Ukraine: The Light Will Win
Kateryna Lisova
"Outside the Window (from the Dark Times series)"
2023, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
"Shelter Tree (from the Power of Memory series)"
2022, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
"Irpin Road (from the Power of Memory series)"
2022, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
"Hope (from the Power of Memory series)"
2022, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
"From the ruins (from the Power of Memory series)"
2022, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
"Dogs surrounded... (from the Dark Times series)"
2023, digital collage, print on composite, 84 x 59,4 cm
Ukrainians are brought up on traditions passed down from their ancestors, and Katerina Lisova’s ‘family trees’ bring us back to the cycles of disasters that generations have suffered, depicting personal tragedies: destroyed fates, bonds and hearths.
About the artist
Kateryna Lisova (Kyiv, 1982)
She graduated with honors from the KHPT (now the M. Boychuk KDADPMD) with a degree in "Decorative and applied art", specializing in "Art embroidery". Professional teachers O. V. Feoklistova, E. E. Talashchenko. The degree is junior specialist. Qualification - master artist (2003).
She graduated with honors from the Mykhailo Boychuk Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts, specializing in Costume Design. Professional teachers H. V. Zabashta, N. M. Dyachenko-Zabashta. The degree is a specialist. Qualification — artist of decorative and applied arts. (2009).
She graduated with honors from the National Academy of Culture and Art Managers of Ukraine, faculty — "Institute of Practical Cultural Studies and Art Management". The thesis supervisor is N. Yu. Belichko. The degree is a master's degree. Qualification — expert art critic, gallery specialist (2018). Works in the field of artistic textiles.
List of the exhibitions
Major awards and honors Scholarship of the Kyiv Mayor for gifted youth (2003).Laureate of the youth festival "Beauty and Fashion" (2007).Researches Ukrainian art of the 1950s-1990s.Curator of exhibition projects dedicated to Ukrainian art of the 1950s-1990s.
Author of publications:The way to the top (about the Kyiv graphic artist Lev Pryzant) // Visual art. 2020. No. 3-4. P. 28 - 40.Archival archive / Cry of the bird VII "Memory Park. Farewell halls. Reliefs of the Wall of Memory". Kyiv: "Adef-Ukraine", 2020. P.381History of unofficial art of Ukraine: Part 2-a. Stagnation // L’Officiel, 2019. URL: https://officiel-online.com/special-projects/the-ukrainian-unofficial-art-history/part-2/Crossing points. About the unofficial art of Kyiv and Lviv. YourArt, 2020. URL: https://supportyourart.com/stories/uulviv/[In]formal. Ukrainian abstract art of the 1960s–1980s: exhibition catalog. Kyiv: "Dukat", 2018. 80 p.
Project curator and co-curator"Another story: the art of Kyiv from the thaw to reconstruction". (Kyiv, National Art Museum of Ukraine, 2015)[In]formal. Ukrainian abstract art 1960–1980. (Kyiv, "Dukat" gallery, 2018)Pavlo Bedzir. Dream Catcher" (Kyiv, Dukat Gallery, 2018)Art connoisseur of the Ukranian Unofficial project - an open electronic archive of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the 20th century