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Marharyta Zhurunova Bohdan Lokatyr
Created for the project “Borderline Space. Internally Displaced Landscape”
Lviv, 2023
Borders shift, change, and disappear. Internal and external, physical and metaphysical. We live in a restless and turbulent time when nothing remains stable.
“Borderline Space” is the name of a land art symposium in which we have participated since 2016 in the village of Mohrytsia, Sumy region. Today, however, these words have acquired a new and deeper meaning for us. It is a space we carry with us and to which we somehow belong. It is a liminal state we inhabit. Our Borderline Pillars, created using chalk from the Mohrytsia quarry, mark this space and condition.
They do not designate an actual border. Instead, they register the very fact of the border as an experience. These are markers of memory that may appear in different places and contexts.
Marharyta Zhurunova and Bohdan Lokatyr are a Ukrainian artist duo working together since 2015 across land art, environmental art, and site-specific installation. Their collaboration began during the winter land art festival Mythogenesis in Vinnytsia, where their first joint project was created.
Both artists received Master’s degrees from the Ukrainian Academy of Printing (Department of Book and Easel Graphics, 2018). Bohdan Lokatyr also studied artistic ceramics at the Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts and is currently pursuing a PhD. Marharyta Zhurunova continued her education through international programs, including the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and the Climate Adaptation for Creativesprogram organized by Black Mountains College and the British Council.
Their practice is grounded in direct engagement with landscape and explores the mutual influence between humans and the environments they inhabit. Their work addresses environmental damage and the toxic traces of human activity and, since 2022, the direct impact of war on territory, memory, and everyday experience.
In 2019 and 2022, both artists received the President of Ukraine Scholarship for Young Artists, and in 2019 they were also awarded a Presidential grant. Their practice has been further developed through numerous artist residencies across Europe, including in Austria, Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Italy, and Spain. They were finalists of the Natan Altman Contemporary Art Prize (Vinnytsia, 2018), the Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), and M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17, Kyiv, 2020).
Selected exhibitions
The Art of Resistance (University of Valencia, Spain, 2022)
Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (Vilafamés, Spain, 2023)
Inner Landscapes (ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023)
Day after Day (atelier19, Paderborn; Berlin; Nürnberg, Germany, 2023)
Concentration of the Will (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2023)
Sculpture Week (Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2023)
Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023)
Spaces. Borders. Frontiers (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, 2023)
Formula of Resilience (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2024)
Unframed (Silandro & Turin, Italy, 2025)
Frieden (Museum Bruder Klaus, Sachseln, Switzerland, 2025)