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Flora Yukhnovich

Flora Yukhnovich

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    View works. Flora Yukhnovich, Cream always rises, 2021
    Cream always rises, 2021
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    Flora Yukhnovich is acclaimed for paintings that, fluctuating between abstraction and figuration, draw on painterly traditions ranging from French Rococo and Italian Baroque to seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting and Abstract Expressionism. In her work, Yukhnovich corrals historical styles and references as multiple rhythms and energies in tandem with allusions to mythology, literature, contemporary film, music, or consumer culture.

     While titles often offer a pop-cultural entry-point, inherent in Yukhnovich's painting is an investigation of meaning and materiality, in particular the structures from which gendered readings of subject and process arise. In her paintings drawn from the Rococo tradition, for instance, abstraction is used as a way to resist objectification of the female figure, while her reimagining of floral motifs actively engages with what the artist describes as the 'moralising and controlling messages' contained in traditional depictions of flowers and gardens. Yukhnovich presents a more discursive, questioning vision in which forms never quite resolve. As Eleanor Nairne comments in a 2022 essay on the artist, 'Yukhnovich finds a way to suspend her paintings in flux, the oil having been worked over a number of days so that even when it's finished there is the feeling of barely perceptible movement - like dust motes swirling in the half light, or milk marbling into a cup of tea.' Throughout her work, there is a sense of static, idealised beauty tipping into something less contained, more corporeal and compelling.

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  • Selected Works

    Flora Yukhnovich, Out with Lanterns, Looking for Myself, 2025 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, If You Go down in the Woods Today, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, A World of Pure Imagination, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Carcass, 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, A Taste of a Poison Paradise, 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, She is Beauty and She is Grace, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Thicker than Peanut Butter, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Warm, Wet N’ Wild, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Barcarole, 2019 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, If All the World Were Jell-O, 2019 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Thank Heaven for Little Girls, 2019 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, It’s Better Down Where It’s Wetter, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Flora Yukhnovich, Out with Lanterns, Looking for Myself, 2025
  • Biography
    View works. Flora Yukhnovich, Cream always rises, 2021
    Cream always rises, 2021
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    Born in 1990, Flora Yukhnovich completed her MA at the City & Guilds of London Art School in 2017. In 2018 she completed The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy. Her first solo exhibition was held at Brocket, London, UK, in December 2017 and has exhibited at Parafin, London, UK; GASK, the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic; the Jerwood Gallery Hastings, UK and at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, UK. Solo exhibitions with Victoria Miro include Thirst Trap, 2022, and The Venice Paintings and Barcarole, both held in 2020. 

    In 2022, work by the artist featured in the survey exhibition Impressionism: A World View, on view at The Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, USA. 
     
    In 2023 Yukhnovich was one of the first artists to take part in a new series of solo exhibitions responding to the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, titled Ashmolean NOW (2023–24). Also in 2023, work by the artist featured in the group exhibition New British Abstraction at CICA Vancouver, Canada; and NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2023–24). 
     
    In 2024 (5 June–3 November) with the presentation Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo, paintings by the artist temporarily replaced two works by François Boucher at the top of the grand staircase on the landing of Hertford House conversing with the surrounding historical works in the Wallace Collection, London, UK.

    The artist’s first museum exhibition outside the United Kingdom, titled Flora Yukhnovich: Into the Woods, was held at Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark (2024–25).

    Yukhnovich’s work is in permanent collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, TX, USA; Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

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  • News
    • Flora Yukhnovich: Into the Woods at Ordrupgaard, Denmark

      Flora Yukhnovich: Into the Woods at Ordrupgaard, Denmark

      September 18, 2024
      The works in this exhibition (18 September 2024–19 January 2025) are themed around the fête galante – a genre of painting depicting the wealthy at amorous play in parkland settings that came to prominence with Rococo artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau and was later revived and reinterpreted by Impressionists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot.
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    • Flora Yukhnovich talks to Studio International about Wallace Collection presentation

      Flora Yukhnovich talks to Studio International about Wallace Collection presentation

      September 6, 2024
      'My works are paintings, so they are naturally historical things. But I exist now [...] so, I’m always looking at history through a kaleidoscope of contemporary references.'
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    • Waldemar Januszczak reviews Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection

      Waldemar Januszczak reviews Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection

      June 16, 2024
      ‘…there are hints of giant rococo fruit and a sense, too, of figures flying through the sky. But who, what and where are withheld. It’s a poem of moods…’
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    • Flora Yukhnovich is interviewed by the Financial Times

      Flora Yukhnovich is interviewed by the Financial Times

      June 14, 2024
      The artist talks to Jan Dalley about reimagining the Rococo at the Wallace Collection.
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    • Flora Yukhnovich talks to British Vogue ahead of new works going on view at The Wallace Collection

      Flora Yukhnovich talks to British Vogue ahead of new works going on view at The Wallace Collection

      May 30, 2024
      Hayley Maitland meets the artist in her London studio to discuss her new paintings, on view at The Wallace Collection from 5 June 2024.
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    • Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at the Wallace Collection

      Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at the Wallace Collection

      May 18, 2024
      From 5 June, paintings by the artist will temporarily replace two works by François Boucher at the top of the grand staircase on the landing of Hertford House.
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    • Works by Elmgreen & Dragset and Flora Yukhnovich feature in the 2023 NGV Triennial

      Works by Elmgreen & Dragset and Flora Yukhnovich feature in the 2023 NGV Triennial

      December 3, 2023
      This major presentation (3 December 2023–7 April 2024) brings together 120 artists and 100 projects. Flora Yukhnovich's A Taste of a Poison Paradise , 2023,...
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    • Flora Yukhnovich in conversation at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

      Flora Yukhnovich in conversation at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

      October 20, 2023
      Wednesday 25 October at 2pm. In-person tickets are now sold out but book to watch online via the link here . Listen to Flora Yukhnovich...
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    • Apollo – In the studio with… Flora Yukhnovich

      Apollo – In the studio with… Flora Yukhnovich

      July 11, 2023
      Flora Yukhnovich has rapidly risen to renown for her lush, layered paintings that reimagine the rococo through the lens of abstraction. ‘It’s capturing what the...
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    • Flora Yukhnovich features in New British Abstraction at CICA Vancouver

      Flora Yukhnovich features in New British Abstraction at CICA Vancouver

      March 16, 2023
      CICA Vancouver is proud to announce our upcoming group exhibition, New British Abstraction , running from March 16 to April 16, 2023. New British Abstraction...
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    • Studio Visit: Flora Yukhnovich talks to Artnet ahead of her new exhibition, Thirst Trap

      Studio Visit: Flora Yukhnovich talks to Artnet ahead of her new exhibition, Thirst Trap

      March 1, 2022
      'I have images from art history and magazine pages scattered all around my studio floor. I like to have them in eyeshot so they fill...
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    • Doron Langberg and Flora Yukhnovich are featured in Elephant’s Ones to Watch: The Definitive Art Stars of 2021

      Doron Langberg and Flora Yukhnovich are featured in Elephant’s Ones to Watch: The Definitive Art Stars of 2021

      February 2, 2021
      Doron Langberg ‘To me, Langberg’s paintings are about the pleasure of looking, at length; they’re about the warmth of real physical human contact, touch and...
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    • Announcing representation of Flora Yukhnovich

      Announcing representation of Flora Yukhnovich

      January 19, 2021
      Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the representation of Flora Yukhnovich. The London-based painter, whose work was first shown at the gallery in a group...
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    • Flora Yukhnovich speaks with Apollo Magazine

      Flora Yukhnovich speaks with Apollo Magazine

      September 23, 2020 Read More
  • Books
    • Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo

      Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo

      2024 Learn More
  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • Flora Yukhnovich: Thirst Trap

      Flora Yukhnovich: Thirst Trap

      1 – 26 Mar 2022 London Gallery I
      New paintings by the artist draw upon various depictions of the Roman goddess Venus in mythology, art history and contemporary culture.
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    • Flora Yukhnovich: Barcarole

      Flora Yukhnovich: Barcarole

      12 Sep – 24 Oct 2020 Venice
      Inspired by a residency with the gallery in Venice, these new works reflect on the influence of the city and Venetian culture.
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    • Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings

      Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings

      19 May – 20 Jun 2020 Miro Presents
      An exhibition of new paintings presented by Victoria Miro in association with Parafin, available to view on Vortic.
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    • María Berrío, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich

      María Berrío, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich

      7 Jun – 27 Jul 2019 London Gallery II
      A summer exhibition featuring three young artists who rethink traditional genres to touch upon themes of migration, the workplace, and the gendered language of painting.
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