Floral 4.16.23 Print

Award-winning abstract artist Viktoria Ganhao was born in 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine, into an artistic family where creativity was not a hobby but a way of seeing the world. From an early age, she developed a visual sensitivity that would later become the foundation of her painting practice. Before fully committing to art, Viktoria spent 17 years working in the international fashion industry and building entrepreneurial ventures, living in seven countries and traveling extensively. This period shaped her refined sense of composition, color harmony, and material awareness — qualities that remain central to her work today. In 2016, she made a decisive shift to focus exclusively on painting, marking the beginning of a clearly defined and continuously evolving artistic career. Travel plays a fundamental role in Viktoria Ganhao’s practice, not as a subject to be depicted, but as a catalyst for self-discovery. Her paintings translate lived experiences into abstraction, capturing memory, emotion, and atmosphere as reflections of an evolving inner world. Each body of work functions as a visual archive — a record of encounters, movement, and personal transformation — where external places become internal landscapes. While rooted in her own experience, the open, abstract language invites collectors to project their own memories and emotions onto the work, creating an intimate connection between artist, artwork, and viewer. As Viktoria often notes, each painting holds a story waiting to be discovered — both hers and theirs. Her process is intuitive yet disciplined. Working with a broad range of tools — brushes, palette knives, and mixed media — she builds texture and depth through multiple layers, allowing the painting to evolve organically. Though she values creative freedom and resists confinement to a single technique, her work is unified by a recognizable visual coherence, making her pieces immediately identifiable within a growing body of work. Viktoria Ganhao’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and presented at international art fairs and festivals. Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide, reflecting sustained collector confidence and long-term value. She remains actively engaged with audiences, valuing dialogue and response as part of an ongoing artistic exchange.