Uliana Krekhovets
Born in 1987, in Lviv, Ukraine.
Artist, icon painter, designer, art manager, coordinator of art projects of the development department of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), teacher of the Icon Painting School "Radruzh" of the UCU.
She graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts with a degree in "Design" (2011) and the "Radruzh" Icon Painting School at the Ukrainian Catholic University (2013).
In her works, she uses natural wood, levkas, yolk tempera, organic and mineral pigments, as well as gilding and silvering techniques. By combining these traditional materials with modern ones, she imitates and at the same time interprets the synthesis of ancient and modern Ukrainian iconography.
A special place in her work is dedicated to the Ukrainian folk icon on glass, which is for the artist an object of research, a means of continuing the tradition and a field for her own interpretation. Also she is the author of the series of gift icons on glass - "My_Dear_God".
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she uses the technique of a quick naive sketch to document war crimes and depict the everyday life of Ukrainians in the author's project "WAR. SKETCHES. The sacredness of everyday life."
The works are stored in churches and private collections in Ukraine, European countries, as well as in the centers of universal churches in the Vatican and Istanbul; in the USA, Canada, England and Australia.
Lives and works in Lviv.
Exhibitions and projects:
• June 2024 - exhibition-presentation of the international art project "Safeguarding" about child safety. Development of the course - Center for the Dignity of the Child (UCU), author of illustrations and performance ideas - Ulyana Krekhovets (Kyiv, Lavra gallery)
• April 2024 - exhibition-presentation of the international art project "Safeguarding" about child safety. Development of the course - Child Dignity Center (UCU), author of illustrations and performance ideas - Ulyana Krekhovets (Lviv, "Dzyga" gallery)
• February 2024 - author's exhibition project WAR. SKETCHES. The sacredness of everyday life. (Lviv, Sheptytskyi UKU Center)
• November 2023 - author's project WAR. SKETCHES. (Prylbychi, family village, Museum of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi)
• December 2022 - author's project "War sketches: religion and art" (Ireland, Dublin, Our Lady in Consolation parish chapel)
• Spring 2022 - participant of the INVICTA project - stories of Ukrainian women artists in paintings created in the first 111 days of the war with russia
• 2022-2024 - participant in exhibitions of the community of teachers and students of the Icon Painting School "Radruz" UCU in Krakow, Poznan, Rytwiany, Radruzh (Poland) and Salzburg and Linz (Austria)
• 2022 - 2023 - participant of open-air exhibitions - OTO SYN TWÓJ ОТО МАТКА TWOJA - XV MIEDZYNARODOWE WARSZTATY IKONOPISÓW NOWICA-CASTEL GANDOLFO 2023
• 2022-2023 - participant of open air exhibitions - SPOTKANIE ZE ZMARTWYCHWSTALYM - XIV MIEDZYNARODOWE WARSZTATY IKONOPISÓW NOWICA-WESOLA 2022
• December 2020-January 2021 - participant of the exhibition project "From Roman to Jordan" (Lviv, Sheptytskyi UCU Center)
• 2021-2024 - participant of the Easter exhibitions of the community of icon painters of the Iconart gallery (Lviv)
• 2021-2024 - participant of the Christmas exhibitions of the community of icon painters of the Iconart gallery (Lviv)
• 2021 - participant of the Christmas exhibition of Radruzh School of UCU - "And the Word became Body"
• 2013 - Exhibition of icon painters of Radruzh School of UCU - "Women's Faces of Holiness"