Evgenia Poberezhna

I am a Ukrainian figurative artist.
My work focuses on people. I explore certain moments in life, what they are made of. Gestures, movements, looks, and something else: elusive but tangible and precise, a silence of concentration, an inner contemplation. I am moved by scenes of deep relationships and subtle intimacy. Themes of female nature, family, maturing, childhood. Sometimes I reveal something personal, like my son. Sometimes I am just guided by what I see.

My main means of expression are figurative drawing, oil painting and collage. I do a lot of sketches from life, which is the basis of all my work. It brings me back to a permanent state, in my own unique space and time.

Expression, spontaneity, something pulsating, not obvious and accomplished - that's what I'm after. This is the only way for creativity to have its own voice and nerve. Because art is not about form, meaning or aesthetics. It is a way of thinking, a path.

2003-2007 – BFA in Graphic Design, Crimea State Humanitarian University, Yalta, Ukraine

2024 "Atelier of dreams", Ukrainian House, organized by UNICEF Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

2023 "UNBREAKABLE", Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, US

2023 "Volunteers in the battle for life and freedom", Pritlicje, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2023 “UNBREAKABLE”, Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

2023 “Genesis of Being”, Center for Architecture, Design & Urbanism, Lviv, Ukraine

2023 “Art is us”, Re:connection group project, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2023 “Glory to Ukraine!” Drawing Triennial, Contemporary Art Center White World, Kyiv, Ukraine

2023 “STICK TOGETHER WITH KYIV” Project paper nation & Kyiv collage, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2022 "A walk home. Reconstruction", Pop-up exhibition, 31 ART SPACE, Lviv, Ukraine

2022 "World stands with Ukraine", virtual exhibition, Artit digital art gallery, London, UK

2022 Charity exhibition "In Ukraine", ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2021 Group exhibition “Soul canvas”, House Of Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2019 digital project ARTBOX TALENT, The Artbox Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

Press:
ARTIT | Magazine, ISSUE 15, Published: September 2022, page 30, London, UK

MLADINA | KULTURA, magazine, STA 22. 06. 2022, Slovenia. www.mladina.si/217205

RTV Slovenija (national radio of Slovenia), br...