Valeriya Shebelnichenko

Valeriya Shebelnichenko, aka Okno, was born in Ukraine in 1996.
Painter and performer, she currently lives and works in the city of Turin.

She moved to Italy in 2004 and studied at the Art and Music High School in Forlì, obtaining her diploma in 2016. With her emotional approach to painting, she manages to involve the viewers by making them part of her experiences. Her paintings are memories of traumas, themes on which the artist tries to raise awareness and focus attention.

Okno’s works have been shown in the cities of Pisa, Venice, Milan, Turin, Rimini, Forlí, Edinburgh, she arrived as a finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize and exhibited in the spaces of the Arsenale Nord. Her career, albeit young, denotes various collaborations, aimed at creating an artistic dialogue that involves multiple senses. This can be seen in the installation and performance "Lullabies for the Land" created together with Yuval Avital, in which visual, sound and performance art coexist.