Kateryna Lysovenko is a Ukrainian artist based in Vienna. She’s working in painting, using text, drawing and monumental painting as her other media.
Lysovenko is engaged in the study of the relationship between ideology and painting, as well as production of the image of the victim in politics and art. One of her most used means is the figure of the Other. In her work she is engaging traditions and inspirations ranging from antiquity to the present day. Lysovenko regards painting as a language that can be instrumentalized or liberated.
Since Russian full scale invasion on Ukraine, her works have become one of the most recognized images of the Ukrainian voice and perspective. But her historical and artistic reflection has a wider, universal and humanistic angle.
Her works are included in the key public collections, including Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum of Contemporary Art w Kijowie or Museum Ludwig in Budapest.
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Artforum, review by Maximilian Lehner
