Viktoria Vladimirskaya is an artist whose practice encompasses painting, conceptual graphics, site-specific installations, ceramic sculpture, and video art. She lives and works in Kyiv.
Artistic Concept and Media: At the heart of the artist’s creative exploration is an examination of existence, truth, choice, and the materiality of memory. Working within a conceptual aesthetic, Victoria combines classical and original techniques in painting and graphic art, including fluid oil techniques and work with walnut ink. Installation and objects: creating spatial, site-specific compositions using organic materials (vertical textile objects, dust as the entropy of decisions, earth, natural pigments). Sculpture and design: working with clay in ceramic series, as well as designing original jewelry pieces and collectible accessories using organic forms. Video art: spatial videos that complement installation projects.
Освіта
Персональні проєкти
Фестивалі і ярмарки
Вибрані групові проєкти та виставки
Artist statement
My art is, first and foremost, about people in the world we live in, and even more so—about people in their inner worlds. People are the very point where these two parallel lines meet.
Usually, the outside world puts too much pressure on us, demanding norms, standards, and social expectations. Under such conditions, we often don’t live as ourselves, but merely react to external stimuli. My work is an exploration of the very limit: how can one remain true to oneself despite everything? It is not a quest for struggle or resistance, but an attempt to learn to live between these two worlds—where one’s pure essence remains “free of expectations”—while simultaneously interacting with a diverse, demanding environment, discovering one’s own reactions and limits.
Why do I use different media? Because human experience cannot be contained within a single form. Through the diversity of materials and form, I seek a way that most accurately conveys vulnerability, tension, and a frenzied, almost animal-like resilience. I consciously avoid artificial colors, limiting my palette to natural “earths”—ochre, clay, and charcoal—which carry their own weight and memory.
My works are all-encompassing spaces that give the viewer inner permission to pause, shed their outer shell, and ask: Who are you, really?