Exhibitions

Personal Exhibition of Paintings by Kseniia Bondarenko “In the Direction of Dreams”
within the art project Biennale of Naïve Art and Primitivism “Velour Cat”
named after Andrii Lipatov to All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Worker and Folk Art Masters
in the Art Gallery “Our Town” in Svitlovodsk, the Kirovohrad Oblast

    A personal exhibition of paintings by Kseniia Bondarenko “In the Direction of Dreams” presents the creative work of the winner of the Grand Prix Diploma of the First Biennale of Naïve Art and Primitivism “Velour Cat” named after Andrii Lipatov to All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Worker and Folk Art Masters” organized by O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in 2020. The exposition of the exhibition is displayed in the Art Gallery “Our Town” in Svitlovodsk, the Kirovohrad Oblast.
    Kseniia Bondarenko was born in 1985 in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). She spent her childhood in Svitlovodsk. Graduated from Svitlovodsk Polytechnic College of Central Ukrainian National Technical University, majoring in Enterprise Economics (2005) and Kharkiv Academic and Research Institute of the University of Banking Management (2009).
    Since 2015, she started to participate in public life in Svitlovodsk as a co-organizer of art events – Festival of Tourism “Bright Town”, “Art Descent”, “Easter Tree”, “Parade of Strollers”. Between 2016-2021, has been working as a methodologist of decorative and applied art in Svitlovodsk District Community Center. Since 2016, has been the head and curator of the Public Organization Art Gallery “Our Town” in Svitlovodsk.
    First lessons in painting had from the painter Viktor Tovkailo. Visited the studio of Nataliia Boichuk and Viktor Chumachenko in Svitlovodsk. Later, had private lessons from a painter, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Oleksandr Demydenko in Kropyvnytskyi. According to the artists: “The creative Demydenko family, Oleksandr and Liudmyla, laid the foundation of love for art and desire to improve”.
    “An important part in the art shaping of Kseniia Bondarenko as a painter belongs to the creative work with famous Ukrainian artist, a member of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Tovkailo. After perfectly studying his art methods, she starts her own path, creative images of special, enigmatic inner strain. Her compositions combine elements of city Naïve, which can be brightly seen in the themes and plots, Primitivism, which is reflected in the archaic decorative expression, and achievements of professional painting which helped her to speak the language of color fluently and use it with clear, open sounding in her paintings. These factors were determinative in awarding Kseniia Bondarenko’s works the Grand Prix Diploma of the First Biennale of Naïve Art and Primitivism “Velour Cat” named after Andrii Lipatov to All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Worker and Folk Art Masters” organized by O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in 2020”, - mentioned the leading researcher of the museum, art history expert, curator of the Biennale, Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin in the booklet to the exhibition.
    It is the first personal exhibition of the amateur artist Kseniia Bondarenko. It presents 26 author’s paintings created between 2016-2021 which brightly demonstrate the path of the development of the artist’s creative personality from traditional landscape and still life motifs to complicated compositional searches.
“I like to find new compositions in the chaos of things; when you work with a brush as if with a magic stick and you know the way how from various paints make a pictorial story with images standing in a harmonious painting line and turned into viewers’ thoughts”, - this is the way Kseniia Bondarenko characterizes her creative work.


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Poster
of the exhibition
Art Gallery “Our Town”
in Svitlovodsk, the Kirovohrad Oblast

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Kseniia Bondarenko at the presentation of the exhibition

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Self-portrait
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

90õ70 cm
Winter comfort
2016
Oil, acrylic on canvas
50õ70 cm
Sweet peonies
2018
Oil on canvas
40õ50 cm
Symbol of prosperity
2018
Mixed technique
on canvas

70õ90 cm
Draw a sheep for me
2018
Oil on canvas
40õ50 cm

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Inspiration
2019
Oil on canvas
85õ160 cm
Forest of moonlight
2019
Oil, acrylic on canvas
90õ70 cm
The third eye to another world
2019
Mixed technique
on canvas

50õ70 cm
Illusion
2019
Oil, acrylic on canvas
110õ130 cm

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Town of three moons
2020
Acrylic on canvas
70õ60 cm
Frog Princess
2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
80x60 cm
Fantasy
2020
Mixed technique
on canvas

60õ80 cm
Goddess Nut
2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
70õ90 cm

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Circus cat “Matisse”
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

95õ75 cm
Start rope walker
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

97õ75 cm
Saxophonist
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

95õ75 cm
«Rich»
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

50õ70 cm
Easter delights
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

81õ63 cm

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«Goldfish»
2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
105õ108 cm
A person and a cat.
Canopus

2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

47õ72 cm
“Lisason”
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

70õ90 cm
In the world of lights
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

55õ70 cm

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Balloons
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

63õ80 cm
Prophetic dream
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas
Magician
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

110õ130 cm
Holy Love
2021
Mixed technique
on canvas

108õ54 cm