Vika Gankina

I was born 1986 in Ukraine, studied in Kiev national institute of applied art and design named of M. Boychuk, worked as a designer. Now living in Germany.
I can describe my current art in three words:
HAPPINESS. FULLNESS. COLOR.

In my current artworks I see a man and the nature as one whole thing, because we are all part of it, as well it is - a part of us.
Modern man is so rarely feels happy, because he has lost touch with nature.

For me Nature it's a source that gives peace and harmony, filled with energy and happiness. I want to convey through my paintings feeling of happiness, what we had experienced in childhood, with the simplicity and wholeness of perception.

2009 - 2010 MA in Graphic design, Academy of Advertising, Kiev
2005 - 2009 BA in Graphic design, National institute of applied art and design named of M. Boychuk, Kiev

SUMMER SCHOOL AND COURSES
2009 - 2010 Drawing classes with Mihailo Shapovalenko , Kiev
2009 Summer residence "Design Paradise" in the Crimea, Tarhankut
2008 Summer Academy for Graphic Design at British Higher School of Art and Design , Moscow

2015 "LICHTMEILE 2015", Altes Volksbad, Mannheim
2015 "Dilemma" Kraftzentrale, Staubing
2015 "Forest", Kulturzentrum Steinfurth, Karlsburg
2014 "Artist Draw . A4 , Ball Point Pen" Karas Gallery, Kiev
2014 "LICHTMEILE 2014", Altes Volksbad, Mannheim
2014 Personal exibition Ausstellung"Das Innenleben der Pflanzen", Citypastoral Mannheim
2014 "3. International exibition NETZWERK - NETWORK, Kunstverein Kulmbach e.V
2014 "7. Truderinger Kunst-Tage 2014", Munich
2010 "Artist Draw . A4 , Ball Point Pen" Karas Gallery, Kiev
2008 "175th anniversary of M. Boychuk " in the State Institute of Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk
2008 "Annual Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition " at the Central House of Artists in Kiev
2007 "100 Years of Kandinsky " in the Academy of Arts , Kiev
2007 Ukrainian student scientific conference. 24-26 April 2007 Kharkov. Theme of the work: "A blank sheet of paper and his hidden structure"