Oleksandra and Artem Rohovyi. Paintings

Kharkiv’s artists Oleksandra and Artem Rohovyi were connected with Lviv through a story of evacuation from Kharkiv during the first days of the full-scaled invasion. A married couple has lived for a year in our city and returned to the familiar Kharkiv. A forced contact with our city has already caused a second personal exhibition in Lviv for Olexandra (first one took place in a cafe "Tovarystvo"). And also, before the series of gouaches with pictures of trees for Artem. She was the solution to a problem of lack of circumstances for creation of large-scale figurative works of Artem, which he was doing in his workshop in Kharkiv.

An exhibition of new, small-sized works of artists in Green Sofa Art Gallery, which is awaited by a big circle of admirers, Oleksandra and Artem have more than 100 000 followers on Instagram in total, will present their masterful realistic painting, so different from Lviv’s art school, and thus so interesting.

Oleksandra created a series "Bread" especially for the exhibition. She dreamt about it for a while, because that’s a "thing you don`t want to be vocal about". And, of course, her vegetables. Potatoes with dill, beets, onions, peppers, green peas and carrots. Almost all of them are harvests from Kharkiv’s region, some from farmers of de occupied areas. Corn in exposition of a woman, who has returned in a mined village with the neighbors, with her own hands demined the fields. Oleksandra "was honored" to paint her first harvest after de occupation.

Artem will show the new works from the series "Trees"; which was created as a reaction to dramatic circumstances of time. However, in its essence, it departs from direct narrative and focuses on the visual and aesthetic substantiation of nature. This cycle gravitates towards a decorative landscape in its best traditions of an era of Secession, where the rhythm, color and plasticity of the form are key elements.

The opening of an exhibition will take place on 16th of September at 18.00. The exhibition will last until October, 12th.

We are awaiting Oleksandra and Artem on the opening and are very happy about our mutual support and thanking Armed forces of Ukraine for an opportunity #lifewithart

Oleksandra Rohova was born in 1990. She grew up in the city of Dokuchayevsk, Donetsk region. She lives in the city of Kharkiv.

In 2008, she studied at the Donetsk Art School. She graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in 2017, from the Department of Restoration of Works of Art. She began creating her oil paintings in 2018.

Artem Rohovyi was born in 1988 in the village of Kegychivka, Kharkiv region. After graduating from 9 grades of secondary school in 2004, he entered the Kharkiv State Art College to study as an artist-teacher.

In 2008, he entered the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts to study the restoration of works of art.

He began his creative journey in 2009. Since 2011, he has been a member of the MGO of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists.

• Since 2009 — constant participation in all-Ukrainian exhibitions.
• 2012 — personal exhibition in the art center "ACADEMY", Kharkiv.
• 2013 — personal exhibition "13" in the CPC "Nuremberg House", Kharkiv
• 2014 — personal exhibition "My House", gallery "Kostyurinsky Los Angeles", Kharkiv.
• 2014 — participation in the exhibition "Realism Without Borders", "California Museum of Fine Art", Los Angeles, USA.
• 2015 — participation in the collective exhibition "DEGRAZH", gallery "AVEC", "Alexander Feldman Foundation", Kharkiv.
• 2015 — participation in the charity auction "Line of Mercy", "Yermilovtsentr" in Kharkiv.
• 2016 — participation in the international plein air "Ningbo through the eyes of Ukrainian artists". Silk Road Culture and Arts Center, Ningbo, China
• 2017 — participation in the exhibition "Five and Under". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2018 — participation in the art fair "Los Angeles, Art Show". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery Los Angeles, USA
• 2018 — participation in the exhibition "Five and Under". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2019 — participation in the exhibition "Mondo Tondo". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2019 — participation in the art fair "Los Angeles, Art Show". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2019 — participation in the art fair "Art Palm Springs". Palm Springs Convention Center, USA
• 2019 — participation in the exhibition "Five and Under". Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2020 — participation in the art fair "Los Angeles, Art Show ". Arcadia Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
• 2020 — participation in the exhibition "Five and under" . Arcadia Contemporary. Los Angeles, USA
• 2020 — participation in the exhibition "Flower power " . Arcadia Contemporary. Los Angeles, USA
• 2021 — participation in the exhibition "Arcadia Grand Opening in Soho " Arcadia Contemporary, NYC, USA
• 2021 — participation in the exhibition "Five and under " Arcadia Contemporary, NYC, USA
• 2021 — participation in the exhibition "Vanguard" , Outre Gallery, Melbourne, Australia