Julia Mokhovikova is an artist of Ukrainian descent. She works in a style of neo-expressionism.
Trained as an architect, she’s a painter by calling. Mokhovikova has developed her own artistic manner of working with oil and acrylic and later strengthened her skills at L'école d'art MJM where she took a course in drawing and painting.
“I show the beauty of chaos”, the artist describes her work. In her case, the beauty reflects contingencies and severities of life but they are being presented with a touch of irony.
Mokhovikova extracts the plots of her works from the visual artifacts of daily life, like newspapers or imagery on social networks’.
The essential part of the works are the inscriptions and quotations that complement the image and serve as the author’s comments to her works. “How to understand a sheep”, “Kaif”, Vladimir Mayakovsky's line “Tobacco smoke has consumed the air”, or Zhanna Aguzarova’s “Guesting in the fairy-tale country” – the text play is reminiscent of avantgardist collages and modern street-art and graffiti.
Chronology:
2010 – “No Name”, personal show. Peter Lik gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – Group show at Val gallery, Kyiv
2014 – “Samoidentifikatsiya” (“Self-Identification”), personal show. Yagretera gallery, Kyiv
2015 – Participation in Miami Art Basel art fair. Miami, Florida, USA
2016 – “Big Five. Safari”, personal show. Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv
2016 – Participation in #ArtOfBeauty project initiated by Vogue UA and KENZOKi, Kyiv
2016 – “What if fest” art festival, Kyiv
2018 – “More-Gol” in Efir workshop, group show, Kyiv
2018 – Participation in Instagram charity auction SOS_by_LenaPerminova
2018 – “Nematerialniye tsennosti” (“Immaterial Values”) – an exhibition of works inspired by Bitcoin. One of the works was sold for bitcoins. “Transformer” art space, Kyiv
2018 – Became the first Ukrainian nominee of Glamour Talent Awards in Visual Artists category
2018 – Group exhibition in Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2019 – “Rise, slaves and opium” personal exhibition, Forrest, Dnipro, Ukraine
2019 – “33” personal exhibition in the shop “Cok”, Kyiv
2020 – Group exhibition in metropolitan stations, Kyiv
2020 – “Habitat. Manifesto 2020” group exhibition, Lavra gallery, Kyiv
2021 – Personal exhibition “Soft animals” in Arsenal Plant
2021 – Art Fair Russia, Russia, Moscow
2021 – Barcelona contemporary art fair, gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona
2021 – “my brutal life” 1 day private exhibition in artists studio, Kiev
2022 – May 21 – auction in Zurich, Switzerland
2022 – May 24 – personal exhibition “my beautiful past life” Milan, Italy
2022 – May 28 – personal exhibition dedicated to war in Ukraine Cannes, France
2022 – June 1-5 – Charity pop up, Paris, France
2022 – June 28 – group exhibition in Bemonarts gallery Nice, France
2023 – group exhibition in Palermo Biblioteca comunale
2023 – nothing sacred, Kyiv, temple
2024 – December 3-8 – Miami art fair, Miami
