• Residency period: Spring/Summer 2023
  • Sweet Dreams Foundation

Yana Bachynska born in 1991 in Lviv, Ukraine is a visual artist, curator and film director whose practice focuses on queering grand narratives. He applies this approach to the range of topics, from sexuality through issues of family and national culture to architecture and collective memory. I use the method of induction, which means moving from individual experience to collective experience, trying to  achieve wholeness within contradictions. 

His films have been screened at Marseille’s International Film Festival, Ibrida Festival delle Arti Intermediali,  International Video Art Forum in Dammam, and many more. After receiving a master’s degree in philosophy from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, he received a master’s degree from the Art Academy of Szczecin.  During that time Yana was also a co-founder of the NGO Art Platform and a senior researcher at the Kyiv history museum.

 

Yana Bachynska
What is to be done?
Year: 2021
Duration: 18m

 

Yana Bachynska
Tovarystvo sekta
Year: 2020
Duration: 34m

 

Yana Bachynska
I’m sick and tired of you
Year: 2019
Film duration 5m

 

Yana Bachynska
90’s days of the war
Year: 2022
Film duration 15m

 

Yana Bachynska
Saint Mom
2022
fabric bas-relief
found fabrics, plastic, shell.
165 x 90 cm

 

Yana Bachynska
Birthgiving,
2022
fabric bas-relief
found fabrics, plastic, wire, feathers.
140 x 95 cm