Yevheniia Chepurna

I’m Yevheniia Myroshnychenko, an artist from Kyiv CHEPURNA. 42 years old.

I’ve been an actress in the theater for 15 years. This experience being an actress taught me to feel and be open, to accept myself and laugh at the sad, not to be afraid to be different and make mistakes, to look for depth and essence, and not to decorate the surface. In the end, it made a big influence on my development as an artist.

It was only in the summer of 2018, during an evening jog, that the plot I wanted to draw appeared in my head. I decided to give it a try. So in an hour, I was sitting with a simple pencil in my hand, drawing an imagination. And the next day, brushes, oil, and canvas appeared in my house. They were followed by spatulas, easels, lessons, more and more paintings, projects, and exhibitions.

I paint my philosophy of life, my own vision of the world and good things, and the unusual in everyday life. I am looking for a beautiful expression of even painful and unpleasant things and feelings. I try to help the viewer look inside himself and see life from different angles. Through the beautiful express the charmless, thereby showing the ability to live with it and move forward.

That's how one summer day turned my life upside down an...

May 2019, Kyiv (San Paolo restaurant) - solo exhibition
October 2019, Kyiv (CCM NAU) - solo exhibition
December 2019 - May 2020, Kyiv (Holiday Inn Kyiv) - solo exhibition
January 2020, Lagos, Nigeria (Eco Convention Center) - solo exhibition
July 2020, Kyiv (Kyiv History Museum) - collective exhibition "In Search of Harmony"
September 2020, Rome, Italy (Palazzo Velli Expo) - International project Woman’s Essence 2020
September 2020, Kyiv (Spivakovska ART: EGO) - solo exhibition Perfect Non-Ideality
October 2020, Kyiv (Spivakovska ART: EGO) - collective exhibition 20 Woman Art Award
November 2020 – May 2021, Kyiv (Talkies bar) - solo art show “Cocktails” in the framework of the collaboration CHEPURNA & Talkies
December 2020-January 2021, Kyiv (Museum of the History of Kyiv) - the project “the cut”, CHEPURNA & CHORNA, paintings & photos
March 2021, Kyiv (Syayvo bookstore) - solo show "Tunnel"
June 2021, Kyiv (South Coast of Kyiv) - group exhibition
June 2021, Vienna, Austria (Samglasse) - International Art Project We Contemporary 2021
July 2021, cottage complex River Garden - solo art show
August 2021-September 2021, Venice, Italy (Palazzo Albrizzi) - International art fair “Borders. Future landscapes ”
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