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Petro Bevza was born on January 1, 1963 in the Kyiv region in a family of teachers. He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1985). In 1990 he joined the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. In the same year the first personal exhibition of paintings is exhibited. 

Petro Bevza is author of ideas, co-curator and participant in numerous art projects. He was awarded the Diploma of the city of Kyiv for the best work of painting of 1994. Winner of numerous awards at national and international exhibitions. Actively exhibited with personal art projects in Ukraine and abroad: “C’est moi. Reality of Abstraction ”at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (1995), painting series“ Theodosia ”(2002-2006), personal art project“ Jordan ”(2016-2017) at the Ukrainian Institute of America (New York), Odessa Art Museum, Andrei Sheptytsky National Art Museum (Lviv), National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv), Korsakov Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Lutsk).

From the very beginning of his career, Petro Bevza professes the principle of “art around us” and affirms the truth that real art is born of love. He understands that everybody has own destiny, own path. You will not find aggression or simulative effects on Petro Bevza’s artworks.  The artist organically combines figurative and non-figurative display of the found image and inner sensation. 

Bevza’s works are in the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine), Museum of Contemporary Art “PasquArt” (Biel-Bienne, Switzerland), National Museum in Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine), Odessa Art Museum (Kiev, Ukraine), Museum contemporary art “Soviart” (Kiev, Ukraine), Zaporozhye Art Museum (Zaporozhye, Ukraine), International Academy of the Environment (Geneva, Switzerland), International Renaissance Foundation (Kiev, Ukraine), National Bank of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine). 

And also in private collections in the USA, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Japan.

Maria Kulikovskaya is a multimedia artist, sculptor and performer. Finalist of the MUHi-2010 competition. Project “Soma – Tilo without stati” – a sculptural installation of 20 tons of salt – nominee for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, 2013. Maria was exhibited twice in the Saatchi Gallery in London, after which the sculptural triptych “Homo Bulla. Replica” (2015) was purchased in one of the largest public collections in Germany – in the Deutsche Telekom Art Collection. In 2017, the artist was invited to the two-month residency of the Liverpool Biennale.

In 2018, the Munich Ministry of Culture invited the artist to reside at the Ebenbockhouse and at the Pasinger Fabrik cultural center. Three sculptures from the Carpe Diem series were presented at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary (2018) during the group exhibition of the Ukrainian avant-garde “Permanent Revolution”. In 2018, a triptych of soap figures by Kulikovskaya was installed in the Cidade da Cultura National Cultural Park in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2019, she received a special scholarship-award for master’s theses of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Konstfack University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Forsa Gallery together with Hyatt Regency Kyiv presented a new project by Oleksiy Lytvynenko.

“By capturing our attention on ordinary phenomena, Oleksiy Lytvynenko brings a new understanding of familiar everyday things into the viewer’s life. Oleksiy’s paintings became an occasion to look at the world differently. Contemplation is a way of knowing the world and discovering the truth, ”says gallery owner Alisa Nanavova.

In the presented works of Oleksiy Lytvynenko there is space, a certain unity of time and space, which remains inconspicuous in details, but understandable in general. We cannot comprehend the mystery of the starry sky, but we perceive it as a grand and at the same time habitual phenomenon.

The purpose of Litvinenko’s painting is to penetrate the essence of the world, to the basic depths. By choosing a carefully simple painting style, the artist avoids the temptations of decorating, decorating, and vanity. Instead, in his works, we find a sufficient minimum that reproduces the harmony of existence.

The artist mostly works in the genre of easel painting, creating canvases in the style of metaphysical realism. Usually, Litvinenko deals with a large format – the size of his maximum experience and skills. The conceptual way of solving the painting plane of the artist is to show the big through the small, to surprise the viewer with unexpected magic of invisible, at first glance, detail. This is exactly the color of the “pure field”, which was approved by abstractionists.