On April 10th at 8.30pm we are opening the exhibition of TYPA’s artist in residence, Lidiia Holosko, at Rõdugalerii.
This exhibition presents a series of graphic works created in the mezzotint technique between 2023 and 2025. It brings together pieces that reflect an ongoing artistic exploration shaped by recent years, forming a kind of summation of the artist’s practice during this period.
The central themes of the exhibition revolve around war, memory, the experience of women in wartime, and corporeality. These works emerge from an urgent need to speak about war — to process, to witness, and to articulate what often resists language.
Through the rich, velvety darkness and subtle light inherent to mezzotint, the artist searches for illumination within obscurity. Light here is not only a visual element, but also a metaphor for resilience, presence, and survival.
This body of work is driven by a series of inner necessities: the need to remember, the need to preserve traces of lived experience, and the need to assert existence. It is, ultimately, a quiet yet powerful statement: I am here. I am alive.
Lidiia Holosko was born in Bila Tserkva (Kyiv region, Ukraine). She graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts (Printmaking), earning both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with distinction. In 2024, she was a scholarship holder of the Gaude Polonia program of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław).
She has participated in group exhibitions in Ukraine and across Europe, including in Wrocław, Berlin, Osijek, Lviv, and Lutsk, and has held solo exhibitions, among them at the Zajezdnia History Centre in Wrocław and the Studio of the Municipal Gallery in Wrocław.
Her artistic practice focuses on memory — personal, bodily, generational, and social. She works with printmaking, particularly mezzotint, which she uses as a tool for reflection and expressing resistance. She develops the concept of transforming the matrix into an autonomous object and an installation form, combining copper and glass.
She is currently in residence at TYPA centre in Tartu, Estonia (March–April 2026). At the same time, she is developing her skills in working with glass under the guidance of Barbara Idzikowska in Wrocław.
The exhibition will stay open until 3.05 at Rõdugalerii, situated at Kastani 42, in Aparaaditehas’ courtyard, entrance door number 7, second floor.
Rõdugalerii is open from Wed-Sun 12-18.