From the series "THE FIRST WORLD" Painting

He was born in 1997 in the village of Perekosy, Kalush district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. He lives and works in Lviv. In 2015, he graduated from Stryi Art School (Department of Painting). In 2020, he obtained his MA degree at the Glass Art Department at Lviv National Academy of Arts. Also, he participated in the exchange program at the Department of Glass at the Е. Geppart Academy of Arts (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2018. He is a member of the School of Performance at the Dzyha Art Center - 2018, 2019, the author of personal ("RAILS", Wroclaw, Poland, 2018 and "Creating a free man" LNAA Gallery, 2019) and participant of numerous collective projects in Ukraine and abroad, including the international group exhibition, Feiran Gallery 2021 (Nanjing, PRC) and Visiocracy project, Institute for Modern Art Problems, Kyiv, 2021, "Franko Laboratorium 2.0" of I. Franko Museum, Lviv, 2020, 1st International Residence "European Glass Education", Lviv, 2020, VR Exhibition "Reforming the Space", M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2020, "Objects Art Prize", Shokoladnyi Budynok Art Centre, Kyiv, 2020, "My Ukraine, Pain and Hope" Project, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany, 2019, 10th and 11th International Blown Glass Symposiums in Lviv (2016, 2019), etc. He took part in all the competitions for the Professor Andriy Bokotey Award for young glass artists (2018-2021). Ruslan Luchko prefers painting and glass in his art, and often refers to the other artistic practices such as performance, media art, and installation. His work is based on the ideas of determinism and human freedom, often taking on connotations of a distorted human body, raising the issue of dependence on the material world. Anti-retinal method of depiction is the main motive for the creation and illumination of the work concepts. A special attitude towards artistic glass technology, which is almost the main medium in the artist’s work, can be explained by the process of the piece’s production, which is a kind of performance art, while the manufactured piece of art is just its documentation. He takes a similar approach to pictorial works.