KATYA SYTA
Co-founder and curator of CUTOUT COLLAGE ART PROJECT
She was born in 1986 in Ukraine, in the city of Kyiv.
Contemporary Ukrainian collage artist. Author of master classes on collage. Experimenter, founder of a new direction in the art of collage - emotional and philosophical collage. Communication expert, mentor, activist, volunteer, curator, coordinator of the national exhibition CUTOUT COLLAGE FESTIVAL, the first in Ukraine, and one of its founders. The person who glorified collage in Ukraine.
As a child, she attended painting and academic drawing classes. In 2008, she received a master's degree in finance from the Kyiv National University of Economics named after Vadym Hetman (KNEU).
From 2008 to 2011, she worked in the field of insurance. In 2011, she became interested in modern art, charity and participated in the organization of the charity auction "Our Children" with the support of the "Dukat" auction house. In 2013, together with Kostyantyn Klimashenko and with the support of the "Dukat" gallery, she organized the second charity auction "Our Children", which took place in the "Tryptich Art" gallery. A lot of the auction was the works of famous modern Ukrainian artists, such as O. Roitburd, A. Kryvolap, and O. Zhivotkov.
The first work called New Inspiration was made in April 2018. The fourth work #5 Pain was purchased the day after creation. Already in May 2018, Katya took part in the Jewish Art Festival at the Dukat Gallery. In September of the same year, two works by the artist appeared at the international exhibition of women's art «Numeri esse: Rhythms of Being» at the Museum of History of Kyiv. In April 2019, the works were presented in Rome at the art festival Nuova primavera at the Palazzo Velli Expo.
A personal exhibition of collages entitled «Through other people's faces» was held in early 2021 at the Museum of History of Kyiv. Developing an art career in Ukraine, she felt the need to promote collage as an art on the art market of Ukraine. This was the impetus for Katya in March 2021 to organize together with Annete Sagal and Olga Syta CUTOUT - the first in Ukraine festival of modern collage, which featured artists in the direction of collage from 11 countries and Ukraine.
In the summer, together with Annete Sagal and Olga Syta, they opened the first in Ukraine collage workshop space CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
- “For the Sake of the Letter”, an exhibition dedicated to the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war, organized by the community My Ministry of Culture under the patronage of CUTOUT, Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant gallery, Paris, France.
- “Looking into Ourselves”, a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents as part of the KAOS collage festival, Kranj, Slovenia.
- "Looking into Ourselves", a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- " Facets ", group exhibition of Ukrainian collage in collaboration with G.ART Gallery, Freiluft Kunst Klub Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- "Facets", group exhibition of Ukrainian collage in collaboration with G.ART Gallery, Cafe Kyiv, Berlin, Germany.
2023
- «FREEDOM» – CUTOUT COLLAGE FESTIVAL KYIV-PARIS 2023, CAC M17, Kyiv, Ukraine and gallery Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant, Paris, France.
- «Children of Dr. Frankenstein 2» – Collective collage exhibition, CAC White World, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Genesis of Being» – Collective collage exhibition by CUTOUT, Gunpowder Tower, Lviv, Ukraine.
- «Me and War» – Collective collage exhibition dedicated to the reflections of 2022 ru-Ukrainian war, Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 2022 – «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, TUFA, Trier, Germany.
- «Planet Love 3.0» – Ukrainian collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, IMAGURU CLUB, Madrid, Spain.
2022
- «Planet Love» – Ukrainian collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, art studio El Sitio S, Madrid, Spain.
- «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, Ukrainian Culture Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- «PARALLELS» – an exhibition of collages dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Segments of life», collective collage exhibition, CUTOUT LOVERS, Art gallery «Mytets», Kyiv, Ukraine.
- «Planet Love», group collage exhibition of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO residents, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Group exhibition «Ukrainian Collage», Khmelnytsky Regional Art Museum, curator Oleg Vasylenko, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine.
2021
- «Orange», collective collage exhibition, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Third collective collage exhibition, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Second collective exhibition of collage, residents of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Festival of New Ukrainian Culture «SPALAKH», (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Opening of CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, residents collective exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- The first contemporary collage festival in Ukraine «CUTOUT FESTIVAL», RA Gallery, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- «Ukrainian Collage», Mystetskyi Arsenal (International Festival «X Book Arsenal»), (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Personal collage exhibition «Through other people's faces», Museum of the History of Kyiv, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2020
- One Day After, Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2019
- Art Festival Nuova primavera, Palazzo Velli Expo Gallery, (Rome, Italy)
2018
- «Numeri esse: Rhythms of Being», Museum of the History of Kyiv, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- ArtWeCan, Jewish Art Festival, Dukat Gallery, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
ARTWORKS
Every year I became more and more interested in contemporary art, and galleries became a part of my life.
2014 was a landmark year when I started my business by opening KS Design Studio for tailoring. The case made me realize that I want to spend even more time creative. I am always overwhelmed by many emotions, which I invest in my collages. My tools are pieces of fabric, colors, textures. They create a composition of thoughts and feelings.