Kateryna Lysovenko

Kateryna Lysovenko is an artist whose practice includes monumental painting, drawing, and text. She is engaged in the study of the relationship between ideology and painting, as well as the production of the image of the victim in politics and art, from antiquity to the present day. Lysovenko considers painting as a language that can be either instrumentalized or liberated. Before the full-scale invasion, she lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, and now lives and works in Vienna. She holds a degree in Painting from Odesa Grekov Art College and a degree in Fine Art from the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. 

She has participated in Steirischer Herbst, the special program of the Venice Biennale presented by the PinchukArtCentre, and the Prague Biennale, among others. She has had a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover and has received a Special Mention at the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2022) and the Münze Österreich Prize (2025). She was also a finalist for the Malevich Art Prize (2025). 

Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN), Poland; the Museum of Modern Art in Łódź (MSN), Poland; the Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands; the Odesa National Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine; the Neue Galerie Graz, Austria; and Galeria Arsenał in Białystok, Poland.