Liliia Kaluzhyna

Hello! I'm Alika, and my pseudonym holds special meaning: "A" stands for art, "Li" for Lily, and "Ka" for Kaluzhina. I was born in Ukraine, and now I live in Italy, where I devote myself entirely to my art. Sometimes it feels like I'm making up for lost time when I wasn't creating. I love trying new techniques and experimenting with different materials. It's so engaging that I can't settle on just one. My creative process is always an experiment. I do have favorites, though – oil paints and working with a palette knife. For me, creativity is like living in a parallel world that I can create myself.

It's about emotions and feelings that can't always be expressed in words but can be painted on a canvas. Art for me is like air; I need it to feel happy. All artistic explorations and experiments are like new worlds where I challenge myself.

For a long time, creativity was a hobby for me; I painted for friends, on commission, and simply based on my mood. I started my artistic career in 2018. My first significant exhibition was in Venice during the Venice Biennale in 2019. Since then, my paintings have traveled around Europe, visited the United Arab Emirates, as well as America and the United Kingdom. My works have been auctioned and pu...

Publications.

April 2019: publication in the monthly art magazine Arte Mondadori n. 548.
November 2019: publication in the Spanish magazine REVISTART, Spain.
November 2019: Publication in the ART CATALOG CAM MONDADORI № 55 “Italian artists from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day” — EDITED BY GIORGIO MONDADORI.
January 2020: publication in the IconArt magazine – issue 1 (XII) January-February 2020.
January 2020: publication in the monthly art magazine Arte Mondadori n. 557.
December 2020: Publication in the contemporary art catalog “200 best artists chosen by Antonio Castellano” – 1st edition of Italian and foreign artists.
December 2020: Publication in the ART CATALOG CAM MONDADORI N.56 “Italian artists from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day” — EDITED BY GIORGIO MONDADORI.
December 2020: publication in the art magazine Punto d’incontro no. 3/4 November 2020-February 2021.
April 2021: Publication in the international catalog of contemporary art ARTISTI 21. Mondadori.
June 2021: publication in 6 catalogs of the Vittorio Sgarbi Prize.
July/December 2021: Publication in the book by Dante Alighieri “The Divine Comedy”. Book illustrated with works of art by...

2022

February 2022: International collective exhibition dedicated to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Ukraine, Kyiv. The critic Professor Giorgio Grasso.
March 2022: Collective and solo exhibition at the Vatican’s Palazzo della Cancelleria. Rome.
April 2022: First prize of the city of Berlin. Art gallery von Seidler. Berlin.
June 2022: Cremona Art Biennale. Cremona.
July 2022: Exhibition of Dante from Ukraine in Florence. Dante’s House Museum.
September-November 2022: Collective exhibitions of Ukrainian artists in London. Organized by Golden Time Talent. London.
October 2022: Collective exhibition of the Ukrainian art project in Italy. Milan. Organized by Vitaukr. The critic Professor Giorgio Grasso.
October 2022: Collective exhibition at the MIIT Museum. Turin.
November 2022: International collective exhibition Art Gallery Trans Visions Stefano Sichel in Castell’Arquato.
November 2022: Collective exhibition. Women’s House in Milan.
December 2022: “Artist of the Year” award in Brussels.

2023

February 2023: Terre des Hommes Milan collective exhibition. Organizer Vitaukr.
March 2023: Collective exhibition UKRAINIAN ART IN ITALY. Centro Culturale Altinate | San Gaetano, Padua.
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