
Exhibition preview·Helsingborg
Ukrainian Painter Kateryna Lysovenko Fills Helsingborg Konsthall with Glowing Canvases
Ukrainian artist Kateryna Lysovenko's solo exhibition 'Everything is Possible' is on view at Helsingborgs konsthall in Sweden from 3 October 2026 to 17 January 2027, with large red and pink canvases that seem to glow from within.
Ukrainian artist Kateryna Lysovenko has opened a solo exhibition at Helsingborgs konsthall in Helsingborg, Sweden. Titled "Everything is Possible," the show runs from 3 October 2026 through 17 January 2027 and gathers recent paintings that stage an encounter between cosmic scale and human vulnerability. The installation is spare: a stripped-down exhibition room without daylight, in which Lysovenko's red and pink canvases appear to glow like stained-glass windows, as if lit from within. The ascending hang gives the sequence a processional rhythm, pulling visitors physically deeper into the room. The first three paintings are suspended from the ceiling like steps rising upward — the front canvas hanging lowest, the others climbing one and two steps higher — giving the works a sculptural presence that pulls the viewer physically into the sequence. At the front hangs The Milky Way (2024), a large warm-pink canvas whose rounded forms read alternately as a cluster of breasts with small dark nipples or as oversized frog eggs. The painting sets the exhibition's tone: a universe permeated by warmth and life, yet forced to observe humanity's senseless violence. Also on view is Soldaten und Sterne (Soldiers and Stars, 2026), a 270-by-200-centimeter oil that continues the artist's confrontation with war as seen from an impossible distance. The title's promise — that everything is possible — lands with deliberate ambiguity in the work of an artist painting through Russia's war on Ukraine. Viewed from the Milky Way, as the exhibition proposes, human conflict shrinks to a speck while remaining unbearably present, and Lysovenko's glowing surfaces hold both scales at once.


