Living in Switzerland since 2022, Edik has dived deeply into local and traditional arts of Switzerland and particularly in the traditional art of swiss papercutting.
He is now working on his personal version of papercutting, mixing tradition with his own influences and style, using his keen perception and love for the swiss landscapes and nature. Edik gives life to a new world of papercutting art were comics, fairy tales characters and surealism merge together into whimsical yet very swiss vegetal and organic sceneries.
Edik Katykhin is artist, illustrator graduated Kharkiv State Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Arts who used to work as an art-director of PLUSPLUS kids channel before the war. Edik took part in many different exhibitions such as "Comics from the other half" (Stripdagen Haarlem), "Born in USSR" (Angouleme Comics Festival), Boomfest (Saint Petersburg) and also has experience of successful collaboration as an illustrator with different commercial clients such as Adidas, MTV, Ogilvy (Scrabble: The Beautiful Word).
His works can be found in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and in many private collections around the world.
