Maryan Besaga

I am an artist, designer, art historian, and educator. Candidate of Art History (2010), Associate Professor at the Department of Costume Design at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. My works have been presented at 20 solo exhibitions and over 30 group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. In cooperation with international partners, I have co-organized more than 110 art projects, including symposia, exhibitions, and student residencies. Since 2024, I have also been developing my own women’s fashion brand MARBELI.
My artistic practice spans various genres — landscape, portrait, and figurative compositions — and is realized both in easel and monumental forms. I work within a wide range of movements: from realism and surrealism to expressionism, as well as geometric and lyrical abstraction. Each of these directions in my work acquires a new resonance through the combination of oil, acrylic, and pastel techniques.

In my paintings, I strive not only to reflect the world but also to transform it, creating my own system of form-making. The process of creation is essential to me: it often unfolds intuitively, without preliminary sketches, in a living dialogue with the canvas and the material.

I work in small series — from 5 to 10 pieces — th...

2001 — Bachelor’s Degree with Honors, Monumental Painting
Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush, Ukraine

2003 — Master’s Degree with Honors, Easel Painting
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland

2020 — Specialist’s Degree in Law
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

2003 Shadows of the Forgotten, St Volodymyr Gallery, Kraków (Poland);
2004 Shadows of the Forgotten ІІ, Faust Gallery, Kraków (Poland);
2004 Insomnia, Gołogórski Gallery, Kraków (Poland);
2005 Transubstantiation, Gerdan Gallery, Lviv (Ukraine);
2006 Insomnia, Gerdan Gallery, Lviv (Ukraine);
2014 The Presence, Ukreximbank, Lviv (Ukraine)
2015 Impressions, LNAM Art Gallery (Ukraine)
2016 "Fragments", Hotel "Dniester", Lviv (Ukraine);
2017 "Cosmology", Gallery "Veles", Lviv (Ukraine);
2017 "Diary: Signs of the Times", Veles Gallery, Lviv (Ukraine);
2017 "Reminiscence", Gallery "Veles", Lviv (Ukraine).
2019 "Prima motus", Gallery, "Lvivarnia", Lviv (Ukraine)
2021, "Colors of Autumn" PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);
2022, "Reflections" PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);
2022, "New Thoughts" PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);
2022, "Presence", Credo, Warsaw (Poland);
2023, "The Day After Tomorrow", PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);
2023, "Contrasts", Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum, Truskavets (Ukraine);
2024, "The Day After Tomorrow", PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);
2025 «Genesis» PrivatBank, Lviv (Ukraine);