Alina Maksimenko

Painting comes in easy way — one trifle meets a trick, a Rube Goldberg machine starts a chain reaction, like a reaction on some vaccine, and it goes on and on. So I’m starting to realize that if I’ll change something once again, then I get a brand new work, for which, perhaps, I already have a new meaning and new canvas. This mechanism runs by my presence — a common story for all the artists. But still it all has a great meaning — the smell, the sound, the state, the color of the walls, the air — and when all this substances focus on me, the work emerges, lives, breathes.
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Obviously I see an impression itself as a fundament of all my works — an emotion, a feeling — light and color as a key elements of its translation, transmission, interpretation. So — long live art (its eyes my eyes) — the thing is about a child’s memory from an ancient times, this light-color addiction of me.
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An arched-shaped bridge appears in front of my eyes — green waters flicker with unimaginable shades of shimmering reflections — material and non-existing forms obscure each other — overlap, grow, disappear, renew. Somewhe...

I was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine.
1985 - 1988 studied in Art School named after T.G. Shevchenko
1993 - graduated from Kiev Art College named after M. Boychuk
2019 – graduated documentary class of Sergey Bukovsky, Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute; Kiev, Ukraine;
2020 – graduated Wajda School/Studio, Doc Pro department; Warsaw, Poland;
Since 2001 member of the BG-Art union of artists;
Since 2003 member of The Art Union of painters of Ukraine;

Selected solo projects:
“Asya”, Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2019
“Local time. Second episode”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Not the place. Cohort 1972 ”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2018
“Titles”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“No title”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
“Time loop”, Art-14 gallery, Kiev, Ukraine - 2016

Selected festivals :

“Local time”, „Now and after”, Moscow, Russia – 2020
“Boze-na”, „Zhytomyr, make it louder”, Zhytomyr, Ukraine – 2019
“Text”,On Art Film Festival,MOCAK,(Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesej), Krakow, Poland – 2018
“Visions and reflections”, Izolyatsia art platform, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Titles”,Barselona Planet Film Festival, Barselona, Spain – 2017
“Podium”, Kyiv Art Week, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“Litoralis”,Porto Franko Gogolfest,Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine – 2016
“Dialogia”, Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Piano in progress”, special project for Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia - 2015
“Аrt of War, art of Love, art of Peace”, Gogolfest, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Parallel ornithology”, gallery Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia – 2015
“Ressentiment”, Art-Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania – 2015
“Exodus“, Art Kiev ...