Ілля Ткаченко

Illia Tkachenko - 2002, Ukraine. I explore themes of memory and everyday life through the language of symbols, reflecting on the experience of living through the full-scale war in Ukraine. I am interested in both everyday life and human experience.

In my work, I combine organic, plastically deformed, and geometrically simplified forms with distinct naturalistic features of the human figure. This combination allows me to create compositions in which different approaches to form-making interact with one another.

Space within the form plays an important role in my work. I use openings and cut-outs not only as formal devices, but also as a means of intensifying expression and conveying a person’s inner state, pain, and sense of loss. Emptiness becomes an active part of the sculpture and acquires symbolic meaning.

The figures in my work are often depicted in a state of movement. Their interaction creates its own rhythm, in which the material form and the space between the forms exist as equal elements of the composition. In this way, I view sculpture not only as an object, but as an interaction between form, space, and memory.

2017 - 2021 - Odesa Art College named after M. B. Grekov.
2021 - 2025 - Lviv National Academy of Art.
2025 - 2027 - Lviv National Academy of Art.

2025 – Group exhibition "Touch the Soul", Artodesa gallery, Odesa.