Masha Kovtun

Masha Kovtun (b.1993, Dnipro, Ukraine) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in the painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný at the Prague UMPRUM, where she finished her master’s studies in the studio of Fine Arts III under Michal Pěchouček and Dominik Gajarský. She also spent a study internship at the Angewandte in Vienna (Henning Bohl painting studio). In Ukraine, where Kovtun comes from, she earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture at PGASA. She works in the medium of an installation consisting of painting, video, sculpture and performance with an emphasis on the mutual understanding of nostalgia with melancholy and the search for one’s own identity, determined by the specificity of the situation of an immigrant living in Prague for a long time. Her work relates to the theme of home in the broadest sense of the word, as a loss of intimacy and security in a world based on the endless flow of a present becoming rapidly obsolete.

EDUCATION

2024    AAAD in Prague, studio of intermedia, Michal Pechouček and Dominik Gajarský (CZ)

2020    Angewandte in Vienna, painting studio of Henning Bohl (AT)

2019    AAAD in Prague, studio of visiting teacher, Justin Fritzpatrik and Slava Sobotovičová (CZ)

2019    AAAD in Prague, studio of sculpture, Dominik Lang and Evá Kotatková (CZ)

2017    AAAD in Prague, painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný (CZ)

2015    PGASA architecture studio, Dnipro, Ukraine (UA)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023    Serenade of Shadows, w/ Olga Krykun, 427 Gallery, Riga (LV)

2022    Without You, PAF festival, Vertigo, Olomouc (CZ)

2021    The Beautiful Far Away, Berlinskej Model, Prague (CZ)

2020    Evroremont, City Surfer Office Gallery, Prague (CZ) 

2019    What Would Flower Say w/ Klara Jakesova, Berlinskej model, Prague (CZ)

2019    Cold Prey, Underground Flower, Lubov Gallery, New York (USA)

Date of residency: 01.08. – 31.12.2024