Viktoria Ganhao

Viktoria Ganhao believes that life is never static, and neither is painting.

Born in Kyiv and now based in Portugal, she has lived across cultures, embraced new beginnings, and ultimately found her truest language in abstraction. Her paintings reflect this journey: layered, intuitive, and full of movement, they explore what happens when memory, emotion, and experience converge.

Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Viktoria creates luminous fields of colour that evolve through multiple layers of gesture, texture, and transparency. Each painting becomes a visual map of transformation—a record not of places themselves, but of the traces they leave behind. Moments, encounters, landscapes, and emotions are distilled into abstract compositions that invite viewers to navigate their own connections and interpretations.

Rather than offering fixed narratives, her work remains open and alive, revealing new relationships and meanings over time. Her paintings bring together energy and contemplation, creating spaces that continue to unfold with each viewing.

Today, her work is held in private and public collections across Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia, including the permanent collection of the Guarda Museum in Portu...

Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine

Solo
2023 XIV Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy 2023 Art Expo Algarve / Portimao, Portugal
2022 Creative Freedom / CB Art Space, Porto, Portugal
2021 Perception / The Lux Gallery - Abrantes, Portugal
2020 Colors of Nature / Cineteatro - Benavente, Portugal
2019 Abstractions / The Lux Gallery - Portimão, Portugal
Group
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Art Expo Algarve / Mar Shopping, Loule, Portugal
2022 LuxExpo Luxembourg
2022 Israeli Art Market. New Year Exhibition. Israel
2021 Week of Women in Art / City Hall - Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 Art Nordic Art Fair / Lokomotivvaerkstedet - Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 International Contemporary Art Exhibition / The Lux Gallery - Portimao, Portugal 2019 ARTSHOPPING / Carrousel de Louvre - Paris, France
2019 Sussex Art Fair / Brighton Racecourse - Brighton, United Kingdom
2019 Summer Exhibition
2019 / The Old Truman Brewery - London, United Kingdom
2019 Paysage / SAS Lausanne - Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 Nature / Swiss Art Space, exposition internationale d'art contemporain - Lausanne, Switzerland