MKOV - Maria Kulikovska & Oleh Vinnichenko.
Multimedia Artists • Architects • Actionists
MKOV - Maria Kulikovska & Oleh Vinnichenko.
Multimedia Artists • Architects • Actionists
Reflecting on events of my [Maria Kulikovska] own life related to the forced migration, exile, war, being a woman in a patriarchal society, from war and occupied territory, working in my art with the themes of femininity, queerness, corporeality in relation to power and borders, I needed at least some protection and understanding. And also, through my experiments of queer, non-binary, performative, sculptural, architectural, and artistic projects, using innovative, organic, strange, non-sculptural, and "unusual" materials, I invited the collaboration an architect-engineer, my partner, and ally Oleh Vinnichenko. Since March 8, 2017, We are creating All Our together by trusting each other.

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Pregnant figure at Art Miami 2024

Lysenko Gallery at Art Miami 2024.
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Art Fair
date & time
Dec 3, 2024
location
Miami, USA
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Roots of Rebellion

Process

The artist regards the sculptures as "poles around which all her other actions swirl". At Accelerator, Kulikovska's site-specific drawings relate to a planned development of her work President of Crimea that was put on hold because of the war in Ukraine. The idea is to cast four bells in bronze in the form of bodies featuring different faces: the artist's grandmother's, her mother's, her baby daughter's and her own. For this exhibition, the intention was to cast the bells in a foundry in Chernihiv, Ukraine, which has a long tradition of casting church bells. Foundries still exist but due to the war they are experiencing many difficulties. The project at Accelerator is a starting point for producing these four future sculptures in Ukraine as soon as possible.

The process of producing works – from performative sculptures and drawings to actions and performances – is a self-contained Maria Kulikovska's performative practice...

Preparatory actions and monotonous work of creating art objects require titanic effort, teamwork, trust, unique knowledge, and long experiments in artistic research.

The process of making molds from the body is woven into all aspects of Maria Kulikovska's artistic practice, and which is created together and with the help of Oleh Vinnichenko – an architect-engineer, co-author and Kulikovska's husband.

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Reflecting on events of own life related to the forced migration, exile, war, being a woman in a patriarchal society, from war and occupied territory, working in my art with the themes of femininity, queerness, corporeality in relation to power and borders, I needed at least some protection and understanding.

The process of making molds from the body, for example, and then creating sculptures from them, is an independent, long-lasting performative artwork...

Award-winning actor, producer, and director Elizabeth Banks consistently weaves feminist ideas into her work. Her directorial film debut set an opening-weekend record.

The roughness of the sculpture, the cracks and bumps of it became the specific metaphor of the fragile position of the Crimean artist.

...performative practice that raises questions about the difficult, invisible work of a woman, artist, woman artist, representative of the working class and precariat.

...performative practice that raises questions about the difficult, invisible work of a woman, artist, woman artist, representative of the working class and precariat.

Maria – the emigrant from Eastern Europe – had to work in the bar and wash dishes at night, after assisting the Swedish artist Peter Johansson. The sculpture "Maria with Child" became the attempt of the Crimean artist to create the new self: it was cracked at the seams and remembered about Kulikovska's position of emigrant, woman, artist in the new country of residence.

Marie Kondo sparked a tidying revolution with her best-selling books and an internationally acclaimed Netflix series.

Director and writer of Lady Bird and Little Women, Greta Gerwig is expanding the stories
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By transforming recycled plastic into beautiful pieces,
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The fragile and instability of human nature, the transience of time and being were shown through the work with short-time materials, such as soap, which enables for the sculpture deformation during long interaction with the environment.

long-time research on the theme of conflict and identification of social position and artist's state during her stay in Sweden.

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The first editor-in-chief of Vogue Russia, Aliona Doletskaya launched Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in Russia and Germany, and she continues to champion new voices in creativity.

South Korean producer
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Roots of Rebellion

Process

The process of producing works – from performative sculptures and drawings to actions and performances – is a self-contained Maria Kulikovska's performative practice...

...performative practice that raises questions about the difficult, invisible work of a woman, artist, woman artist, representative of the working class and precariat.

Preparatory actions and monotonous work of creating art objects require titanic effort, teamwork, trust, unique knowledge, and long experiments in artistic research.

Reflecting on events of own life related to the forced migration, exile, war, being a woman in a patriarchal society, from war and occupied territory, working in my art with the themes of femininity, queerness, corporeality in relation to power and borders, I needed at least some protection and understanding.

The process of making molds from the body, for example, and then creating sculptures from them, is an independent, long-lasting performative artwork...

The roughness of the sculpture, the cracks and bumps of it became the specific metaphor of the fragile position of the Crimean artist.

Marie Kondo sparked a tidying revolution with her best-selling books and an internationally acclaimed Netflix series.

Director and writer of Lady Bird and Little Women, Greta Gerwig is expanding the stories
Hollywood tells.

The artist regards the sculptures as "poles around which all her other actions swirl". At Accelerator, Kulikovska's site-specific drawings relate to a planned development of her work President of Crimea that was put on hold because of the war in Ukraine. The idea is to cast four bells in bronze in the form of bodies featuring different faces: the artist's grandmother's, her mother's, her baby daughter's and her own. For this exhibition, the intention was to cast the bells in a foundry in Chernihiv, Ukraine, which has a long tradition of casting church bells. Foundries still exist but due to the war they are experiencing many difficulties. The project at Accelerator is a starting point for producing these four future sculptures in Ukraine as soon as possible.

The first editor-in-chief of Vogue Russia, Aliona Doletskaya launched Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in Russia and Germany, and she continues to champion new voices in creativity.

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