Works by Pavlo Kovach

Smash the window from inside, installation: copper alloy bell, paraffin wax from Orthodox and Catholic churches, burner. A bell of the same alloy once poured into cannon — and cannon recast, in turn…

Installation — wood, soldier's burial uniform, stone. A new burial uniform — the one in which a fallen soldier is dressed before interment — lies folded on a heavy wooden bench, one end of which is…

Medalisation Installation — insoles from soldiers' burial uniforms, copper sheet, old bells, Kovach serves in a Civil–Military Cooperation unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, working with the…

This work by artist and serviceman Pavlo Kovach is a monument of hope. Each laurel leaf here is partially covered in brass, and the case number of a missing soldier is engraved on its surface…

Bay Leaf in Mouth, You Will Get a Message Installation: bay leaves, mirror, copper sheet, numbers of missing soldiers, 2026 A circular mirror pierced with openings, from which bay leaves protrude…

Pavlo Kovach with Waldemar Tatarczuk Numbers (detail) acrylic on canvas, 2025 Pavlo Kovach serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He works at headquarters, where his responsibilities include handling…

The artist repeats the phrase "I am an artist" approximately one thousand times in succession. What begins as a declaration of identity gradually transforms into something else — the words break down…

THRESHOLD Video, 2025 The video was filmed in Druzhkivka in 2025. On screen — monotonous, methodical work: the artist cleans a refrigerator truck used to store and transport the bodies of fallen…

The video was filmed in Japan. The camera moves slowly through the branches of a tree — printed on the leaves are the numbers of missing Ukrainian servicemen. The wind stirs the foliage. The camera…

‘How to make ink out of ashes?’ Collect the ash (preferably black) and grind it into a fine powder. Mix with dirty rainwater collected from a rain gutter. Add rust scraped from metal items for…

Object — granite, 2013 A monument carved in granite — the stone of permanence — to the briefest possible measure of time: a single second, already gone before the eye can read it. The most enduring…

Two markers of the same life, joined on a single ring: the band that named the artist at birth and the tag that numbers him as a soldier. Beginning and possible end held together — the keyring of one…

182 cm, installation: height of the artist’s family, wood, bread, 1987–2026 The wooden post on which the artist's father marked his sons' growing height, set to stand on bread. A private record of a…