Artwork Collection

Installation

Painting becomes encounter. This section gathers installation views of my thesis work, showing how scale, spacing, lighting, and wall placement shape the paintings’ meaning. Across the 2025 and 2026 installations, the works are not presented as isolated images, but as relations: colour, atmosphere, bodily address, and symbolic form unfold through the viewer’s movement in space.

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Installation View: Mutual Reception and Fern Flower
Installation View: Mutual Reception and Fern Flower

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Installation View: Mutual Reception and Fern Flower

An installation pairing a large relational field with a smaller atmospheric diptych, placing cosmology and longing side by side.

Fruits in the Night, Installation View II
Fruits in the Night, Installation View II

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Fruits in the Night, Installation View II

A wide installation view showing the exhibition as a complete spatial composition, where dense painting, works on paper, and open space create a rhythm of expansion and pause.

Fruits in the Night, Installation View I
Fruits in the Night, Installation View I

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Fruits in the Night, Installation View I

A solo exhibition installed as a nocturnal field of colour, pattern, and transformation. Large-scale oil paintings anchor the room, while smaller works extend the rhythm of fertility, growth, and return.

Installation View with Coloured Light
Installation View with Coloured Light

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Installation View with Coloured Light

A spatial installation where red and blue light extend the paintings’ chromatic tension into the room.

Installation View: Rivulet, Nexus, and Exalt
Installation View: Rivulet, Nexus, and Exalt

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Installation View: Rivulet, Nexus, and Exalt

A final critique installation where three paintings hold distance, pressure, and relation across the room.

Installation View: Vessel and Rivulet
Installation View: Vessel and Rivulet

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Installation View: Vessel and Rivulet

A final critique installation pairing bodily density with atmospheric dissolution under neutral light.

Work by

Veronika Bondarenko

Drawing and Painting

“I make paintings for the moment before recognition, when form is felt before it is fixed. In oil, images gather through glazing, abrasion, concealment, and revision, holding shells, seeds, vessels,...” [More]