Lelya Borisenko is a Ukrainian artist. She was born in 1973 in Shostka, Ukraine. She studied academic painting, easel graphics, etching, and engraving at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts in 1993-1999.
Lelya Borisenko mostly uses the traditional method of oil painting on canvas or wood. Lelya's art also involves drawing, animation, mixed media sculpture, installation, and digital art. Her inspirations for work are as diverse as folklore fairytales, children's book illustrations, imaginative Soviet animation films, and supernaturally realistic classical painting, but she also uses western pop culture images which were rare, forbidden, and surrounded by the mysterious, almost religious atmosphere for the soviet children. The main focus of Lelya Borisenko’s art is the internal space and state of a human search for new contemporary images and their interaction with the old values: soul, dreams, longing, love, and pain. Her art strives to show how valuable our peace is. The fact is that without the past, we are nothing. The old images are combined with the realities of our days. Our commitment to practicality and our desire to make our life easier in everything leads to indifference. We are not surprised anymore. We are not surprised even by beautiful art. More simple and practical things surprise us now. In order to awaken our deepest emotions, Lelya meticulously works on all the details. True values always support life, and they lead us to freedom and evolution.

Prize
Celeste Prize 2009 - Berlin, Germany https://www.celesteprize.com/works/pg:en09/fsv:f/
Group Exhibitions
Future Pass / Wereldmuseum - Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://artfacts.net/artist/lelya-borisenko/241434/biography
Future Pass - 54th Venice Biennale 2011 / Venice Art Biennale - Venice, Italy
https://universes.art/en/venice-biennale/2011/tour/future-pass-2
Celeste Prize 2009 / Alte AEG Fabrik - Berlin, Germany
https://artfacts.net/exhibition/celeste-prize-2009/884374
Animamix Biennale - Visial Attract & Attack 2009 / 2010 - Taipei / Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan
https://artfacts.net/artist/lelya-borisenko/241434
Publications

• 2021
• Art critic Elena Shipitsyna - We all turned out to be "Wayfarers"
• 2017
• Viacheslav Doroshenko - "Ibex Day"
• 2016
• Mirtesen - True values
• 2012
• Milou van Oene- Een vrijkaartje voor de toekomst?
• 2011
• hobartart- Future Pass and Cracked Culture at the Venice Biennale
• 2010
• Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop- Asia Comic Art Makes It to the Museum
• Yuchieh Lin
• Victoria Lu

Permanent collection

• 2013
• The UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation of Taipei, Taiwan