Masha Kovtun was born in 1993 in Dnipro in Ukraine and lives and works in Prague. This year she graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (studio of Fine Arts III under Michal Pěchouček and Dominik Gajarský), in 2021 she received her Bachelor´s degree in the painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný. She also spent a study internship at the Angewandte in Vienna (Henning Bohl painting studio). In 2015 she earned a Bachelor’s degree in architecture at PGASA.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Harkawik Gallery New York (2024), Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (2024), Meet Factory, Prague (2024), 427 Gallery, Riga, LT (2023), NTK Gallery, Prague (2022), City Surfer Office, Prague (2020).

The exhibition Serenade of Shadows is a dual effort conceived by artists Olga Krykun and Masha Kovtun. Within their work, both artists explore themes of nostalgia, longing, and an unending search for identity. More recently, they have begun to explore the physical and psychological ramifications of life during wartime. As Ukrainian artists living abroad, themes of uncertainty, isolation, and hyper-vigilance come to the fore. Serenade of Shadows is imbued with the artist’s nuanced introspections, blurring the edges of reality and escapist fantasy.
Christina Gigliotti, (excerpt) 2023