Anastasiya Klymenko

Anastasiia Klymenko (b. 1982, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a professional artist, surreal collage maker, and mental health advocate based in Kyiv. She works at the intersection of contemporary art, psychology, and human rights.

With a background in economics, marketing, photography production, and body art, she began her professional artistic practice in 2022. Her primary mediums include digital and analogue collage, abstraction, and mixed media. Through fragmentation and recomposition, she explores how personal and collective experiences are reconstructed after trauma.

Anastasiia lives with bipolar affective disorder (Bipolar Disorder) and openly integrates lived experience into her artistic and educational work. She is a trainer and consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) within the QualityRights programme, focusing on mental health recovery, dignity, and human rights. She is also a mental health activist, public speaker, and ambassador for the Mental Health Ukrainian project.

Her artistic practice centers on mental health, trauma, identity, interpersonal relationships, and the hidden layers of the psyche. Using surreal collage as a metaphor for consciousness, memory, and dissociation, she investigates themes of chaos and harm...

Exhibitions

2024

December — Human Rights Day Exhibition, Satellites of Art, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

August — Independence Day of Ukraine Exhibition, Ukrainian Voices Refugee Committee, Brussels, Belgium

July — Pride (online exhibition), Manchester, United Kingdom

July — Secret Salon Art Show: “Gothic. Baroque. Religion. Rock’n’Roll”, London, United Kingdom

July — Home/Land — Exhibition on Home, Displacement and Shelter, Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS CIC), Brighton, United Kingdom

July — Anima Mundi: Consciousness, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy

May — MonART, Fox Yard Studio – Art Gallery, Suffolk, United Kingdom

March — My Body (online exhibition), The Starving Artist, USA

January — Abstraction (3D exhibition), Omnibus Gallery, Dresden, Germany

2023

November — Illuminant (online exhibition), Meta-Senses Gallery

October — FRIDA Women’s Art Festival, National Gallery of Arts (Galeria e Artit Tiranë), Tirana, Albania

September — Hidden Images, Cista Arts Gallery, London, United Kingdom

June — CU46 Project Pride #3 Edition (group online exhibition), Berlin, Germany

June — Art as a Response: Mental Health, Doncaster Art Fair, United Kingdom

June — Pride! #3 Edition (group online exhibition), Berlin, Germany

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