Zhenya Machkovska

I am an artist from Dnipro. I currently live and work in Kyiv.
My practice explores themes of self-awareness, memory, and inner dialogue. I seek to capture moments of fragility, tension, or calm — states that often go unnoticed, yet shape our sense of self. In my work, I examine how a person coexists with their own experience and how emotions influence the perception of reality.
I work with mixed media, including acrylic, aerosols, markers, liners, and pencils.

Education:
2014 - 2018 - Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College, Fine Arts Department (Dnipro, Ukraine).
2018 - 2022 - National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Fine Arts and Restoration (Kyiv, Ukraine).

2025 — multimodal art event ONLY AFTER DARK, organized by Peremoga Business Space & Art Navigator Academy, Kyiv.
2024 - Solo exhibition "Daily Oxymoron", as part of the festival "Actor's House. Immersion", Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
2024 - Group exhibition "Ukraine: two realities or Ukrainian surrealism" in the Ukrainian Cultural Center from the Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft. Freiburg, Germany.
2023 - Group exhibition "Cosmogony of meanings", The Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Shelter" by the Kozitsky Charitable Foundation. Pellas Gallery, Boston, USA.
2023 - Solo exhibition "Daily Oxymoron" at the art bar "Malevich," Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Freakreative Congress" in the White World Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Open Space: Chronicles of Transition" National museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 - Solo exhibition "A new reality", Na пошті. Creative cluster, Ternopil, Ukraine.
2022 - Ukrainian-Georgian Contemporary Art Exhibition "Tomorrow", Literature Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021 - Solo exhibition "Gaze", bookstore "Shine of the book", Kyiv, Ukraine.