Сalendar is the rhythm of time, a reliable keeper of memories about basics of every culture and a storykeeper of every human. Birthdates, death dates, celebrations and chores. Rhythmic space …

We are incredibly happy to invite you to the annual traditional Christmas exhibition.
It is the sixteenth time in a row that the exhibition will be held.
This exhibition has everything. Painting, …

During the previous 20 years, the Lviv artist, originally came from the village with the beautiful name of Knyazholuka (Prince meadow) in the Carpathians, has collected more than two decades …

One of the best artists that is working with the most ancient and eternally relevant ceramic material in Lviv – Hanna Drul.
The artist will present her personal exhibition in the …

Currently, the main artistic event in the world – the 59th Biennale of Contemporary Art – is taking place in Venice. Attending the event is a mandatory program for everyone …

Graffiti is sincerity, eroticism, provocation at the fracture of generations, a connection between the present and the past times.
Today the primordial times seem like a distant past to us. At …

Lvivian Oleksandra Bilobran will present new works in the gallery and this time there will be no concept that unites them, just her usual fields and seas, flowers and forests, …

Andrew Chizhov is an artist who was born and raised in Sevastopol. After the occupation of Crimea peninsula, the “question of home” became difficult and painful for him. These feelings are …

Oleksandr Vasylenko from Dnipro is presenting artistic images of landscapes in Ukraine during the peacetime and war.
The monumental landscapes of the Carpathian Mountains and the urban landscapes of the Dnipro …

Since the beginning of the war, a lot of artists have reflected through the process of creating art. Despite the intolerance of the situation that is the reason for creativity, …

Line – dash, stripe, border, length, geometric object by definition. The line outlines the limit, indicates the direction, and determines the order. Horizon lines, borders of countries, borders of personal …

The exhibition of sketches which were made during the war.
The war has just begun. At first, sounds of explosions somewhere far away scared me. I was counting them. Then I …

The purpose of “Remission” is to transform the audience’s projection of violence in tragic historical periods by rethinking the experience.
After a while, any social phenomenon acquires a symbolic meaning: reality …

For fist time in Ukraine solo exhibition of young fantastic artist, born in Kherson, but lvivian now – Veronika Cherednychenko.
Veronika presents sketches and drawings of insects made for the new …

For 15 years of existence of the annual Christmas exhibition more than 130 artists from all over Ukraine and from abroad participated in it. Although mostly artists from Lviv. In …

Vasyl Bodnarchuk, artist-ceramist, presented his first solo exhibition in 1998.
Although his professional activities have a lot longer history. 20-25 years ago Vasyl discovered the creative form that spoke to his …

Even at the previous exhibition in the “Green Sofa” art gallery – “Head” (2017), Lyudmyla Davydenko began to depict hands. Sometimes as support and resistance for the human head, hands …

Life is beautiful when it is colorful.
There are many colors in the world. They are no less than people. Similar, tinted and contrastingly different – contrasting.
Ihor Teplyy created a series …

The exhibition “Unframed Meeting” is the result of reflections on the quarantine and therefore framed period of society’s limitations in various spheres of life.
It is the result of my …

We define values, values define us. What we consider valuable is worthless without us. The things that inspire us are no longer just things. The most valuable is worth nothing. …

For the second time in the gallery with a personal exhibition of contemporary textile art the artist from Lutsk – Kateryna Haneychuk.
She is known throughout the country for her woodblock …

The exhibition of seven compositions (3d objects, wood, levkas, painting), which are very personal as opposed to public monuments (lat.monumentum – “memory, monument”).
MINI MONUMENT’S by Anna Atoyan are [not] large …

Looking into the distance, I admire fleeting moments, so I want to fill my chest with them and get some time to live for myself, looking into the future… A …

At a personal exhibition Iryna Fartukh from Lviv will show her picturesque images of the city in which she was born.
Real architectural situations of Lviv, its ancient historical part and …

The exhibition of artist, designer and teacher Olena Zherebetska will present a crossover of ecology, painting and fashion in the art space of the “Green Sofa” gallery.
Honey is a product …

A series of sign-symbolic ornamental linocuts by Dzvinka Zagaiska.
The creation of the project Visible / Invisible began with the beginning of the quarantine. Probably, it was not accidental. Linocut – …

For 14 years of existence of the annual Christmas exhibition more than 130 artists from all over Ukraine and from abroad participated in it. Although mostly artists from Lviv. In …

The heroes of my exhibition are embroiderers – young people. Symbolically, they are the people of the future.
They are surrounded by the latest architecture of the cities around the world …

As long as this world exists and art exists, the theme and the main character of art will be a man.
In contrast to objects that are “Still life” (dead nature) …

 “Scientific materialism and progress have undermined the foundations of all traditional religions, and it is clear that no society can exist without religion. All hopes for the synthesis of science …

The truth is unattainable. But the very attempt to touch it gives meaning to life, giving the wings for mental flights.
There is a legend that in ancient times, when …

ToBe & ToSee is a page of ten years of research in the field of fine arts, self-awareness and human relations. IlonaDesign works in the genre of abstraction. And in …

It is believed that the surrounding reality is not objective at all. After all, 70-90% of it is an image formed subjectively in our head.
Photography is a reflection of a …

When you are firmly on the path you have begun to follow, I think you are happy.
 Hregoriy Skovoroda.
 
Ihor Romanko’s work is a kind of fixation of the surrounding world in …

Lviv artist Ulyana Nyshchuk explores the extremely typical and archetypical images of our culture. Folklore and iconography. Through the prism of her education and subtle senses and great talent Ulyana …

For over ten years the Lviv artist and the jeweler Maya Kotelnitskaya has been making jewelry in her own hands and in her own workshop. During this time, her works …

There are two types of artists.
Some artists who plant one tree and look after it, growing, hoping for the great and beautiful fruits of that tree of their creativity.
Another type …

Vladyslav Shereshevskyy is perhaps the most star and famous artist among those who have ever been exhibited in the “Green Sofa” Gallery.
Vladyslav has earned undeniable respect and recognition in the …

For 13 years of existence of the annual Christmas exhibition 130 artists from all over Ukraine and from abroad participated in it. Although mostly artists from Lviv. In 2007 there …

Lviv citizen Daria Zawyalowa loves her city. Only the house “Under the Eagles” on Chuprynka Street inspired her to create a series of six works. In Dariya’s graphics the city …

The brilliant work of Lewis Carroll about the girl Alice is an inexhaustible source for visual illusions of artists.
Full of unusual and rich detail, it became the perfect inspiration for …

The Green Sofa  Art Gallery will feature a landmark exhibition.
The artist Bohdan Soroka is a prominent citizen of Ukraine, as well as an outstanding graphic artist, a dissident involved in …

Intuitive artist Yaryna Movchan draws timeless and extra-portraiture images of a person. Placed in a circle – the symbolic geometric figure of the soul and the auras, the full faces, …

– Where is the boundary between reality and fiction? Where does the tradition end and fantasy begins? Where is the true level of art, and not a boring picture of …

Lviv artist Petro Smetana made his first personal exhibition in 2010 in the Green Sofa Art Gallery. Due to various influences and internal searches Smetana evolved into a bright creative …

Summer begins, it is time for adventure, rest, long sunny days and endless stories in warm summer evenings.
If you are tired of rain, politics, negative news and you want …

…timidity of dirt in contemporary painting is so unfair as yesterday`s fear of “pure” paint.  We haven`t forget the statement that all things are equal when they appeared from the …

Art is a continuous roundelay of illusions.
Bob Dylan
It is believed that art is an illusion reflecting reality. In the arsenal of the illusionist, as in the hands of the …

The artist Ihor Badyak is an active participant of the plein airs (creative trips). They give him creative ideas for his paintings. Last summer he visited the town Les Issambres …

The basis of graphic compositions made in the technique of linecut created by Natalia Fedun lay typographic element that creates a large integral image. The purpose pursued by the artist …

An exhibition of new monumental works by Alexey Koval from Kyiv “Earth and Sky” is dedicated to the majestic elements that are the foundation of our world.
Earth, Sky, Water and …

For 12 years in a row during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Green Sofa Gallery is attracting under the same roof a variety of artists from Lviv, Kyiv and …

Like every artist in my work I raise topics that affect me. Sometimes they inspire and calm down, and sometimes they worry, outrage and disturb. After all, in my person …

 
After a three-year break devoted to illustrating the books Ukrainian beloved all over the world Olha Kvasha will present her seventh personal exhibition in the “Green Sofa”  Art Gallery. Olya’s …

Ultramarine Skies is a new exhibition of a Lviv artist with a new name Sofiia Kulchytska earlier well-known as Natalia Bartkiv. The change of name doesn’t mean the change in …

Volodymyr Bohuslavskyy is a famous artist who actively displayed his postmodern form-making aesthetics, which was so different from socialist realism in the 80’s. He is well known to its admirers. First of …

One of the most outstanding sculptors and graphic artist in Ukraine Vasyl Yarych with the painter Svitlana Yarych will present an exhibition of their works in the “Green Sofa” gallery.
New …

Iryna Fartukh from Lviv is a popular artist. In 2016 the gallery successfully presented her exhibition called “Blue Bird”.
Iryna’s romantic painting is often prone to fabulous and mythical themes. Her …

What does your hand take on a paper when you are talking on the phone? I paint ornaments. I do not know why. Probably because the human mind is so …

Lviv artist Denis Struk, also known as the author of the incredibly beautiful installations with blown glass presents in the “Green Sofa” gallery a new personal exhibition named “Polyphony”.
About 20 …

C o n c e p t i o n
One day during the walk in a nearby village to the big city I was looking at the roadside that had …

After a long break, as well as for the first time in the “Green Sofa” Art gallery, Nina Buryak will present her personal exhibition. For this exhibition she created a …

The first stained glass windows appeared in Ancient Egypt. They used them mainly for the windows décor and protecting the interior from bright sunlight. The incredibly calming, charming effect of …

Three of the Dnipro artists: Olga Lockatyr (now she lives in Lviv, head of the model gallery of ceramics “Gorytsvit”), Maria Grim (head of the Center for Art and Technological …

Our eleventh traditional Christmas exhibition in the gallery, as always offer you the most interesting, distinctive works of the brightest Lviv Artists.
Gathered under one roof in the midst of celebrations, …

Watercolor (also aquarelle (French loanword) is a technique of painting using special watercolor paints, which dissolved in water and form a transparent suspension of a thin pigment, which allows for …

In 2015 in the gallery “Green sofa” Inna Shynkarenko presented the exhibition “Woman. Man”. For that exhibition Inna photographed successful and famous women in both male and female images. At …

For most people ceramics are the applied things or like artists are joking is a pots. However, the assistant professor of the department of artistic ceramics of the Lviv National …

Lviv artist Oleg Davydenko stands out against the background of a “local school”. Following traditions is not his choice. The artist himself describes the creative priorities as follows: “All forms …

Like every conscious artist Kateryna Haneychuk brings her unique vision to the world. The artists turn to various components of human nature and consciousness. Kateryna chose the spiritual part for …

The epochs are changing, technologies are moving forward, the world becomes digital and technical, but all this creates a person in its pristine condition. The person who thinks. The person …

“Head”. Painting and sculpture by Lyudmyla Davydenko. July 4-30, 2017.
The head is the receptacle of our rational and irrational thoughts. It’s in the mind, not in the artistic metaphor – …

An architect by profession the artist Sergiy Mikhnovskyy, best understands the importance and responsibility to preserve the architectural environment. The best examples City Planning we often called a gold heritage. Sergiy …

Elegant informal living room arranged by hostess is a boudoir in which she rests, makes self care procedures, keeps secrets, gets dressed or undresses…
By taking off clothing – woman removes …

In the paintings of Anna Atoyan we can see fingers, touching hands and embrace. Sometimes gentle warning, playful or appropriating. And feelings which present the sunlight, warm sea waves and …

Lviv artist Yaryna Movchan represents the first biography solo exhibition at the gallery walls.
“Penetration” is a concept of works for the exhibition. According to Yaryna Movchan , this is the …

RUTINN is an artistic family joint work by Ruta and Innokentii Korshunov. Their alliance can result a spontaneous series of home-made portraits, a lonely Slovenian village landscape creation or a …

Lviv sculptor Miros  Dedydyshyn full of intriguing combinations. For example, in the face of his art combines the two: he is known worldwide as Maximilian Delius. It is this requirement …

Just two years ago in “Green Sofa” Art Gallery was held the first exhibition of Kyiv artist Oleksiy Koval. Then Oleksiy presented his wooden panels covered with sheets of copper which …

Earth breathes, rejoices and resists. Open spaces exude in the light and we travel through them.
Terra vita – live earth, earth personality, life lasting millions of years, and we – …

Our tenth traditional Christmas exhibition in the gallery, as always offer you the most interesting, distinctive works of the brightest Lviv Artists. Gathered under one roof in the midst of …

In the paintings – summer, autumn and winter, day and night, hills and mountains, sea and lakes, gardens, meadows and fields. Just the midst of them suddenly appear fragments embroidered …

The idea of the project “Everlasting Garden” wasn’t made up by me – it was just born with one of the first paintings “Paradise Birds”of 2005. And in 2011 I …

Троє художників водночас, зібрались разом аби представити до нашої уваги спільну виставку, яку назвали «Коктейль». Кожен з них має власну творчу манеру, проте, завдяки схожості підходу до живопису, їх твори,  …

On the day of the Vladimir Pinigin’s seventy fifth anniversary we will open his solo exhibition “The Year Without a genius.”  He is well known as an artist, graphic, illustrator …

We always pay so much attention to dreams. In the early 20th century dreams turned into art.
Freudians interpreted them as a reflection  of subconscious, and Surrealists adored them because from …

In one of many interviews Mikhaylo Demtsiu member for its popularity and official title artist told about why he is working on the same in paintings for many years in …

Back in 2013, Solomiya Kovtun presented in the Gren Sofa gallery her solo exhibition titled “12”.
This eloquent name said that Salomiya holds twelfth consecutive solo exhibition and is only in …

For the first time in the “Green Sofa” Art Gallery after the nearly 20-year break in the exhibition activities (1998 in Wroclaw previous solo exhibition was held), the exhibition will …

Today we offer you the example of the artistic dynasty.
Ivan Turetskyy is a painter well known in Ukraine as a collector-intellectual and one of the leading contemporary Ukrainian heraldysts.
At the …

“Green Sofa” Art Gallery has the honor to present the exhibition of outstanding painter of sixties and the winner of the Shevchenko National Prize – Ivan Ostafiychuk.
Ivan Ostafiychuk that survived …

The are two the most common questions from journalists to an artist – “From where did you get the inspiration?” and “How long do you paint a picture?”
Lviv Artist Lyudmyla …

The successful and well-known Chernihiv artist will present the personal painting exhibition in the “Green sofa” Gallery in April.
Her characters are easy for perception, pictured with love, lavish with pure and …

I’m looking at high skies and it makes me wonder
Why aren’t I a falcon? Why aren’t I a-flying?
God, why have you left me with no wings to fly?
…

Artist from Lviv Oleg Denуsenko gained recognition in the world as a graphic artist. These are the 28 international awards from Slovakia, USA, Poland, Yugoslavia, Korea, Russia, Romania, Great Britain, …

Constant participants of Christmas exhibitions in the Green Sofa Gallery Olena Tsiluyko and Victoria Protsiv this year missed the occasion which disappointed their fans. But the feast will take place …

Every year the Green Sofa Gallery invites her friends and visitors to enjoy Christmas Exhibition which combines works of lots of prominent Ukrainian artists. These exhibitions are visited by more …

At the end of November and until the middle of December The Green Sofa Gallery will treat you to the solo exhibition of Olga Kvasha dedicated to the book by …

On the 3d of November at 5pm Contemporary Art Gallery The Green Sofa presents solo show of Roman Opalinski.
Roman is a well-known lvivian artist thanks to his philosophical formalistic levkases …

Non-actual textile
…Silk and linen are not only favourite media of the authors, they also embody gold and silver of the textile world, two sides of noble nature, two achievements of …