ВІКТОРІ(Я) (2025)

As an artist we all choose a way that is our process, our way, our path to go.
Some go for fame, some go for money, some beauty, but I go for the heart, the soul.

As a young boy my grandfather died and I drew how he went to heaven drawing by drawing.
These drawings were even used at the funeral, you can say my first "art exhibition" at 7.


Since then I work to reach people in the heart,I am not having enough with the appreciation that something is beautiful, it has to be touching.


And this exhibitions and projects I work on with my heart and soul about Ukraine and Ukrainian is going to the core.


I felt it myself and I felt it even move in my connection I made with Sofia. A young girl I got to know the day before the opening.


She came by and tears and hugs were at the centre of the experience of the exhibition.
At that moment that I realised I have created that profound work just with pencil and some wood and rocks, I felt astonished and very touched myself.


I am so thankful for all the people who give me the chance to give me the opportunity to reach to their true self, in a few moments.

I believe that the best thing you can do is to do things, without expecting something in return.It is as you give a gift to the people who want to experience what you made for them.We are nothing without the people who get touched by our work.


I am so thankful for all the deep connections that already formed by my process of making art about Ukraine.


I had never though myself it would go so deep for me, as person, myself.


When you know and you see people crying because they see your work, you know you hit the button of their soul and you feel very small and yet thankful that you could experience that moment with them.


I keep saying that I am so thankful for all of them . I always say I serve as artist for Ukraine, but nevertheless I get so much love and appreciation and love back in return.


Thank you

Some Ukrainians think that they are left alone, that they are abandoned with this war and nobody is there to help them get their justice, their victory. I am glad I can be one of

the persons to say that they're not.
At the same moment I am exhibiting Viktoria Honcharuk from Brussels till the sea so everybody in this country can learn from it, become aware of it.
Besides that I work on

my Ukrainian Legends, here beneath.
They all have a remarkable story of course not always pleasant, especially when we go into writing and photographing war or

the ones who passed away.
If people are able to get to this information instead of what journalist do by simply saying, so many deaths, so many injured, I go a lot deeper and come to stories where people say they literally bit on a towel when they have a panic attack by the hitting of rockets in their cities. If you read that it becomes cold and you become quiet.
You understand.



Hidden Heroes : 
respect for all the young people who are ready to sacrifice themselves in the name of others and the name of their country. They are so young and innocent and choose to see and help through the horror of war. I salute them.

On picture : Dania & Viktoria Honcharuk

Ukrainian Legends - The Hidden Heroes (2025)

Ukrainian Legends

is a contemporary installation with letters, photographs and more that are shared between Ukrainians and me. It is real it is Ukrainian, you can watch it and above all you can feel it...

The Hidden heroes

Pre-exhibition of "Ukrainian Legends : The hidden heroes. Thanks for all the brave and resilient Ukrainians who besides surviving, fighting, also take their time to spend it to help me build this art concept that shares their stories during wartime.

Я(2023)

Older (2021-2023)

Exhibitions :

2021 - LONDON - SKT GALLERY : мой друг

2023 - BRUGES - TER BEURZE : я, Ich, me

2023 - GHENT - BEN BENAOUISSE : Я

2025 - MECHELEN - VC DE SCHAKEL : ВІКТОРІ(Я)
2025 - BRUSSELS   : ВІКТОРІ(Я)

2025 - KOKSIJDE : ВІКТОРІ(Я)

2025 - ROESELARE : ВІКТОРІ(Я)

2025 - GHENT  : ВІКТОРІ(Я)

The Biography, the illusion of self.

Біографія, ілюзія себе.

Поки вважається нормальним накладати на все лейбли, включаючи себе самих, втілювати себе у те, чим ми являємося. Мені подобається грати зі словами про те, чим я можу бути і чим я не являюся. Я той хто я є, той, хто живе у тут і зараз, у оточенні часу, усвідомлюючи різні явища, які приваблює певна краса, краса внутрішня та зовнішня. Мені подобається займатися певними речами, коли я можу іти по дорозі із думок, почуттів або між різними пунктами призначення.

Лейбли існують тільки для тих, кому вони потрібні. Я би хотів, щоб ви прийняли той факт, що ми не являємося тими, ким ми є і те, ким ми є - це тільки маленький вигляд того, ким ми дійсно є. Я визнаю, що це набагато легше - розділити людей на якості і характери, але ви, у цьому світі, станете маленькими, світ стане сірим, у різнокольорові смужки, включаючи чорні та білі.

Я є тим, ким я є, елемент вашого сприйняття, який ви розглядаєте. Коротко - Девід.

I am for what I am the observed element of your perception, shortly David.

While it might be normal to label everything. Including ourself, objectifying who whe are to what we are.I like to play with words about what I might be and what I am not. I am for what I am, to be a being that lives in the now, in a time/space environment, being conscious of phenomenons, which attracted to a certrain beauty, beauty within and outer beauty. I like to to do certain things, as long as I can be on the road of thoughts, feelings or between different destinations.

Labels are only for those who need them, I would like you to accept the fact that who we are is not what we are and even what we are, is only a small appearance of what we really are. I admit the easyness to reduce people to qualities and characters but you will, in this world become small, the world will become grey, stripped of all colors, including black and white.

I am for what I am the observed element of your perception, shortly David.

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