Vasiliy Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian painter, works in graphic and photography art, author of objects and installations. One of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art, and the New Ukrainian Wave. The artist’s works are distinguished by a synthesis of “Western” and “Eastern” approaches to painting with almost “English” aristocratic asceticism of the language, organically flowing into the Chinese “dance of the brush”. Restraint is balanced by creative freedom and lightness.
Vasiliy Ryabchenko is one of the first in Ukraine who started working in the installation genre. Since the early 1970s, he has also been actively experimenting with photography. At first, the main subjects were candid still-lifes of household chores, later – photo improvisations with the participation of objects and the human body, in the layout of which the artist uses the “voidness” and asymmetry inherent in the Eastern tradition. Vasiliy Ryabchenko often uses his photographs in installations and collages, as well as material for paintings and creating digital graphics.