Veronika Ivashkevich

Inspiration for new projects usually comes from everything I see, hear, and read in a given time, and this requires time and the ability to focus on the process. My most recent work reflects on attempts at clinging firmly to the past, on anxiety-free nostalgia, and on the steps taken towards accepting the present through the lens of art. During the residency, I would like to further develop the themes of material objects and images from the past, that helps to find a connection to the future and to staying afloat in desperate times.

My practice mainly involves painting, sometimes also installations and mixed media work, depending on the purpose of my artistic expression. I transform motifs from films and my own memories to create a world where muted objects encourage contemplation and reflection on the intrinsic and impermanent nature of things.

I was born in Minsk. I am a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 2021, I was a scholar of the Gaude Polonia programme in Warsaw and in 2022 I received the Denis Diderot grant in Orquevaux. Since 2021, I have lived and worked in Warsaw. My works can be found in private collections and the Krupa Gallery Foundation in Wrocław. They have been exhibited as part of solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and the USA.