Katya Kononenko

Katya Kononenko is a young Ukrainian contemporary artist. She is engaged in abstraction, exploring states, experiences, thoughts, difficulties through colors, shapes, lines and textures. Mainly artworks made with oil, acrylic on canvas, ink on paper. 

Katya Kononenko was born in Ukraine. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has studied color psychology and art therapy while studying at the Kyiv National University named Tarasa Shevchenko. Knowledge of the world, herself, active lifestyle (travelings, volunteering, visiting European and Ukrainian exhibitions in galleries and art museums, reading books) provoked Kateryna to leave office work and switch to art. She started her professional artistic path in 2019. Before that, art existed as a hobby.

An artist works in the genre of art play. It is a depiction of history on canvas, as acts in a play, with the main characters, the culmination and development of events. This is a figurative storyboard, where the text is no less important than the picture.

In her series of works, Kateryna travels unconsciously through nautical images, reflects on experiences during quarantine, seeks an answer to the national idea through awareness of identity, expresses a 3D impression of the beauty of nature through abstract textured landscapes, reflects on femininity and masculinity, combines picture and texts through the story of the main characters of the art plays. An artist tries to provoke thoughts, sensory sensations, and emotional states in a viewer.

When the painter is choosing some techniques, she is guided by the idea for the artwork.

Viewers and collectors note the emotionality and expression of the artworks, the boldness and brightness of colors and textures, motivation to explore their own capabilities and the world around them, interested in ideas and characters in the paintings.

Lives and works in Kyiv.