Anastasiia Halushka
Born in 1980 in Kyiv, where she still lives and works. She received her professional art education at the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, specializing in fine arts (2003). For a long time, she worked in her profession as a fine arts teacher. Her desire to develop in various creative fields led her to enroll in the First National School of Television, after which she received a degree in “photographic art and photojournalism.” For some time, Anastasia was professionally involved in reporting and was passionate about street photography. This experience had a significant impact on the artist's further creative pursuits.
Anastasia consciously returned to her own artistic practice in 2021, discovering a new medium for herself—dry pastel. After completing the “Pastel PRO” training course, she began to develop her artistic style in the direction of realism with elements of symbolism.
The artist turned to collage in her work in 2023 after attending the large-scale CUTOUT collage festival. In the variety of collage techniques, Anastasia saw countless opportunities to explore pressing contemporary issues. Developing her collage art, the artist experiments with combining pastel techniques and collage, which makes her stand out in the art world.
In 2025, she won the selection for the international collage festival, where she received an invitation to the CUTOUT COLLAGE ART PROJECT residency.
COLLAGE
ARTIST STATEMENT
For me, as an artist who works mainly in a realistic style with pastels, working with collage is an exciting challenge and a kind of test.
I fragment every finished realistic scene that is born in my imagination, “breaking” it into pieces to build radically different combinations and structures—and as a result, I get unexpected layers of meaning.
In my works, I try to reflect a new reality, broken by the present, and find answers to the questions: where to find support, how to restore balance in my life, and from which fragments to rebuild myself.
I like to combine dry pastel drawings with collage—this allows me to both emphasize contrasts and achieve absolute visual unity.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- "Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics", third international collage festival CUTOUT, Zaporizhia Center for Contemporary Art, Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
2025
- "Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics", third international collage festival CUTOUT, National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Kyiv, Ukraine.
- “Children are the tree of life”, Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024
- Group exhibition project "Nedityachy World", I.P. Kavaleridze Museum-Workshop, Kyiv, Ukraine.