Julia Letvitskaya

In my recent series Sensitive Compositions, I focus on moments of physical and emotional closeness — touch, embrace, support — where bodies are intertwined and boundaries become unstable. These figures are not portraits of specific individuals; they function as emotional states. Through distortion, shifting proportions, and expressive gestures, I aim to capture inner conditions rather than external likeness.
Sensitive Compositions is a series of paintings in which I explore bodily vulnerability as a form of communication. I am interested in the moment of touch—physical and emotional—when the body becomes a carrier of memory, tension, desire, fear, and trust at the same time.

The figures in these works are not portraits of specific people—they are rather states. The intertwined bodies, shifted proportions, active contour, and pulsating color emphasize the instability of the moment: intimacy here is not idealized, it is fragile, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but always honest.

Color in the series works as an emotional marker. Reds, fleshy, and cold blues coexist in tension, creating a sense of inner conflict between attraction and protection, presence and disappearance. The painterly gesture is intentionally open an...

Education
Internship assistantship "Restorer of works of art"
National Academy of Art and Architecture 2013 -2016
Master in conservation with specialization in Easel Painting, researcher, teacher
National Academy of Art and Architecture 2011 - 2013
Bachelor in conservation with specialization in Easel Painting
National Academy of Art and Architecture 2007 - 2011
Odesa Art College named after M.B. Grekova
with education in the visual arts and artistic design 2000 – 2005

Solo Exhibitions:
2023 - painting IFO CENTER art residence, art hall, Bromolla, Sweden.
2022 - “ Like a QUINE”, SWAP gallery and HOLYBEANS, Kyiv
2022 - “Theere is only today”, UCC Berlin – art residence, apartment exhibition, Leibnizstrase 67, Berlin, Germany
2020 - “GRANDMOTHERS”, Center for Ukrainian Culture and Art, Horiva19B, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 - Painting, ДІМ КАРТИН Gallery, Borychiv Teak 35 A, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 - “Native motives”, Markov gallery, ( closed now), Odesa, Ukraine.

Group Exhibitions:
2024\ 13.10.- 31.10 - “Art is Freedom”\Volksgalerie DVA\Enschede\ Netherlands
2023 -2024 - 12/11 -14.01 – “Fran Ukraina till Karlskrona”/ Blekinge Museum
Karlskrona/ Sweden
2023 - "Konstens Mångfald", Hässleholms Kulturhus, Vattugatan 18, 281
31, 31Hässleholm, Sweden.
2022 - Exhibition of Ukrainian artists, UCC Berlin – art residence,
apartment exhibition, Leibnizstrase 67, Berlin, Germany
2021 - All-Ukrainian exhib...