Ihor Kovalevych

Ihor Kovalevych was born on 24 January 1953, in Sokilnyky, now part of the Sokilnyky Hromada, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

In 1975, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where his mentors in his specialization were Vitalii Maksymenko [uk] and Zenovii Flinta. From 1975 to 2006, he worked at the Lviv Experimental Ceramic and Sculptural Factory (collaborating with Pēteris Martinsons^[2][3]). Currently, he is engaged in creative work.

He lives and works in Lviv.^[2]

Starting in 1975, Ihor Kovalevych began participating in regional, national, and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in Kyiv (1993, 1995, 1998, 2005) and Düren, Germany (2005).

He works in the fields of decorative and applied ceramics and painting. In his ceramic pieces, he uses stoneware clay, and for chamotte, he incorporates enamel and engobe. Individual works are preserved in the collections of the National Folk Decorative Art Museum, the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum [uk], the World Ceramic Center (Incheon, South Korea), the Keramion Museum (Frechen, Germany), the Museum of Ceramics (Bolesławiec, Poland), the National Museum (Meštrović Pavilion) (Zagreb, Croatia), and the Center for Contemporary Art (Cairo, Egypt).^[1]

Among important works:

• Decorative compositions: "Zamorozky", "Tsvit paporoti" (both 1980), "Hnizdo leleky", "Ranok", "Doroha dodomu", "Zhaivoronky" (all 1981), "Kometa Halleia" (1985), "Znaky na dorozi" (1986), "Dvi vezhi", "Bile ta chorne" (both 1998), "Ozera", "Chovny" (both 2000), "Vtecha v Yehyptet"(2001), "Tuman", "Sestry" (both 2007), "Zymovyi sad" (2008);
• Decorative reliefs: "Vikna" (1997);
• Spatial sculpture: "Protsesiia" (2000).