Voloshyn Gallery

Ivan Gallery and Voloshyn Gallery will collaborate on a joint presentation of works by artist Sana Shahmuradova-Tanska and Simona Runcan (1942–2007).

About the Gallery
Established in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2016 by Max and Julia Voloshyn, Voloshyn Gallery specializes in contemporary art. It exhibits a broad range of works in a variety of media, hosting solo and group exhibitions and taking part in leading contemporary art fairs. Over the last two years, the gallery has participated in The Armory Show, Liste Basel, ARCOmadrid, Art Brussels, Art Cologne, Enter Art Fair, viennacontemporary, Dallas Art Fair, NADA Miami, Untitled Art, EXPO Chicago, and more. Voloshyn Gallery is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). In 2023, Voloshyn Gallery opened its new space in Miami, FL, US.

About the presentation
Ivan Gallery and Voloshyn Gallery’s joint presentation will pair paintings by the young Ukrainian artist Sana Shahmuradova-Tanska with those of the late Romanian artist Simona Runcan (1942–2007). Life next to death is a recurring theme in Shahmuradova’s recent work, produced against the background of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Human faces and bodies dissolve and morph into new forms, enmeshed with references to the paranormal. A selection of Runcan’s works from the Interior, Icons, Inclinations series of 1998–2003 attest to her multivalent understanding of space. The compositional strangeness of these invented rooms, or sections of rooms, highlights a major conceptual wellspring of Runcan’s work: the thematization of the image itself. The artist’s neo-avantgarde practice was marginalized under the state-controlled Communist artistic system and has been rediscovered posthumously since 2016.