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Ekaterina Lukyanenko is a visual artist born in 2000 in Kramatorsk and currently based in Kemerovo.

She works with oil, graphic media, ceramics, and mineral composites, exploring the human figure as a state and the relationship between perception, emotion, and form.

She has over 10 years of academic art education and graduated with honors in ceramics and art education from Kemerovo Regional Art College in 2020.

Alongside her artistic practice, she has more than 5 years of experience developing interdisciplinary projects combining art, psychology, and research.

She currently works as an independent artist and mentor, supporting artists and independent thinkers in developing their visual systems and meaningful creative processes.
"I explore the human figure as a state.

In my work, bodies become silent containers of memory, desire, and emotion.

Figures appear in stripped-down, symbolic spaces where inner conflicts, tension, and vulnerability become visible through posture, gesture, and composition.

My background in academic drawing trained me to see precisely.

My experience in psychology and research taught me to look beneath form — toward the emotional and perceptual structures that shape it."

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ARTIST's Statment
STATES - FRAGMENTS
OF THE SELF
I work with the human figure as a state of being

I'm drawn to the moment when identity begins to dissolve, or perhaps reveal itself through a protective mask. When the self loses its edges and becomes a gesture, a posture, a glance turned away.


To me, the body is both physical form and a vessel for inner drama, memory, and identity — woven from what has been lived, longed for, or needed.


What we call “I” is often just a patchwork of other people’s touch, expectations, and wounds.


The figures in my work are not characters — they are states.

The figure often distorts, loses its face, yet retains a kind of presence — decorative, striking, influential.

It speaks in silence — through its posture, its containment, the space it inhabits.


These are not depictions of reality. They are dreamlike spaces — surreal, symbolic, psychologically charged.

I move away from realism toward metaphor, toward expressive composition: geometry, voids, silhouettes, spaces without shadows.


Colors, silhouettes and recognizable objects carry the emotional weight.


I lean into ambiguity — inviting interpretation, both for the viewer and for myself.


Many of my works emerge from a liminal place — half-asleep, through accidental gestures, unfiltered gestures.


I often don’t plan — I let the painting appear. Later, I return with my eye to find those rare fragments worth keeping, cutting away the excess and refining what remains.


I try to leave only what feels essential — the clearest expression of what needs to be said, without saying too much.

Themes that move

through all my work

  • identity as fluid, unstable, shaped by experience
  • the intrusion of the external into the personal
  • relationships — as both threat and support
  • the stage and the cosmos — metaphors for inner space
  • the naked body — not as erotic, but as existential presence
  • masks and performance — as survival, and as revelation
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