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Reflecting on events of my [Maria Kulikovska] own life related to the forced migration, exile, war, being a woman in a patriarchal society, from war and occupied territory, working in my art with the themes of femininity, queerness, corporeality in relation to power and borders, I needed at least some protection and understanding. And also, through my experiments of queer, non-binary, performative, sculptural, architectural, and artistic projects, using innovative, organic, strange, non-sculptural, and "unusual" materials, I invited the collaboration an architect-engineer, my partner, and ally Uleg Vinnichenko.

Since March 8, 2017, We are creating All Our together by trusting each other.



MARIA KULIKOVSKA + OLEG VINNICHENKO [MKUV studio]
Multimedia Artists & Architects & Actionists
again in exile, around the EU

Venus / Soap Figure with Flowers,
Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine, 2022

best of 2022 by NEW YORK TIMES
Photo by Laetitia Vancon
BEST of 2022 by NEW YORK TIMES
“Venus," (Soap Figure with Flowers), Fine Arts Museum in Odesa, Ukraine, 2022
Photo by Laetitia Vancon
The Public Choice Award winner of NordArt 2021
MARIA KULIKOVSKA with ULEG VINNICHENKO, WHOSE SCULPTURES ARE PRESENTED IN THE UKRAINIAN PAVILION OF NORDART 2021, BECAME ONE OF FIVE FAVORITE ARTISTS OF
THE PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD OF NORDART 2021 IN BUDELSDORF, GERMANY.

PERFORMATIVE SCULPTURE
"Soap Figure" made from ballistic soap and blood is in the private collection of the family of the architect and pianist, founders of the "AKKU" art space, Uster, Switzerland, 2019.
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PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS
Watercolor from the series of drawings on papers obtained from migration services, 2014 - nowadays.
ACTIONS & PERFORMANCES
A series of collective performances by artists, activists, philosophers, cultural figures, etc. in the public space of different cities around the world, which has become a feminist art movement since 2015 and is still continuing.
PROCESS
The photo was taken by Ukrainian-German film director and photographer Daria Biliak during the creation of one of the sculptures from the "Carpe Diem" series, 2017.
COLLABORATIONS & in FASHION
Collaboration with Ukrainian fashion designer Ruslan Baginskiy within the Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris, summer 2019.
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
"Homo Bulla. Replica", part of the Deutsche Telekom Art Collection, presented at the National Sculpture Museum "Królikarnia" in Warsaw, during Gallery Weekend, 2016.
PUBLICATIONS
Performance "Lustration №2", created especially for the Vogue Ukraine Art Edition. Photos and videos of the performance were taken by Crimean-Ukrainian film director Alina Gontar, and later also published in the print and online edition of Vogue Korea.
stand with Ukraine
254. action of solidarity
Neue Nationalgalerie, Gallery Weekends, Berlin, April-May 2022
photo by Kaspar Talhmann
stand with Ukraine
254. action of solidarity
Neue Nationalgalerie, Gallery Weekends, Berlin, April-May 2022
photo by Kaspar Talhmann