Karina Synytsia
(UA)
Born in the city of Severodonetsk (Luhansk region) in 1999, Karina Synytsia currently lives and works in Kyiv. From 2015 to 2019, she studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Kharkiv Art College, majoring in painting. In 2023, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFAA), specializing in monumental and easel painting.
In her artistic practice, she works with painting, collage, animation and embroidery. Her works depict architectural structures and landscapes, emphasizing emptiness, void, and the decline of spaces and objects. Architectural elements appear as decorations within urban environments rather than central subjects. The core of her works lies in the manifestation of human emotions, emotional states, and social aspects of life.
Her works are featured in the second edition of the Ukrainian section of the Secondary Archive, as well as in archival projects such as The Sky Is Open. Voices From Ukraine and Ukraine Ablaze (organized by the Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal). She has recently participated in group exhibitions such as "Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War" (Galeria Labirynt, Lublin) and "A Sense of Safety" (YermilovCentre, Kharkiv), as well as in her solo exhibition "Impossible to Restore Cracks in the Dry Layer" (Galeria Labirynt, Lublin). She has taken part in the "Ukrainian Ecologies" residency (organized by IZOLYATSIA and the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network), the Residency for Ukrainian Feminist Artists (organized by the Martin Roth Initiative), among others.
(Photo © Marina Malyutina)
