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Kulikovska Maria
The artist’s interest in ceramics emerged from a desire to create dishes to decorate a home that does not exist—a longing to finally find a home. Recently the assortment of dishes, jars, and gravy pots was augmented by the hand-painted ash urns.
Spring 2022 was marked by debates among European intellectuals on how Ukraine should reconcile with Russia and meet the aggressor’s demands. The absurdity of these claims became undeniable after evidence of genocide was uncovered in Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka, Izium, and other cities. During a residency at the Academy of Ceramics in Gmunden, which began in the spring of 2022, Kulikovska started working on a series of ceramic dishes featuring limbs, torn bodies, and bruised flesh. The first series was titled The Negotiation Table, followed by Stitched Womb.
Maria Kulykivska [Kulikovska] is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist, architect, performance artist, researcher, curator, and lecturer. She was born in 1988 in Kerch (Crimea, Ukraine). Following russia’s occupation of Crimea, she has continued to work in Kyiv and across Europe, the United States, and Asia. She is currently based between Kyiv and London, where she is conducting doctoral research (De Montfort University).
Since 2010, she has realized dozens of performances and actions, and has presented both group and solo exhibitions at leading cultural institutions worldwide, including Francisco Carolinum (Linz, Austria), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin, Germany), Ludwig Museum (Budapest, Hungary), Saatchi Gallery (London, United Kingdom), Albertina Modern (Vienna, Austria), Double Q Gallery (Hong Kong), the Odesa National Art Museum, among others.
Kulykivska’s artistic and curatorial practice centers on exploring corporeality, fragility, and vulnerability as spaces of healing and transformation.
Artworks Kulikovska Maria
