Artist Statement
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.
Education:
2022
- Lecture cycle “Art in Times of Crisis” (Dr Emma Mahony), NCAD, Dublin.
2015
- School of Visual Communications, Kyiv.
- The New Art School (new media), Kyiv.
2014-2015
- School of Contemporary Art, MARI, Kyiv.
2003-2008
- KNUBA, Master’s degree, specialty Fine Arts, Kyiv.
1998-2002
- Children’s art school, Svitlovodsk, Kirovograd region.
Selected solo shows:
2025
- Familiar Ground, MLYN, Kyiv (UA)
2023
- Flowers or Explosions, Forsa Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
2022
- Relations with the Image, Imagine Point Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
2021
- Gamma, Ornament Art Space, Kyiv (UA)
2019
- Mechanical Ballet. Act 3, French Institute, Kyiv (UA)
- Trajectory, Mironova Foundation, Kyiv (UA)
2018
- Flux, Triptych: Global Arts Workshop, Kyiv (UA)
- Mechanical Ballet, White World, Kyiv (UA)
2017
- Gravity, Nebo Art Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
- Kill bill, America House, Kyiv (UA)
- What color do you see?, MASLO the gallery, Khmelnytskiy (UA)
Selected group shows:
2025
- Meaning after Loss, Goethe-Institut, MRI+Ifa.de, Ukrainskiy Dim, Kyiv (UA)
- Serendipitous Events, Port of Culture, Ukrainskiy Dim, Kyiv (UA)
2024
- Sci-Fi art, Portal 11, Kyiv (UA)
2023
- Ukrainian 12, Portraits International Gallery, Brussels (BE)
- Concentration of the Will, M17, Kyiv (UA)
- Awakening, Museum of Kyiv (UA)
2022
- From Ukraine with love, Gallerie Lorien, Copenhagen (DK)
- The Art of Resistance, Sala d’Exposicions Municipal, Valencia (SP)
- And Get Up!, Gallery Lavra, Kyiv (UA)
- Wartime. Reflections…, Dzyga, Lviv (UA)
2021
- New Human Nature, NVAIR, Zbarazh Castle, Zbarazh, (UA)
2020
- Objects art prize, nominees’ exhibition, Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA)
- Habitat. Manifesto 2020, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
2019
- Collective art show, Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid (ES)
- Verbalization, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
- Objects art prize, nominees’ exhibition, Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA)
2018
- Values on the way, Lite-haus Galerie + Projektraum, Berlin.
- Exposure, AkT, Kyiv (UA)
2017
- Marry me!, Zenko Foundation, Museum of Kyiv, Koruna (UA)
Residences, competitions, and art fairs:
2024-2025 – Serendipity, art laboratory, Port of Culture, Kyiv (UA)
2024-2025 – Martin Roth Initiative, hybrid, Kyiv-Leipzig (UA-GE)
2022 – Artists at Risk residency, AICA, Dublin (IE).
2022 – Cultural Traffic residency, Vyzhnitsa (UA).
2020 – Objects Art Prize (2nd), Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA).
2019 – Art Bodensee , Dornbirn, Austria. Provenance: Van Gogh Gallery , Madrid (SP).
2019 – Objects Art Prize, Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA).
Her works are in private and corporate collections in Ukraine, France, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, the UK, Australia, and Ireland.
Contacts
Київ | Киев | Kyiv, Ukraine
T1: +38 063 221 68 69 – Alena Kuznetsova
T2: +38 063 251 97 65 – Sasha Horbatiuk
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