Series of paintings and works on paper 

Enter these woods at your own risk!

(information sign at the entrance to the Frohnau woods)

From the Botanical Garden series, 2025, 160x100, acrylic on canvas

Botanical Garden

Volodymyr Budnikov’s attention is almost always caught up in nature, or, rather, in the moment where the wild landscape becomes a landscape cultivated by humans. Even when a pristine vista is the basis for one of his visual ideas, the focus on culture will come through in his artistic approach or the work’s title (for example, Pastoral Landscape with Atomic Explosion). However, the series Botanical Garden both continues his landscape tradition and stands apart in mood: Budnikov takes irony and turns it inside-out, making a tragedy of it. If an ironic gaze allows detachment, then tragedy leaves no opportunity to be a bystander.

Exhibition
Painting

Virtual presentation in real space

Private Office* / Mein Konto (My Account)

The language of the virtual "private office" usually imitates the language of human relationships. Yet in this online space for paying your bills figures of speech move from the realm of ethics to economics. And expressions that belong to the lexicon of  the "private office"—like "personalized experience," "credit due," and "own account"—grow light and meaningless, turning into abstractions.

Series of works on paper, 59 x 42, watercolor, pastel, marker, ballpoint pen on paper

How do you perceive the landscape in front of your eyes every day?

Works on paper

Large Landscape. Through other themes

Act of liberation*

“The Painting” is constituted of a long horizontal line stretching along the wall, repeating the contours of the exhibition hall (it
symbolizes infinity, and hence should be viewed in slow and focused movement; beginning and end lose all meaning), spatial
tridimensional objects placed in the center of the hall (a large vertical parallelepiped, a cube, a pyramid, etc.), and modules of
various sizes, including the smallest, that look as if fragments of a painting have acquired volume.

Untitled, series of paintings

Land. Ground? Series of works on paper. 2023, 30 x 42, acrylic, marker on paper

Time of War series (works on paper, 42x59, acrylic, marker, watercolor, graphite)

Globe (from the series), 2023
Paintings. Works on paper