Scotland – Ukraine Residencies: Ruslan Luchko
As part of the Scotland – Ukraine Art Residency Programme ESW is delighted to welcome the Ukrainian artist Ruslan Luchko. The residency programme is a pilot programme for Ukrainian arts professionals supported by the British Council and the Ukrainian Institute. Ruslan will spend 2 weeks in residence at ESW researching and networking before returning in the Autumn of 2025 for a 4 week production residency.
Ruslan Luchko, is a Ukrainian artist based in Lviv. He specializes in painting and glass art while also exploring performance, media art, and installation. Luchko graduated from Stryi Art School in 2015 and earned an MA from the Glass Art Department at Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA) in 2020. In 2018, he participated in an exchange program at the E. Geppert Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at LNAA.
Luchko has exhibited his work in both solo and group projects. His solo exhibitions include RAILS (Wroclaw, 2018) and Creating a Free Man (LNAA Gallery, 2019). He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residencies, including the Feiran Gallery (China, 2021), Visiocracy (Kyiv, 2021), Franko Laboratorium 2.0 (Lviv, 2020), Objects Art Prize (Kyiv, 2020), and My Ukraine, Pain and Hope (Munich, 2019). Additionally, he has taken part in the European Glass Education residency (Lviv, 2020) and the International Blown Glass Symposiums in Lviv (2016, 2019). He was a regular participant in the Professor Andriy Bokotey Award for young glass artists (2018-2021).
His artistic approach explores themes of determinism and human freedom, often depicting distorted human forms and questioning material dependence. He employs an “anti-retinal” method of depiction and views glass art as a performative process, where the final artwork serves as documentation of its creation. This philosophy extends to his paintings, emphasizing concept over traditional aesthetics. Through his diverse artistic practice, Luchko challenges perception and explores the intersections of form, material, and existential inquiry
