)
      • … І Підіймайся | …And Get Up! | Kyiv, (UA, ’22)
      • Wartime. Reflections… | Lviv (UA, ’22)
      • The Art of Resistance | Valencia (SP, ’22)
      • Objects Art Prize (2020)
      • Bodensee Art Fair (2019) | Dornbirn (AT, ’19)
      • Verbalization (2019)
      • Anatomy of simulacre | Анатомія симулякра (Київ, 2018)
      • VALUES ON THE WAY | Berlin (GE ’18)
      • Marry me! | Виходь за мене! (2017)
      • Drawing Utopias | London (GB, ’16)
      • Place. Time | Время. Место (2015)
      • New grain | Зерна нового (2015)
      • Ukrainian landscape | Украинский пейзаж (2014)
      • Ping-Pong | Пинг-понг (2011)
  • projects
    • Self-Decommunization
    • Nearly three years
    • Horizontal links
    • To the river
    • Flowers or Explosions objects
    • Ukraine is me
    • Heterotopia
    • To scatter stones
    • Hello, mum, hello, granny!
    • Temporality
    • Daydreamer
    • Plant-Octopus
  • publications
  • implementation
  • blog

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“Луна 3” и я
Новая работа в мастерской.
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Холст, авторская техника, 2020
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В мастерской
#бытьхудожником. Выпуск 15. В мастерской

artist


  • Alena Kuznetsova is a professional multidisciplinary artist born in 1986, who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.


  • Her artistic practice engages with ecological and feminist perspectives, focusing on the fragile balance between humans and nature in contexts shaped by environmental transformation, conflict, and displacement. The artist is particularly interested in how these conditions generate new forms of interdependence, vulnerability, and resilience.


  • Participated in Ukrainian and international shows and is an author of 14 solo projects. Her creative work includes painting, graphics, video, installation, photography, text art, and ceramic sculpture. Alena’s artistic practice has changed a lot since 2022.


  • She’s been focusing mainly on abstract painting and color research from 2008 to 2021. Her art has changed critically with the full-scale invasion. Alena came out to her international audience and colleagues with a war agenda and began volunteering a lot as a talking head and in written interviews, spreading the word. The artist came back to social issues in recent projects since 2022: Ukraine is Me, To the River, Flowers or Explosions, Broad Perspective, Nearly Three Years, Horizontal Links.

contacts

Address: Kyiv, Ukraine
Phone: +38 063 221 68 69
Email: info@alenakuznetsova.com

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🇺🇦Multidisciplinary Kyiv based artist
✨Non-figurative painting, video, fungi lover


Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and
Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and 10 of color studying later, along with studying of contemporary art, I got back to Ukrainian folk primitivism as a starting point for this series: open bold colours, children-like drawn flower-sign, and symbolic meaning, hidden in composition, symbols and names of the paintings. This works, made in a nowadays Kyiv, are about real freedom for me: the main value we are fighting for right now. 🌸🌊 (Sub)Sea Baby, 150*150 cm, oil, acrylic, my grandmothers knitted doilies, oil pastels on canvas. Flowers or Explosions series 2022-2026.. #kuznetsovaflowersorexplosions


Rainy June-July 2026. The next painting.
Everythi
Rainy June-July 2026. The next painting. Everything that falls from the sky ⛈️🌦️🌈🚀💥🌸🇺🇦 #kuznetsovaflowersorexplosions #workinprogress


It depends on the wall type, the weight of the art
It depends on the wall type, the weight of the artwork, and whether or not you are willing to drill holes in the wall. 1️⃣ If it’s a large, heavy painting, you own the wall, and drilling is allowed: Drill the wall, insert 2–3 wall plugs (dowels), and screw in the screws. From there, you have a few options: The simplest way: Hang the painting by its stretcher bar directly onto the screws. For this, the screws should protrude from the wall: ideally by about 2 cm for a narrow stretcher bar, or 3–4 cm if the stretcher is wider. Using a wire/cord: If the painting already has a hanging wire or cord attached, hang it by that. In this case, a single hole might suffice, but if the artwork is exceptionally heavy, it’s still safer to use multiple anchor points. 2️⃣ If it’s a large, heavy painting, but you are renting (or can’t drill the walls, or can only drill the ceiling/make easily repairable modifications): The obvious solution: Don’t hang it at all. Choose a vertical painting and simply rest it on the floor, a chest of drawers, or a console table. The professional solution: Invest in a gallery hanging system (track system) that mounts to the ceiling rather than the wall. These systems use subtle, adjustable hooks on transparent cables or rods, allowing you to hang multiple paintings at once. They are highly convenient, usually come in white, and look almost invisible.


Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and
Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and 10 of color studying later, along with studying of contemporary art, I got back to Ukrainian folk primitivism as a starting point for this series: open bold colours, children-like drawn flower-sign, and symbolic meaning, hidden in composition, symbols and names of the paintings. This works, made in a nowadays Kyiv, are about real freedom for me: the main value we are fighting for right now. Sea Baby, 150*150 cm, oil, acrylic, my grandmothers knitted doilies, oil pastels on canvas. Flowers or Explosions series 2022-2026..


Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and
Despite my 10 years of academic art education, and 10 of color studying later, along with studying of contemporary art, I got back to Ukrainian folk primitivism as a starting point for this series: open bold colours, children-like drawn flower-sign, and symbolic meaning, hidden in composition, symbols and names of the paintings. This works, made in a nowadays Kyiv, are about real freedom for me: the main value we are fighting for right now. Sea Baby, 150*150 cm, oil, acrylic, my grandmothers knitted doilies, oil pastels on canvas. Flowers or Explosions series 2022-2026..


Despite my 10 years of academic art education and
Despite my 10 years of academic art education and another decade of studying color and contemporary art, I returned to Ukrainian folk primitivism as a starting point for this series: vibrant, bold colors, child-like flower motifs, and symbolic meanings hidden within the composition, symbols, and titles of the paintings. These works, created in present-day Kyiv, are about real freedom for me: the ultimate value we are fighting for right now. (Sub)Sea Baby, 150*150 cm, oil, acrylic, my grandmothers knitted doilies, oil pastels on canvas. Flowers or Explosions series 2022-2026..


Sea, oh sea, I miss you so much! 🌊🐳🐙

It’s summer
Sea, oh sea, I miss you so much! 🌊🐳🐙 It’s summer now, and in the summer I miss the sea terribly. Odesa is constantly shelled by Russia; Lasurne, Kinburn Spit (Kherson oblast) are cut off, or rather, occupied by russia since 2024 and and Crimea since 2014. Going to the sea in a safe place from Ukraine right now is a long and exhausting journey abroad: to Albania, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, or Italy.. 24 hours at least from Kyiv. During the process, this turquoise color, which has so many variations here, reminded me of the water in the bays of Crimea, where I spent many happy weeks before its occupation by Russia in 2014. 🌸💥 (Sub) Sea Baby, 150*150 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2026. #kuznetsovaflowersorexplosions


This painting has the longest name among all the o
This painting has the longest name among all the others: 🌸 “In the middle of a bad war dream (I wish), a ray of light occasionally occurs and brings us back to life”, started in 2022 and finished in 2026. Diptych. The whole series Flowers or Explosions you may check out here: https://alenakuznetsova.com/?page_id=15778 📐95*120 cm, oil, acrylic, oil pastels, textile appliqué and rhinestones on canvas. #kuznetsovaflowersorexplosions


Part 2 of our Summer School in Krakow, organised b
Part 2 of our Summer School in Krakow, organised by @ukrainianwomanproject 🙌 Thankful to each amazing artist and cultural manager I’ve met during this fruitful time. It’s impossible to tag each of you here, but I appreciate and remember. Thank you for these photos you made and shared! Also we’ve been exploring cultural context of Krakow: Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, MOCAK, Starmach Gallery, Princes Czartoryski Museum (with Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Lady with an Ermine), Dominican Church, Franciscan Church… Loved the city, its art and architecture 💕 #kuznetsovainspiration



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Художниця | Artist

  • Картини | Paintings
  • Скульптури | Sculptures
  • Портфоліо | Portfolio
  • Виставки | Exhibitions
  • Проекти | Projects
  • Про художницю | About
  • Контакти | Contacts

Колекції | Collections

  • Знайома земля | Familiar Ground
  • Квіти чи Вибухи? | Flowers or Explosions?
  • Стосунки з образом | Relations with the image
  • Широка перспектива | Broad perspective
  • Кераміка | Ceramic
  • Гама | Gamma
  • Акт III | ACT III
  • Акт II | ACT II
  • Механічний балет | Ballet mecanique
  • Увертюри. Щоденник | Overtures. Diary
  • Течія | FLUX
  • KILL BILL
  • Гравітація | Gravity
  • Яким ти бачиш цей колір? | What color do you see?
  • Природа відчуттів | Nature of sensations
  • В Кольорі | In colour
  • Графіка | Graphics

Інфо | Info

  • Портфоліо + CV | Portfolio + CV
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