Alina Maksimenko

Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine

About Alina Maksimenko

Painting comes in easy way — one trifle meets a trick, a Rube Goldberg machine starts a chain reaction, like a reaction on some vaccine, and it goes on and on. So I’m starting to realize that if I’ll change something once again, then I get a brand new work, for which, perhaps, I already have a new meaning and new canvas. This mechanism runs by my presence — a common story for all the artists. But still it all has a great meaning — the smell, the sound, the state, the color of the walls, the air — and when all this substances focus on me, the work emerges, lives, breathes. __________________________________________________________________ Obviously I see an impression itself as a fundament of all my works — an emotion, a feeling — light and color as a key elements of its translation, transmission, interpretation. So — long live art (its eyes my eyes) — the thing is about a child’s memory from an ancient times, this light-color addiction of me. ___________________________________________________________________ An arched-shaped bridge appears in front of my eyes — green waters flicker with unimaginable shades of shimmering reflections — material and non-existing forms obscure each other — overlap, grow, disappear, renew. Somewhere in the golden ratio’s zone, in the alluring prospect under the tiny arch, there is a renowned “starting point” — oh so many coats layered! — but it’s just another subject to be discussed. Discovering yourself for yourself is something absolutely fascinating — and I think it can be called simply a desire to be. __________________________________________________________________ This “Being” — a place on notional map existing primarily as a cultural situation, that, on it’s turn, consists of traditions, authorities, relevancies and compliances. This map means a feeling of your time and your part in it — let it be an imaginary part. Under certain circumstances this red dot — a place, a pin, a mark — it can really move the mountain. __________________________________________________________________ It's about "self dog philosophy" — I'm working on understanding of global concepts, such as Fidelity, Virtue, Eternity, Future etcetera, and on a reflection of this enormous "volumes” in dog’s eyes. Basically, any creature can take the place of this animal, but I confess — dogs find a special response in my soul. Alina Maksimenko from interview for newspaper “Vusokiy Zamok”, October 2012

Education:

I was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine.
In 1985 - 1988 studied in Art School named after T.G. Shevchenko.
In 1993 graduated from Kiev Art College named after M. Boychuk.
Had started my exhibition activity in 1996
Since 2001 i am a member of the BG-Art union of artists.
Since 2003 i am a member of The Art Union of painters of Ukraine.

Exhibitions:

Solo projects:

“Local time. Second episode”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Not the place. Cohort 1972 ”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2018
“Titles”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“No title”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
“Time loop”, Art-14 gallery, Kiev, Ukraine - 2016
Bath contemporary gallery, Bath, United Kingdom – 2015
“Darning”, Bottega gallery, Kiev, Ukraine – 2014
Cite international Des Arts, Paris, France – 2012
National museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine - 2010

Exhibitions and festivals:

“Text”,On Art Film Festival,MOCAK,(Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesej), Krakow, Poland – 2018
“Orchestra pit”, Kyiv Art Week, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Visions and reflections”, Izolyatsia art platform, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Titles”,Barselona Planet Film Festival, Barselona, Spain – 2017
“Podium”, Kyiv Art Week, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“Litoralis”,Porto Franko Gogolfest,Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine – 2016
“Gestalta”,in the “Book Arsenal”, Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine - 2016
“Moved on“, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Dialogia”, Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Human orientology”, Art Kiev Contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Piano in progress”, special project for Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia - 2015
“Аrt of War, art of Love, art of Peace”, Gogolfest, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Parallel ornithology”, gallery Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia – 2015
“Ressentiment”, Art-Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania – 2015
“Pathway language. Joseph Brodsky. Images of Venice”, gallery Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia – 2015
“The art of seeing“, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Ressentiment”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Exodus“, Art Kiev Contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine – 2014
Cite international Des Arts, open studio, Paris, France - 2013
“Pogranicze”, Hadle Szklarskie, Poland - 2012