KATERYNA LYSOVENKO

Borderland

Kateryna Lysovenko (* 1989) studied at the Grekov Art School in Odessa, the National Academy, and the Academy of Media Arts in Kyiv; she has been living in Austria since 2022.

16.9.2026—18.10.2026

MAK Forum

Winner of the 2025 Münze Österreich Prize awarded by the Austrian Mint, the artist understands painting as a social action and a political medium—less as an illustration of events, but much more as a method for discovering and interrogating the world. Her suspenseful imagery is based on observations, permutations, fragments from daily life, and the news. Here painting becomes an instrument for renegotiating visibility and reality. Lysovenko employs the tools of reduction and absence; coloration is interpreted as its own space. What results are images that capture moods—antipodes to propaganda.

Curator: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection

The occasion for the MAK exhibition is the Münze Österreich Prize, awarded by the Austrian Mint, which Kateryna Lysovenko received in context of the viennacontemporary 2025.

A person standing at the left edge of the image, a person flying at the top edge

A scene in the style of Kateryna Lysovenko

MAK Exhibition View, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland

Kateryna Lysovenko, Beautiful Kyiv on the Dnipro

Kateryna Lysovenko, Beautiful Vienna on the Danube

Kateryna Lysovenko, The Portrait of the artist’s Family

Media

Kateryna Lysovenko, Still Hour, 2025 Oil on canvas Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zuric © Kateryna Lysovenko

Kateryna Lysovenko, Invaders, 2023 Watercolor on paper Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich © Kateryna Lysovenko

Kateryna Lysovenko, Kassandra sees Troy, 2025 Oil on canvas Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich © Kateryna Lysovenko

Kateryna Lysovenko, Home came at you, 2024 Oil on canvas Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich © Kateryna Lysovenko

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Beautiful Kyiv on the Dnipro, 2026 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Odesa’s Black Sea, 2026 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Beautiful Vienna on the Danube, 2026 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, The Portrait of the artist’s Family, 2026 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Home came at you, 2024 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Still Hour, 2025 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK

MAK Exhibition View, 2026, KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: Borderland, Kateryna Lysovenko, Kassandra sees Troy, 2025 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK