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Sestry Feldman
Ukraine
Agnes Tiollier
France
Sophie Le Gendre
France
Ivanka Nechyporuk
Ukraine
Karine Bartoli
France
Egor Guschin
Ukraine
Daryna Smolkina
Portugal
Anna Kostritskaya
Ukraine
Oleksiy Belusenko
Ukraine
Twin sisters Michel and Nicol Feldman, known as Sestry Feldman, have never followed convention. Born in Dnipro in 1996, their artistic journey began at the age of eight, driven by an innate curiosity and a family that valued freedom, self-expression, and resilience.
Their father—a political prisoner under the Kuchma regime—remained an unseen figure until they were eight. But when they sent him a childhood portrait, his reply was simple yet profound: “It’s a masterpiece.” That single phrase became their silent manifesto—a sign that art was their destiny.
From Kyiv’s subway walls to global exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, and Tel Aviv, their work is a fearless mix of street art, political satire, and electrifying visual storytelling. Their murals, bursting with modernised Cossacks, surreal talismans, and raw emotion, are not just paintings—they are acts of defiance, echoes of history, and visions of the future.
Their five-episode animated series "Yoyo", initially meant as a yoga guide for children, turned into a satirical take on AI and humanity’s future, blending humour and dystopian vision.
With no formal training, their education comes from cinema, techno beats, and the streets. Their art pulses with movement, rebellion, and energy—a world where vibrant colors meet stark realities, where every piece demands attention.
Their art isn’t just seen—it’s felt, lived, and encountered.
Agnès Tiollier est née à Lyon, issue d’une famille tournée vers l’art.
Après des études d’Arts Appliqués, elle choisit d’exprimer ses ressentis à travers la peinture.
« Mon travail est basé sur la couleur, la lumière et la transparence »
Cette artiste peintre aime surtout transmettre son bonheur d’observer la nature grâce à l’intensité lumineuse de ses couleurs, que ce soit à la peinture à l'huile ou bien au pastel, médium d'une grande richesse.
Ses thèmes de prédilection : les jardins et paysages sans oublier le monde floral.
Ses oeuvres font partie de nombreuses collections en France et à l'étranger.
Based in Paris and passionate about images, Sophie le Gendre
is recognised by the Fine Art photography community as a woman
with innovative talents.
Always in search of a new graphic dimension, the French
photographer shares with us her universe where resonant
Breaths sparkle. Her works, on one hand decorative and on the other transcendental, illuminate our eyes, and without warning, they shake and pierce our intimate memories.
Each photo is a poem, an ode to life, an unfailing optimism. Sophie assumes her role as guardian of the light.
Accustomed to rewards, in France and abroad, Sophie won the prestigious
contest « Objectif femmes » (Paris, 2019) , the first prize for Photography
at the Florence Biennale (Italy, 2021) and a New York press prize. Her works are regularly published in renowned magazines such as Open Eye magazine / Elle International / Clam Magazine / Art Newspaper Daily.
Ivanka Nechyporuk was born in 1994 in Netishyn, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine. She obtained her master’s degree from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University named after Ivan Ohienko, specializing in art restoration. Since 2018, she has been living and working in Kyiv.
Her work is primarily in the surrealist style, with a particular focus on paintings of geese. The artist chose this form of expression to convey her inner feelings.
Her main mediums include painting, mixed media, and graphics.
In her work, Ivanka draws inspiration from everything that surrounds her, especially nature, materials, textures, people, and animals. She is fascinated by the combination of seemingly incompatible elements. For example, she often explores unrealistic animal coloring or sharp contrasts between shapes and colors.
L’artiste sélectionne minutieusement ses motifs parmis des photos issues de ses propres shooting où se trouvent des interactions entre les personnages dans des territoires ensoleillés. Elle représente ces clichés en peinture à l’huile sur toile, en les recadrant et sélectionnant ses couleurs. Sa touche est emprunte de ce que sa vue a digéré, son ressenti à filtré. S’établit un processus créatif pour traduire la lumière et les mouvements des personnages. Dans ses œuvres la lumière a fonction de composition. La peintre décrit la lumière et le mouvement de façon radicale. Elle théâtralise, sacralise une réalité d’apparence banale.
L’univers pictural de Fairfeld Porter l’inspire dans la recherche du motif et de la composition de ses peintures. Son geste est dans la lignée de celui de peintres néo expressionnistes allemands des années 80, caractérisé par une franche liberté d’expression. Le médium peinture ne s’éfface pas derrière le motif. Il est garant d’un choix subjectif qu’elle établit face à son modèle.
Egor Guschin was born in 1988 in Kharkiv,Ukraine, graduated from the Kharkiv University of Construction and Architecture with a degree in Organizational Management. He worked in his specialty for a while, then moved into the food service industry for a long time before finding his true passion in photography. Egor's work has been featured in publications such as Vogue Ukraine and exhibited in various galleries in Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv. This is how his career as an artist began in 2023. Now he is a member of the MYPH school of conceptual and fine art photography.
Works with analog photography, mainly using the multiple exposure technique. Inspired by surrealism and loves experiments with expired film.
In a world governed by rules both written and unspoken, Daryna Smolkina’s art whispers of quiet rebellion. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, now based in Lisbon, she crafts paintings that feel like echoes of a theatrical performance, where characters linger in a suspended moment, caught between societal expectations and personal truths. Her work is a stage, and every canvas is a scene unfolding.
Daryna’s journey began in a traditional family, where expectations were clear—but her fascination with the surreal led her beyond the familiar. She started art school at six, mastering techniques that shaped her unique visual language.
While studying graphic design in Kyiv, Daryna found her true voice in painting—a space where boundaries blurred and deeper narratives emerged. At 19, she moved to Lisbon, an experience that shaped her perspective as an outsider navigating an unfamiliar world. Her art became a reflection of identity, isolation, and the quiet weight of societal expectations.
From Schönhausen Palace Museum in Berlin to New York’s 17frost Gallery, her work speaks to a universal struggle—the tension between conformity and self-expression. Whether in the dreamlike haze of New Dream World or the raw intimacy of My First Diary, Daryna’s paintings invite viewers to step into a moment of self-reflection, where emotions take form and meaning unfolds.
Daryna doesn’t just paint figures—she paints questions. Her art asks: Who are we, beyond the expectations placed upon us? What do we reveal, and what do we conceal? Her world is one where the symbolic and the surreal merge, reflecting not just her own journey, but the collective search for meaning in a world full of invisible walls.
Anna Kostritskaya’s work carries an undeniable urgency, each brushstroke infused with a tension between fragility and defiance. Her art does more than depict; it preserves, resists, and remembers.
Born in Ukraine, her creative journey has been deeply intertwined with the turbulence of her homeland. Since the full-scale war began, her work has taken on an even more urgent role, serving as a form of documentation, capturing emotions, losses, and the resilience of her people. Her paintings often feel like open wounds, yet within them lies tenderness, a refusal to let beauty be erased by destruction.
Working across multiple mediums - painting, photography, and mixed media, Kostritskaya employs different artistic languages to express the unspeakable. In her portraits, faces emerge from the canvas like whispers, layered with texture, almost as if they are fighting to remain visible. There is a quiet intimacy in her work, a recognition of individual stories otherwise lost within the vastness of war.
Much of her practice is rooted in the act of bearing witness. Her work explores displacement, identity, and the intersection of personal and collective history. Her photography, in particular, captures fleeting moments, glimpses of life that feel sacred in their ordinariness, a stark contrast to the overwhelming instability surrounding them.
Her creative process is instinctual, driven by emotion rather than rigid intent. She has described it as work that decides its own path, rather than one that is meticulously planned.
Yet, despite the weight of her subject matter, her art is about endurance. It embodies the human spirit’s refusal to be silenced. Beneath the layers of grief, there is strength. There is the unbreakable.
In the quiet, contemplative spaces of Oleksiy Belusenko’s paintings, time feels like it has softened, lingering between memory and the present. Born in Kazakhstan in 1960 and moving to Ukraine as a child, Belusenko has spent a lifetime weaving together history, landscape, and emotion — both as an artist and as a restorer of the past.
For 25 years, he worked at the National Scientific Research Restoration Centre in Kyiv, (specialising in polychrome wooden sculpture and decorative carving), breathing life back into centuries-old sculptures and carvings. This intimate relationship with history shaped his artistic eye — his brushstrokes carrying the patience of a restorer, his compositions steeped in reverence for what came before. His works feel like whispers of the past, filtered through a deeply personal lens.
While Belusenko’s career spans painting, sculpture, and curation, it is his landscapes that carry his most intimate dialogue with the world. Capturing the quiet poetry of Ukrainian nature, his canvases are imbued with a sense of nostalgia—soft brushwork, muted yet resonant tones, and an ever-present balance between warmth and coolness. His work does not impose itself; rather, it invites you in, allowing you to drift between reality and impression, between what is seen and what is felt.
Beyond his artistic practice, Belusenko has also dedicated himself to art education, sharing his knowledge through the BritArt XX lecture series, where he dissects the nuances of 20th-century British art. As a curator and a founding member of the Blue October creative association, he continues to shape and support the contemporary art scene in Ukraine.
Today, his works reside in private collections and museums across 30 countries. Yet, despite this global reach, his paintings remain rooted in something deeply personal — his connection to place, to time, and to the quiet beauty of everyday moments.
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