Eugene Shadko

Born 1987.

Eugene Shadko - contemporary painter, lives and works in Warsaw

Was born in 1987 in Barysau, Belarus. In 2003 he entered Glebov Art School in Minsk. After graduation he left for Poland, where he studied at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Eugene Shadko, a Belarusian artist who works and lives in Warsaw in Poland has long approached his creative path with a unique thirst for experimentation and fundamental knowledge of the human essence. Each of his compositions begins with reflective images found on various platforms, social networks, his pictures, accidentally noticed images on the Internet that he passes through himself, explores, transforms into his narrative. Each painting is a work made of a multitude of individual thoughts and images.

Faces and body parts are most often the priority in the paintings. A series of portraits presents characters, personalities, frozen in time, as if a stopped moment. Anatomical body parts are often displaced, altered, fragmented; the man in the picture exists among different situations and times at the same time. Thus, the heroes find themselves snatched from their personal stories. The documentary accuracy of photography is canceled, and the characters are immersed in the st...

Glebov Art college, Minsk, Belarus 2003 - 2007
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Poland 2007 - 2012

group exhibitions:

2023 - Parallel Vienna, Rodler Gschwenter gallery, Austria
2023 - Volta Basel. Galerie Gans, Basel, Switzerland
2023 – Auction for refugees from the Ukraine and Belarus. Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2023 - Art Minsk. The Palace of Arts. Minsk, Belarus
2023 - Conversation. Godo gallery. Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 - Абсурд и гармония. Fine Art gallery.
2023 - HIDDEN STORIES. Galerie Gans. Vienna, Austria
2022 – Art Vilnius. DK gallery. Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 – Art Vienna. Galerie Gans. Vienna, Austria
2022 – Cosmoscow. Fine Art gallery. Moscow
2022 – Ultracold. Vershy. Minsk, Belarus
2022 – Parallel Vienna. Galerie Gans, Vienna, Austria
2022 – Hosted in Paradise, Art-box galerie, St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria
2022 – Auction for refugees from the Ukraine and Belarus. Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2022 – Depth of field. DK gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2022 – Portrait. Art Belarus gallery, The Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2021 – ADVENT BEGINNING, new Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 – Recollect & collect. Third place, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 – Art Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 – Ošemetná záležitosť, Levoča, Slovakia
2020 – Non Place, The Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2019 – Secret Art Show, 31 Ravenscrof...