Photo by Igor Hytko, 2024

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.

In process, 2024
In process, 2024

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.

Photo by Igor Hytko, 2024

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. 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 Berlin and Zurich.

EDUCATION:
Lviv Secondary School No.28 specialized in the German language
1970 – 1980, Ukraine
Lviv Art School
1974 – 1978, Ukraine
Lviv National Academy of Arts
1983 – 1988, Ukraine
Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, Faculty of Interior Design and Equipment
1983 – 1988, Ukraine
WORKS ARE INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTIONS:
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
Lviv, 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 Ukrainian Art
Ukraine
Christina Baumann Collection
Zurich, Switzerland
Stephan Renner Collection
Zurich, Switzerland
Numerous private collections
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRAND PRIX AND CERTIFICATES:
International Lorenzo di Medici Award at the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art 2011 special award by the jury
2011
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2008 New York, the USA
Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese
2008 Vienna, Austria
Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese
2007 Vienna, Austria
Austrian Bureau for Cooperation and Education
2006 Vienna, Austria
Scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Villa Decius
2006 Krakow, Poland
Certificate from the Ministry of Culture
2005 Poland, Poland
Gaude Polonia, the Ministry of Culture
2005 Poland
Grand Prix of the International Book Forum in Lviv for the catalogues De Novo, Time Space Material and Industrial Reality
1999 Lviv, Ukraine
Grand Prix of the International Book Forum in Lviv for the catalogues De Novo, Time Space Material and Industrial Reality
1999 Lviv, Ukraine
KulturKontakt
1998 Vienna, Austria
KulturKontakt
1997 Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected):
Intervention / Resistance Korsak’s Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art
2024 Ukraine
The Heart of the World, Kapusta Art Gallery
2022 Zuerich, Switzerland
War Selfies, Parat Gallery
2022 Zurich, Switzerland
Chateau Papillon des Arts de St.Moritz
2022 St.Moritz, Switzerland
Selfie with Death, Municipal Gallery
2021 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Drawing Days, Dzyga Gallery
2021 Lviv, Ukraine
Exposition Centre of the Society of the Disabled
2020 Zurich, Switzerland
Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese
2008 Vienna, Austria
Janineum Institute, Erzdiözese
2007 Vienna, Austria
Numerous exhibitions in the Gallery Karenina
2000 – 2021 Vienna, Austria
Gallery Karenina
1999 Vienna, Austria
Exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Academy of Applied and Decorative Art
1996 Vienna, Austria
Place for the Paradise, А3 Gallery
1996 Moscow, Russia
Soft Woll Dzyga Gallery
1995 Lviv, Ukraine
Changing the view (with Katya Vasilieva), Merz Gallery
1995 Linz, Austria
Lviv National Art Gallery
1994 Ukraine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1981
(best-known):
Cosmogony of the senses, Korsaks` Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art
2023 Lutsk, Ukraine
ACROSS BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES, WarKapusta Art Gallery
2022 Zuerich, Switzerland
Kapusta Art Gallery
2022 Zuerich, Switzerland
Your names, Ukraine, Korsak’s Museum of Modern Art
2021 Lutsk, Ukraine
Corona Party, Municipal Art Centre
2021 Lviv, Ukraine
Bonum et Malum, Kleiner Von Wiese Gallery
2019 Berlin, Germany
Hemliuk, exhibition under patronage of the Prince of Monaco Albert II
2013 Monte Carlo, Monaco
Art Monaco
2012 Monaco
Art Genoa
2012 Genoa, Italy
Florence Biennale
2011 Florence, Italy
De Novo, 24HOURS.UA Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdów Castle
2005 Warsaw, Poland
Cultural Hero Project, project at the Art Association Dzyga
2004 Lviv, Ukraine
Cultural Hero Project, project “Sonechko”, Guelman Gallery
2004 Kyiv (curator and participant of the project)
Dokumenta, Exhibition of Ukrainian Art
2003 Regensburg, Germany
De Novo. MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF ONE PERSON. THE INNER SIDE OF THE SKY IS EARTH, Museum of Ethnography and Folk Craft
2002 Lviv, Ukraine
Between Space
2002 – 2003 Besancon – Lviv – Freiburg, France – Ukraine – Germany
De Novo, “POET”, Art Café “Poet”
2000 Odessa, Ukraine
Art Project, Crossing Point
2000 – 2001 Lodz – Stuttgart – Lviv; Poland – Germany – Ukraine
De Novo. BLACK WOOD – BLACK SEA
Lviv – Chortovi Hory (the Devil’s Mountains)
Odesa – Black Sea, Soviet-style Canteen on Derybasivska Str., Art Association Dzyga
2000 Lviv, Ukraine
Dialog, BWA Gallery
1999 Wroclaw, Poland
De Novo – INDUSTRIAL REALITY
– 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
1999 Lviv region, Ukraine
De Novo – TIME SPACE MATERIAL
– Pidhirtsi Castle, Lviv region
– Olesko Castle, Lviv region
– Exposition Hall of the Union of Artists – Lviv Art Palace
1998 Lviv, Ukraine
Cultural Centre of the Minorites Convent
1997 Graz, Austria
Numerous exhibitions and events at Dzyga Gallery
1994 – 1997 Lviv, Ukraine
Across the Boundaries and Borders, exhibition of alternative Ukrainian art Hipp Halle
1994 Gmunden, Austria
Lviv Cultural Scene, University of Freiburg, speaker Dr. Khrystyna Nazarkevych
1993
Art Group “Skifska Baba” (Kherson)
– Organization and presentation of exhibitions of the group at the Lviv National Art Gallery, exposition hall of Clares Church (current Pinsel Museum)
– Creation of posters and invitations to exhibitions
1991 – 1994 Ukraine
Biennale of Contemporary Art “Impreza”
1991 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Youth Exhibition, exposition hall of Clares Church, Lviv Art Gallery
1988 Lviv, Ukraine
Exhibition of Graphics, exposition hall of the Union of Artists
1981 Lviv, Ukraine
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, participant posters and invitations to the symposiums:
2005 De Novo
24HOURS.UA
catalogue, poster
venue of the symposium: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw, Poland
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
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
2000 De Novo
POET
invitation, poster
venue of the symposium: Odesa, Art Café “Poet”