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Diana Demianenko
The installation combines a bed with a massive earthen sphere emerging from it, displacing its usual function as a place of rest. The rough, heavy earth cuts into the softness of the sheets, creating a sense of impossible calm.
The work stems from Diana’s personal experience of war, when constant shelling turns the bed from a place of safety into a space that no longer guarantees rest, forcing sleep to move elsewhere.
Diana Demianenko explores the relationship between humans and their environment in her artistic practice. She investigates how collective traumas and personal transformations shape our sensitivity, spatial perception, and ways of interacting with the world. Diana works with painting, objects, video, and installations, combining traditional techniques with other materials such as earth, paraffin, and sand. She experiments with form, light, and texture, often working at the edge of intuition to reveal the hidden dynamics of a space.
- Born: May 12, 2000, Odesa, Ukraine
- Education:
- 2015–2019 — Odesa Art College named after M.B. Grekov
- 2019–2023 — Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
- 2019–2024 — National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA), Kyiv
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
- 2025 — Between Sleep and Awakening, apartment exhibition, Kyiv
- 2024 — Reality in the Cloud, CENTER Gallery, Kyiv
Selected Group Exhibitions:
- 2025 — Notes, with Maksym Mazur, Instytut Avtomatyky, Kyiv
- 2025 — Adult Youth, Serpen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2025 — Emerging from the Shadows, Center for Contemporary Art M17, Kyiv
- 2025 — Art to Live, Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv
- 2025 — NOI, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv
- 2025 — NOI2, BAF, Kyiv
- 2024 — Title?, Instytut Avtomatyky, Kyiv
- 2024 — Lost Equilibria, CENTER Gallery, Kyiv
2024 — 4-8, CENTER Gallery, Kyiv