Renata Kopac

My practice is rooted in vibrant, expressive painting and explores the shifting boundary between abstraction and figuration. Working primarily in oil, I build each composition through layers of colour, gesture, texture, and form. This process creates depth, movement, and emotional intensity, allowing the painting to develop as both a physical and psychological space.
Painting is central to my existence. It is not only a visual language, but a way of thinking, feeling, and understanding the world. Through paint, I explore memory, emotion, identity, sensuality, and the relationship between inner experience and external reality.
Colour is the driving force in my work. It carries mood, energy, tension, and meaning. I use colour instinctively and deliberately, allowing it to shape the structure of the painting while also creating atmosphere and emotional resonance. Layers of colour overlap, dissolve, clash, and reconnect, forming surfaces that suggest movement, transformation, and hidden narratives.
I am strongly drawn to the physicality of paint. The texture of the brushstroke, the movement of the hand, and the direct relationship between body, material, and canvas are essential to my process. My paintings develop through spontaneous y...

Education

2008 MA Communication Museums and Galleries Management University of Vilnius LT

2007 MA Fine Art in Education Institute of Art and Culture Vilnius LT

2006-2008 Raimondas Savickas Art School LT

2005 BA Fine Art Painting Vilnius Pedagogical University LT

1997-2001 Justino Vienozinskio School of Fine Art Vilnius LT

2026 Art Shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France, forthcoming

2026 ARTBOXY Live Basel, Art Basel Week, Basel, Switzerland

2026 Nicoletta Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2025 London Art Biennale, London, UK

2024 Thomson Gallery, Zug, Switzerland

2024 Art Expo Paris, Paris, France

2022 Contemporary Paintings, Third Edition, BOOMER Gallery, London, UK

2022 British Paintings 3, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

2021 Solo Exhibition, Savickas Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2021 Sonia Monti Gallery, Paris, France

2019 Exhibit Here, OXO Tower, London, UK

2019 Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK

2019 Exhibit Here, Menier Gallery, London, UK

2018 Islington Summer Salon, London, UK

2018 Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK

2017 Exhibit Here, La Galleria, London, UK

2017 TÄRT Show, Sweet ’Art, Bones & Pearl Studios, London, UK