Zhenya Machkovska Joins Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art

The Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art (UFDA) has expanded its collection with the addition of works by Zhenya Machkovska, marking another step in the fund's ongoing mission to preserve and promote Ukrainian visual culture in digital form. Twenty-one artworks by the artist have been digitized and officially entered into the UFDA archive.

The artist was born in 1999 in Dnipro, Ukraine. From 2014 to 2018, she studied at the Dnipro Theatre and Art College, Faculty of Fine Arts.

Later, from 2018 to 2022, she continued her education at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts and Restoration.

In 2020, her work was presented in the international project “Anticipation + Immunity” at the Korsaks' Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. The same year, her paintings were featured in the online young art auction “Breathe” at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

In 2022, Machkovska’s works were included in the charity online auction of the project “Fight With Art” organised by FestivALT (Kraków, Poland).

In 2023, she participated in the DCCC Young Artists Residency in Dnipro. In 2024, she created three reflection-based works specially for the poetry publication An Asterisk Zine.

Atrwork of Zhenya Machkovska has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

The artist works with mixed media — acrylic, aerosols, markers, liners, and pencils. This allows her to create layered, expressive compositions that visualize a person’s inner world.

Zhenya Machkovska’s original paintings include Fusion and Separation, Lost in Thoughts, Just Remember, Little Joys of Life, Home, Peaceful Sleep, and many more.

Machkovska’s art functions as a diary of inner states, emotions, and personal transformations. She investigates themes of self-awareness, memory, and inner dialogue, seeking to capture moments of fragility, tension, or stillness that often go unnoticed yet shape identity. Though personal in origin, she believes these experiences resonate with the viewer and become collective.

In her practice, Zhenya explores how a person coexists with their own experience and how emotions influence the perception of reality. Her work emerges at the intersection of the intuitive and the reflective. The characters in her paintings often exist on the boundary between reality and metaphor, between the visible and the felt.