As an artist, I work with themes of memory, the body, and cultural roots, exploring Ukrainian tradition through a contemporary visual language. My practice grows out of the folklore of Zakarpattia — songs, dances, and rituals — which I perceive not only as cultural heritage, but as a living system of knowledge transmitted through the body, movement, and sensation. In earlier series, I engaged with the kolomyika as a form of rhythm and collective memory. Today, this inquiry has evolved into an exploration of the body as a site where the experience of unity is preserved — between people, generations, and the spiritual dimension.

My practice is a search for a language that brings together body and memory, tradition and contemporaneity, the intimate and the collective. I aim to create a space in which the viewer does not simply see the image, but experiences it on a bodily level — as an echo of their own experience, hidden deep within.

Artist Pavlo Fuley was born in 2001 in the Mizhhiria district of the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine. He currently lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In 2020, he graduated from the Uzhhorod Professional College of Arts named after A. Erdeli, after which he continued his studies at the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts, graduating in 2024.

In his artistic practice, Pavlo Fuley primarily explores the traditional Ukrainian culture of the Zakarpattia region and its contemporary reinterpretations. His works are rooted in folklore, ritual, and musical heritage, which he rethinks through painting, mixed media, and corporeal imagery.

The artist’s practice unfolds through several thematic series. In the series "Ukrainian Folk Dances", he works with rhythm and movement as forms of collective memory.

In the project "Honey Heritage", he turns to the image of the bee as a symbol of culture, community, and the fragility of ecosystems.

The series "Acquisition" explores kinship, memory, and everyday rituals as the foundation of identity.

In the new series "One Whole", the artist shifts toward exploring corporeality as a space of unity and sacred experience, where the personal and the collective merge through the image of the human body. Working primarily with oil painting and mixed techniques, Fulei creates images in which tradition appears as a living, transformative force shaping contemporary identity.

The works are held in private collections in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Ireland, the USA, Norway, and Switzerland.

Exhibitions

• 2025 — Solo exhibition "When Collective Heritage Blossoms", Art Point Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• 2023 — Exhibition "The Earth Is Like a Fairy Tale", RPM Society, Lviv, Ukraine
• 2023 — Solo exhibition "Acquisition", BRAMA Museum, Cherkasy, Ukraine
• 2023 — Group exhibition "UNBREAKABLE", Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
• 2023 — Group exhibition "Origin(s): Sky-blue Horizon", Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
• 2023 — Group exhibition "Heritage", Ukrainian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2023 — Group exhibition "UNBREAKABLE", Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2023 — Group exhibition "Ukraine–Vilafamés", Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni de Vilafamés, Vilafamés, Spain
• 2023 — Group exhibition "For Ukraine: Art of Freedom", Schack Art Center, Everett, USA
• 2022 — Group exhibition "War.is.not.peace", Espace29, Bordeaux, France
• 2022 — Group exhibition "Art of Resistance", Manggha, Kraków, Poland
• 2022 — Group exhibition "Ukrainian Days", Literatur Haus, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2022 — Group exhibition "L'art de la resistència", Sala d'Exposicions Municipal, Valencia, Spain
• 2022 — Group exhibition "Art Through War", Urban Space 500, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2021 — Group exhibition "May Journeys", Transcarpathian Academy of Arts, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
• 2021 — Group exhibition "Stupka Code", Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2019 — Group exhibition "Graphic Transcarpathia", Uzhhorod Gallery, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
• 2018 — Group exhibition "Graphic Transcarpathia", Uzhhorod Gallery, Uzhhorod, Ukraine