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Yuliia Holub
Artist from Ukraine
Yuliia was born in 2002 in Volnovaha, eastern Ukraine. She now lives in Kyiv. She studied at the M.Boychuk State Academy of Fine Arts and Design and NAOMA.
Yuliia works in the direction of modern conceptual art, creating a synthesis between abstract and surrealist art. By her own account, she aims to purify creativity from unnecessary signs and images, so that it can become a mirror for the viewer's inner world.
Her works have a philosophical and esoteric subtext, but are based solely on the game of subjectivity.
“I was born in a city that was occupied by Russia on March 5, 2022, I experienced many tests that significantly influenced my art. My works are an attempt to explore complex emotions: loss, fighting trauma and searching for lost harmony. The surreal world is my shelter. A journey between consciousness and the subconscious. A world of passion, illusions, dreams and secrets. Wild imagination finds peace on canvas and paints, carving out the eternal conflict of light and dark”.
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EXUVIAE: Duplicitas
Painting by Yuliia Holub
125 x 130 cm • Canvas, Acrylic, Oil paints
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
(Latin: “two in one”)
125 × 130 cm and 30 × 40 cm Acrylic, oil, canvas
This diptych continues the series as an image of antagonistic division: consciousness evolved faster than the body itself.
In the larger canvas, the figure remains trapped in prehistoric biology — the body is symbolic, the head dissolves into a mirrored projection. The smaller one holds a psychic fragment, where the mind already functions as an algorithm.
Together they represent a rupture: the physical shell responds with primal instincts, while consciousness produces abstract concepts, digital strategies, artificial intelligence.
This conflict leads to dissociation — and its shadow reveals itself as a refusal of self, and of reality.
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
About the artist
Yuliia Holub
Artist from Ukraine
Yuliia was born in 2002 in Volnovaha, eastern Ukraine. She now lives in Kyiv. She studied at the M.Boychuk State Academy of Fine Arts and Design and NAOMA.
Yuliia works in the direction of modern conceptual art, creating a synthesis between abstract and surrealist art. By her own account, she aims to purify creativity from unnecessary signs and images, so that it can become a mirror for the viewer's inner world.
Her works have a philosophical and esoteric subtext, but are based solely on the game of subjectivity.
“I was born in a city that was occupied by Russia on March 5, 2022, I experienced many tests that significantly influenced my art. My works are an attempt to explore complex emotions: loss, fighting trauma and searching for lost harmony. The surreal world is my shelter. A journey between consciousness and the subconscious. A world of passion, illusions, dreams and secrets. Wild imagination finds peace on canvas and paints, carving out the eternal conflict of light and dark”.
“The Image That Invented Itself (Incarnated Into The Body)”, 2025
by Yuliia Holub
€1 200 • 170 × 180 cm
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