Studio Offbeats 21.0: Oksana Zmiyevska

In Modern Love, Oksana Zmiyevska explores the dialogue between the female body and the spaces or figures—often male silhouettes—that surround it. Her paintings weave together the sensual materiality of the female form with an almost spiritual resonance, where gestures, desires, and emotions dissolve into fiery, expressive brushstrokes. Through striking self-portraits and playful, humor-infused group compositions, Zmiyevska bridges the intimate and the collective, crossing both social and gender boundaries.

Her narratives move fluidly between sport, pop culture, and urban life, always entwined with the imaginary and the real. Here, identity emerges not as a fixed form, but as a living question—an attempt to breathe spirit into portraiture itself.

Born in Crimea, Zmiyevska carries migration as both theme and method: a constant process of transformation. For more than two decades, her painterly practice has invited viewers to encounter tenderness and vulnerability—her own kind of feminine language. The canvas becomes a space for dreams, beauty, and existential questions.

We invite you to experience womanhood not only as a presence but as a statement—an embodied voice. The exhibition confronts the contemporary paradox of being alone yet together, transforming painting itself into a contagious energy.