The Bear
2025, Oil, Canvas , Surrealism, Contemporary, Conceptual art, Hyperrealism, Modernism, Futurism, Сучасне мистецтво
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This work came to life after I saw a white bear fishing in a lake. There was something so simple and precise about that moment — the movement, the instinct, a gesture repeated through centuries. But then I started wondering: what if the bear isn’t real? What if it’s chrome?
In The Bear, I wanted to capture that shift — a moment when the action remains, but the meaning fades away. The chrome bear reaches for the fish, but it doesn’t eat it. It catches, but doesn’t need.
I’m interested in what happens to instinct when corporeality becomes decorative, when gestures remain but the necessity disappears. This is one of the questions that shapes my ongoing exploration of life, simulation, and presence.
- Country Ukraine
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Kryvych is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist born in Kyiv, who studied art in both Kyiv and Madrid. Anna explores the mechanisms of human interaction with the world through artistic practice. Her works reveal deeper layers of reality, truth, and existence. She investigates themes of dehumanization, estrangement from nature, and immersion into artificial constructs that distort our connection to the essence of life. By creating visual narratives that resonate with philosophical and apocalyptic concepts, Anna seeks to uncover the hidden forces shaping human experience — particularly through the lens of presence and the exploration of extreme existential boundaries.
Working across painting, sculpture, and object-based installation, she reflects on the shifting boundary between the real and the simulated, the living body and its artificial extinction. Her recent works engage with themes of posthuman ecology, chromatic surfaces, and speculative anatomies — including chrome-finished animals, robots, and hybrid beings suspended between evolution and erasure. She often incorporates vacuum-sealed objects, metallic textures, and artificial skins to explore how presence can become a trace, and how nature begins to perform itself as image.
Kryvych’s artistic inquiry is guided by questions such as:
– What happens to corporeality in a world where everything can be copied?
– Can art still function as a site of resistance in a culture of seamless simulation?
– And is true desire still possible when experience is endlessly reproduced?
Her work has been exhibited in Madrid, Zurich, and the Museum of the History of Kyiv, as well as in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Ukraine and Europe. Recent exhibitions include The Sea (Stable Gallery, Vienna), Fragments (Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv), Please softer (Octo Gallery, Kyiv), and Spanish Group Exhibition (Galeria Lanza Art, Madrid).
Kryvych’s works are part of private collections in Ukraine, Spain, and Switzerland.
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