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Masha Kovtun, Untitled, 2025, oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm

Masha Kovtun, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm

Masha Kovtun, The taste of salty water, 2025, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm, 2025

Masha Kovtun, The sun will rise and we will try again, 2024, oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm

Masha Kovtun, The sun will rise and we will try again, 2025, oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm

Masha Kovtun, River´s end, 2025, oil on canvas, 120 x 95 cm

Masha Kovtun, The sound of falling stars, 2023, oil on canvas, 95 x 75 cm

Masha Kovtun, The sound of falling stars, 2023, oil on canvas, 95 x 75 cm

Masha Kovtun, Theatre of the war, 2022, oil on canvas, 95 x 75 cm

Diploma work, 2024

Diploma work, 2024

BIOGRAPHY

Masha Kovtun was born in 1993 in Dnipro in Ukraine. She studied at PGASA (2011-2014), the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (2019-2024) and is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University. She also spent a study internship at the Angewandte in Vienna (Henning Bohl painting studio). She lives and works in Prague.

She works in the medium of installation consisting of painting, video and performance with an emphasis on the mutual understanding of nostalgia with melancholy and the search for one’s own identity, determined by the specificity of the situation of an immigrant living in Prague for a long time. As part of her doctoral studies, she explores the representation of Europe in contemporary artistic discourse, focusing on themes of migration, identity, and political non-citizenship. She examines artistic practices that are integral to both historical and contemporary social processes redefining political communities. She views art as a form of citizenship manifestation, enabling the crossing of boundaries between the included and the excluded. From this perspective, she investigates contemporary processes related to the integration of migrants—one of today’s key groups of non-citizens—into political communities.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including stone projects, Prague (2024), Harkawik Gallery New York (2024), Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (2024), Meet Factory, Prague (2024), 427 Gallery, Riga, LT (2023), NTK Gallery, Prague (2022).

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Masha Kovtun / Endless Path to Sunset / 01/10/24–24/11/24 / >>