Pavlo Kovach was born on June 9, 1959 in Svoboda in Zakarpattia region, Ukraine.

After graduating from an eight-year secondary school, he entered the Uzhgorod State Arts and Crafts College, where he studied from 1976 to 1980. His teachers were Shandor Petki and Ivan Masniuk.

A significant meeting with avant-garde artist Pavlo Bedzir took place in 1978. It was the beginning of an important friendship, which lasted until Pavlo's death in 2003.

While studying at college, with the help of Bedzir, Kovach mastered graphics, yoga, philosophy, painting (with the support of Bedzir's wife Yelyzaveta Kremnytska), and the world avant-garde.

During 1980-1982, he served in the army.

During 1983-1989 he worked alternately at school, taught fine arts, and painted murals and frescoes at the tourist base "Svitanok" under the mentoring of Bedzir.

In 1989 he joined the Youth Union of Artists of Ukraine. Since 1993 he has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

In 1990 he worked in the Silvashi-Sednіvska Group. He began his exhibition activities in the late 1980і, mainly creating his visual arts on Slavic myths and legends. Kovach uses such techniques and materials as installations, performances, graphics, painting. In the mid-1990s he was a member of the art group "Pop-Trance".

In 2003, he created the informal gallery "Corridor" (on the premises of the former Art Fund). After the death of Pavlo Bedzir, Kovach organized exhibitions of all periods of his art.

In 2023, he became a member of the created group TNKO TransKarpatia Non-Object.

In 2001-2018, Kovach carried out finishing and restoration work on Neo-Baroque paintings in the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo.