Krystyna Melnyk
Born in Melitopol in 1993. She graduated from The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2018), the monumental painting department. In 2019, she took an evening course in contemporary art at KAMA. In her practice, Krystyna works with images that use the double power of an icon. She rejects the narrative concept in figurative painting and chooses a combination of different semantic layers. Krystyna studies the sacred through the image of the suffering body, which also plays a significant role in her practice. She uses levkas and soil which are traditionally used in icon painting. Lives and works in Kyiv.
2022-2023
In Front of Pain, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022
Nominated for PinchukArtPrize
2020
Personal exhibition, creative space Okno, Kyiv
2019
Crossroads Sea, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
To Live Together, Graduate Show of Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv
2022
Restless Bodies, Nome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
