Gallery Portal 11 presents the exhibition of Victor Romanshchak “Colors of Time”. 03.04 – 03.05.2026.
Victor Romanshchak (b. 1946) is a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, tapestry master, and educator. He was born in the city of Constanța (Romania) into a military family; his mother came from a family that had been dispossessed during the Soviet collectivization campaigns. He lives and works in Kyiv.
From 1957 to 1964, he studied at the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art Secondary School in Kyiv.
In 1970, he graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), where he studied in the monumental painting workshop of Tetiana Yablonska.
After completing his diploma, he worked in Yablonska’s studio as an assistant and senior lecturer from 1970 to 1974. Since 1977, he has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Since 1970, Romanshchak has participated in numerous republican and all-Union group exhibitions. His solo exhibitions took place in Kyiv in 1999 and 2016, and twice in Hamburg, Germany, in 1999.
Works by Victor Romanshchak are held in state collections (art museums in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy) as well as in private collections in Ukraine and abroad, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Japan.
The artist works in the fields of monumental and easel painting, graphics, and decorative-applied arts, particularly tapestry. His tapestries represent an original and rather rare phenomenon in contemporary art. Inspired by early Ukrainian printed books, the artist sought to translate the characteristic linear technique of old Ukrainian engraving into the medium of tapestry, and later into graphic art.
Among his notable works (tapestries) are: Zaporizhians (1970), Hryhorii Skovoroda (1972), Kyiv (1976), Kyiv in the 17th Century (1989), and The Coat of Arms of Hetman Pavlo Polubotko (1994).
In his painting, Romanshchak turns to several key themes: the image of Kyiv with its historical memory and distinctive atmosphere; landscapes of Crimean Yalta with its quiet neighborhoods, old streets, and houses bearing a Tatar cultural character; interiors depicting rural life in Sedniv; as well as urban views of Germany (Hamburg) and the Netherlands.
Another important direction in the artist’s work is monumental art, particularly mosaics and stained glass. One of his known mosaics, Nature and People (1975), is located in the city of Pripyat (was lost as a result of the Chornobyl disaster).
A special place among the artist’s spiritual and creative interests is occupied by the early history of Ukraine, particularly the Cossack era.
The exhibition presents Victor Romanshchak’s sketches for tapestries, stained-glass works, and monumental projects. Some of them became the basis for realized works, while others have been preserved as independent artworks that allow viewers to trace the emergence of the image and the development of the artist’s concept. Most of these sketches were created for administrative, industrial, and public spaces during the 1970s–1990s.
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