Anna Kostenko (b. 1975), Abstraction with Gold, 2026
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm.
Signed on the reverse.
Purchased directly from the artist.
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Anna Kostenko (b. 1975 in Kyiv) is a painter of Ukrainian descent who has lived and worked in Kraków since 1991. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she studied in the studios of Prof. Jan Szancenbach and Prof. Sławomir Karpowicz. She received her diploma with honors in 1998, presenting it during her first solo exhibition at the TPSP Palace of Art in Kraków.
Anna Kostenko’s work focuses on portraiture, the human figure, and landscape, with a strong emphasis on cultural diversity and identity. Her style combines elements of expressionism and realism, utilizing intense color, contrast, and the distortion of form. She paints primarily in oil and acrylic, often in conceptual series—such as “Faces of Humanity,” “Nosotros,” and “#LostFuture.”
The artist has held over 25 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. From 1999 to 2019, she was represented by Jorgensen Fine Art in Dublin and London. She has also exhibited at renowned galleries, including Opera Gallery (Paris, Singapore), Albemarle Gallery (London), Schloss Galerie (Germany), Tryptych Art (Kyiv), and in Poland at, among others, the Szokart Gallery, Attis Gallery, Polswiss Art Auction House, and Desa Unicum.
Her works are held in private and public collections around the world—including the Turner Foundation (United Kingdom), the Royal Academy of Arts (Dublin), Trinity College Dublin, as well as in the collections of UNICEF, Ethnovision, and numerous other collections in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa.
