The personal exhibition of painting and graphic works of Kateryna Kosiak "Politptaha" presents the work of the winner of the Grand Prix Diploma of the Second Biennale of naive art and art of primitivism "The Velor Cat" named after Andrii Lipatov for the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Masters of Folk Art (November 9), organized by the Art and Memorial by the O.O.Osmerkin museum in 2022.
    Kateryna Kosiak was born in Kyiv on February 12, 1984. Lives and works in Irpin, Kyiv region. Graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Faculty of Psychology (2006). She studied visual arts independently: in art workshops in Kyiv (2006-2010), Online course "Book illustration and design" Litosvita (2021), Workshop Atelier 36 (2021-2022). Works creatively in artistic styles: symbolism, naive, realism, magical realism. He prefers the genres of landscape and still life, is fond of figurative art. He implements artistic ideas in painting, graphics, prints. Creative works are in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    Participant of all-Ukrainian, international and foreign art exhibitions: UPE (Ukrainian Print Exchange) – Ukrainian Print Exchange Project (2021); XI All-Ukrainian exhibition-competition named after Heorhii Yakutovych (2022); Tirana International Graphics Biennale, Albaniia (2022); "Between Heaven and Earth", Solvay 7 Contemporary Art Center, Krakiw, Poland (2022); "Unbreakable Ukraine", Rzhyshchiv Museum of Archeology and Local History (2022); "Once After", Image Point Gallery, Kyiv (2022); One-day exhibition "During the War", curator Sanya Oster, Uzhhorod (2023); Charity art exhibition "In the arms of the new spring" in the Cultural Center "Vernisage", Chernivtsi (2023); "Cosmogony of Senses", Korsakiv Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art, Lutsk (2023).
    Participant of the First and Second Biennale naive art and art of primitivism "The Velor Cat" named after Andrii Lipatov in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum, Kropyvnytskyi (2020, 2022).
    This is how the artist Kateryna Kosiak frankly characterizes her artistic pursuits: "My creative path is a constant desire for pure expression of feelings and thoughts in visual images. Because of color, painting, you want to immerse yourself in a shimmering and cozy world, where you can rest and acquire, like a child on summer vacation in the village. When the world is filled with strange riddles, fairy tales, creatures and paths to vast lands. But alongside the dreamy, colorful world, the whimsical, noir graphic space of my creativity lives at the same time. There is tension, hope, or even pain and despair. Sharp, nervous forms emphasize the condition. And this is already an adult person who accepts the fullness of the world in all its manifestations. The symbolism of images woven with mythical archetypes on a whimsical background creates the desired emotional tension. This is a portal to psycho. Therefore, the main artistic directions for me today are printed graphics (lino engraving, dry needle, ink) and painting and watercolor. Graphics allow me to create a special landscape, constructions or deconstructions, individual elements. To break up space and time, to translate concrete forms into symbolism. And take an invisible pilgrim's walk accompanied by mythical chimeras. This is an internal dialogue on eternal questions. Watercolor and oil paints are taken when my inner child returns, who wants to dream and hope, believe and see the shimmering colors of the beautiful world. To see incredible stories in seemingly simple, everyday plots. And greedily note them through the lens of your vision. After all, there is no ordinary world."
    The exposition consists of one hundred and nine creative works of Kateryna Kosiak, made in 2019-2023 in various techniques, genres and artistic directions, which present the multifaceted talent of the artist, full of constant search for artistic harmony in the reflection of the meaning of human existence and spiritual ascent in the vortex of modern passions. Her works are a separate world on the border of pictorial illusion and graphic reality, saturated with symbols and author's interpretations of historical legends and folk traditions.