Lesia Khomenko

Lesia Khomenko is a multidisciplinary artist who reconsiders the role of painting—deconstructing narrative images and transforming paintings into objects, installations, performances, or videos. Her interest lies in revealing tools of visual manipulation in the context of history-making and myth-making. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv in 2004. A member of R.E.P. group since 2004, she is also a cofounder of the curatorial union HUDRADA, a self-educational community based on interdisciplinary cooperation. Khomenko is an initiator and program director of the Contemporary Art course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Her works have been shown in many exhibitions, including at the Lviv Municipal Art Center (2021), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (2018), MNAC, Bucharest (2016), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2015).

Contributions

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

post presents: Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine

On the evening of October 12, 2022, post presents hosted presentations and conversations with artists, scholars, and curators about the artistic responses to the war in Ukraine, looking at the period between the Maidan Revolution, which was followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022. This conversation is a continuation of the presentations and conversations commenced that evening.