About Viktoryia Kulvanouskaya

1963              born in Minsk

1979 - 1983   studied at Minsk State Art College named after A. Glebov

1984 - 1990   studied at Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute

Since 2002    Senior Lecturer at the Department of Painting of Minsk State Art College named after A. Glebov

Viktoryia Kulvanouskaya is a contemporary Belarusian artist who works in easel painting in the genres of landscape, still life, and religious painting. She follows the traditions of Cubism and Rayonism. Viktoryia's first teacher and mentor was her father, the famous Belarusian theater artist V.P. Kulvanousky, who undoubtedly influenced the formation the artist's personality and creative views. Viktoryia Kulvanouskaya works in a single plastic medium in which figures and architectural forms are transformed into generalized stage images that are filled with dynamism and that create a sense that the world is undergoing continuous change. Viktoryia Kulvanouskaya was able to discover her own individual pictorial language by exploring the artistic discoveries of proto-Renaissance art: here she borrowed icon-painting conventions and the combination of linear and inverse perspectives to transform city buildings into crystalline structures. The radiance of the stars, crosses, and domes in the artist’s complex compositions is achieved by the dense clustering of color and the use of impasto. Advanced pictorial technique and precise composition that takes account of even the smallest details allow Viktoryia Kulvanouskaya to explore even the most complex topics in her work. The artist has devoted herself to studying the spiritual side of mankind. Each one of her works is filled with a sense of contact with the sublime.

Permanent collections:

National Center for Contemporary Arts, Belarus

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus