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Banitska Antonia
I completed this work at the end of August 2025. Since then, I have continued experimenting with objects made from bio-textiles that I cultivate myself. My aim was to create a soft, natural, warm light—and this lamp is where I finally achieved that effect.
In January 2026, Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, including in my region. We experienced weeks of widespread power outages. In my studio, temperatures remained between 1°C and 9°C throughout the day, causing my bio-textile works to freeze. This lamp suffered the most, as it had been placed on the windowsill.
Many parts of the lamp cracked, and its surface developed an unexpected crust-like texture. I evacuated my “living” lamp to my home and waited until the end of winter to restore it. By late February, I had completed the restoration, and the result proved even more beautiful than the original. The experience reminded me that everything eventually passes—even the harshest winter of the four-year full-scale Russian invasion.
Education
Assortment Room, Frankivsk School of Contemporary Art fra fra fra, 2023-2024
Institute of Arts, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialty “Fine Arts” (Master’s Degree), 2023-2024
Lviv Polytechnic National University, specialty “Architecture and Urban Planning” (Bachelor’s Degree), 2019-2023
Ivano-Frankivsk Children’s Art School, 2015-2019
Workshops
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Sound in Art Projects with Anya Khvyl, 09.03-10.03.2024
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Land Art and Eco-Art with Nataliya Lisova, 10.02-11.02.2024
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Photography with Serhiy Melnychenko, 9.12-10.12.2023
Theoretical and Practical Weekend on Performance with Yaroslav Futymskyi, Assortment Room, 11.11-12.11.2023
“Open Urban Lab Krakow: Hub for Social Resilience,” organized in cooperation between Vienna University of Technology and Lviv Polytechnic National University with the support of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, 27.02-2.03.2023
Group Exhibitions
“Seeding the Clouds,” graduation exhibition of the School of Contemporary Art fra fra fra, Assortment Room, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 01.06-13.06.2024
“With Faith in the Heart,” Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Ivan Franko, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 10.04-10.05.2024
Exhibition-Competition of Bachelor’s Diploma Projects in specialties 191 “Architecture and Urban Planning” and 022 “Design,” organized by the Lviv Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine for Independence Day of Ukraine, Center for Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, Pidvalna Tower, Lviv, Ukraine, 24.08.2023
Artworks Banitska Antonia
