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Multidisciplinary Contemporary Artist
OleksandraDementieva
Artist
Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, performance, installation, video, photography, and text. My art is a journey from darkness to light, where pain and trauma transform into sources of strength, resilience, and beauty.
In my work, I explore experiences of loss, recovery, war and peace, psychological healing, and the search for harmony. Each piece is an act of transformation — a way to live through my own experience while creating space for shared feeling and dialogue.
My visual language combines symbolism, vibrant color, and emotional expression. I am deeply inspired by the beauty of life — in its fragility, in the light that emerges from darkness. Like flowers growing from dark soil, reminding us that true beauty is born through hardship, my art follows the same path — where darkness becomes part of the light.
Biography
Oleksandra Dementieva was born in 1988 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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2010
Received a Master’s degree of Architecture from the Department of Architecture and Design of the Kyiv Aviation University.
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2014
Started traveling a lot around the world.
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2016
After visiting many famous world art museums and Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico she decided to devote her life to art.
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2017
Birth of daughter Lukieria.
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2018
Completed florist courses in Kyiv.
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2020
Took a short course “Artist” at the school of contemporary art in Kyiv.
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2021
Actively participated in contemporary art exhibitions in Kyiv.
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2022
In connection with the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, she emigrated to France, the city of Avignon.
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2023 – 2024
Student at École Supérieure Art Avignon.
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2024
Winner of the Afish Festival off Avignon competition.




