Olena Donichenko is a Ukrainian painter and engraver born in 1982 in the city of Mykolaeiv. At a very young age, she sought to open her horizons and discovered through books the Louvre and the Hermitage Museum. Fascinated by this limitless...
Read MoreOlena Donichenko is a Ukrainian painter and engraver born in 1982 in the city of Mykolaeiv. At a very young age, she sought to open her horizons and discovered through books the Louvre and the Hermitage Museum. Fascinated by this limitless and diversified world, she insisted on joining the Mykolaiev Children’s School of Fine Arts at the age of 11 and more than convinced she belonged there, she later braved family reluctance to study at the
National University of Culture and Art in the same city, in applied textile art section. There, she received a solid classical multidisciplinary training in the practice of painting, drawing, and in particular, the study of the representation of plants, minerals and human body. Olena discovers a passion for
natural history and anatomy just like the Renaissance painters. The professional opportunities, her specialty, being few, she works for several years as an interior designer and at 30, feeling an absolute urgency to return to her first love: drawing, painting, creating, she decides to come to France to study Contemporary Art. She enters the Superior School of Art and Design of Grenoble-Valence. With her diploma in hand, she completes her studies with a diploma from the National School of Architecture of Grenoble. Ever since their arrival in Paris, the artistic scene parisian a full of excitement. In 2020 her ferst personal exhibition is a kind of anthology and the symbiosis of all the technical acquisitions, know-how and knowledge accumulated since her childhood. Since that time, Olena is applied to different artistic events, she regularly participates in exhibitions in Paris and internationals projects.
