Anastasiia Kolhan

Anastasiia Kolhan is a Ukrainian-born artist currently based in Europe. After more than a decade working as a UI/UX designer in the gaming industry, she fully devoted herself to painting.

Her artistic practice explores emotions, psychological states, and inner experiences through contemporary symbolism. Working in thematic series, Anastasiia translates invisible states into visual metaphors, signs, gestures, color, and composition.

Her current body of work includes three series: Red Signs, In the Dark, and Taro. Each series approaches the relationship between inner experience and visual language from a different perspective — from emotional signs and states of vulnerability to questions of doubt, faith, identity, and inner strength.

Anastasiia is currently developing her Taro series, creating female portraits based on the symbolism and visual language of the traditional Tarot deck of 1909. By replacing the traditional male-centered figures with women, she reinterprets familiar archetypes through the themes of female identity, strength, vulnerability, intuition, and transformation.

Her works have been presented in exhibitions in Ukraine and Europe and are held in private collections. Through her practice, Anastasiia explores the...

2009–2015 — Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA), Ukraine

2015–2016 — Master of Fine Arts (MFA), National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA), Ukraine

2020–2021 — Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, UX Design (2020) and Art Direction (2021)

2023–2024 — Women’s Business Accelerator “Vidvazhna 2”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2022 — Solo exhibition “Women’s Portraits”, Abazhur Art Café, Chernihiv, Ukraine

2023 — Group exhibition of Ukrainian artists, Vorona Art Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2024 — Group exhibition “Free Walls”, Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2024 — Solo exhibition “Red Signs”, MODI Art&Wine Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2025 — Venice Art Fair, curated by ITSLIQUID Group, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy

2025 — Senses Art Fair — selected artist, Lecce, Italy

2026 — Group exhibition “Auslander”, Berlin, Germany