Ton Melnyk is an independent multidisciplinary artist and queer feminist activist from Kyiv now living in Helsinki-Espoo. They graduated from Kyiv National University of Technology and Design with a Master in Art degree. Recently Melnyk’s works were shown at Outsider Art Festival 2024 and 2025 in Helsinki, GoEast SYMPOSIUM, The Other Queers in Wiesbaden and Fabrika festival in Copenhagen. Their mediums are: textiles, clothes, performance, stand-up, video, participatory and curatorial practices. Melnyk works with themes of labour rights, migration, body liberation, issues of discrimination and ways to overcome it, relationships between human and nonhuman creatures, climate change and antiwar topics. Melnyk is co-founder of Sewing cooperative ReSew – participatory project about the world they want to live in: without violence, exploitation, built on horizontal relationships, mutual aid and the value of every life creature and surrounding. Works in duet with Masha Ravlyk.
Ton Melnyk
