Olena Kayinska

My name is Olena Kayinska. I'm an artist. I'm happy to do what I love the most. I want to make you happy as well with the help of my paintings.

My paintings-dreams take the observers inside, to the subconscious, to the core. Trying to find the inner self, the observer wanders through the imaginary world, fantastic forests, filled with symbolic images and archetypical symbols, inhabited with mysterious creatures, each of which provides a guide to the final destination – our heart. My aim is to make people happier.

My paintings show the endlessness of obvious and unobvious relationships in this world with the help of mysterious storylines with the metaphysical sense. Being the guide between the worlds, I mix reality and magic in a genuine meditative form of my witchcraft. Direct ascetism of the flat surfaces, completeness, and persuasiveness of the compositions, seamless statics, graphical coding of the deep sense into the schematic images, order, and rhythm of the painting focus the observer’s attention on what is underneath.

I want to return the observers to the pure, sincere, and spontaneous experience of the outer world, which we all had in our childhood. Children observe the world as it is, directly, without thinking....

Self-taught

Personal projects:​

8 - 29 September 2020 - River inside of me, personal exhibition within the project Her (ex)position, Auction house "Korners", Kyiv, Ukraine

20 February – 13 March 2020 – Thin Dreams, personal project, PM Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

5 – 25 December 2019 – The Light Comes from The Silence, personal project, gallery Bunkermuz, Ternopil, Ukraine

Group exhibitions:​

26 February – 31 March – The little stories we tell ourselves, online group exhibition, Gallery MUI

11 – 24 February 2021 – Visiocracy, Modern Research Art Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

17 December – 17 January 2020 – exhibition of the results of the art residency “Zhovkva-Art-Kreminna”, Old Apothecary, Zhovkva, Ukraine

1 – 31 December 2020 – Women Suffragists, Women Soaring Project, online exhibition, WSP Gallery

23 November – 15 January 2020 – In Time of Corona, juried online exhibition, 118 Art Gallery

28 October 2020 – Virtual naїve art museum

17 – 18 October 2020 – Sail of Adventures, VII tourist festival of songs, photo, and cinema, participant of an art exhibition, Palace of Culture, Lutsk, Ukraine

8 – 11 October 2020 – Lviv Art Week 2020, group exhibition, FESTrepublic, Lviv, Ukraine

1 – 18 October 2020 – One day afte...