VISUAL ARTS

LOVE ГОΛЕ

Intellias Art Point, Lviv, Ukraine

4.09 — 7.10, 2026

Cutout Collage Art Festival

Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine, 2026

Curator: Katya Syta

New Memory  

Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine, 2026

Curator: Marta Mazepa

Open Studio-Nude 

Art Factory, Porvoo, Finland, 2026

Curator: Krista Mikkola

Meaning after Loss 

Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2025  

Curator: Oksana Briukhovetska

Bodies  UAP

Dzyga Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine, 2024 

Curator: Andrii Roik

 A4 Ballpoint

Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019 

Curator: Yevhen Karas

For Iryna Beschetnova, working with corporeality is a way of accepting others' bodies through drawing, as well as an incentive to experiment with materials in search of the most accurate "bodily texture." 

In the presented works, the artist aims to make non-conventional bodily beauty visible through material. In her Visible series, using the method of hand-embossing on foamiran, the author creates monochrome bas-reliefs, making female forms that do not fit into glossy canons revealed through volume.

My Relationships explores intimacy through imagined characters He and She. Collage becomes a way of assembling relationships from fragments: bodies, distance, touch, and the ways we imagine one another.

The figures represent roles and images that emerge within relationships. The combination of different materials and textures emphasizes this instability: intimacy can be tender, strange, physical, or slightly detached at the same time.

Living conditions in Ukraine, a country at war, make thoughts of death pervasive, terrifying, and mundane all at once. The deaths of people in the news are filled with the names of familiar for the artist Ukrainian cities and villages. Videos and photos shock her no less than the growing numbers at first. Eventually, only the most horrific footage and massive statistics trigger emotions. The sharp anxiety about surviving until tomorrow turns into indifference and background noise over time. Death becomes the reality of an entire country. Yet, despite this reality, famous The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (Damien Hirst) remains an impossibility for the artist's realization as well.

The first artist's impulse for creating this project was a video showing the search for the remains of fallen soldiers. It depicted the raw process of literally sifting the soil through fingers to find the smallest part left of a person. And those parts were found.

The second artist's impulse was attending a gathering called The School of Death. This initiative, created by the Ukrainian organization Insha Osvita, takes the form of discussions about death among participants willing to join the conversation.

In this project the artist's own finitude, which still feels abstract to her despite the well-known facts and the reality of war, is finally examined up close. This is a release of artist's thoughts about death from suppression. 

This is a process of reflection that does not claim to be complete, but only to be a process.

For the Open Studio-Nude project, Iryna Beschetnova prepared copies of drawings that she lost after her apartment in Kharkiv being hit in March 2022 due to the war in Ukraine. Reproduction (of Happiness) is a sentimental act of remembrance. Through the reproduction of her works, Iryna Beschetnova tries to recreate her state before russian full-scale invasion, when the artist could allow herself to create works without a complex ideas behind, turning off analytics and surrendering to the flow, experimenting with line and shape, moving along the path of accepting others through physicality. The drawings have been reproduсted, but is it possible to reproduct that state?

We all have different bodies. In We Are All Different, Iryna Beschetnova emphasizes this statement not only through diverse shapes, but also through the variety of styles and materials she works with. 

Inspired by the works of Joan Miró, these surrealist pieces convey the artist's dreamy mood, as well as her interest in cosmos and dreamable travels in time.

A series of surrealist works, executed in black and white, combines exuberant imagery and ascetic means of expression, thereby simultaneously introducing the artist's imagination and leaving room for the viewer's imagination.

The works were created for the A4. Ballpoint Pen project by Karas Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.

The creative framework of the project is strictly limited by a minimal set of technical artistic tools: a ballpoint pen and a standard sheet of A4 office paper.