Alina Khrapchynska
[…] Alina Khrapchynska loves water, flowers and the mood, which she successfully captures in the colourful shades of cityscapes, and this is no coincidence: Alina Khrapchynska’s visual matrix reflects a potentially non-figurative motif, because the synthetic combination of ornament, decor and naturalness inherent in the author’s sketchbooks reflects the ambivalence of figurative and non-figurative in participatory painting.
The combination of figure and background in a genre, landscape and flower scene is unique: “Morning in Goa”, “Morning Coffee”, “Iraklitsa. Sunset”, the brilliantly executed, almost Whistlerian “Fog” (after the American painter James Abbott McNeil Whistler), all from 2022, also open up considerable potential for abstraction, which could be another facet of the Ukrainian artist’s work in the future.
Sometimes the artist’s works are characterised by “rhymed compositions”, in which the theme, the semantic motif, the architectural and cosmogonic symbols (explanation of the creation and development of the world) seem to change, but this is not a repetition or a fixed train of thought, but a search for a “second, different nature”, which is perceived not only with the natural eye, but also with the inner vision. This applies in particular to the depiction of the four elements – wind, flashes of sunlight, water, air – which convey motifs of sadness, loneliness, aloneness, the immutability of natural phenomena and the eternity of architectural forms, in which the human figure remains almost a permanent element. […]
Excerpt from a foreword by Oleg Koval (art critic, head of the Department of Criticism and Art History of the Ukrainian Artists’ Association in Kharkiv, winner of the Ilya Repin Prize)
Photo: Johannes Paqué
LIFE
- born July 11, 1983 in Charkiw (Ukraine)
- Works in easel painting, mural painting, graphic design. Main genre preferences: Landscape, portrait, still life and action composition.
- Participant in many international, national, regional, municipal exhibitions, plein airs, as well as solo exhibitions.
The artist’s works are in private, public and museum collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, China, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Mexico, Spain, Turkey and other countries of the world.
Education:
- 1994 – 1998
professional and technical education at Charkiw Children’s Art School, named after I. Yu. Repin - 1998 – 2003
the Charkiw State School of Art, specializing in “art design”, (teachers: V. Chursin, M. Serdyuk, V. Starikov, R. Ivanova, G. Semerzhynskyi) - 2011 – 2015
higher artistic education at the Faculty of Art and Graphic Arts of H.S. Skovoroda Charkiw National Pedagogical University named after H.S. Skovorody, M.Sc (teachers – M. Azarkina, A. Radomska, Yu. Chekardin, V. Kulik) - 2015
Member of the Charkiw organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (painting section).
Awards:
- 2020
Winner of the international open-air competition “Best Artist 2020” (l nominations) - 2021
Winner of the international plein air competition “Best Artist 2021” (Grand Prix)
Works from the exhibition “Світи / Worlds” from 2023
Video of the vernissage “Worlds” from 2023 (in German)
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EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 “Світи / Worlds” (Musikstudio und Galerie: Gabriele Paqué, Bonn, Germany)
- 2023 Art exhibition of famous Ukrainian artists “With heart for Ukraine” / “With Ukraine in the heart” (Croatia, Split)
- 2022 “Insights and Outlooks” “Views and Perspectives” (Space for Art, Paderborn, Germany)
- 2022 Charity project “The Colors of the Flame of the Heart” in support of Ukraine
- 2022 “Weeks of Ukrainian Art and Culture” (Blockhaus Ahlhorn. Art Salon Veles, Germany
- 2022 Project “Spasena Prolet” (“Saved Spring”) for artists from Ukraine (Varna, Bulgaria)
- 2021 Exhibition “He and She. The idea of knowing the world” Art Salon Veles. Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine)
- 2021 Exhibition “Ürgüp 10 international art symposium” (Cappadocia, Turkey)
- 2021 “Exhibition of contemporary art, abstraction and sayarism” (Vinnytsia, Ukraine)
- 2021 “Exhibition of contemporary art, abstraction and sayarism” (Kiev, Ukraine)
- 2021 “Animal exhibition” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2021 Art Museum “Europe Day Exhibition” named after Repina (Chuguiv, Ukraine)
- 2020 International online art project “Different X” Kyiv History Museum (Kiev, Ukraine)
- 2020 “Re: Creation” Gallery Govedarov (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 2020 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” HONSHU (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2020 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Magic and Eternal” HONSHU (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2020 “Women Women’s ART 8” KONTRASTE galerie (Erwitte, Germany).
- 2020 “Artists Draw the World” National University of Law named after Yaroslav the Wise. Art Gallery. (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2019 Project “East-West together” Art Palace Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine).
- All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition 2019 for the Artists’ Day (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2019 “Silver-Lend Art” (Chorna Tysa. Transcarpathian region/Ukraine).
- 2019 Project “Ways of Mastery” 75th anniversary of art Kharkiv Municipal Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2019 Anniversary exhibition on the 175th anniversary of I. Yu. Repin” Khonshu (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2019 All-Ukrainian Exhibition on the Independence Day of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine).
- 2019 “International Plain Air Sozopol” City Council (Sozopol, Bulgaria).
- 2019 International Workshop/ Plener “Heliopolis-2019” (Bulgaria. Overview).
- 2019 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Magic and Eternal” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2019 “Art Beijing 2019” (China)
- 2019 International exhibition “Intellect is in fashion” (Kiev, Ukraine)
- 2019 “European” (Chuguyiv).
- 2019 The exhibition is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the eponymous art college Repina (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2019 “Triennial of Painting” (Kiev, Ukraine).
- 2019 All-Ukrainian exhibition “Picturesque Ukraine” (Krapyvnytskyi).
- 2018 “Black Mountain” (Vynohradiv, Ukraine)
- 2018 “Golden Beetle” (Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
- 2018-2019 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Christmas” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2018 “Magical and Eternal” (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2018 “All-Ukrainian jubilee exhibition on the 80th anniversary of Khonshu” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2018 “Graphic art in Kharkiv” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2018 “Painting Ukraine” (Mariupol, Ukraine)
- 2018 All-Ukrainian exhibition “On the Day of the Artist” (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2018 International watercolor exhibition “Our incredible world in Kharkiv” (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2018 Second All-Ukrainian and International Exhibition “Sea of Watercolors” Biennial (Odessa, Ukraine).
- 2018 International Autumn Salon “High Castle” (Lviv, Ukraine)
- 2018 “1st International Watercolor Festival in the Czech Republic” (Prague, Czech Republic).
- 2018 “Ukrainian palette of Fabriano” (Odessa, Zaporizhzhya, Tokmak, Lviv, Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2018 International Watercolor Festival “Fabriano” (Fabriano, Italy).
- 2017 “International piain air Romania” (Bran, Romania).
- 2017 “Solours of Bucovina Romanian Cultural Institute” Paris, October 18 (Paris, France).
- 2017 “The palette of Terchova-autumn 2017” (Terchova, Slovakai)
- 2017 Collective exhibition “Greece” Gallery KhTMK (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2017 Collective exhibition “Greece” Gallery named after G. Semiradskyi (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2017 International Watercolor Exhibition 2017 (Bangladesh)
- 2017 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “On the Day of the Artist” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2017 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Kharkiv-Donbass, history, traditions, modernity” (Mariupol, Ukraine)
- 2017 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Magic and Eternal” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2017-2018 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Christmas” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2017 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Graphics in Kharkiv” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2016 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Picturesque Ukraine” (Sumy, Ukraine)
- 2016 All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Graphics in Kharkiv” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2016-2017 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2016-2017 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” (Kiev, Ukraine)
- 2016-2017 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2015-2016 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” (Kiev, Ukraine)
- 2011-2012 All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Christmas” (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2020 “Travels of my palette” Kharkiv Children’s Art School named after Repina (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- 2019 “Dreams” Gallery Beit Dan (Kharkiv)
- 2018 “Exhibition” Gallery na ocnozu (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
- 2017 “Painting” art gallery named after Repina (Chuguiv, Ukraine).
- 2017 “Paintings by Alina Khrapchynska” KhTMK Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- 2016 “Paintings by Alina Khrapchynska” Gallery “Image” (Chuguyiv, Ukraine)