Oleh Minko is a Ukrainian nonconformist artist representing "hermetic" art. He created images with a double meaning, where he narrated the theme of the work through the symbols of objects and human gestures. The style of his paintings is influenced by ancient Ukrainian iconography and European modernists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Giorgio de Chirico. Oleg Minko's works are kept in state museums of national importance in Ukraine and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The artist had personal exhibitions in London, Helsinki, Brussels, Copenhagen, Washington, and Vilnius.
Oleg Minko's formation took place when moral values were leveled, so in his later work, the artist turns to the concept of "hierarchies" and the idea of searching for spiritual guidelines. The artist delves into studying biblical symbols and mythology and combines them with the motifs of oriental icons and meditative practices. He saturates his compositions with the author's signs and ontological forms and addresses the eternal problem of the confrontation between "good" and "evil."
