Background

Vlada Ralko was born in 1969 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Education

Vlada Ralko graduated in 1987 from the Shevchenko State Art School and in 1994 from the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev (Department of panel painting, prof. V. Shatalin’s studio).

Career

Vlada Ralko is the participant of more than 50 republican and international exhibitions. In her works, she often raises the questions of identity, relevant social and political contexts immersed in the existential depths of pain and suffering of a collective body. Her brushwork is emotional, tough and contrasting; her palette is saturated. Among her works are such paintings as "Acceleration" and "Look Who Came to Us...".

She lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Achievements

• Vlada Ralko is one of the most famous expressionists in independent Ukraine. She is best known for her series of paintings "Kyiv Diary".
  
  Her works are in museums and private collections of Boris Grynyov, Ihor Voronov, Andriy Suprunenko, Yuri Stashkiv, Evhen Karas.

Works

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  • Solemnity

  • A Smell

  • With Grapes

  • Girl and Death

  • A Flight

  • Sleeping Boy

  • Untitled

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Salambo

  • Wait for Me Here

  • The South

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Look Who Came to Us ...

  • Little Black Dress

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Two Heads

  • Flowerbed

  • Must Be

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Favorite Fountain

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Acceleration

  • Kyiv Diary

  • A Girl

  • I'm Flying

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Kyiv Diary

  • No Name

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Girl and Death

  • An Ordinary Man

  • Mimi at the Black Sea

  • Hostage

  • Dolphins

  • Boys

  • Kyiv Diary

  • Kyiv Diary

Views

Quotations: "When I have noticed that some things became too real I understood that the reality is already here."

"There is no blood on my pictures, just red paint on paper. Does it may cause fear?"

Membership

Since 1994, she has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

• National Union of Artists of Ukraine , Ukraine

  1994

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Asya Bazdyryeva: "Vlada Ralko’s works honestly, without flirting with spectators or institutions, transform the Other, whom we, sitting on the ruins of the empire and only starting to realize our lack of self-identifications, are not yet able to digest."

Connections

She is married to Vladimir Budnikov, a painter.

Spouse:

Vladimir Budnikov

teacher:

V. Shatalin