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Luhovska Anna
The abstract images represent young people, representatives of a globalised generation shaped by the Internet and social media. Their faces are hidden by digital filters, reflecting the impact of virtual interactions on identity. The use of bright colours and shape-shifting patterns helps to emphasise the disappearance of differences in their features, highlighting the homogenising effect of online culture.
She was born in Kyiv in 1996.
Anna Luhovska has been working in the artistic field for over fifteen years. Having received a professional art education (seven years of painting at the Taras Shevchenko State Art High School (2005-2013), a Bachelor’s degree at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2005-2013), and a Master’s degree at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2013). Shevchenko State Art High School (2005-2013); Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Painting (2013-2019)), Anna, in parallel to her artistic practices, began her academic career by entering the postgraduate course at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Theory and History of Art, where in 2023 she successfully defended her dissertation on “Institutions of Contemporary Art in the Exhibition Practice of Ukraine (early 1990s – 2020)”.
As an artist, Anna has presented her works in a number of projects not only in Ukraine (Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of History of Kyiv, Lavra gallery, White world gallery, etc.) but also far beyond its borders (Dubai, Geneva, New York, Basel). In Geneva, in 2022, in particular, her solo exhibition “Frontières de l’illusion” was held at the Brulhart Gallery. In addition, she participated in art residencies: “Atelier Mondial” Basel, Switzerland, 2022; “Made in Chernobyl” Chernobyl, Ukraine, 2019; “Art optimism” in Newburgh, New York, USA, 2018; “Artists to museums of Montenegro” Kotor, Montenegro, 2016, etc.
Implementing the results of her research in the field of Ukrainian contemporary art history, Anna Luhovska has implemented a number of curatorial projects, including “Through the Thorns… Art of Ukraine” in Geneva in May 2022, which was supported by the Embassy of Ukraine in Switzerland and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, together with the Geneva branch of the Ukrainian Society in Switzerland. Other projects were: “SUPERNOVA. Art of Ukraine” (Basel Art Centre, June 2022, Basel); and “Révélation” (Brulhart gallery, September 2022, Geneva).
Artistic statement
In her artistic practice, Anna works with the topic of human identity through the prism of society, individual generations and global influences that shape the consciousness of people today. She often refers to the temporal aspect in the context of rapid social transformations, endowing it with special metaphorical features.