Ancestor Cult
Ancestor Cult

Painting

Ancestor Cult

A painting that feels like an inherited code. Ancestor Cult transforms Ukrainian embroidery and ornamental pattern into a dense, ghostly field where memory, protection, ritual, and repetition become structure.

Bush
Bush

Drawing

Bush

A durational graphite drawing where organic density, restraint, and repetition form an eroded field of attention.

Conception
Conception

Mixed Media

Conception

An egg tempera painting on wood panel exploring genesis, emergence, ritual materiality, and the first moment when form begins to take shape.

Exalt
Exalt

Painting

Exalt

A small painting with the force of an omen. Exalt gathers glowing pods, red diagonals, crescent folds, and embered light into a charged field where bloom, body, vessel, and symbol almost become one.

Fern Flower
Fern Flower

Painting

Fern Flower

A diptych-like oil painting where myth becomes atmosphere: a hidden flower, a night search, a form almost found.

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

Installation

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.

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

Installation

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.

Installation View with Coloured Light
Installation View with Coloured Light

Installation

Installation View with Coloured Light

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

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

Installation

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.

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

Installation

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

Installation

Installation View: Vessel and Rivulet

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

Maple Turning in the Spring May Breeze
Maple Turning in the Spring May Breeze

Painting

Maple Turning in the Spring May Breeze

A watercolour work on paper exploring atmosphere, seasonal change, restraint, and perceptual flow through recurrence, diagonal movement, and looped structure.

Medusa
Medusa

Painting

Medusa

A large-scale oil painting where looking becomes dangerous: myth, body, water, and cosmos coiling into one field.

Mutual Reception
Mutual Reception

Painting

Mutual Reception

A painting of relation before hierarchy. Mutual Reception gathers pattern, body, fruit, diagram, and cosmology into a field of reciprocal forces. Forms echo, exchange, and depend on one another, allowing meaning to emerge through structure,... More

Nexus
Nexus

Painting

Nexus

A small oil painting on canvas, structured like a charged knot. Nexus pulls spiral, seed, current, and diagonal force into a compressed field where movement gathers, folds, and returns.

Over
Over

Painting

Over

A body-scale oil painting exploring chromatic intensity, transformation, and the threshold where beauty becomes pressure.

Rivulet
Rivulet

Painting

Rivulet

An oil painting where the image leaks into being. Rivulet holds stream, profile, shell, moon, wound, and landscape in a pale atmospheric field cut by red marks, drips, and sharp white lines.

Seed
Seed

Mixed Media

Seed

An egg tempera painting exploring origin, material transformation, and symbolic cycles of growth.

Sitting Bug
Sitting Bug

Painting

Sitting Bug

A small organism becomes a solar event. Sitting Bug transforms insect, seed, shell, and flame into a charged field of yellow motion, where the body appears both fragile and radiant.

Vessel
Vessel

Painting

Vessel

A large oil painting on canvas that feels like a body protecting a secret. Vessel gathers shell, fruit, muscle, chamber, husk, and organism into a dense diagonal form, where colour becomes both pressure and protection.

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]