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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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"Ur-Presence", 2025
Painting by Yuliia Holub
70 x 30 cm • Watercolor, Watercolor and paper, Watercolor pencils, Watercolor on paper
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
“Ur-Presence” reflects the threat that arises not from action, but from the mere fact of existence. Authoritarian structures perceive difference as danger even before any resistance takes place: the presence of the “other” is already a challenge to the system of control.
This phenomenon reveals a deeper paradox: just as fascism fears otherness, contemporary politics ignores the presence of nature as an equal force. Ecology disrupts the triangle of socialism–liberalism–fascism, reminding us that humanity is not the center of the universe, but only a fragment of a broader, dangerous, and yet beautiful balance.
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
"The Image That Waited But No One Chose It (Canvas Version)", 2025
by Yuliia Holub
€1 200 • 180 × 195 cm
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