Yurii Ivantsyk

Going through his own experience of pain and suffering in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the young Ukrainian artist Yurii Ivantsyk tries to find a new visual language, adequate to the challenges of the present day. In his search, Ivantsyk is in dialogue with artists who worked between the two world wars of the 20th century and during the Second World War. “Barbarian painting”, “reminiscent of children’s drawings”, turning to abstraction: how relevant is this language in the new reality? What should be the artistic practice today and what should be the current artistic image?

Yurii Ivantsyk (1995, Lviv, Ukraine) lives and works in Lviv. His sculptures, collages, graphics and performances explore the artist’s place in society and the degree of his responsibility. In some of his works, Ivantsyk also analyzes the methods of aesthetic and ideological propaganda that were spread in the USSR through the media.