BIO

Patricia Demba was born on July 13, 1978, in Kyiv. She lived in Kyiv and Reykjavik and now lives in Berlin. She has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2006. Her artistic practices include collages and painting, and she is also admired for fashion.

The main motives for her artworks are love for people and their stories, distant and foreign lands, and the search for one’s place in the world. Patricia works with the subjects of fighting for freedom, human rights advocacy, complex identities etc.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My art practices are a constant reflection of my complex national identity. I have origins in multiple lands, and I have travelled and lived for long periods across the continent. Various personal and visual experiences inherited through my personal history intertwine and fuse inside of me, giving birth to my new identification.

Thus, collage feels like a representative genre of who I am in terms of intermixing, mutual exchange, and synergy.

Collage is a dynamic structure that vigorously transforms by responding to arising challenges, and changing external factors. It constantly comes into contact with its life and lies at the very heart of my creative vision. Although I’ve turned to this artistic method earlier, because collage has been my new round. It is also an essential way of expression for me because it proves that I am being something meaningful, but it also helps others to create something new and powerful by collecting fragmented elements, ideas, and legends.

In a sense, that collages are kin to how we remember people and events because various heterogeneous associations about an object always pop up in memory. Therefore, my artworks reconcile differing virtual forms, but they also seem to store even textures and smells that get in touch with the viewer’s subconscious.

CV

Education
 • 1996–1998 — art course, House of Kyiv Architects / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 1999–2002 — Yuriy Hryhorovych Novikov Art Course, National Union of Artists of Ukraine / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2009–2010 — academic studio curated by Mykola Shkaraputa / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2023 -art course, JULIA SYSALOVA Online Art Communication school/Athens, Greece
 
Additional info
 • 2010- 2014 — head of the children’s’ creative studio at Kyiv school №14
 • 2010–2009 — textile designer
 • 2006–2004 — studio designer at National Television
 
Shows
 
 • 2024 November “VINUM DIVINUM” Gallery Hermit Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
 • 2024,  Pisa Festival d'Arte Sociale group art exhibition
 • 2024  Platforms Proiect , Group Art Exhibition «What about Eve?»
 • 2024 | Unlocked Identities virtual group art exhibition with Times Square broadcasting, HMVC Gallery, New York, USA 
 • 2024 | Unlocked Identities group art exhibition, Perseus Gallery, New York, USA 
 • 2024 | Cultural Center “Melina” - Museum of Athens Municipality, Group Art Exhibition “What about Eve?”/Athens, Greece 
 • 2023 | group show "MOTANKA" / Berlin, Germany
 • 2023 | show "Gods in Pieces" at the art number 23 / Athens, Greece
 • 2023 | online show "Canon of Collages" at the Collage Gallery
 • 2023 | solo show at the Charly Group Hotel / Berlin, Germany
 • 2022 | group show "Genesis of being" / Berlin, Germany
 • 2022 | Alcolagfe/art, collage exhibition / Madrid, Spain
 • 2022 | personal show "green resistance" chosen by the CUTOUT collage studio residents / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2022 | Mytets Gallery / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2021 | Solo Exhibition "Colour no war" / Berlin, Germany
 • 2021 | National Museum of Literature of Ukraine "Africa’s Motherhood" / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2020 | Freedom is New Black / V-Art Online Exhibition
 • 2014 | ‘Le Petit Pinceau’, personal exhibition "Colored" / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2013 | Mytets Gallery, personal exhibition ‘Projection of Africa’ / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2012 | Tadzio Gallery, Gulfstream Golf Exhibition / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2012 | exhibition "Apartment for Gertrude Holmes" / Kyiv, Ukraine
 • 2011 | PinchukArtCentrePrize / Kyiv, Ukraine