Biography

Maria is an artist who creates painted objects on boards made from recycled wood. In her works, the sacred and the everyday, myth and unpredictable reality, constantly intersect. These objects exist not only within walls — they step into public space, at times as deliberately “senseless” glitches that disrupt habitual perception, and at times as an attempt to live through civilizational fractures, war, technologization, and personal experience. Her projects include: Bread (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, 2025); The Floor is Lava (Kyiv, 2025); Landscape (post) Conflict (Irish Museum of Modern Art program, Dublin, 2025); Beyond Greener Grass (CEC Artslink, Lviv, 2025); Stolen Past, Threatened Future (Office Ukraine, Vienna, 2025); Predefined Event Times (Eye Sea Gallery, Zaporizhia, 2025); solo exhibitions The Serpent Was Here (Kuznya, Kyiv, 2025) and A Place That Doesn’t Exist (The Naked Room, Kyiv, 2024). She has also presented work in Barcelona, London, Dresden, Vienna, Lutsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Philosophy at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Artistic project

Suspended is a project with several branches that works with the materialization of glitches in public space. I create painted wooden objects — system icons, interface symbols, phrases like “Terms & Conditions,” direction arrows without clear meaning, and absurd road signs  reworked in an artistic manner and placed in different environments.
The project develops in three directions:
- Urban public space  - interventions in pedestrian zones, near administrative buildings, under arches, and in transitional areas. The objects appear as disruptions in systems of navigation and regulation, questioning social rules and habitual routes.
- Natural space (forest, city edges)  -  a forest exhibition where works are installed on trees and within the landscape, as if parallel images are emerging in nature. The forest becomes an alternative interface where digital and symbolic signs coexist with living matter.
- Architectural transitional zones - arches, passages, gates, and infrastructural borders. In these “in-between” spaces, glitches intensify the feeling of layered and mixed realities.

Format: installations

Size of audience: from one-to-one encounters to 100–300 accidental passersby per day, depending on the location.

Specific location: urban public spaces, forest areas, and transitional architectural zones such as arches, passages, pedestrian areas, and infrastructural borders