Yuliya Bokhan

Yuliya Bokhan (1998) is a Belarusian artist who lives and works in the Czech Republic. She graduated from the painting studio headed by Vasil Artamonov at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. She also studied at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk, where she specialized in monumental decorative art, with a practicum in iconography. She also trained in Denis Chubukov’s mosaic studio, which creates large-format mosaic panels for churches.

In her work, the author focuses on working with space and ways of creating places where everyone can find their way to hidden content based on the images and sounds presented and their interaction with each other. Using painting, collage, video, and sound, she creates multimedia works at the intersection of painting, object, and installation, which can be intense and expressive as well as subtle and sensitive. Her works combine references to spiritual and historical motifs with personal, existential, and psychological reflection. She is interested in the tension between external and internal reality, between the self and others, and between the different layers of her own experience.

She focuses on moments that lead to misunderstanding, conflict, and the feeling that true connection is impossible. Through these themes, she explores contemporary issues of interpersonal—and even nonhuman—relationships and the search for sincerity with regard to oneself and the world. Bokhan has presented her works at institutions such as Galerie NTK in Prague, Zaazrak Dornych in Brno, the Gallery of Fine Art in Náchod, and the Municipal Gallery in Třinec.