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Actions & Performances
In this section of the site are presented actions, performances, and body practices by Maria Kulikovska, most of which are based on interaction with her sculptural objects, as well as on the artist's observations of their transformations, fragility, and time, on her own acceleration of their destruction. A huge part of directing performances and actions in public space is the architectural analysis of the environment, the study of its history and context by the artist herself, and then – rethinking all this through the appearance of the artist's body or her performative sculptures in this space.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Actions & Performances
In this section of the site are presented actions, performances, and body practices by Maria Kulikovska, most of which are based on interaction with her sculptural objects, as well as on the artist's observations of their transformations, fragility, and time, on her own acceleration of their destruction. A huge part of directing performances and actions in public space is the architectural analysis of the environment, the study of its history and context by the artist herself, and then – rethinking all this through the appearance of the artist's body or her performative sculptures in this space.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Fourth part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. During artist's mini-retrospective «From Action to Performative Sculpture» at Shcherbenko Art Centre. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020.
Video performance was made on 9 June 2019 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary from the date of the execution of Kulikovska's sculptures by militants during occupation of Izolyatsia Art Centre in Donetsk, Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019.
First part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. At Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018.
Long-term performative project, the main character of which became the social sculpture «Raft CrimeA». This Maria Kulikovska's project was started in 16 August, 2016 and is still continuing.
Long-term art project of Maria Kulikovska, who started Flowers of Democracy feminist movement in summer of 2015 as a way to illuminate the position of a woman's body and life in a time of constant conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Performance at Saatchi Gallery. The green soap figure from the «Homo Bulla. Replica» sculptural triptych became part of the action. London, England, 2015.
This unauthorized performance was held on the stairs of the Hermitage during the opening of Manifesta'10 biennial. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1 July of 2014.
This long-term project by Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska and Swedish artist Jacqueline Shabo officially began on January 11, 2014, at the moment of registration of their marriage.