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Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
Artist highlights
- Social Media Star
- Experienced Artist
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 78.7x59.1in
Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
Credentials
- Social Media Star
- Experienced Artist
Oleksandr Balbyshev is a Ukrainian contemporary artist living in Germany whose work engages with queer identity, masculinity, vulnerability, historical memory, and ideological symbols. Using oil painting in combination with Soviet-era found objects, Balbyshev’s practice takes two distinct directions: one centers on expressive paintings of the male body, employing vivid color and art-historical references to address discomfort around male nudity and present masculinity through tenderness and emotional openness. The other reworks Soviet portraits, sculptures, and propaganda objects through overpainting, fragmentation, and playful interventions, removing their ideological authority and prompting new interpretations. His work connects personal experience to broader questions of memory, identity, and cultural change, and is included in private collections throughout Europe, North America, and Australia.
Oleksandr Balbyshev
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