Katya Kononenko

Katya Kononenko is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. She is engaged in abstraction, using open bright colors, simple shapes, clear lines, textures. Mainly works with oil, acrylic on canvas, mixed media, ink on paper.

Katya was born in Ukraine. She graduated from the Faculty of Psychology. She studied color and art therapy. Archetypes, ego-states, existential issues of individuality in society, along with nature and in social life - the leading research themes for the author.

The process of creating a work is a collaboration-experiment of the idea, selected materials, and spiritualization of the product of creativity. The result of the work is not only the created art object, also the transformed reality around and inside the author. The artist accepts the fact that the world is constantly changing and she is in it too.

2018-2019 - Contemporary art courses by Karas Gallery (Kyiv)
2015 - Chinese art courses
2013 - Art courses by European School of Design (Kyiv)
2009-2012 - a member of Ukrainian Art-therapy association
2006-2012 - Kyiv National University named Tarasa Shevchenko, Psychology faculty

Self-education by visiting European and Ukrainian galleries, travelling and reading books and articles about art.

2024, Refugee week, Mo Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023, Ukraine. The residency of Freedom, Rīgas dome, Riga, Latvia
2023, Rozgostitsa, Motanka festival, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2023 - solo exhibition, “I am a refugee”, Druskininakai Museum, Lithuania
2022 - solo exhibition, “Passion to Live or Fear to Die”, Sugihara House, Kaunas, Lithuania
2022 - group exhibition “Time condensate”, Valencia, Spain
2022 - group exhibition, “A Thing from the inner space", Institute of Modern and Research Art, Kyiv
2021 - solo show, "Mosaics", Library "Svitlo", Kyiv
2021 - group exhibition "Change", Mykolaiv ART Week, Mykolaiv
2021 - group exhibition "Your names, Ukraine", The Korsaks museum of Ukrainian modern art, Lutsk
2021 - group exhibition "Art-parallels 2021", Centre of Ukrainian Culture and Art, Kyiv,
2021 - group exhibition “Life as Art. Art as Life", Institute of Modern and Research Art , Kyiv
2021 - personal art show "Art. Life. Play", book store “Siayvo”, Kyiv,
2021 - group exhibition International Association of Visual, Performing and Other Arts Team: 1st International Biennale of Political Activism Art “Dictatorship of Political Correctness”, Online, Lithuania,
2021 - Group exhibition, 1st International Biennale of text art “Object. T...