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Veronika Cherednychenko. Soft Materials. 1-27.07.2025

Veronika Cherednychenko. Soft Materials. 1-27.07.2025

One of the most striking young artists from Lviv, Veronika Cherednichenko, a trained monumental artist with an incredibly delicate drawing technique, will be showcasing her work at the Green Sofa gallery. The exhibition features her imaginative, body-like figures and bio-abstractions, all created using soft colored and graphite pencils— media artists often refer to as “soft materials.”

Interestingly, in physics, “soft materials” are things like liquids, crystals, and amorphous solids—materials with complex internal structures. In a metaphorical, psychological sense, this idea deeply resonates with Veronika’s artistic reflections.

The exhibition, titled “Soft materials”, includes 15 works created between 2023 and 2025. These are gentle, soft-colored drawings featuring smooth forms—some of which seem wrapped in a layer of black latex, like a protective skin shielding their natural tenderness and vulnerability.

Her figures are a mix of faceless portraits and organic shapes that hint at joints and curves of the human body. They both attract and unsettle, reminiscent of visual elements from arthouse body horror films.

There’s a strong sense of femininity and contradiction in her work—just like anything related to the body and, in part, to the experience of new motherhood. Sometimes this experience fuels her creativity; other times, she works in contrast to it, pushing back against the rhythms of a changed life. Still, the process of making art gives her more strength than it takes.

 

Admission is free. 

Veronika Cherednychenko

Born in 1994 in Kherson, Ukraine
Resides and works in Lviv, Ukraine

Education:
2014-2020: B.A. and M.F.A. in Art, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine
2017-2018: Exchange Program, Warsaw Academy of Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2012-2016: B.A. in Philology, Kyiv National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025: Re-Generation, SLP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024: Tectumque 2.0, Savchenko Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2023: ХБК, Korsak’s Museum of Modern Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
2023: Intermezzo, PM Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2022: Turon, IMO Gallery, Stary Sacz, Poland
2022: Die Erste Woche, SLP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022: The First Week, GODO Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022: Idol, Contemporary Art Center, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022: Metaforest, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2022: Insect, Green Sofa Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2021: Tectumque. VR Experience, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021: Tectumque, Dim Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018: YOU-#34, Gallery ‘A-19’, Marymont Subway Station, Warsaw, Poland

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025: Triennale Milano, Italy
2025: The Little Prince, ZAG Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2025: Crossing the Line, Mriya Gallery, New York, USA
2024: Binary Bonds, NODE Media Lab, Vienna, Austria
2024: Crisis of imagination, Grambacht space, Mechelen, Belgium
2024: My Territory, Center of Intellectual Art Mercury, Lviv, Ukraine
2023: 2nd Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art, Museum of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023: Lviv New Generation, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023: Spaces. Boundaries Borders, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023: UNBREAKABLE, Ukrainian Institute, New York, USA
2023: UNBREAKABLE, Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden
2022: Art Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2022: Time, Art Biesenthal, Berlin, Germany
2022: Taiwan Annual, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
2020: Hands for Mom, Starke Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2021: What will be with us in the midst of so many worlds?, Piraeus Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2021: Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art, Artarea, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021: Visiocracy, Modern Art Research Institute, National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine

Awards:
2022: VIA Carpatia Art Biennale, Main Prize, Stary Sacz, Poland
2019: Visual Arts Contest named after Nathan Altman, First Prize, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

2018: FINI Visual Arts Contest, Third Prize, Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico
2018: Laureate, Festival of Contemporary Art Non Stop Media, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017: Visual Arts Contest named after Nathan Altman, Finalist, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2016: Kryvolap Art Prize, Finalist, Kyiv, Ukraine

Residencies:
2024: Martin Roth-Initiative Residency, Berlin, Germany
2024: Culture Moves Europe mobility grant by Goethe Institute, Gdansk, Poland
2023: Madstun Artist Residency, Fall, Norway
2022: Istanbul Artist Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2022: IMO Gallery Artist Residency, Stary Sącz, Poland
2022: Taiwan Annual Artist Residency, Taipei, Taiwan
2022: Artist and the City Residency, Halle, Germany
2021: Gaude Polonia Scholarship and Residency Program, Warsaw, Poland
2021: Re-Framing my Body Educational Program, Kyiv, Ukraine

Selected Collections:
Centrum Kultury i Sztuki im. Ady Sari, Stary Sacz, Poland
Korsak’s Modern Art Museum, Lutsk, Ukraine
Collected by various private collectors internationally