Artists

Published on Tuesday, 13 September 2022 09:33

Yana Bachynska

 

Yana Bachynska, based in Lviv, is an artist and queer film director. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Taras Shevchenko National University and from the Faculty of Multimedia of the Academy of Arts in Szczecin. He is looking for reactions to aggressive conservatism and traditionalist paranoia and explores the public space by intervening and completing elements opposite to existing ones.

Dasha Chechushkova 

 

Dasha Chechushkova graduated from Grekov Odessa Art School, and entered the National Academy of Arts in Kyiv. Chechushkova uses mixed media in her practice, including photography, video, drawing, painting, poetry, embroidery, and happenings and is interested in understanding the connection between nature and humankind, and how strongly a person stays in harmony with the environment and self. 

 

Fattucchiere (Marta Margnetti and Giada Olivotto)

 

Fattucchiere is an ongoing project of artist Marta Margnetti and curator Giada Olivotto. Both inspired by the themes of magical realism and feminist practices, they work through collaborations with female artists and enact daily forms of resistance. The collective work, the question of community and feminisms, the investigation of the everyday through dialogue and a fascination with phenomena understood as supernatural or invisible are just some of the traits that unite their individual research.

 

Agnė Juodvalkytė

Agnė Juodvalkytė is a visual artist currently based in Berlin and Vilnius. Her practise is focused on abstract painting and textiles mostly. She received a BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and studied Visual Arts in Spain at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca). Her recent shows include solo exhibitions at the Galerie Bernau, Blake & Vargas gallery in Berlin; Pamario gallery in Juodkrantė, Enter Art Space Aarhus, AV17 gallery in Vilnius.

Borys Kashapov

 

Borys Kashapov is a Kyiv based artist and graduate of the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Kashapov was a member of the  REP Group,  the Penoplast dream-band, The Gay Carousel collective. Initiator of many self-organizing projects and alter-institutional artistic practices. Works with video, performance. Through his works Kashapov explores power relations in art, and political aspects of the form. His works have been shown at the Small Gallery of Art Arsenal, Kyiv, ​​Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest, Rezidența 9, Bucharest, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest and others.

 

Mila Kostiana

 

Mila Kostianá received her formal education in the field of cultural studies and design. As a multimedia designer and visual researcher, Kostianá is interested in feminism and gender studies, queer and decolonial theory, political philosophy. Her practice mostly revolves around Kyivan cultural heritage. 

 

Natasha Kushnir

 

Natalia Kushnir (Natusya) is an artist who makes picturesque, sculptural objects and installations. The leading theme of Kushnir’s work is the human and its direct participation in social life, means of survival and the observation of individuals.

Zoya Laktionova

 

Zoya Laktionova, before the start of a full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine (24/02/22), was based in Kyiv and worked as an independent artist and documentary filmmaker. She works with themes of war, memory and personal stories. Laktionova’s short films "Diorama", "Territory of Empty Windows" have been awarded several times and participated in numerous European film festivals.

 

Marta Margnetti

 

Marta Margnetti is based in Lugano. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva and later in Contemporary Arts Practice at the Hochschule der Künste (HKB) in Bern. She co-founded and co-directed the Sonnenstube Gallery in Lugano and became a member of the Morel Lugano collective. Margnetti has participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Aargauer Kunsthaus,Aarau, Kunsthalle, Basel, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Swiss Art Awards, Basel and others.

 

Daniela Pălimariu

Daniela Pălimariu, based in Bucharest, is a visual artist and co-founder of the art space Sandwich. Her practice includes livable environments and objects, installations, semi-private events and drawings, all of which understate the ambiguity of human relations, the need for personal space, play and daily subversions. Pălimariu’s works were shown at Catinca Tăbăcaru, Nicodim Bucharest, Ivan and Supra Infiniti galleries, LISTE Basel, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest and others. 

 

Cristian Răduță

 

Cristian Răduță lives and works as an artist in Bucharest and is co-founder of the Sandwich artist-run gallery space. His artistic practice includes sculptures, objects and installations that start from hypothetical, sometimes absurd situations and characters which are humorously employed. He is interested in the relationships and tensions that form among the various industrial and bricolage materials he uses. His works have been shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest, Museum of Sculpture, Krolikarnia Palace, Warsaw and The National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest.

Kseniia Shcherbakova

 

Kseniia Shcherbakova is an interdisciplinary artist based in Odessa, Ukraine, she is the initiator of various projects including the experimental music project -xraketa, the project Raiskii Raiii (Paradise Heaven), and, together with her partner, has established the recycling clothes brand “circulation of infernation“. Shcherbakov is a member of the Odessa creative community at the abandoned ship repaired factory SRZ-2. 

 

Anna Sorokovaya

 

Anna Sorokovaya is a visual artist, curator, based in Kyiv. Anna graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv (MA History of Art). Her master's research dealt with the social aspects of museum practice. As an artist she works with objects, installation and photography. Her work has been shortlisted and exhibited as part of the Saatchi Gallery’s exposition, and in the MUHi: Young Ukrainian Artists competition, Kyiv. She has also shown at institutions such as the Visual Culture Research Center, Mystetskyi Arsenal and Ermilov Center.