Yevhen Kushnyrik

Yevhen Kushnyrik is a Ukrainian poet and visual artist currently based in Austria. His artistic practice moves between poetry and painting, exploring themes of memory, identity, psychological fragmentation, and the strange absurdity of human existence.

In Ukraine, Kushnyrik is known primarily as a poet. His texts have been published in numerous Ukrainian literary magazines, journals, and almanacs. He is the author of the poetry collection “Memory of a Worm”, published by the independent publishing project Antyvydavnytstvo.

His visual works continue the same poetic exploration but through color, distortion, and figurative imagery. The paintings often feature fragmented faces, unstable forms, and expressive lines.

Working with acrylic and pastel, Kushnyrik creates small-format paintings that function as visual poems — spontaneous, raw, and psychologically charged images that investigate the fragile border between the inner world and external reality.