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

Solo Exhibitions & Art Fairs


2025
Volta Basel, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Fragile Armour, EM gallery, Seoul, South Korea >
Granice Obecnosci, Borowik Foundation, Warsaw, Poland >
The Treasure Seekers, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Vienna, Austria >
2024
Luxembourg Art Week – with Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Luxembourg
Uit de Duisternis, De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, Netherlands
Volta Basel, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Parallel Vienna, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Vienna
2023
Luxembourg Art Week, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Luxembourg
Art Vilnius, DK gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Parallel Vienna, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Vienna
2022
Living Behind My Own Illusion, Fine Art Gallery
Watching the Monster Die, Fine Art Gallery
Asylum, DK Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2021\2011
Black Mirror, De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, Netherlands
Daybreak, AV Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Persone e Identità, Galleria Spazi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
E S C A P E, Y Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
In the Dazzling White Corridors, Y Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
Last Paintings, Gallery of Mount Blanc, Toruń, Poland

Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs
2026
25 in '26, VCRB Gallery, Antwerp, ...