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I am Oleksii Pavlusenko (b. 1992, Ukraine), an artist based in Sweden.
I am interested in public art and site-specific work — installations and sculpture proposals made for specific places, responsive to their historical, ecological, and political context. I also work in painting and watercolor, often working with the same questions of place, history, and what gets covered or erased.
Instagram @oleksii_pavlusenko_art
Education
National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv
MFA, Fine Arts (2016)
BFA, Fine Arts (2014)
School of Visual Communication, Kyiv — Graphic design (short course)
T. G. Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv
Selected Exhibitions
Eye of the Beholder (Don't Close Your Eyes): Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River MA, USA
Don't Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War
New Art Center, Newton MA, USA
PROSTONEBA Architecture Festival, Kyiv
Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
Flesh of the Present, Zenko Foundation Gallery
Reality as an Error, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (MARI), Kyiv, Ukraine
Contemporary Art in the Living Environment, Salon Art & Design, Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstraction, group exhibition, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv
Public Art Projects
River of Light — Light installation proposal for Pochaina park, Kyiv
Commissioned by a local civic initiative and NGO developing the public space at the historical site of the Pochaina river. Light installation tracing the historical course of the buried river. Publicly presented at PROSTONEBA Architecture Festival, Kyiv (2021). Project halted by the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Visualization in Unreal Engine.
Vessel — Sculpture proposal for Pochaina park, Kyiv (in development)
Cast concrete form with rough exterior and polished interior, approximately 5 meters high, designed to be walked through by the visitor. Commissioned for the same site as River of Light; project halted in February 2022.
Residencies
Artists at Risk — Safe Haven Helsinki, hosted by Perpetuum Mobile ry, Finland
1 February – 15 April
SWAN — Swedish Artist Residency Network, hosted by Art See Ocean, Sweden
6 months
Teaching
Founder and teacher, pavlusenko_artstudio, Kyiv
Private studio teaching drawing, painting, and composition to children and adults.