Photo Courtesy: Kweku Okokroko
Photo Courtesy: Kweku Okokroko
MARIA PYLYPENKO
Born in 2003 in Luhansk, Ukraine.
Lived and worked in Kyiv, Ukraine. Based in Vienna, Austria.
EDUCATION
Since 2023 – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Drawing Class of Prof. Veronika Dirnhofer, Vienna, Austria
2020-2024 – The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine (BFA in Painting / BA in Theory and History of Art)
2014-2019 – School of Arts No. 5, Fine Arts Department, Studio of Julia Skripka, Kyiv, Ukraine
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Video Performance Night, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa 2026
2026 – Fremdwesen; kollektiv querfelden, Linz, Austria
2025 – Love Beyond; FWP Kunstakt, Vienna, Austria
2025 – Gathering Lines; Supibasiilika, European Drawing Workshop in VARES, Valga, Estonia
2025 – Klein Garten IV; Stuwerstraße Art Space, Vienna, Austria
2025 – Tentacular ways: art strategies, ecosystems and planetary transformation; project in collaboration with Rafael Hofmann, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria / OpenArtLink 2025, Piraeus, Greece
2025 – Stolen Past, Threatened Future; Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria
2024 – Klein Garten; Stuwerstraße Art Space, Vienna, Austria
2024 – The land will be happy; project in collaboration with Ebba Olsson; Xian, Vienna, Austria
2024 – Liutyi / Лютий / February; Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria
2023 – Über das Neue. Teil 3; Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria
2023 – Ich kann leider auch nicht; Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria
2022 – The Horizon of the Future Art Pavilion; European Digital Art Fair, 43 European countries
2021 – KYIV; project in collaboration with Diana Tosich, Kryla art space, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 – Summer Plein Air Project; NAFAA, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 – Search; National Museum of Literature of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (Solo)
2020 – Myths Project; National Museum of Literature of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – International Exhibition of Contemporary Art; Lidická Galerie, Lidická, Czech Republic
2018 – Association Game; Center of Ukrainian Culture and Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – Guernika International Project with Daisaku Kadokawa; Kyiv City State Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – Renaissance Plein Air Project; Balchik, Bulgaria
2017 – All-Ukrainian Project "Just fiction"; Lviv, Ukraine
2016 – International Biennale of Contemporary Art "Biennale of imagination"; Turcianska Gallery, Martin, Slovakia