LIUDMYLA RASHTANOVA

12-XI-1981

Kyiv, UKRAINE

Liudmyla Rashtanova is a Ukrainian artist. She was born in Kyiv in 1981. In 2006, she graduated from the National Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (easel graphics workshop under Professor A.V. Chebikin). She works with easel graphics, easel painting, and installation. Lyudmila started her exhibition activity in 2003. She lives and works in Kyiv.Lyudmila Rashtanova often incorporates paper, rapidly disappearing from our lives, in her works. And not only as a material and medium but also as an aesthetic category. In her paintings, such momentary things as newspaper articles, postcards, letters, valuable photographs are often immortalized. The artist incorporates pop art, symbolism, trance avant-garde, and impressionism. Her style is recognizable but devoid of the pretentious buffoonery properties of the frequent eclectic style heavily mixed with pop art. The timid color scheme of her color perception usually burst with one color accent. The artist masterfully works with fonts and calligraphic phenomena, often incorporating Japanese aesthetics of engravings and calligraphy. Reminiscence and longing for the aesthetics of everyday life fill the artist's work: daily newspapers, steamships, handwritten letters, traveling circuses, greeting cards, which she skillfully interweaves in her works. These elements meet a new reality, and sometimes tomorrow's post-truth, transhumanism, total digitalization. Rashtanova's works are often perceived as sad jokes coming out of a beautiful ingenue who has just finished reading a book by a post-structuralist philosopher Gilles Dereze or Roland Barthes.

(Written by Alexander Zakletsky).

                                                    EXHIBITIONS

  Exhibitions:                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2022.  Affordable Art Faif NYC. Metropolitan Pavilion. 

2021. Рroject  «CAUTION!FRAGILE!». Ludmila Rashtanova, Eduard Potapenkov, Sergiy Kornievskiy.  Imagine Point gallery. Kyiv Ukraine         

2021. Nord Art. Budelsdorf. Germany  

2021. Lysenko gallery. Dubai Art Week. Dubai

2021. Рroject «Visiocracy». Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine  

2019. Рroject «Triumph of Nowill». Kyiv Art Week. Kyiv. Ukraine

2019. Рroject  «Intelligence is Fashionable». T. G. Shevchenco  Museum.  Kyiv. Ukraine 

2019. Personal exhibition «Sense of Presence». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2018. Рroject «А 4». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2018. Рroject «Аnatomy of simulacrum». Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2018. Рroject «Episodes».Eduard Potapenkov, Ludmila Rashtanova. Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2018. Рroject «Ukrainian still life». Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv. Ukraine                    

2018. Рroject «Defragmentation». Kyiv Art Week. Kyiv. Ukraine

2017. Рroject «А 4». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2017. Рroject «Mechanism of evolution». Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2017. Рroject «Illusion of habitation».Kyiv Art Week. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2017. Рroject «The Kiev landscape». Museum of  History of Kyiv. Kyiv. Ukraine                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           2016. Рroject «А 4». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine                               

2016. Personal exhibition «Personal Correspondence». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine  

2015. Рroject «А 4». Karas gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine   

2015. Personal exhibition « Вutterfly effect ». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine 

2015. Personal exhibition «Reflected».  Hud Graph galler. Kiev. Ukraine

2015. Exhibition in the gallery Art District. Аmsterdam. Netherlands 

2014. Personal exhibition «LETTER TO NOWHERE». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2014. Рroject «Fire of Love. Dedication to Maydan». M17 gallerу. Kyiv. Ukraine

2013. Рroject «Exchange of Experience». 8bit gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine            

2013. «New People » magazine, «How to be an artist in Ukraine?». 

2013. Personal exhibition «REFLECTED». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2012. Participation in «Eternity». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine   

2012. Personal exhibition «PASSERS». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2012. Participation in ARTVILNIUS`12, Third International Contemporary Art  Fair. Lithuania. Vilnius  

2012. Participation in «Ce este de vanzare?». RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine      

                                                                                                                                                                                                  2011.Personal exhibition «EXOTICA», RA gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine

2003-2004. Participation in Ukrainian exhibitions KONUAU. Kyiv. Ukraine                               



Works in private collections: 

Ukraine, Poland, London, Amsterdam, USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland.