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Shtepura Olena
The work relates to the problem of dealing with trauma and the possibility of finding a way to move forward. The influence of external factors, the climate of disaster, and war endlessly change our internal essence. The layering of emotions, anxieties, and experiences leaves irreversible scars. In the modern fast-paced world, there is not enough time to go through all the stages of acceptance, awareness, understanding, rethinking, and analysis. Unprocessed ghosts of old traumas remain in the subconscious. Like an old oak that grows with new layers of new traumas. Like a millennia-old pebble that has gone through water and fire, it imprints the entire path of its difficult existence. All past layers have long been mixed; it is already hard to understand or separate anything, but they constantly remind themselves. A person becomes stiffened by the inability to understand; this is the only way to cope with the future, embedding emotions as deeply as possible.
All have been split in a random order, like pebbles brought by the sea to a random shore. And the pebbles settled in new territories, burying their traumas deeper within themselves while still trying to assimilate. But is it possible to do this completely when you already have a completely different background?
Olena Shtepura was born in 1994 in Nizhyn, Chernihiv region. Lives and works in Vienna
Education and qualifications
2019 – a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine
2016-2018 – The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, MA painting (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2012-2016 – The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, BA set-designer (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2008-2012 – Shevchenko State Art School, painting (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Personal exhibitions
2024– Personal exhibition “Homage of war” in Vienna Gallery, Vienna
2021 – Personal exhibition “Episodes” in the Urban Space 500, Kyiv.
2020 – Personal exhibition “Immersion” in the gallery Portal 11, Kyiv.
Group exhibitions
2024 – Group exhibition “Liutyi/ Лютий/ February”, Akbild, Vienna
2024– Group exhibition “Don’t Close Your Eyes” at Umbrella Art center in Concord.
2023 – Group exhibition “Secret love stories“, Vienna.
2023 – Group exhibition “Women of liberty“ Basel
2023 – Group exhibition “Fight, sister“, Vienna.
2023 – Group exhibition “Don’t close your eyes: Ukrainian artists respond to the war“ NJ.
2023 – Group exhibition “Women art Revolution“, Warsaw.
2023 – Group exhibition “Den blick õffnen” artP.kunstverein , Perchtoldsdorf
2023 – Group exhibition “Assembly Scheme”, M17 CAC, Kyiv.
2022 – Group exhibition “Curiosa” in the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv.
2022 – Group exhibition “Institutionalization” in the gallery Imagine Point, Kyiv.
2022 – Collective project “Supernova .Art of Ukraine“, Basel.
2022 – Group exhibition “Ukrainian Voice. Your choice!“, Bread and Salt gallery, San Diego.
2022 – Group exhibition “Unity: British & Ukrainian art“ by the art unit in Koppel X, London.
2022 – Group exhibition “Connected art“ in Holyshart, Warsaw.
2022 – Group exhibition “Revelation“ at gallery Brulhart, Geneva.
2022 – Project of political art “Revolution“ at Galerie Le Guern, Warsaw.
2022 – Group exhibition “From the Pain to the light“ for the support of the organization Ukrainian Charity Exhibition, in Tallinn and Helsinki.
2022 – Group exhibition “Don’t close your eyes“, Boston.
2021 – Group exhibition “Ukrainian Surrealism” in the gallery Portal11, Kyiv.
2020 – Participation in the All-Ukrainian Art Project. “The Environment ofExistence. Manifest 2020“ Lavra Gallery, Kyiv.
2020 – Visual art exhibition “Who am I today” gallery “Mytets”, Kyiv.
2020 – Participation in the exhibition “Time Zero” at the Institute of Problem Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
2020 – Participation in the group project-homage “Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine” at the Institute of Automation, Kyiv.
2020 – a representative of Ukraine at the international competition “The Future We Want” on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in Geneva, at the Palace of Nations.
2019 – Participated in the Exhibition of Contemporary Women’s Art “Vikna”,Museum of the History of Kyiv.
2019 – Participation in visual art exhibition “Good life” in gallery “Mytets”, Kyiv .
2019 – Participation in open doors arts studios and the exhibition “Chaos theory” at institute of Automation, Kyiv.
2019 – Participation in the exhibition «Ballpoint A4» Karas Gallery, Kyiv.
2018 – Participation in the project of Tetyana Ivashchenko,IFASHION.ART (curator Svitlana Stoyan). Museum of History of Kyiv.
2018 – Participation in the group exhibition of the project “Cultural exchange between cities of Ukraine”, Sumy Municipal Gallery and Shostka Gallery.
2018 – Participation in the exhibition “The Feeling of freedom” to the White Ribbon Day in the Verkhovna Rada.
2018 – Participation in the exhibition «Ballpoint A4» Karas Gallery, Kyiv.
