Svetlana Rumak

Svetlana Rumak is a symbolist artist with over 35 years of professional experience. Born in Ukraine in 1969, she moved to Russia with her family as a child and graduated from the Art Department of a Pedagogical Institute in 1992. She lived and worked in Istanbul from 2022 before moving to Madrid in 2024.

Her practice uses symbolism and metaphor to explore identity, memory, vulnerability, and personal transformation, with particular attention to female experience and psychological transitional states. Working in an original technique combining acrylic paint and watercolour pencils, she is now expanding her practice into textile objects and spatial installation.

Rumak has participated in more than 300 group exhibitions in 20 countries and held 11 solo exhibitions in Russia, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the United States. Her recent abstract series, “Letters Written in Light,” explores the search for inner grounding through processes of transformation.

2015 — Red Bridge Gallery, Vologda, Russia.
2011 — Svetlana Sazhina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2011 — Arthaus Genzel Gallery, Wetzlar, Germany.
2010 — Art City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
2010 — Dance with Me!, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
2010 — LesOreades Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
2010 — Object1 Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007 — Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, United States.
2004 — Art City Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2004 — Exhibition Hall of the M. Gorky Museum, Kazan, Russia.
1999 — Kamil Gallery, Kazan, Russia.

2023 — Art Contact International Art Fair, Istanbul, Türkiye
2023 — Art Ankara İnternational Art Fair, Ankara, Türkiye
2022 — international traveling exhibition of illustrators “Fox Spirit. Fox Charm”, start of Estonian Children’s Literature Center, Tallinn, Estonia, Latvian National Library, Riga, Latvia, etc.
2022 — Art Contact International Art Fair, Istanbul, Türkiye
2022 — Art Fair Bodrum, Bodrum, Türkiye
2022 — international exhibition, Altinova, Türkiye
2022 — international exhibition "Art-Mir", Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2021 — International Exhibition-Fair "ART-Rostov", Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2021 — exhibition "ARTSUMMER", exhibition center "New Tretyakovka", Moscow, Russia
2021 — exhibition "Pro Women", Red Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Artamarsana International Art Symposium, Egypt
2021 — exhibition "Museum of Supernatural History", St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 — exhibition "Art Rostov", Rostov, Russia
2019 — international exhibition "20\20", Casablanca, Morocco
2017 — international art fair "AAF Genoa", Genoa, Italy
2017 — International Art Symposium, Marrakech, Morocco
2017 — exhibition at the gallery "Roten Hof", Vienna, Austria
2016 — international art fair "AAF Luxembourg", Luxembourg
2016 — international art fair "AAF Genoa", Genoa, Italy
2015 — exhibition art center "Complesso Monumentale dei Diaoscuri al Quirinale", Rome, Italy
2014 — art fair "AAF London", Balman gallery, London, UK
2014 — exhibition Medici Gallery, London, UK
2013 — international art fair "AAF Monaco", Monaco
2013 — international art fair "AAF Milan", Milan, Italy
2011 — International art Fair "Art-Manege", Moscow, Russia
2011 — international art fair "AAF Padua", Padua, Italy