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Maria Kozyrenko s a Ukrainian artist, writer and poet. Her artistic work is marked by a neo-naïve style. The artist’s primary medium is oil pastel on canvas, a technique that involves painting with thick colour pencils made from a mixture of pigment, oil and wax.
She was born in a working-class suburb of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and an important cultural, artistic, scientific and industrial centre. Her works have been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Her creative motto is: “the art that understands you”.
In 2023, Maria Kozyrenko participated in the 56th International Meeting of Naïve Artists in Trebnje, where she created a triptych titled Cultivating Hope. At the end of the meeting, she received the Grand Prize
from the jury of experts, who unanimously deemed her work the most original.
The exhibition will be on open until September 20, 2026. You are kindly invited!
Cover image, detail: NO BLACKBERRY, 2025, oil pastel and acrylic on canvas, 40 cm × 30 cm, Photo: artist’s archive.
MARIA KOZYRENKO
KJERKOLI SI / WHEREVER YOU ARE
Gallery of Naïve Artists Trebnje,
8 May–20 September 2026
PUBLISHER
The Trebnje Centre for Education and Culture –
Gallery of Naïve Artists Trebnje
REPRESENTED BY
Sabina Tori Selan
EXHIBITION CURATOR and AUTHOR OF THE TEXTS
Damjana Šalehar
EXHIBITION COORDINATION and PREPARATION
OF PROGRAMMES FOR CHILDREN
Ana Modic
TRANSLATION and PROOFREADING
Kristina Gregorčič
TRANSLATION OF THE POEM FROM UKRAINIAN INTO SLOVENIAN
Vitalij Osmačko in Damjana Šalehar
PHOTOGRAPHS
Boštjan Pucelj, artist’s archive.
DESIGN
Meta Gabrijel
PRINTING
Tisk Šepic d.o.o. (catalogue), Gvido d. o. o.
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Duration: from 24 October 2024 to 9 February 2025
The curator Damjana Šalehar writes in the introduction to the catalogue: Translucency, airiness, colourful intensity, spontaneity are the terms that describe the painting technique of watercolour. This light technique is popular mainly because of its versatility, ease and speed of use, and the brilliance of its colours. At first sight, it is an uncomplicated, simple, but only seemingly straightforward painting technique. Watercolour requires experience, speed and precision on the part of the painter and does not allow for major corrections.
The exhibition presents the work of self-taught painters, each working in their own original way in the watercolour technique. The works on display differ in their motifs and pictorial language, giving us a glimpse of one of the most complex as well as the oldest painting techniques. The exhibitors are Ivan Lacković, Jerko Biško, Linden Dean, Josip Boltižar, Georganna Malloff, Minna Lehväslaiho, Tomislav Petranović Rvat – Thoma, Petar Grgec, Ivan rabuzin, Miloš Lapajne, Brane Praznik, Jožica Škof and Robert Hlavaty. A catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition and is available for purchase in our gallery at a price of € 5.50.
At the same time, an exhibition of watercolours by amateur painters is on display in the lower hall of STIK until 24 December 2024, organised in cooperation with the gallery by the Trebnje Artists’ Association.
The exhibition is made possible by the CIK Trebnje – Gallery of Self-Taught Artists Trebnje, the Municipality of Mirna, the Municipality of Šentrupert, the Municipality of Mokronog – Trebelno and the Municipality of Trebnje.
Photo by: Studio PraprotKa
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You are cordially invited to the opening of the group exhibition of artists from the collection of the Gallery of Naive Artists Trebnje Creatures: Images of the Subconscious.
The opening will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 6 p.m. in the Gallery of Naive Art Trebnje. The exhibition will be on display until October 8, 2023.
The exhibition presents an insight into the “hidden” works from the depot of the Gallery of Naive Art Trebnje by Jože Horvat – Jaki, Joškin Šiljan, Igor Simonović, Marjorie Dahogne – Margot, Matt Sesow, Ivana Stanisavljenic Negić, Olga Kolar, Irena Lelja, Branka Pirc, Judita Rajnar, Jožica Škof and Goran Horvat. Some initiated the search for new “monsters” in the works of mostly local creators who devote themselves to fantasy.
The exhibition will be opened by the Deputy Mayor of the Mirna Municipality, Zoran Remic. The music program will be prepared by the Trebnje Music School.
You are welcome!
The exhibition was made possible by:
CIK Trebnje – Gallery of Naive Artists Trebnje | Municipality Mirna | Municipality Mokronog – Trebelno | Municipality Šentrupert | Municipality Trebnje
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