Antonina Denysiuk
Born in 1963, Lviv, Ukraine
EDUCATION:
1970-1980 Lviv Secondary School No.28 specialized in the German language
1974-1978 Lviv Art School, Ukraine
1983-1988 Lviv National Academy of Arts
Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, Faculty of Interior Design and Equipment
WORKS ARE INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTIONS:
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine
Lentos Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Albertina Museum, Collection of Graphics, Vienna, Austria
Claus Hipp’s Collection of Contemporary Art, Austria
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Museum Salon Dalman, Berlin, Germany - Finland
Museum of Modernism, Lviv, Ukraine
Korsak’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Numerous private collections
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRAND PRIX AND CERTIFICATES:
1997 KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
1998 KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
1999 Grand Prix of the International Book Forum in Lviv for the catalogues De Novo, Time Space Material and
Industrial Reality
2005 Gaude Polonia, the Ministry of Culture, Poland
2005 Certificate from the Ministry of Culture, Poland
2006 Scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Villa Decius, Krakow
2006 Austrian Bureau for Cooperation and Education, Vienna, Austria
2007 Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese, Vienna, Austria
2008 Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese, Vienna, Austria
2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, the USA
2011 International Lorenzo de Medici Award at the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011
special award by the jury
2012 Gottlieb Foundation, New York, the USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected):
1994 Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine
1995 Changing the view (with Katya Vasilieva), Merz Gallery, Linz, Austria
1996 Place for the Paradise, А3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1995 Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
1996 Workshop by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Academy of Applied and Decorative Art, Vienna, Austria
1999 Gallery Karenina, Vienna, Austria
2000-2021 Numerous exhibitions in the Gallery Karenina, Vienna, Austria
2007-2008 Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese Vienna, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1981 (best-known):
1981 Exhibition of Graphics, exposition hall of the Union of Artists, Lviv, Ukraine
1988 Youth Exhibition, exposition hall of Clares Church, Lviv Art Gallery
1991 Biennale of Contemporary Art “Impreza”, Ivano-Frankivsk
1993 Lviv Cultural Scene, University of Freiburg,
speaker Dr. Khrystyna Nazarkevych
1991-1994 Art Group “Skifska Baba” (Kherson), Ukraine
Organization and presentation of exhibitions of the group at the Lviv National Art Gallery, exposition hall of
Clares Church (current Pinsel Museum), Ukraine
Creation of posters and invitations to exhibitions
1994 Across the Boundaries and Borders, exhibition of alternative Ukrainian art Hipp Halle, Gmunden, Austria
1994 - 1997 Numerous exhibitions and events at Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
1997 Cultural Centre of the Minorites Convent, Graz, Austria
1999 Dialog, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2000 - 2001 Art Project, Crossing Point, Lodz - Stuttgart - Lviv; Poland - Germany - Ukraine
2002 - 2003 Between Space, Besancon - Lviv - Freiburg, France - Ukraine - Germany
2003 Donumenta, Regensburg, Exhibition of Ukrainian Art, Germany
2004 Cultural Hero Project,
project at the Art Association Dzyga, Lviv,
project “Sonechko”, Guelman Gallery, Kyiv (curator and participant of the project)
2011 Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2012 Art Genoa, Italy
2012 Art Monaco, Monaco
2013 Hemliuk, exhibition under patronage of the Prince of Monaco Albert II (Monte Carlo);
2019 Bonum et Malum, Berlin, Kleiner Von Wiese Gallery, Germany
2020 Exposition Centre of the Society of the Disabled, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Corona Party, Municipal Art Centre, Lviv, Ukraine
2021 Your names, Ukraine, Korsak’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
CONCEPTS, PROJECTS, SETS:
1992 “Vyvykh” Festival, Lviv, Ukraine
“Chrysler Imperial” Lviv National Theatre of Opera and Ballet,
Director Serhiy Proskurnia
Opera “Bu-Ba-Bu”, creation of 200 costumes
1992 “Vyvykh” Festival, Lviv, Ukraine
design of 2 posters for the “Vyvykh” Festival
1993 Svoboda Vyboru (“Freedom of Choice”), scenography, Kyiv - Donetsk, Ukraine
1994 Viruyu (“Statement of Faith”), Lviv National Theatre of Opera and Ballet,
music by Yuriy Sayenko, text by Bohdan Stelmakh, director Hryhoriy Shumeyko,
scenography and costumes by Antonina Denysiuk, as well as design of event posters and invitations,
Ukraine
1995 Conceptual project “Dzvinkyi Viter” (“Vibrant Bells”) with Ruslana, Ukrainian pop singer,
Gunpowder Tower in Lviv,
Olesko Castle,
Lviv National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Ukraine
1996 Festival of Ukrainian Culture, Przemyśl,
The Vistula 50, Poland, director Serhiy Proskurnia
ORGANIZATION OF SYMPOSIUMS AND EXHIBITIONS of the international project DE NOVO
curator, author of the idea, concept and organization, designer and author of all catalogues, posters and invitations to the symposiums:
1998 - De Novo - TIME SPACE MATERIAL
Catalogue of the International Art Symposium,
TIME SPACE MATERIAL, poster, invitation
venues of the symposium:
Pidhirtsi Castle, Lviv region
Olesko Castle, Lviv region
Exposition Hall of the Union of Artists - Lviv Art Palace, Lviv
1999 De Novo – INDUSTRIAL REALITY
Catalogue of the International Art Symposium
INDUSTRIAL REALITY invitation, poster
venues of the symposium:
Pidhirtsi Castle, Lviv region
Olesko Castle, Lviv region
Havarechchyna village, Lviv region
Yasnysko Quarry, Lviv
Museum of Architecture and Folk Crafts, Lviv
Italian Yard, Historical Museum, Lviv
Club-café “Lyalka” (“Doll”), Lviv
Exhibition at the Art Association Dzyga
2000 De Novo, “POET”
invitation, poster
venue of the symposium:
Odesa
Art Café “Poet”
2000 De Novo
BLACK WOOD – BLACK SEA
invitation, poster
venues of the symposium:
Lviv – Chortovi Hory (the Devil’s Mountains)
Odesa – Black Sea
exhibitions-performances
Soviet-style Canteen on Derybasivska Str., Odesa
Art Association Dzyga, Lviv
2002 De Novo
MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF ONE PERSON. THE INNER SIDE OF THE SKY IS EARTH
invitation, poster
venues of the symposium:
Museum of Ethnography and Folk Craft, Lviv
Music workshop by Oleh-John Suk
2005 De Novo,
24HOURS.U
catalogue, poster
venue of the symposium:
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, Poland
BOOK GRAPHICS:
1994 Piat Kazok (“Five Fairytales”), Ihor Kalynets, Publishing House “Prosvita”
1997 Na Bilomu Sviti (“In the Wide World”), Bohdan Chepurko, Mariia Chumarna, Publishing House “Prosvita”, Lviv
1998 De Novo, Catalogue of the International Art Symposium,
TIME SPACE MATERIAL
1999 De Novo, Catalogue of the International Art Symposium,
INDUSTRIAL REALITY
2007 24 Hours. Ukraine, Catalogue of the Project, Centre of the Contemporary Art,
Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Anniversary Book, Janineum - 50, Janineum Institute, Austria
The Heart of the World
New charity art project of KAPUSTA. Solo exhibition of Ukrainian artist Antonina Denisiuc.
Antonina Denisiuc
Antonina Denisiuc was born and raised in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, an architectural and visual gem of Eastern Europe in the Ukrainian-Romanian Jews family.
Studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. The first exhibitions included creative projects in Austria “Grenzgänger” and “Augenblick”, created with the support of philanthropist Klaus Gipp (some works are in his private collection) and exhibitions at the Vienna Academy of Arts in the workshop of Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Antonina’s creative research began with a series of drawings of the Infinite Series (1991-1998. Some works of this period are in the collection of Albertina museum in Vienne), which testifies to the infinite life in human consciousness. Since 1998 the artist has been discussing the creation of a cliche of the similarity of reality through the imprint of the material world, a series of paintings by Stansya appears.
The works of Antonina Denisiuc were awarded with the International Prizes and Fellowships of the Foundation of Krasner Pollock (USA), Culture Contact (Austria), Gaud Polonia (Poland, Ministry of Culture), Austrian Cooperative Bureau (Austria), Ertsiodicezia (Austria), Villa Decius (Poland) institute them Adam Mickiewicz (Poland) and others. Moreover, she was awarded the Lorenzo di Medici Prize at the VIII Florentine Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2011. The artist participated in Art Genoa 2012 and the Contemporary Art Salon of Art Monaco 2012, Salon Gemliuc 2013 under the patronage of Prince Albert II, Hidden Treasure London 2014, and many others.
As an artist, Antonina participated in more than 100 art projects, including 18 personal exhibitions.
Antonina Denisiuc belongs to that unique group of artists whose works embody eternal discovery and a constant flow of ideas. Her work generally defies comparison with other styles, as its means of expression and techniques are uniquely her own. Drawing inspiration from universal disorder, she believes that an artist’s minimalist lines can, by developing and crossing themselves a billion times, voice an internal peace. She seeks to present life through an intuitive and womanly canvas, though one of many patterns and facets.
Antonina Denisiuc is one of the unique artists in the arsenal of endless invention, innumerable ideas. This invention of artistic thinking is presented as a brilliant talent, empowered through the intuitive canvas to penetrate and discover the state, to feel life. This is the incomparable basis of the women’s art world, like Louise Bourgeois, like Georgia O’Keeffe, as Magdalena Abakanowicz. These artists have as many faces as the world has. In the philosophy of the creation of artists has entered the Matrix.
Structure and vision in the windows of social space that are minimally open to our perception. In Antonina Denisiuc, creativity emerges from primary chaos. The minimalism of artistic embodiment is expressed through the line. The line crosses millions of times, reaches an inner calm and falls into the hands of eternity. Anyone can ask themselves, is it difficult to create just one line? And if you provide orchestral lines? And if to develop and sound? Then you can see in each intersecting transparent window – Vermeer. This is him, this is our incomprehensible world, full of struggles and contradictions, so beautiful, so transparent, so magical. The artist, from space, seems to be getting an incredible amount of resources to create. ЇЇ The works are completely unlike any other means of expression or performance techniques.
Antonina Denisiuc creates oil on canvas, watercolors, graphics, installation, and sculpture. She works in Lviv and Zurich.
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