Zhanna Kondratenko

I explore the rhythm between form and emotion — where color and silence merge into visual harmony.

For me, painting is both discovery and translation: a way to transform inner states into visible energy. Each canvas begins intuitively — with a gesture, a tone, a pause — and evolves into a composition where movement and stillness coexist.

My work unfolds through several visual narratives: luminous landscapes, expressive city scenes, abstract color fields, and poetic figurative pieces. I often combine oil, ink, watercolor, and pastels, creating tactile layers where emotion meets structure. I build most of my canvases from the ground up — assembling the stretcher, selecting the fabric, and priming it by hand — so the act of creating begins long before the first brushstroke.

My background in graphic design shapes the way I perceive rhythm and balance; it teaches me to listen to structure while painting emotion. My artwork has also appeared beyond the gallery walls — featured on the cover of the Oxford academic book Study of Religions and as album art for a German music collective — bridging painting with the worlds of sound and text.

My paintings have been shown in exhibitions across Ukraine and abroad, and today they live in priva...

2007 – 2013 Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named After Mykhailo Boychuk / Graphic Design Department; Kyiv, Ukraine

2025 - National Art and Culture Project for the Artist’s Day (group exhibition), Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 - Art Happens (group exhibition), Kavaleridze Museum-Workshop, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 - MAISTERIUM (group exhibition), Gallery of the Academy named after M. Boychuk, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2018 - Autumn Painting Festival (group exhibition), Manufactura, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 - Vsi. Svoi (group exhibition), D12, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 - Pre-Party-Arti (group exhibition), BiColor Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2015 - ARTINMIND: REBIRTH (group exhibition), The Brick Line Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 - Carrousel du Louvre (group exhibition), The Salon du Carrosel du Louvre, Paris, France
2015 - Petroglyph (group exhibition), Petroglyph Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 - The Magic World of ART (group exhibition), PAKS Gallery, Mauerkirchen, Austria
2014 - The Lights of the Soul (personal exhibition), OntoArtGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 - God Bless Ukraine (group exhibition), Center for the Study of Ukrainian Sacred Culture NaUKMA, Prague, Czech Republic / Antwerp, Belgium / Munich, Germany