Elis Alis La Luna Hnatiuk

ELIS / alis la luna - is more than just a contemporary art practitioner, she is an anthropologist of marginal beauty. Her Soviet origins and artistic philosophy (as well as metamodern views) prompt the artist to question and challenge the modern understanding of herself, culture and identity. Her art practice is about authenticity and freedom, about imperfection and the passage of time, about life and death, about sex and bodies. Using a varied range of media (collage, photography, poetry, video art, performance), Elis explores different concepts of the modern world. Her art is to be appreciated by an attentive and observant contemporary viewer who is not afraid of emotions and to look closer.

ELIS / alis la luna is a multi(inter)disciplinary Kyiv artist-researcher. 1988 Born in Kyiv 2006 Graduated from Kyiv International School 2006 - 2007 FA Diploma in Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, UK 2007 – 2010 BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photographic Practice, University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, UK 2010 moved to London 2011 moved back to Kyiv Elis has participated in many exhibitions and festivals of various levels of complexity, both in Ukraine and abroad. Founder of the Kyiv Collage Practice group...

University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent, UK
09/2007 – 05/2010 BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photographic Practice
09/2006 – 06/2007 FA Diploma in Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions
2019:
“Hyperlink Collage” collab with Demian Feriy + Clemens Pool (curator, USA), Gurtobus, Izolyatsia, Kyiv

“Fine Line”, Mala Opera, Kyiv

“Visual Poetry”, Vagabond Vintage Corner, Kyiv

Group Exhibition
2021:
“Portal. Exhibition of unknown works by M. Trokh, created in the last months of his life”, at Central Registry Office, Kyiv

collage only exhibition during the International Book Arsenal festival, at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

“Art is not Eternal” during collage festival, Gallery Ra, Kyiv

2020:
“Price of Love”, Kherson

“Emerald II”, “Envision” Gallery, Dallas, USA

“Hour Zero”, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv

“Immunity”, Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art, Lutsk

The Environment of Existence. Manifesto 2020”

“Pop Art”, Portal 11 Gallery, Kyiv

“Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine” (homage), Kyiv Institute of Automatics

2019:
Walter Koschatzky Art-Award, Vienna, Austria

"Naklofen Duo" collab with Vitaly Khoma, Art Barbacan, Kyiv

2018:
"Zabudova", Carbon, Kyiv

Ukrainian Art Week, Kyiv

2015:
"Black and White: the living tradition", Budapest, Hungary

2010:
"Jigsaw", Brick Lane, London