Marharyta Zhurunova, an artist from Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Born on November 29, 1994. Engaged in printed graphics, installation, and graphics transitioning into installation. Works with themes of emotional trauma and ways to deal with it through artistic methods.
Studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Department of Book and Easel Graphics, and graduated in 2018 with a Master's degree.
Since 2015, she has been working in co-authorship with Bohdan Lokatyr in the field of environmental, site-specific art.
In 2019, both artists became winners of scholarships of the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists, and received a grant from the President of Ukraine to create the second volume of the art book "Ukrainian Bestiary".
Finalists of the contemporary art competition named after Natan Altman (Vinnytsia, 2018), SecondBiennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery,
Kyiv, 2020).
Selected exhibitions:
A4, BALLPOINT (Kyiv, Karas Gallery, 2015-2018)
All-Ukrainian art exhibitions from the National Union of Artists of Ukraine: III All-Ukrainian Triennial of Book
Graphics (Kyiv, 2016), All-Ukrainian Exhibition-Competition of Graphics named after GV Yakutovych (Kyiv, 2016)
Space of Borderland (exposition project of the curatorial group of Konstantin Zorkin) (Kyiv, Soviart Gallery, 2018)
Greater Space, (Kharkiv, Yermilov Center, 2019)
All-Ukrainian biennial of levkas (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2019-21)
Post-quarantine exhibition «Observations» (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Form of space (Port.agency and LCD 044, Kyiv, 2020)
Lacuna Festivals 2021 International Contemporary Art Festival «Distance» (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2021)
Mykolaiv ART Week: CONNECT! (Mykolaiv, 2021)
ART KUZEMYN Residence (Kuzemyn, Ukraine, 2021)
Exhibition on the results of the ART Kuzemyn residence (G. Semiradsky Gallery, Kharkiv, 2021)
Time of war. Reflections. (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2022)
«Invasion. Before and after» (Wroclaw, Krakow, Poland, 2022-23)
Kunstausstellung // pARTner residence (Feldkirch, Austria, 2022)
The Art Of Resistance (University of Valencia, Spain, 2022)
(Museu d´Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Vilafamés, Spain, 2023)
Indicators (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2023)
Inner Landscapes (ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023)
Day after Day (atelier19, Paderborn, Germany, 2023)
(Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany, 2023)
Concentration of the Will (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2023)
Sculpture Week (Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2023)
Spaces. Borders. Frontiers. (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, 2023)
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