CV
SOFIIA YESAKOVA
Born in Kyiv / UA (1998)
EDUCATION
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2016 — 2021 Master of Fine Arts. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
Studied on department of monumental and sacred painting named after Professor Mykola Storozhenko
SOLO-| DUO EXHIBITIONS
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>upc 12.07.2025: “Line that penetrates matter”, Iron house (Nymphenburg Castle), Munich, DE
>upc 30.08.2025: “Black Frieze”, Umbrella | west coast exhibitions, Nørre Nebel, DNK
>upc 29.03.2025: “Caesura”, spazio DISPLAY, Parma, IT
2024 — “Ugly scenes, nuances”, Super Bien! Berlin, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Recollecting the emptiness”, Prima Kunst e. V., Kiel, DE
2024 — “People in Paradise will enjoy the spectacle of hell's torment”, Antwerp art box, Antwerp, BEL
2022 — “RAUSCHEN”, Kunstraum R52L, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Cargo 200. HAUNT Table #6”, frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Heteronomy of freedom. Window Project/Fenster project”, Prenzlauer studio, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Cargo 200. Experimental projections on surfaces”, Showroom Leibnizstraße 57, Berlin, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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>upc 18.05.2026: “The inner Insularity of Utopianism 2”, Kunstverein Ars avanti, Leipzig, DE
>upc 02.05.2025: “Unrealized Utopias”, arka arka, Vienna, AT
>upc 11.04.2025: “There is Hope”, frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
>upc 20.04.2025: “Moin, Jean Gabin”, Area 35 Art Gallery, Milan, IT
2024 — “Fatmah”, Contemporary Cluster gallery, Rome, IT
2024 — “After the dust settles”, Echo contemporary art, TSA GVL, Atlanta, USA
2024 — “Spanning Delta – A Bridge to Transformation”, PAKD gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Analysis of Anger”, Zentrale für Kunst, Werkschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2024 — “I only work with lost and found”, Kreuzberg Pavillon/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2024 — "Fight or flight”, Adlerhalle, Berlin, DE
2024 — “The inner Insularity of Utopianism”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “A promise of tomorrow”, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Traces of Timelessness”, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE
2024 — “Memories we have forgotten”, The Address Gallery, Brescia, IT
2023 — “Round Trip Fluidum, 2”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2023 — “When the firebird flies”, Kunstverein Meissen e. V., Meissen, DE
2023 — “Polifoniia”, ZIRKA Space, München, DE
2023 — “Visual Dominance”, AS/EM space, Leipzig, DE
2023 — “Homoöstase”, FRAPPANT gallery, Hamburg, DE
2023 — “MoNo”, HB55 Kunstfabrik, Berlin, DE
2023 — “et cetera pp”, Palais Lichtenstein, Chemnitz, DE
2023 — “The future is not ours to see”, Upstairs - Gallery, Oldenburg, DE
2023 — “Pandoras new casa”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Time is running out”, NOTAGALLERY, Berlin, DE
2023 — “The soft and the hard”, Showroom at Potsdamer Str. 93, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Förderpreis Junge Kunst”, Rathaus Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Quicky - why not?”, gallery Mazzoli, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Roaminale #2. Screen.” Roam e. V. project space, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Art Biesenthal”, Wehrmuehle, Biesenthal, DE
2022 — “Ukrainization”, SLP gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Du weißt, dass du ein Mensch bist. Points of Resistance V”, Zionskirche, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Pandora's Winter Selection” , Untergeschoss der Pandora art gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Tranzit zone. Exit gate №364”, MITEC gallery, Kyiv, UA
2022 — “Divina commedia”, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, UA
2022 — “Tranzit zone. Exit gate №364”, MITEC gallery, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “The sky above us” exhibition in PEREMOGA showroom, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “Ivory black”, exhibition in showroom of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “Out and about”, The fourth art fest of Contemporary Women’s Art, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “365 day after”, International art project, MITEC, Kyjiw, UA
2020 — “Review (of) the Academy”. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
CURATION
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>upc 02.05.2025: “Unrealized Utopias”, arka arka, Vienna, AT
>upc 11.04.2025: "There is Hope", frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “The inner insularity of utopianism”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 — “Review (of) the Academy”, exhibition in showroom of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (with Daria Maiier), Kyiv, UA
RESIDENCES / SCHOLARSHIP
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2024 — Residential fellowship Kebbel Villa, International Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, DE
2024 — Scholarship holder Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, postgraduate professional course, Berlin, DE
2023 — Residental fellowship ZIRKA Space residence, München, DE
2023 — Residental fellowship Begehungen, Palais Lichtenstein, Chemnitz, DE
2023 — Förderpreis Junge Kunst, award for Fine Arts, Kunstverein Bagatelle, Berlin, DE
2021 — Residental fellowship and development course Soshenko 33, Kyiv, UA
2018 — Scholarship holder residential fellowship Velikyy Pereviz, Poltavs'Ka Oblast, UA
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
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Insideart. Fatmah and the Good Wishes of the Contemporary Cluster. Andrea Bardi. Rome, IT. 2024
Exibart. Unexpected Dialogues and New Proposals. Francesca de Paolis. Rome, IT. 2024
O Fluxo. Solo exhibition Ugly Scenes. Nuances. Super Bien!, Berlin, DE. 2024
Nasty Magazine. Fatmah. Contemporary Cluster. Rome, IT. 2024
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. Interview with Beate Scheder. 2024
Artribune. La galleria Contemporary Cluster a Roma cambia sede. Intervista a Giacomo Guidi. 2024
KUBAPARIS. Traces of timelessness. Hamburg, DE. 2024
KUBAPARIS. Memories we have vorgotten. The Address gallery, Brescia, IT. 2024
Saliva.Live. People in paradise will enjoy the spectacle of he'lls torment. Antwerp, BEL. 2024
Saliva.Live. The inner insularity of utopianism. Berlin, DE. 2024
Art Viewer. Memories we have vorgotten. Brescia, IT. 2024
Kunstverein Centre Bagatelle e.V. Förderpreis Junge Kunst. Berlin, DE. 2023
DAZED. Summer issue 2022. The art of conflict. 2022
Ukraine ablaze project. The Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal”. 2022
Points of Resistance V. You know that you are human. 2022
Koisk of Democracy. Kiosk der Demokratie. 2022
KIOSK: Lines of Flight e - zine (2nd issue). 2022
Window Project/Fenster Projekt, Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin, Deutschland. 2021
Rundgang.io. Digital presentation of artworks. 2021
MOKONSHU. Artist`s Stories. 2021
CV
SOFIIA YESAKOVA
Born in Kyiv / UA (1998)
EDUCATION
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2016 — 2021 Master of Fine Arts. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
Studied on department of monumental and sacred painting named after Professor Mykola Storozhenko
SOLO-| DUO EXHIBITIONS
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>upc 12.07.2025: “Line that penetrates matter”, Iron house (Nymphenburg Castle), Munich, DE
>upc 30.08.2025: “Black Frieze”, Umbrella | west coast exhibitions, Nørre Nebel, DNK
>upc 29.03.2025: “Caesura”, spazio DISPLAY, Parma, IT
2024 — “Ugly scenes, nuances”, Super Bien! Berlin, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Recollecting the emptiness”, Prima Kunst e. V., Kiel, DE
2024 — “People in Paradise will enjoy the spectacle of hell's torment”, Antwerp art box, Antwerp, BEL
2022 — “RAUSCHEN”, Kunstraum R52L, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Cargo 200. HAUNT Table #6”, frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Heteronomy of freedom. Window Project/Fenster project”, Prenzlauer studio, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Cargo 200. Experimental projections on surfaces”, Showroom Leibnizstraße 57, Berlin, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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>upc 18.05.2026: “The inner Insularity of Utopianism 2”, Kunstverein Ars avanti, Leipzig, DE
>upc 02.05.2025: “Unrealized Utopias”, arka arka, Vienna, AT
>upc 11.04.2025: “There is Hope”, frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
>upc 20.04.2025: “Moin, Jean Gabin”, Area 35 Art Gallery, Milan, IT
2024 — “Fatmah”, Contemporary Cluster gallery, Rome, IT
2024 — “After the dust settles”, Echo contemporary art, TSA GVL, Atlanta, USA
2024 — “Spanning Delta – A Bridge to Transformation”, PAKD gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Analysis of Anger”, Zentrale für Kunst, Werkschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2024 — “I only work with lost and found”, Kreuzberg Pavillon/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2024 — "Fight or flight”, Adlerhalle, Berlin, DE
2024 — “The inner Insularity of Utopianism”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “A promise of tomorrow”, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2024 — “Traces of Timelessness”, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE
2024 — “Memories we have forgotten”, The Address Gallery, Brescia, IT
2023 — “Round Trip Fluidum, 2”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2023 — “When the firebird flies”, Kunstverein Meissen e. V., Meissen, DE
2023 — “Polifoniia”, ZIRKA Space, München, DE
2023 — “Visual Dominance”, AS/EM space, Leipzig, DE
2023 — “Homoöstase”, FRAPPANT gallery, Hamburg, DE
2023 — “MoNo”, HB55 Kunstfabrik, Berlin, DE
2023 — “et cetera pp”, Palais Lichtenstein, Chemnitz, DE
2023 — “The future is not ours to see”, Upstairs - Gallery, Oldenburg, DE
2023 — “Pandoras new casa”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Time is running out”, NOTAGALLERY, Berlin, DE
2023 — “The soft and the hard”, Showroom at Potsdamer Str. 93, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Förderpreis Junge Kunst”, Rathaus Galerie Reinickendorf, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Quicky - why not?”, gallery Mazzoli, Berlin, DE
2023 — “Roaminale #2. Screen.” Roam e. V. project space, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Art Biesenthal”, Wehrmuehle, Biesenthal, DE
2022 — “Ukrainization”, SLP gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Du weißt, dass du ein Mensch bist. Points of Resistance V”, Zionskirche, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Pandora's Winter Selection” , Untergeschoss der Pandora art gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 — “Tranzit zone. Exit gate №364”, MITEC gallery, Kyiv, UA
2022 — “Divina commedia”, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, UA
2022 — “Tranzit zone. Exit gate №364”, MITEC gallery, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “The sky above us” exhibition in PEREMOGA showroom, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “Ivory black”, exhibition in showroom of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “Out and about”, The fourth art fest of Contemporary Women’s Art, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, UA
2021 — “365 day after”, International art project, MITEC, Kyjiw, UA
2020 — “Review (of) the Academy”. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, UA
CURATION
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>upc 02.05.2025: “Unrealized Utopias”, arka arka, Vienna, AT
>upc 11.04.2025: "There is Hope", frontviews at HAUNT gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 — “The inner insularity of utopianism”, Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 — “Review (of) the Academy”, exhibition in showroom of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (with Daria Maiier), Kyiv, UA
RESIDENCES / SCHOLARSHIP
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2024 — Residential fellowship Kebbel Villa, International Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, DE
2024 — Scholarship holder Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, postgraduate professional course, Berlin, DE
2023 — Residental fellowship ZIRKA Space residence, München, DE
2023 — Residental fellowship Begehungen, Palais Lichtenstein, Chemnitz, DE
2023 — Förderpreis Junge Kunst, award for Fine Arts, Kunstverein Bagatelle, Berlin, DE
2021 — Residental fellowship and development course Soshenko 33, Kyiv, UA
2018 — Scholarship holder residential fellowship Velikyy Pereviz, Poltavs'Ka Oblast, UA
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
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Insideart. Fatmah and the Good Wishes of the Contemporary Cluster. Andrea Bardi. Rome, IT. 2024
Exibart. Unexpected Dialogues and New Proposals. Francesca de Paolis. Rome, IT. 2024
O Fluxo. Solo exhibition Ugly Scenes. Nuances. Super Bien!, Berlin, DE. 2024
Nasty Magazine. Fatmah. Contemporary Cluster. Rome, IT. 2024
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. Interview with Beate Scheder. 2024
Artribune. La galleria Contemporary Cluster a Roma cambia sede. Intervista a Giacomo Guidi. 2024
KUBAPARIS. Traces of timelessness. Hamburg, DE. 2024
KUBAPARIS. Memories we have vorgotten. The Address gallery, Brescia, IT. 2024
Saliva.Live. People in paradise will enjoy the spectacle of he'lls torment. Antwerp, BEL. 2024
Saliva.Live. The inner insularity of utopianism. Berlin, DE. 2024
Art Viewer. Memories we have vorgotten. Brescia, IT. 2024
Kunstverein Centre Bagatelle e.V. Förderpreis Junge Kunst. Berlin, DE. 2023
DAZED. Summer issue 2022. The art of conflict. 2022
Ukraine ablaze project. The Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal”. 2022
Points of Resistance V. You know that you are human. 2022
Koisk of Democracy. Kiosk der Demokratie. 2022
KIOSK: Lines of Flight e - zine (2nd issue). 2022
Window Project/Fenster Projekt, Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin, Deutschland. 2021
Rundgang.io. Digital presentation of artworks. 2021
MOKONSHU. Artist`s Stories. 2021