IHOR BILOUSHCHENKO
“Exploring the boundaries of communication and human connection”
My practice explores the limits of language, perception, and communication. I investigate how meaning is created, lost, or reshaped through translation, misinterpretation, and shifting cultural contexts. Working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media, I materialize the tension between clarity and ambiguity—where symbols and language oscillate between comprehension and obscurity.
Materials serve as metaphors for fragility, resilience, and the instability of meaning. Video, sound, and performance expand these inquiries, creating immersive experiences that challenge conventional ways of understanding.
Rooted in psycholinguistics, personal history, and socio-political realities, my work examines gaps in both linguistic and emotional comprehension. I explore how memory, displacement, and evolving narratives shape human connection, transforming complex ideas into tangible, multi-layered works that invite open-ended interpretation.
While engaging with global concerns, my work remains deeply human—addressing themes of injustice, identity, and the impermanence of knowledge. By embracing uncertainty and contradiction, I invite audiences to navigate the shifting terrain of meaning, where language dissolves, reforms, and ultimately reveals our shared vulnerabilities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
teaching Art history, Art exploration, Applied art exploration
2024 - current, Antwerp Art Academy, Belgium
2022 - current, Art Historian Institute Antwerp, Belgium
creative drawing workshops, guided tours
2022 - current Museum of fine arts Antwerp, Belgium
2024 - current Rubens house Antwerp, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Apotheosis @Mensch, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Transformation, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Abstract geometry, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Introduction, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012 From Antwerp with love, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011 Young Modern, Kunsthof, Berlin, Germany
2010 Emoticon, Kiev, Ukraine
2009 Ethnicity in modern art, Kiev, Ukraine
2008 Symbolism vs. Abstract, Kherson, Ukraine
2007 Young expressions, Kherson, Ukraine
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2020 When the sun goes up and down, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 The art of science, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Have a drink with the artist, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Lights&OBJECTS, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Plastract, Antwerp, Belgium
SHOWS
2013 A show house at historic Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013 Los Angeles antiques, art + design, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AWARDS
2017 special jury attention Campuscrack, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Campuscrack, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 International Art Competition, New York, United States
2013 I'll be your mirror, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
PERSONAL PROJECTS
2012 BRIC countries, Industiele Grote Club (IGC), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 Christmas card, Flieger Law Office, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Christmas card, Flieger Law Office, Antwerp, Belgium
TEACHING AND LECTURES
2014 What can colored words do in the lexical decision switch task? Language-independent access of interlingual homographs, PIF-2014, Belgium
2013 Language-independent access of interlingual cognates: effects of stimulus list composition and experimental task, PIF-2013, Belgium
2012 The influence of an absent language on the recognition of interlingual homographs and cognates, PIF-2012, Netherlands
2012 The influence of an absent language on the recognition of interlingual homographs and cognates, Mental Lexicon 8, Canada
2010 Modern ways of using batik and watercolor technics (theory and workshops), Kunsthof Berlin, Germany
2009 Importance of Fine Arts for comprehensive development of personality", Kherson University, Ukraine
2007 Development of aesthetic world perception by children", Kherson University, Ukraine
EDUCATION
2017 PhD in Psycholinguistics at Antwerp University, Belgium
2011 Master of Arts in Psycholinguistics, Antwerp University, Belgium
2009 Kyiv National Academy of Culture and Arts at Kherson, Ukraine
2006 Master of Arts in Languages and Culture education, Kherson State University, Ukraine
2005 Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts at Kherson, Ukraine
1992-1998 Kherson Tavryja Lyceum of Art, Classical Art and Art history
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Biloushchenko, I., lights&OBJECTS, Antwerp (read online)
2013 Biloushchenko, I., Plastract ART, Antwerp (read online)
2012 Biloushchenko, I., 2003-2011, Antwerp (read online)
2011 Biloushchenko, I., BilouFlieger, Antwerp (read online)