ARTIST STATEMENT

My work begins where order meets its own limit.

Working with wooden relief structures, I build compositions from thousands of hand-placed elements — precise, repetitive, obsessive. The process itself is the argument: that structure reveals what cannot be said directly. The geometry of inner life. The architecture of sensation. The hidden rhythms of memory and perception.

Each series investigates a different register of this territory — from the unconscious highways of thought to the pulsation of color, from the noise of invasion to the silence inside form.

I work entirely by hand. Every element is measured, placed, and fixed individually. The scale of the work is inseparable from its meaning.

BIOGRAPHY

Nazar Symotiuk is a Ukrainian artist working with geometric wooden relief structures. Based in Lviv, Ukraine, his practice explores the intersection of optical perception, material repetition, and the subconscious architecture of human experience.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at NordArt — one of Europe's largest international exhibitions of contemporary art — and in galleries in Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Ukraine. Works are held in private collections in Ukraine, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Sweden, Italy, France and the United States.

He holds an MFA and is currently a PhD Candidate in Decorative Art and Art Restoration at the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    • "Ratio", Solo Exhibition, Mercury Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine, 2025
    • Art Budapest Market, Budapest, Hungary, 2025
    • Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium, 2023
    • NordArt, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Budelsdorf, Germany, 2021
    • Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
    • "De:Forma", Solo Exhibition, Lviv National Philharmonic, Lviv, Ukraine, 2018
    • "5.ART" Project, Forum Lviv, Ukraine, 2017
    • Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine, 2017

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    • Optical Art in Contemporary Wood Plastic — Visnyk of Lviv National Academy of Arts
    • Conceptual and Perceptual Aspects of Op-Art — Lviv National Academy of Arts Research Publication

    EDUCATION

    • PhD Candidate, Decorative Art & Art Restoration — Lviv National Academy of Arts
    • MFA, Department of Wood Art — Lviv National Academy of Arts
    • BFA, Department of Wood Art — Lviv National Academy of Arts