Katya Kopeikina

Ukrainian artist. Painting, sculpture, installation, performance, tattoo. Bodies that remember every gap and keep going.

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exhibition cycle / installation · 2024 — 2026

«Looking into the gaps» is an exhibition cycle that looks at the history and the present of Ukrainian art as an ornament of gaps, losses and absences…

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installation — textile room, 2 chairs, sofa, cabinet · 2025

Part of the exhibition «Circle of the Indescribable» presented by «Factura 10» and RIBBON International in collaboration with Jam Factory Art Center,…

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group exhibition — curated by Oleksandr Soloviov, co-curator Ihor Oksametnyi · 2026

The exhibition brings together Ukrainian artists of two periods — the late 1980s / early 1990s and the last decade. Both times painting developed in…

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When water comes

2 works · 2 video
video installation, Salzburg — 3 min · 2026

This installation addresses the absence of water in Donetsk, where access to water became severely limited. It brings together my father's experience…

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Bag Stage

6 works · 1 video
performance — Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw · 2024

Performance at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Duration: 1.5 hours. I walked from Warszawa Zachodnia station to the museum with all my suitcases,…

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painting → installation, work in progress · 2026 — …

I am interested in the hidden infrastructure of buildings — the pipes, drains and systems that usually remain invisible behind walls. In these…

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Fontaines

9 works
painting series — oil on canvas · 2023 — 2024

In a series of paintings depicting monumental fountains, familiar urban symbols of prosperity and leisure are transformed into an engineering of…

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liner, pen, plaster board — 200×85 cm · 2023

This nail is something bigger that you cannot control. Things like natural disasters, wars, pandemic. You feel how small you are compared to this…

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painting series — acrylic on canvas, pencil on paper · 2025 — 2026

Structure of Power is a series of works exploring the mechanisms of power and different forms of domination that exist both in human society and in…

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sculpture — melted plastic, metal, chain, textile, artificial leather · 2022 — 2023

Small sculptures grown from melted plastic, chains, found objects and artificial leather. Made during the residency in Milan, 2023.

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Life after death

8 works · 1 video
sculpture — textile, wire, beads, glass, found materials · 2023 — 2025

Life After Death — 2025, fabric, wire, beads and found materials, 120×50 cm. This work emerged from a period when I began to confront an overwhelming…

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paintings, drawings, objects — everything that is not a series · 2020 — 2025
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