Plate № 01 · copper · etching, aquatint
Printmaker · Paris · Ukraine
Misha
Zavalny
Etching, aquatint, lithography, photography. Images that refuse to become only a memory.
Every print begins backwards
The plate is cut in reverse, bitten in acid, inked, wiped and pressed — only then does the image turn to face you. Misha Zavalny works with the world the same way: chimeras on old maps, linen crumpled by sleepless nights, airports where everyone is waiting for home.
Ukrainian artist living and working in Paris for almost ten years. His practice moves between spontaneous photographs taken in public space and slow studio work — lithography, etching, aquatint, screen printing. Since 2022 he has been part of the cultural front line that answers historical revisionism with images.
- Studio
- Beaux-Arts de Paris · Cité internationale des arts
- Media
- Etching · aquatint · lithography · screen print · photography
- Shown at
- Palais de Tokyo · Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon · L’Atlas · art+art
“Art is exorcism for Misha Zavalny — he tries to give a social movement back its shape.”
Morsure 6 · Déplacement, 2026
Chimères
World of chimeras · 2025 – 2026 · etching, aquatint, drawing
A theatre of war played by animals — chimerical, funny and pathetic — on the backs of old maps. Black humour as the last way to look at a catastrophe without looking away.
Solo show «Chimères» · art+art galerie, 28 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, Paris · 4 – 18 January 2026
“Animals and birds, chimerical, funny and pathetic, tip us — on supports of old cartography — into the den of a black humour.”
Pierre Ponant · historian and critic of graphic design
Bed sheets
Bed sheet series · 2026 · etching, aquatint
Linen remembers every night. Crumpled sheets engraved like a landscape — mountains, rivers, the topography of a sleep that did not come. Move your cursor: the folds still breathe.
Anti-héros
2022 · 100 lithographs on paper · 30 × 40 cm each
Faces — different, yet strangely alike — with their eyes bound. The colours speak of the diversity of peoples; the blindness, of how hard it is for them to hear one another.
Printed in 2022 with the collective of the print workshop of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, deliberately on poor paper: uprisings are so often born of destitution.
Shown at Morsure 6 «Déplacement» — La Sélection 2026, Fouesnant, Finistère.
Waiting Hall
Lithographs · 2025 · «Untitled (Passeport)», L’Atlas galerie
The airport as a liminal space: exile, waiting, the fragility of home and belonging. The war is never shown — it is the weather.
- Stone 1 — yellow
- Stone 2 — green
- Stone 3 — blue
- In register
Kitchen lithography
#kitchenlithography · 2026
After all, what is coriander and what is parsley? That is the question.
Two dances, one stone
Lithography · 50 × 60 cm · edition of 3 · 2026
1. Broken stones still remain. 2. Don Quixote and Sancho dancers. A brush on limestone, ink that stays loose — the same gesture in colour and in black.
The street
Photography · @mishazavalniy · silver, grain, chance
Before the studio, the street. Spontaneous observations in public space — the raw matter his prints are later made of. Drag the film.
Book · RVB Books · 2026
One Minute
Sixty photographs of a Casio F91W face, taken in sequence over a single minute — from 03:06:00 to 03:06:59. A universal unit of measure turned into something you can hold.
10 × 17 cm · 120 pages · €20 · special edition with 26 polaroids
Order the bookPhotograph 01 / 60
Selected exhibitions
- 2026Morsure 6 — «Déplacement»Fouesnant · Anti-héros
- 2026Garden partyAir Musée · six artists
- 2026Vers de livres & Arty showart+art galerie · Paris
- 2026Chimères soloart+art galerie · Paris
- 2025Untitled (Passeport)L’Atlas galerie · Paris
- —Tout art contre la guerrePalais de Tokyo · Paris
- —DislocationsPalais de Tokyo · Paris
- —Formes de la RuineMusée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
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