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Actions &
Performances
In this section of the site are presented actions, performances, and body practices by Maria Kulikovska, most of which are based on interaction with her sculptural objects, as well as on the artist's observations of their transformations, fragility, and time, on her own acceleration of their destruction. A huge part of directing performances and actions in public space is the architectural analysis of the environment, the study of its history and context by the artist herself, and then – rethinking all this through the appearance of the artist's body or her performative sculptures in this space.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Actions &
Performances
In this section of the site are presented actions, performances, and body practices by Maria Kulikovska, most of which are based on interaction with her sculptural objects, as well as on the artist's observations of their transformations, fragility, and time, on her own acceleration of their destruction. A huge part of directing performances and actions in public space is the architectural analysis of the environment, the study of its history and context by the artist herself, and then – rethinking all this through the appearance of the artist's body or her performative sculptures in this space.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Maria Kulikovska's actions carry a sharp political critique of borders and boundaries, they have become a kind of self-reflection and psychological self-analysis of the artist. Using her own body and its opportunities in the actions and performances, Maria discusses marginalized and acute social issues of society.
Long-term series of the performances-as-life. Suomenlinna island, Helsinki, Finland. September 2023.
Seventh part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. During the Zurich Art Weekend on May 2023, organized by Kyiv Art Week. Mediators: Eugene Bereznitsky, Maria Vtorushina, Olena Iegorova. Zurich, Switzerland, 2023.
Sixth part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. During the opening of the exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art "ART ON THE BATTLEFRONT", which the editors of Ukrainian Vogue initiated. In the space of the Künstlerhaus. Vienna, Austria. April 14, 2023.
As a part of Mother Courage and Her Children exhibition at Accelerator Museum. 24 Sep 2022 – 12 Feb 2023, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fifth part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. During artist's solo exhibition «My Body Is a Buttlefild» at the Museum for Media Art "Francisco Carolinum". Curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher / Office for Art. Linz Austria. 2022
For the period of one week, the artist stages this action | performance for the Neue National Galerie in Berlin as part of the Gallery Weekend against the backdrop of Russia's war of aggression against the sovereignty and population of the Ukrainian state.
Performance 254 at the public space, as part of the group show «The Fog of War», Goethe Center Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan. Curated by Alfons Hug. October, 2022
Hosted by OÖLKG as Artist in Residency since the beginning of Russia's war upon Ukraine, Maria Kulikovska contributed a performance right in the OK's foyer to The Non-fungible Body? festival. Linz, Austria. 2022
For the period of one week, the artist stages this action | performance for the Neue National Galerie in Berlin as part of the Gallery Weekend against the backdrop of Russia's war of aggression against the sovereignty and population of the Ukrainian state.
Maria Kulikovska together with Eva Kulikovska-Vinnichenko, documentation of the "No More Windows" performance at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, 2022.
Fourth part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. During artist's mini-retrospective «From Action to Performative Sculpture» at Shcherbenko Art Centre. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020.
Video performance was made on 9 June 2019 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary from the date of the execution of Kulikovska's sculptures by self-proclamed "dnr" militants during the occupation of Izolyatsia Art Centre in Donetsk, Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019.
Maria Kulikovska's performance "Forgotten", which took place during the shooting of the film of the same name and became part of it. 2019
Performance was shown at the group exhibition at Konsthall-C, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019.
Third part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. In the park of Ebenbockhouse, Munich, Germany, 2018.
Organized by ART COLLECTION TELEKOM Contemporary Art from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe within Vienna Contemporary 2018, Vienna, Austria. Curators: Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher and Margret Fischer.
Second part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. Specially for the Art Edition of Vogue UA. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018.
First part of the long-term performance, planned to be held 88 times. At Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018.
Performance by Maria Kulikovska in collaboration with artist Mila Dolman. Ugly Duck Art Center, London, England, 2017.
Performance by Maria Kulikovska in collaboration with artist Benedikte Esperi was held in Malmo, during the National Day of Sweden on 6 June 2017.
Long-term performative project, the main character of which became the social sculpture «Raft CrimeA». This Maria Kulikovska's project was started in 16 August, 2016 and is still continuing.
Action on the mined beach along the border free city with occupied part of Donetsk region. Mariupol, Ukraine, 2016.
Long-term art project of Maria Kulikovska, who started Flowers of Democracy feminist movement in summer of 2015 as a way to illuminate the position of a woman's body and life in a time of constant conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Performance at Saatchi Gallery. The green soap figure from the «Homo Bulla. Replica» sculptural triptych became part of the action. London, England, 2015.
Performance by Maria Kulikovska in collaboration with Mila Dolman during the Krasnoyarsk Biennale. Siberia, Russia, 2015.
Action as an act of solidarity on the Parisians with Maria Kulikovska and all displaced persons in the world. Paris, France, 2014.
This unauthorized performance was held on the stairs of the Hermitage during the opening of Manifesta'10 biennial. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1 July of 2014.
This long-term project by Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska and Swedish artist Jacqueline Shabo officially began on January 11, 2014, at the moment of registration of their marriage.
Video documentation of the performance that was held in PinchukArtCentre during the Revolution of Dignity period. Kyiv, Ukraine, 8 December 2013.
This performance was held at Shcherbenko Art Centre. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013.
Long-term site-specific performance at State Research Institute of Building Constructions in Kyiv, Ukraine, from April 25 until May 7, 2012.