Olena Hnatiuk is a visual artist whose practice centers on painting.
Her work explores states of solitude, uncertainty, vulnerability, and the experience of being suspended between past and future. Through figurative imagery, she creates spaces where people, objects, and memories exist in a fragile balance between presence and absence.
Hnatiuk develops her paintings through an intuitive dialogue with colour, form, and material. She often starts without a predetermined subject, allowing images to emerge gradually through the process itself. Figures, objects, and spaces become ways of approaching experiences that are difficult to explain directly.
Recurring themes in her work include waiting, observation, emotional isolation, and the relationship between a person and their inner world.
Alongside painting, she works with artist books, illustration, and occasional mixed-media projects.
Painting exhibitions
2026
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Konstrundan , Studio 859 (Sweden, Skåre)
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KULLASALONGEN, jurybedömd, Krapperups Konsthall
2025
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Julsalong (Sweden, Höganäs)
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KULLAKONSTNÄRER exhibits Station House and Annex (Sweden, Mölle)
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Group exhibition, 8 artists i Karantänen ( Sweden, Helsingborg)
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Konstrundan , Studio 859 (Sweden, Skåre)
2024
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Unga konstnärer, Karantänen (Sweden, Helsingborg)
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Konstrundan , Studio 859 (Sweden, Skåre)
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14 på UTFLYKT, Karantänen (Sweden, Helsingborg)
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Kulturfestival, Blå Hallen (Sweden, Höganäs)
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Julsalong, (Sweden, Höganäs)
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SYMBIOS (Sweden, Jönköping)
2023
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Exhibition CHILDREN OF HYLEA (Tranås, Sweden)
2022
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Art exhibition TRIGGER (Tartu, Estonia)
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Exhibition EMERGENCY SUIT CASE (studio selk, Jönköping)
2021
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Online exhibition: "Painting that helps to speak without words" (Kherson, Ukraine)
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All-Ukrainian creative project-competition "ART-NOVA", First International triennial "In the land of the grey pearls" (Grand Prix)
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ALL Painting/Drawing Art Exhibition (online gallery)
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CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY ONLINE
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The Gallery By MUI, the little stories we tell ourselves
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Art festival "Mycelium 2.0", Kherson
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Nude: the body as a manifesto, Kherson, art space "Freedom"
2020
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Competition - Portrait, online exhibition
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Regional art exhibition "Female Image", hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson, Ukraine)
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Exhibition of the art project "Immunity", Korsakiv Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Lutsk, Ukraine)
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Kherson regional exhibition dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson, Ukraine)
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Art space "Freedom", Kherson, Ukraine
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"Golden Time" online competition (3rd place)
2019
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Only moment before spring, hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson, Ukraine)
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Regional exhibition of arts and crafts, hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson, Ukraine)
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Spring is blooming, hall of the Kherson Regional Oncology Dispensary (Kherson, Ukraine)
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Alive feeling, hall ART-space GALLERY, Mykolaiv
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Bohemian meeting, Kherson
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Exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist, hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson)
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All-Ukrainian creative project-competition "ART-NOVA", First International Triennial "Itinerant philosophy" (2nd place)
2018
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Competition "Pecherski Chestnuts", Kyiv
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Exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist, hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kherson)
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Exhibition in the exhibition hall, Energodar
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Exhibition of felted works, the hall of the art gallery named after A.S. Gavdzinsky, Kakhovka
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All-Ukrainian creative project-competition "ART-NOVA", First All-Ukrainian triennial "Nude-Art" (Kremenchug, Ukraine)
2017
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WORKSHOP, space ART-TSEKH, Kherson
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2026
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"Mellan" Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia
2024
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"Labyrinth: 12 rifts of the soul", Tartu, Estonia
2023
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Exhibition, AR-SWAN Residency, Studio 859, Skåre, Sweden
2018
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"Revelation" hall of the library O. Gonchar, Kherson
PROJECTS
September, 2020 - forum "KHERSON MODERNISM:
back to the future". Exhibition. Art Residence
View the project
Articles about the project:
- ukrinform
RESIDENCIES:
2023
AR-SWAN (Swedish Artist Residency Network) Resident, Sweden
AWARDS:
2024
Pärlhönan Scholarship, Kvinnokulturföreningen Hönsnätet, Skåne, Sweden
AFFILIATIONS
2023–present — Member / Kassör, Föreningen Kullakonstnärer, Höganäs, Sweden
2024–present — Participating Artist, Konstrundan Nordvästra Skåne
Gallery:
Galleri Tapper-Popermajer, Sweden
MEDIA
- svt.se
- article Helsingborgs Dagblad
- article Helsingborgs Dagblad
- article Helsingborgs Dagblad
- Hemmets Journal №15/16 2025
- sirp
- err.ee
- kultuur