LUBA STEGNIENKO
Resident of CUTOUT COLLAGE ART PROJECT: March 2024 - Today
She was born in Donetsk, lives in Kyiv since 2004.
At a young age, she was fond of music, graduated from music school with a degree in guitar and won about 5 music competitions among young men. Collage and drawing have been in her life since childhood.
In 2013, she graduated from high school and entered the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Department of Graphic Design.
In 2017, she received a bachelor's degree in graphic design and advertising.
Since 2015, Luba has been working as an illustrator using her own illustrative and collage style and has experience in the brand management agency KUKU BURO, the Gallery of Ukrainian Design Gallery48, the fashion industry ("ALL YOURS" and with several Ukrainian designers of clothing and jewelry) in the media "Jetsetter" and magazines "L`OFFICIEL" and "PINK".
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Luba moved to Turkey (Istanbul) for two years. In the summer and fall of 2022, while staying at the art residency, she created several projects (sculpture, painting and collage). The Helikon residence is located in the small town of Izmit near Istanbul. It is a free space for artists from different countries, and it was there that Luba first felt like a real artist.
Currently, Luba works as an illustrator and graphic designer for the Ukrainian positive news media ShoTam, considers it the best media in the world, and implements projects in the field of animated collage videos.
She has successful projects in Ukraine and abroad (USA, Turkey, Spain, UAE ~ Dubai). Her illustrations are also published in international magazines.
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
2022
- City Arts (Nottingham) - online exhibition - exhibition title "Arts and Mental Health Exhibition"
- "İzmit Belediyesi Sanat Galerisi" gallery - exhibition title "Ukraine in wartime" - Izmit, Turkey
2018
- AKT Gallery - title of the exhibition "27/7" - Kyiv, Ukraine
- Akt Gallery - title of the exhibition "Exposure. Opening of season" - Kyiv, Ukraine
ARTWORKS
For me, art is an energy that can inspire, make me think, rethink and reflect.
I like to create fantasy worlds intuitively, sensually and naively. It's like a dream in which strange creatures intertwine, whether they are people or animals. In my works, every object has a soul, a face and a character. It is important that the center is a person, their body, touches, dreams and fantasies. I want the viewer to receive aesthetic pleasure from my works.
I touch on topics that are understandable to everyone, revealing them through bright colors and surreal images. My goal is to convey the feeling that there is always light and hope at the end of the road, and even the darkest moments have their end.