Veaceslav Ignatenco

Veaceslav Ignatenco is a painter and graphic artist from Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.

Born in 1954 in Belarus, he has lived and worked in Moldova since 1983. His painting is expressive plein-air landscape built on bold color contrast: the warm gold of autumn hills and ochre fields collides with deep blue shadows and a twilight sky. Broad, impasto brushwork and dramatic lighting — a sunset or sunrise sun breaking over the horizon — make his works feel almost tactile, charged with the energy of nature itself.

Ignatenko paints the land he lives on — Moldovan hills, the old streets of Chișinău, light over the Dniester — not as a documentarian, but as someone searching the landscape for something more personal: memory, stillness, a sense of home. For him, painting is a way of holding a moment in which light and color speak louder than words, and of passing on to the viewer that same sense of warmth and calm he finds in nature.

Over more than four decades of artistic practice, he has held more than 60 solo exhibitions and taken part in dozens of group shows across Moldova, Belarus, Europe, North America, and Asia, including exhibitions at the National Museum of Art of Moldova and the National Museum of History of Moldova (2024–2025)...

Graduated from the Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute (now the Belarusian Academy of Arts, Minsk) in 1983.

Zborul / Flight — National Museum of Art of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, 2024

Rashkov: Through Centuries and History — National Museum of History of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, 2024

70 Rashkov Landscapes — Tiraspol Picture Gallery, Tiraspol, 2024

Old Chișinău — Republican Music Lyceum “Sergei Rachmaninoff”, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, 2025

Flight (65th Solo Exhibition) — National Museum of Art of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, 2024

Creation of the World — Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PMR, Tiraspol, 2017

2005 – Spring Exhibition, Constantin Brâncuși Exhibition Center, Chișinău, Moldova

2005 – Saloanele Moldovei Exhibition-Competition, Chișinău – Bacău, Moldova

2004 – Autumnala XXII, Constantin Brâncuși Exhibition Center, Chișinău, Moldova

2004 – Congress I of Belarusians in Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova

2004 – 190th Anniversary of T. Shevchenko, Chișinău, Moldova

2003 – 100 Years of the Union of Artists, Constantin Brâncuși Exhibition Center, Chișinău, Moldova

2003 – Nude: Cultural Horizon / Configurations, Chișinău, Moldova

2003 – Celebration of Slavic Culture and Writing, Chișinău, Moldova

2003 – 10th Anniversary of the Belarusian Community in Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova

2003 – The L...