Untitled (2026) by Kateryna Kopeikina - subjektiv.art
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Kateryna Kopeikina
Artist from Ukraine
Kateryna Kopieikina was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and in 2017 her artistic practice began with tattooing. Over time, it evolved into a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, performance, and movement. Her practice explores intimacy, displacement, grief, and the psychological consequences of war through personal narratives and symbolic imagery. Blurring the boundaries between reality, myth, and dark fairy tales, she creates emotionally charged works in which tenderness coexists with fear, desire, and loss. Drawing from lived experience and collective memory, her work examines how the body carries trauma and how care, ritual, and imagination become strategies for survival.
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This work is part of the Structure of Power series, exploring mechanisms of domination in society and nature. Through grotesque figures and political characters, I examine a recurring structure: someone occupies the top, someone sustains the system, and someone becomes its foundation.
Rather than analyzing a specific political regime, I focus on universal patterns of hierarchy like ambition, submission, and exploitation. Each character performs a specific function, from the enforcer to the worker who literally supports those above them.
The series deliberately employs absurdity. Humour serves as both a coping mechanism and a tool of the system, allowing people to turn trauma into entertainment to make reality bearable.
Kateryna Kopieikina was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and in 2017 her artistic practice began with tattooing. Over time, it evolved into a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, performance, and movement. Her practice explores intimacy, displacement, grief, and the psychological consequences of war through personal narratives and symbolic imagery. Blurring the boundaries between reality, myth, and dark fairy tales, she creates emotionally charged works in which tenderness coexists with fear, desire, and loss. Drawing from lived experience and collective memory, her work examines how the body carries trauma and how care, ritual, and imagination become strategies for survival.
