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Elvira Sosoienko

A visual artist exploring memory, identity, and the experience of loss and renewal through textiles, installation, and contemporary media.

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Portfolio

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Portfolio

In this section, you can explore works that best highlight my artistic practice and outline the key themes of my research.

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About Me

In my artistic practice, I explore themes of memory, identity, loss, and renewal. It is important for me to address complex issues that shape our present and to find ways of speaking about them through art. My works aim to create a space for dialogue, where the viewer can encounter personal reflections and discover their own responses.

 

My main media include textiles, installation, painting, readymade, and video art. Textiles occupy a special place in my practice due to their duality: they can be fragile and delicate or rough and rigid; deeply traditional and yet innovative. This versatility allows me to express contradictions, inner transformations, and emotional states.

 

Often, the process of creation becomes more meaningful than the final result. By incorporating natural and destructive processes into my work, I allow materials to “speak” in their own language. The outcome is not only a visual form but also a record of

meanings embedded within the act of making.

 

My art is a way of preserving memory while transforming pain into strength, loss into the possibility of rebirth, and personal experience into a shared cultural space.

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Education

2025-present

PhD in Art (Doctor of Arts, in progress),
Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Fine Arts and Restoration.

2023-2024

Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Art Textile, Master’s Degree.

2022

Academic mobility

program

Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava (Slovakia).

2019-2023

Degree
University Name

Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Art Textile, Bachelor’s Degree.

Additional Education

2023

“Contemporary Art” course, SKVOT.

2023

Intensive online course “Artists without Borders”,
project “Cultural Diplomacy: EU–Ukraine 2023–2024”.

Exhibitions

19.12.2025 – 15.01.2026

Group exhibition “ART: RECONSTRUCTION-2025”,
Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine.

12.12.2025 – 20.02.2026

Multispace project “The Other Beside”,
Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine.

07.12.2025 – 11.01.2026

Group exhibition "Vidgomin",
Center for Architecture, Design and Urbanism Gunpowder Tower (Porokhova Vezha), Lviv, Ukraine.

14.10 – 07.11.2025

30.06–14.07.2025

Group exhibition “villageVinnytsiacity” within the residency Ticket to the Sun. MONTAZH centre, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Group exhibition “Earth. Will the Wounds Heal…”,
DZYGA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.

16.01–04.02.2024

Group exhibition “Layers”. Zelenа Kanapa Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.

12.2023

VIA CARPATIA. II Art Biennial. IMO Gallery, Stary Sącz, Poland.

06.2023

Add and Abstract. A Wales–Ukrainian Collaboration as part of CSAD Summer Show. Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.

11.2022

Bubble. 22nd International Mini Textile Exhibition. Galeria Umelka, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Residencies

22.06–30.06.2025

Residency within the Ticket to the Sun festival. Pich Space + SUN Territory, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Grants and Scholarships

2025–2026

residential Scholarship of Ukraine for young artists in visual, performing, and cinematic arts.

2022

Grant from LITA, Society of Authors (Bratislava, Slovakia), support for refugee artists from Ukraine.

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