Rostyslav Brenych

Contemporary figurative abstraction — bodies as form beyond identity. Original works and signed, numbered limited edition prints (COA included) are available.

My practice explores the body not as a portrait, but as a state — a shifting structure that holds tension, tenderness, and inner movement. I work with figurative forms that are deliberately anonymous and metamorphic, somewhere between anatomy and abstraction, as if the figure is still being assembled by memory.

Most works begin as quick charcoal or graphite studies, made in a single impulse. I treat this first gesture as evidence: a record of energy, balance, and psychological pressure. Later I build layers with acrylic and pastel, pushing the image toward a quiet intensity rather than finished realism. The result often feels like a fragment of a dream — part scene, part signal.

I work primarily on archival paper (A3 and larger). My drawings and paintings belong to ongoing series, where each piece functions as a page from the same world: bodies in transformation, suspended between intimacy and distance, beauty and distortion.

I’m a Ukrainian artist based in Barcelona, focusing on material presence, rhythm, and the emotional logic of the line.

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University of Computer Science, Lviv Polytechnic National University — 2007–2012

• XV Florence Biennale — “Soul’s Garden”, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, IT — Oct 18–26, 2025

• L’ANDART25 — 6th Andorra International Biennial — “Whisper of the Sea”, Sant Julià de Lòria, AD — Sep 19–Nov 14, 2025

• Ordino Jardins d’Art — Government of Ordino & Andorra — Triptych “Soul’s Garden”, Ordino, AD — Aug 31–Sep 1, 2024

• “Personal Structures” — “Whisper of the Sea”, European Cultural Centre (collateral exhibition during the 60th Venice Biennale), Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT — Apr 20–Nov 24, 2024

• “Budapest is the New Black”, Toolip Art Gallery, Budapest, HU — Mar 1–May 1, 2024

• Toolip Art Gallery 2023 – Metamorphoses (finalist, 2023), Barcelona, ES

• Art in Space Gallery, BoulevArt Digital Festival, Dubai, 2023 – Metamorphoses.

• “Personal Structures” — “Metamorphoses”, European Cultural Centre (collateral exhibition during the 59th Venice Biennale), Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT — Apr 20–Nov 24, 2022

• Gallery Local – Projects: Illusion of Reality, Divinity Descended, Barcelona, Spain, October 2020 - March 2023.