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Cheprasova Mila
“I grew up in Zaporizhzhia. There was a predominantly Russian-speaking environment there, and Russian was used in everyday life. Although I studied in a Ukrainian class and loved the Ukrainian language, I do not remember a conscious desire to become Ukrainian in my childhood. It was normal for me to speak Russian.
I was able to consciously switch to Ukrainian only after the Revolution of Dignity, moving to Kyiv and several years of work on myself. Now, society is diligently being Ukrainianized. But it is still mostly Russian-speaking. This is not surprising, because Russification and mixing of the population took place for hundreds of years.
This book I’m working with is from my niece’s children’s library. She wants to study anatomy, but she cannot do it in Russian. I decided to translate this book for her, for myself, and simply restore justice. For me, this is a symbolic meditative process. I would like to see a new Ukrainian normality in Ukraine.”
Born in 1988 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
In 2010, Mila Cheprasova obtained a higher technical education. From 2013 to 2018, she worked as a developer in IT. In 2016, she moved to Kyiv. In 2018, she changed her field of activity to art.
Since 2022, she has been a resident of CUTOUT STUDIO.
“I am a multidisciplinary conceptual artist. I work with media: collage, graphics, mixed media, video, performance, installation.
At the center of my artistic practice is the emotional maturity of the individual. Each person must start with themselves, as emotional self-sufficiency enables ecological interaction with oneself and society.
I work on exploring themes of personal boundaries, overcoming inferiority, dignity, and conscious existence. My personal psychological traumas from childhood have influenced the formation of my personality, making these themes central to my art.”
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – Exhibition “One Life,” Project Café, Chernihiv, Ukraine
2021 – “The Slums,” Hangar, Kyiv, Ukraine
Collective Projects
2024 – A Look Inside, Slovenian International Collage Festival “Kaos,” Kranj, Slovenia.
2024 – FACETS, Café Kyiv 2024, Berlin, Germany.
2024 – A Look Inside, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024 – BORDERS 2.0, Gallery Sklad №5, Cherkasy, Ukraine.
2023 – II International Contemporary Collage Festival CUTOUT “Freedom,” M17 Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine, Le Bonheur Est Dans L’Instant Gallery, Paris, France, with a printed catalog of works.
2023 – Children of Doctor Frankenstein, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 – Genesis of Being, Powder Tower, Center for Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, Lviv, Ukraine.
2023 – Hello, It’s Me, Palace of Konopatsky, Warsaw, Poland.
2023 – Me and the War, Museum of the History of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 – Parallels, an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Holodomor victims, National Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukrainian Culture Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2022 – Planet Love 3.0, Imaguru Club, Madrid, Spain.
2022 – Genesis of Being, Beyond Limits Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2022 – Project “Unyielding Wall” as part of the exhibition “Supernova. Art of Ukraine,” Basel Art Centre, Basel, Switzerland.
2022 – “KAOS” IV International Collage Festival, Mergentaler Gallery, Kranj, Slovenia.
2022 – An Object from Inner Space, Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 – Fragments of Life, Artist Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – Museum-Workshop of I.P. Kavaleridze, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – Art as Life, Life as Art, Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 – Time 0, Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 – Wonderland, Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Residencies
2024 – Kilowac, Šiauliai, Lithuania.
2023 – Ukraine. Residence of FREEDOM, Riga, Latvia.
2022 – Present, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 – Sound Art Space, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
