Was born in 1985 in Kyiv, where he currently lives and works. In 2010, he graduated from the Scenography Department of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, earning a Master’s degree. Since that same year, he has been a participant in the artistic project “Genofond” at Pavlo Hudimov Art Center. In 2019, he became the laureate of the first prize of the OBJECT CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE in the field of contemporary art.

Yurii Denysenkov works with painting, video, and installation. His artistic practice focuses on the exploration of fear, memory, ruins, and human loneliness in urban society. The artist examines the state of alienation of contemporary individuals, the transformation of personal and collective memory, as well as the fragility of presence in urban space.

The artist’s key series include “Instinct,” “Memory Aberration,” and “Absence of Presence.” In these projects, Denysenkov works with fragmented images, scenographic thinking, and tense atmosphere, where reality borders on internal experience. His works are often constructed as spatial or psychological scenes in which the viewer becomes a participant in the process of contemplation.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 — “Encounters. Farewells,” National Museum “Kyiv Picture Gallery,” Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 — “Memory Error,” Tryptych Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 — “Full Room,” Ya Gallery Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 — “Memory Aberration,” Bilyi Svit Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 — “STAGE,” Chocolate House Art Center, Kyiv National Picture Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 — “BACKSTAGE,” ART AND TALKING GALLERY, Berlin, Germany.
2018 — “BACKSTAGE,” Maslo Art Center, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.
2017 — “Instinct of Existence,” Maslo Art Center, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.
2017 — “Instinct,” Ya Gallery Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 — “Background,” Ya Gallery Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 — Second Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2019 — Kyiv Art Week, Toronto Center, Maslo Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 — “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” installation project, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 — “MOSS,” collaborative project with Andrii Dudchenko, Volodymyr Denysenkov, and Maria Bykova, UCU Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine. Curator — Pavlo Hudimov.
2011 — Genofond Fest, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
2011 — Genofond Pinakothek, Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine.