Everything here has a reason. Everything here has a soul.
Artist. Visual thinker. Meaning hunter.
Welcome to my creative world — a place where every project, idea, and image has a pulse.
Personal Projects
POP ART MATE, 2015, Kyiv, Ukraine.
POP ART MATE is a vibrant visual manifesto of femininity, irony, and emotional presence. In this debut solo exhibition, Darina Mykytyuk reimagines pop art as a space where glamour meets vulnerability, and where the language of color and surface becomes a vessel for deeper truths.
Through bold palettes, expressive forms, and sharply ironic titles, the artist explores desires articulated in the urgency of the present moment. Each work is a performative confession — part diary, part provocation — that celebrates the complexity of the female experience.
In POP ART MATE, Mykytyuk positions the female gaze as both playful and disruptive, reclaiming symbols of contemporary beauty and reframing them as sites of personal power. It is an aesthetic charged with emotion — a pop art that feels, dares, and exposes.
The project has become a foundational layer of the artist’s visual language and continues to shape her ongoing practice: a vivid, concept-driven style that blends cultural commentary with raw emotional honesty.
A Solo Exhibition by One Artist,2016.
Lubny, Ukraine.
The exhibition Exhibition of One Artist in Lubny Art Gallery was an intimate and sincere presentation of Daryna Mykytyuk’s early artistic voice. It reflected a moment of youthful intensity — a mixture of openness, naivety, and bold experimentation.
The works were deeply personal, drawing directly from the artist’s emotions and lived experiences. They explored a wide spectrum of feelings, from joy and infatuation to irony and doubt, creating a vivid mosaic of contrasts. What distinguished this exhibition was the intellectual playfulness of the titles, often sarcastic yet humorous in tone, which resonated strongly with the audience.
Among the highlights was the painting Everybody Wants to Get Married, depicting two young girls in wedding dresses — a sharp, ironic reflection on societal expectations placed upon women. Another memorable work, Aura of Being in Love, captured the fleeting yet radiant emotional states of affection and desire.
Though modest in scale and hosted outside the cultural hub of Kyiv, the exhibition stood out as a bold and authentic gesture of self-expression. It remains a testament to the early stage of Mykytyuk’s artistic journey, where honesty, irony, and emotional richness first intertwined to shape her evolving pop-art identity.
VONA, 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine.
VONA is an intimate exploration of female identity through the prism of daily rituals — marriage, motherhood, physiology, and private rebellion. In this project, Daryna Mykytyuk examines the tension between inner emotional fire and outward calmness, revealing the unspoken dramas that unfold within the domestic sphere.
Using symbolic gestures and visual metaphors, the artist transforms mundane moments into acts of resistance and remembrance. VONA speaks in a quiet, powerful language — one that honors female resilience, cyclical experience, and the beauty of imperfection.
At its core, this series is a love letter to womanhood in its many forms: sensual, conflicted, sacred, and defiantly ordinary.
CRASH AND BURN, 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine.
CRASH AND BURN is a fragmented archive of memory, emotion, and unspoken dialogues. Inspired by the phrase “to break into a thousand pieces,” the project reflects on personal collapse as a form of transformation — beautiful, painful, and alive.
In this visceral body of work, Mykytyuk navigates the space between fact and fiction, memory and mythology. Each piece carries the weight of imagined conversations, missed encounters, and emotional residue that lingers beneath the surface.
CRASH AND BURN is not only an aesthetic gesture — it is a deep emotional cartography. Through layered textures and raw visual language, the artist offers a powerful meditation on loss, desire, and the quiet violence of emotional survival.
PERSONAL EXHIBITION
2015 – "POP ART MATE", Bekterevka Gallery, Kyiv
2015 – "Exhibition of one artist", Lubny Art Gallery, Lubny
2018 – "SHE", Nebo Gallery, Kyiv
2019 – "Crash & Burn", Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
Group Exhibitions & Participations
2015 – "Lubny Art Spring", All-Ukrainian exhibition
2015 – "Day of Kyiv at St. Andrews", International Art Festival Talent Energy Fest
2015 – Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv (4 works sold under the hammer)
2016 – Women’s Art Project, Chocolate House, Kyiv
2016 – WHAT IF FEST #2, Kyiv Dovzhenko Film Studio & Cinematheque
2016 – Charity Art Niche (CAN) 1.0, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
2016 – All-Ukrainian exhibition of fine and decorative arts, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv
2016 – Charity Art Niche (CAN) 2.0 Summer Edition, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
2016 – "Two years ago", Spivakovska ART:EGO, Kyiv
2016 – "365 days of design", Salon.Art&Design;, Kyiv
2016 – "Small worlds" charity auction, Art Ukraine Gallery, Kyiv
2017 – "New beginning", Spivakovska ART:EGO Cultural Center, Kyiv
2018 – "Lubny Art Spring", All-Ukrainian exhibition
2019 – "Crash & Burn", Triptych Gallery, Kyiv (Global Arts Workshop)
2019 – "Verbalization", Lavra Art Gallery, Kyiv
2019 – CAN 4.0 Charity Art Niche, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
2019 – "Small worlds", Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
2019 – Global Arts Workshop exhibition, Kyiv
2020 – PARALLAX ART FAIR, Kensington Town Hall, London
2020 – "POP ART UKRAINE", Portal 11, Kyiv
2021 – "Lubny Art Spring", Lubny Art Gallery, Lubny
2021 – "Be Courage Bazaar", Kyiv
2022 – "Multiplying Beauty", cooperation with clinic of plastic surgery New Body, Kyiv
2022 – "Power of Woman", Hearts Art Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 – Contemporary Ukrainian Art Presentation, Negli occhi di lei, Italy
2022 – Master Class for Children, "Colors of Solidarity", Udays in Hamburg, MARKK, Hamburg
2022 – ART FOR Freedom, Charity Exhibition, Marbella, Spain
2022 – "380ART", Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists, Munich
2022 – "Sensus Expression", Hearts Art Gallery, Tallinn
2022 – Ukrainian Residence, Paulsenhaus, Hamburg
2023 – Contrapunkt Collective Exhibition, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
PUBLICATION
Daryna Mykytyuk's works have been featured in Vogue Ukraine, Bestin.ua, Playboy Ukraine, Marie Claire, AD
Spain, and other online & print magazines. Her painting was chosen as a cover for an anthology of Ukrainian
prose. Authors of the anthology include: Oksana Zabuzhko, Lyudmyla Taran, Sofia Andrukhovych, Larysa
Denysenko, Yevhenia Kononenko, Dzvinka Matiyash, Maria Matios, Sofia Maidanska, Svitlana Povaliieva,
Svitlana Pyrkalo, Iren Rozdobudko.
2014 – "Post War and Contemporary Art" catalog, Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2014 – "Christmas Art Weekend" catalog, Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2015 – "Classic and Contemporary Art" catalog, Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2015 – "Lubny Art Spring" catalog, Lubny
2016 – "Women’s Art Project", Chocolate House, Kyiv (catalog)
2016 – "Classic. Underground. Contemporary", Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv (catalog)
2016 – "All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Decorative and Applied Arts" catalog, Kyiv
2022 - „Power Woman“ catalog, Tallinn.
AUCTIONS
2015 – Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv (4 works sold under the hammer)
2014 – "Post War and Contemporary Art" Auction, Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2014 – "Christmas Art Weekend", Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2015 – "Classic and Contemporary Art", Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2015 – "Lot 84", Playboy Magazine Ukraine Charity Auction, Kyiv
2016 – "Classic. Underground. Contemporary", Golden Section Auction House, Kyiv
2016 – "Small Worlds" Charity Auction, Art Ukraine Gallery, Kyiv
