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The artist in a cap looks up at a huge square charcoal drawing of black palm leaves pinned to a white wall — Dream on palm tree, 2026

“Dream on palm tree”, 300 × 300 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2026. From one month (September) of artistic research residency in ADEMA University, Mallorca, Spain;

Amazons in the nature, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2026, Vasyl Savchenko

"Amazons in the nature", 200 × 200 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2026

Vasyl Savchenko, Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist based in Gdansk, Poland

One month (August) of artistic residency result. Gallery 42, Cetinje, Montenegro; Invitation by Maja Šofranac and FLU Cetinje, 2025;

Amber River commission artwork for Cloud One Hotel, Gdansk, by Vasyl Savchenko

"Amber River", commission artwork for Cloud One Hotel in Gdansk, 750 × 300 cm, natural pigment, charcoal, varnish on linen, 2024-2025

Charcoal/Węgiel publication by Vasyl Savchenko, 2023

Publication Charcoal/Węgil by Vasyl Savchenko, 2023

Awakening_01, charcoal drawing on linen canvas, 2026, Vasyl Savchenko

Awakening_01, 60 × 80 cm, natural pigment, charcoal, varnish on linen canvas, 2026

Awakening_02, charcoal drawing on linen canvas, 2026, Vasyl Savchenko

Awakening_02, 60 × 80 cm, natural pigment, charcoal, varnish on linen canvas, 2026

The Fighters 06, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2024, Vasyl Savchenko

The Fighters 06, 215 × 210 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2024

The Fighters 05, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2024, Vasyl Savchenko

The Fighters 05, 215 × 210 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2024

White room with columns, rows of black-and-white prints with poems and a bench — The Ground of Things, UIMA Chicago, 2024

2024 – "Ground of Things", project based on collaboration with poet Alexander Najda, curated by Adrienne Kochman, Ukraine Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA;

The Fighters 03, charcoal on linen canvas, 2023, Vasyl Savchenko

The Fighters 03, 210 × 210 cm, charcoal, varnish on linen canvas, 2023

The Vase, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2023, Vasyl Savchenko

The Vase, 104 × 70 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2023

Her Brick, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2023, Vasyl Savchenko

Her Brick, 105 × 55 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2023

The Fountain, charcoal on cotton canvas, 2023, Vasyl Savchenko

The Fountain, 90 × 100 cm, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2023

The Fighters 01, charcoal on linen canvas, 2023, Vasyl Savchenko

The Fighters 01, 210 × 170 cm, charcoal, varnish on linen canvas, 2023

Publication Ground of Things (Grunt Rzeczy), realised in partnership with poet Aleksander Najda, 2019 - 2022

The artist in a white T-shirt, arms crossed, in front of a huge black charcoal canvas of folds and thorns — Dream and Memory, 2022

"Dream and Memory" exhibition supported by scholarship program of Cultural Department of the City of Gdansk, Poland

Irregular canvas in burnt red, orange and black, a small drawn figure in a circle lower left — Piece XII (under the burnt skin), 2022

Piece XII, 240 × 315 см (not a regular form), oil, charcoal, varnish on cotton canvas, 2022

Gallery with a wall-size black charcoal drawing of grass-like strokes and a huge crumpled paper form hanging above — Grunt Rzeczy, Walbrzych

Exhibition "Ground of Things", WGS BWA, Contemporary Art Gallery, Walbrzych, Poland, 2022

Vasyl Savchenko with his grandfather before a wall-size charcoal drawing of a torso — MA defence exhibition, Gallery Neon, Wroclaw, 2018

With grandfather, Master of Art defence Exhibition , Gallery Neon, Wroclaw, Poland, 2018

Was born in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. Based in Gdansk, Poland. Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of visual media art and design.
I am interested in our identity in the context of the memory of the human body and the dreams of our spirit.
The body is the temple of God.
Mainly works with drawing using charcoal, paper and canvas.

"Chaos around us creates chaos within ourselves."

The artist reaches up to a huge charcoal drawing on paper hung on the wall and rolled out across the floor — Savchenko Gallery, 2021

Popup exhibition at Savchenko Gallery. Gdańsk, Poland, 2021

The artist bends into a corner to draw the bottom edge of a wall-size charcoal drawing — drawing process, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, 2017

Drawing process, “The Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists”, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017

Small brass etching plate engraved with three medieval figures by a window, on a golden pixel-patterned print — Generative Middle Age

Brass etching plate, cycle "Generative Middle Age", 2021

In 2018 began a teaching career at the studio of Digital Printmaking now Post-digital Printmaking Studio in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Art in Gdansk, Poland.

Researches the influence of modern technologies on art and its methodology, focusing on how analog/phisical is developing in the post-digital phenomenon.