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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: Residua (2026)
Sculpture by Yuliia Holub
30 x 30 cm • Spray paint, Putty, Polystyerene
Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine
A state in which the metaposition is absent and the process of transformation has come to a halt. This is a form that emerges after nigredo (dissolution) but does not lead to any subsequent reassembly. The alchemical movement is interrupted here, leaving not potential but an inert remainder.
The object functions as an archive without a key — a “black box” in which something is preserved but remains inaccessible to interpretation. It does not reflect the viewer and does not enter into contact. Its surface does not invite projection and does not serve the position of the observer. It is a self-sufficient presence that requires no interaction.
External violence no longer needs a form, as it has been internalized. The individual carries it within as a norm. Residua emerges at the moment when the introject is no longer recognized as foreign and ceases to provoke resistance.
This is not an image of evil as an event, but a form of passive gravity: toward preservation, fixation, and the un-lived. Residua offers no exit. It only confirms the stoppage.
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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