WAONE
Volodymyr Manzhos, known as Waone, is a Ukrainian artist born in 1981 near Kyiv, working between Kyiv and Paris. He began in 1999 with graffiti as a member of the Kyiv crew Ingenious Kids, and by the early 2000s moved from lettering to figurative, narrative murals.
In 2005 he co-founded the duo Interesni Kazki with Aec; their surreal murals, combining mythology, symbolism and refined painterly technique, appeared from Australia to Mexico and from San Francisco to Kyiv. Since 2016 he has worked independently in painting and sculpture, exploring metaphysical themes through symbolic systems, mythology and philosophical inquiry in dense, highly detailed compositions.
He has collaborated with Hermès, his works have sold at Christie’s and are held by the Fondation Maeght. Since 2013–2014 he has been developing Time for Change, a series of public works on transformation, collective memory and cultural identity — some of which have become defining images of Ukrainian public space.
