Ukrainian artist, author of paintings, graphics, installations, sculptures, and performances
EDUCATION
Graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
FIELD
Using paradoxical combinations of objects, stereotypes, and verbal formulas, Matsenko creates grotesque projections of contemporary Ukrainian reality.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Co-founder and member of the artistic group Natsprom (with Oleh Tistol).
Recipient of a scholarship from the Christian Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 People Live Here, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv
White and Black, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv
Byzantine Nostalgia, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2023 My Story. 32 Years of Independence, Museum of the History of Kyiv
2022 UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Switzerland
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES, Art & History Museum, Belgium
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES, Silkeborg Bad Art Center, Denmark
2021 30x30. Contemporary Ukrainian Art, National Center "Ukrainian House", Kyiv
2020 Strange Time, online exhibition, www.strangetime.art
Ukraine Today, Institute of Contemporary Art Studies, Kyiv
Artificial Pain, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland
Gnoseological Exercises, Cherkasy Art Museum, Ukraine
2019 Media Dependency. Ukrainian Version, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
The Long Way. Contemporary Ukrainian Art 1985–2004 from Private Collections, Institute of Contemporary Art Studies, Kyiv
Art United, Mandarin Maison, Kyiv
2018 Auguste Rodin. Anticipation of the Future, Cherkasy Art Museum, Ukraine
NatsProm 1991–2018, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Permanent Revolution: Contemporary Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2017 Private Collection: Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art Studies, Kyiv
Show Promise, Lviv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
Paradise Museum, ArtUkraine Gallery, Kyiv
2016 Recipe for Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art Studies, Kyiv (catalog)
2015 Ukraine. Transformation of Modernity, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna, Austria
Museum Collection: Ukrainian Contemporary Art 1985–2015, from private collections