Kateryna Aliinyk 1998
Born in 1998 in Luhansk, Ukraine. Focused on painting, Kateryna Aliinyk also works with text, creates objects and installations. She is one of the most interesting voices on the contemporary Ukrainian art scene. The main topics of her art are war and the occupation of Ukraine as well as their consequences depicted through imagery and metaphors of nature and non-anthropocentric optics.
A graduate in painting of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev (2021), she has also completed contemporary art courses at the KAMA Kyiv Academy of Media Arts and at the Method Fund (both in 2020). Artist-in-residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2022).
Kateryna Aliinyk’s works have been exhibited worldwide, including Ukraine, Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Italy, UK and Romania.
In 2024 she was invited to the From Ukraine: Dare to Dream exhibition organised by the PinchukArtCentre, which accompanied the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. In June 2025 she won the First Special Prize at the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 for the Blades of Grass with Blades of Steel project.
She lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Near East, Far West Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, as part of Kyiv Biennial 2025
2025 | Voices From Ukraine. Landscapes BWA Wrocław, Poland
2025 | Voices From Ukraine Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2025 | Bells and Cannons. Contemporary Art in the Face of Militarisation, Vilnius, Lithuania
2025 | Cockaigne Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2025 | PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 | Matter of Art Biennale in Prague, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
2024 | From Ukraine: Dare to Dream Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2023 | The Sea of Cheese TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland
2023 | Kyiv Biennial Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2023 | The Gleaners Society EVA International 2023, Limerick, Ireland
2023 | How are you? National Centre Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 | Motherland Museum Ephraim-Palais, Berlin, Germany
2023 | On Violence Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2023 | One with the other. Spatial dialogues. Geography of displacement
Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 | How do we turn salt into Sugar? GalerieETAGE in Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany
2023 | Journey to the Interior of the Earth BWA Wroclaw Główny Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2023 | There is a Tree behind the Tree Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022 | Heart of Earth Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 | Working Room Gallery ARTSVIT, Dnipro, Ukraine
2022 | What is Depicted Here? Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2022 | Non-Human Agents during the War Antiwarcoalition.art at Documenta fifteen,
Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany
2022 | IN UKRAINE JEDNOSTKA Gallery, „Druh Druha” festival, Warsaw, Poland
2022 | A:2402 D:2022 Berlin, Germany
2022 | If it is no war today, it doesn’t mean there is no war Goethe Institut, Cracow, Poland
2022 | Piazza Ucraina Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2022 | Nasze mieszkania, domy, domki, ogrody, biura i podwórka Sokil/Naked room, Kolomyia/Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 | Projekt L201 Graz, Austria
2022 | War Diaries: WHAT IS THIS, THERE’S NO NAME FOR IT? Pushkin House, London, UK
2022 | Pracownia Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022 | State of Emergence Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2021 | You Are Welcome atelier at Olehivska 36 Street, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 | Sabina Gallery KAMA, Kyiv, Ukraine
COLLECTIVE PUBLICATIONS
2023 | Collective Fantasies and Eastern Resources zine co-created with z Natasha Chichasova
RESIDENCIES
2023 | Herrenhaus Edenkoben Edenkoben, Germany
2022–2023 | When the story was interrupted Khata-Maysternia, Babyn, Ukraine
2022 | Kunstverein Röderhof Huy, Germany
2022 | U-Jazdowski Warsaw, Poland
2022 | Tranzit.sk and Bratislava City Gallery for the Ukrainian cultural sector Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 | Künstlerhaus Lauenburg Lauenburg/Elbe, Germany
2022 | Working Room Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2021 | Course Studio visits with Bjorn Geldhof KAMA, Kyiv, Ukraine
