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Kulikovska Maria
Table of Negotiations? was created by Maria Kulikovska in 2022, during her evacuation with a newborn child from Uzhhorod to Linz, Austria. At that time she was confronted with postpartum depression, maternal anxiety, and the renewed trauma of war — a repetition of 2014, now compounded by responsibility for both her family under occupation and her own child.
In residency, working with ceramics became both a survival strategy and a way to articulate the loss of “home.” By casting fragile parts of her body into ceramic “furniture,” the artist materialized vulnerability and displacement, turning them into a psychological dialogue rather than silencing them.
For Kulikovska, Table of Negotiations? is not only a personal confession but also a political statement: a refusal to accept the loss of home and an insistence on the right to speak openly about fragility, trauma, and exile. The work continues her search for a new home — one built on truth, without forgetting the past.
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
