Biography
Born in 1988 in the city of Kerch, Ukraine. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine. From 2016 to 2017 she studied at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. Participant of the project (Young Ukrainian Artists competition) MUHi 2011. Nominated for Pinchuk Art Prize 2013. Author of architectural projects (in particular, Shcherbenko Art Center building) in Ukraine, Switzerland and China. In 2019, she became a member of the expert commission of MUHi 2019 project. She conducted lectures and workshops on contemporary art in Kyiv (VCRC, Bottega gallery, PinchukArtCentre), Donetsk (IZOLYATSIA), Dnipro, Liverpool and Malmö.
Solo exhibitions
2023
Solo show «My body is a battlefield» at Jøssingfjord Vitenmuseum, Norway
Performance «Lustration.7» at cabaret Volter during Zurich Gallery Weekend, Zurich, Switzerland
Presentation of the new drawings at open studios by HIAP (Helsinki International Art Program), Helsinki, Finland
Performance «Lustration.6» at Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Solo show at Double Q Gallery in Hong-Kong, China
Performance 254 at the public space of Bremen, as part of the group show «how to displace the flag», Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
2022
Sculptural installation at open studios by HIAP (Helsinki International Art Program), Helsinki, Finland
Lustration 5, performance at Francisco Carolinum Museum for contemporary and modern art, Linz Austria
Performance 254 in Goethe Institute in Baku, Azerbaijan
Performance «President of Crimea», Accelerator Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Solo show «My body is a battlefield» at Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria
Performance 254 in Neue National Galerie during Gallery Weekend, Berlin, Germany
Performance «and we will return to the new wonderful world», OK Kultur centre, Linz, Austria
2021
Lustration No6, international performance program on the Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stardust No2, Crimea Summit (organizers: Ukrainian Institute, The Department of International Relations, Crimean Platform), Kyiv, Ukraine.
From December 1, 2021, 5 concrete sculptures were installed on the territory of the main office of the Crimea Platform, located in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020
From action to performative sculpture: Maria Kulikovska, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
President of Crimea, MinT Art Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
President of Crimea, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
2019
Flowers, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (in collaboration with Alexandra Larsson Jacobson)
My skin is my business, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine. Let me say: It is not forgotten, HAU, Berlin, Germany.
The Raft CrimeA, Artivist Lab, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018
Lustration No3, park Ebenbockhouse, Munich, Germany.
The Raft CrimeA, High School of Media and Design, Vienna, Austria.
The Raft CrimeA, in public space near the Oresund Bridge, Malmo, Sweden.
Swimming in Freedom, Port Creative Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Lustration No1, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017
The Raft CrimeA, Invogue Art, Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine.
Identity, Spinneriet gallery, Malmo, Sweden.
Folds, Port Creative Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016
The Raft CrimeA / Trumps of Doom, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Raft CrimeA, start of multiple performances, Dnipro River, Kyiv, Ukraine.
9th of May, Art Represented, London, United Kingdom.
Flowers of Democracy, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Flowers of Democracy, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Flowers of Democracy, Parliament of the UK, London, United Kingdom.
Flowers of Democracy, Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom.
Flowers of Democracy, near the Zhovten Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Flowers of Democracy, near the Kyiv Passage, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Flowers of Democracy, near the Kyiv City Council, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015
Happy Birthday, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
White, Moscow, Russia.
Body and borders No2: heart of a dog, Gallery Verkligheten, Umea, Sweden.
2012
Sweet / Swiss life, AKKU künstler atelier, Uster, Switzerland.
2011
Exhibition of the finalists of the MUHi 2011, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Collective Dreams, The Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006
The first personal exhibition, The Center Prosvita, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Group exhibitions
2023
Part of the group show «kaleidoscope of the history» at the Dresden National Museum with the soap sculpture form the permanent collection of Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Germany
Part of the group exhibition in Gedok Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022
Participant with the watercolours from migration series in the group show «Kontrapunkt» in Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Part at the group show «mother courage and her child» with the sculptural installation and performance «President of Crimea», Accelerator Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
Ready, Steady, Collect!, Avangarden Gallery & Wine Bar, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Up Close, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden.
The group exhibition in the Morby Gard Sculpture Park, Ornö,Stockholm archipelago, Sweden.
Futurespective, by Vogue Ukraine, Centre of Contemporary Art М17, Kyiv, Ukraine.
(I am not) sensitive content, online exhibition (organized by QueerMunich, Ministry of Culture of Munich), Munich-Kyiv, Germany-Ukraine.
Ukrainian pavilion of NordArt 2021, Büdelsdorf, Germany.
The earth remembers everything, an exhibition in the dugout from the Second World War period, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine.
Crimea is here, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020
Without future, SomoS Art Center, Berlin, Germany.
Keeping the balance, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
Is ritual equivalent to routine?, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine.
2019
Showing of the art collection of Deutsche Telekom at the House-Museum «Hindliyan», Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Afterimage, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
а river, a tool, an instep like a half-open book, Konstfack-С, Stockholm, Sweden.
Amazing stories of Crimea, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018
Ukraine: learning from a good neighbour 1918-2018, Institution P asinger Fabrik, Munich Germany.
Ukraine in fashion, on the occasion of the fifth Vogue Ukraine anniversary, Lavra Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Permanent revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary. Swap,
YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2017
Marry me!, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Cold faith, Invogue Art, Odesa, Ukraine.
Blood and pressure, performance in collaboration with Mila Dolman, Ugly Duck Art Center, London, United Kingdom.
2016
Showing of the art collection of Deutsche Telekom in the Królikarnia Park, Warsaw, Poland.
2015
UK/Raine, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
What I have from the women?, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Philosophy of migration, Museum of Cultural Heritage, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Through Maidan and beyond, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria.
2014
54.Collective action, around the Boulevard de Sharon, Paris, France.
Premonition: Ukrainian art now, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Beginning of the marriage-as-performance with Jacqueline Shabo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Cultural capital, BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden.
And Now? Power of art, Lavra Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Independent square, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2013
Exhibition of the artworks of 20 nominees of PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Orientation on the Ground, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Beautiful, Ruarts, Moscow, Russia.
Independent, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine.