SOFIIA YESAKOVA
Born in Kyjiw / UA (1998)
EDUCATION
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2016 — 2021 Master of Fine Arts. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA (NAFAA).
Studied on department of monumental painting named after Professor Mykola Storozhenko
SOLO-| DUO EXHIBITIONS
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>upc 2024: "People in Paradise will enjoy the spectacle of hell's torment", Antwerp art box, Antwerpen, BEL
>upc 2024: "Recollecting the emptiness", Prima Kunst e. V., Kiel, DE
2022 — "Cargo - 200. Experimental projections on the surfaces", Leibnizstraße 57, Berlin, DE
>upc : Fatmah, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, IT
>upc: After the dust settles, TSA GVL, Atlanta, USA
>upc: Goldrausch exhibition, Kreuzberg Pavillon/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
>upc 2024: "Flight or flight", Adlerhalle, Berlin, DE
2024 — "A promise of tomorrow", frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2024 — "Traces of Timelessness", Künstlerhaus Sootböern, Hamburg, DE
2024 — "Memories we have forgotten", The Address Gallery, Brescia, IT
2023 — "Round Trip Fluidum, 2", Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 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 Space, Berlin, DE
2023 — "Living solidarity day", MOOS space, Berlin, DE
2022 — "Art Biesenthal", Wehrmuehle, Biesenthal, DE
2022 — "UKRAINIZATION", Galerie SLP, 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, Kyjiw, UA
2022 — "Divina commedia", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyjiv, UA
2022 — "Lviv Biennale", Lviv, Kyiv (UA), Košice (SK), Pilsen (CZ), Chicago, NYC (USA), Tel Aviv (IL), Antwerp (BE)
2021 — "The sky above us" exhibition in PEREMOGA, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "Ivory black". Self-organized exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "OUT AND ABOUT", The fourth art fest of Contemporary Women’s Art, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "365 day after", International art project, MITEC, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — Diplom "Altar in a modern context. Part 1, 2, 3.", NAFAA, Kyjiw, UA
2020 — "REVIEW (of) THE ACADEMY". Self-organized student exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA
CURATION
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2024 — "The inner insularity of utopianism", Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 — "REVIEW (of) THE ACADEMY". Self-organized student exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (with Daria Maiier), Kyjiw, UA
RESIDENCES / SCHOLARSHIP
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2024 — Goldrausch Künstlerinnen, Berlin, DE
2021 — "Soshenko 33 art residence", Kyjiw, UA
2018 — "Velikyy Pereviz art residence", Poltavs'Ka Oblast', UA
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
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KUBAPARIS. Traces of timelessness. 2024.
KUBAPARIS. Memories we have vorgotten. The Address gallery, Brescia, IT.
Window Project/Fenster Projekt, Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin, Deutschland
DAZED. Summer issue 2022. The art of conflict.
Rundgang.io. Digital presentation of artworks.
Ukraine ablaze project. The Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal”
Monopol - das Magazin für Kunst und Leben.Ukrainisches Kulturzentrum in Berlin. Felix Leitmeyer
ASSOCIATED PRESS. Far from home but together. Ukrainian artists form Berlin collective
X-treme Women Art Prize Berlin. 2022
Points of Resistance V. You know that you are human.
Koisk of Democracy. Kiosk der Demokratie.
Tagesspiegel. Ausstellung in der Zionskirche.
KIOSK: Lines of Flight e - zine (2nd issue)
When the Firebird flies“: Ergreifende Ausstellung zu Krieg, Migration und Intimität in Meißen. DDN.
SOFIIA YESAKOVA
Born in Kyjiw / UA (1998)
EDUCATION
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2016 — 2021 Master of Fine Arts. National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA (NAFAA).
Studied on department of monumental painting named after Professor Mykola Storozhenko
SOLO-| DUO EXHIBITIONS
_
>upc 2024: "People in Paradise will enjoy the spectacle of hell's torment", Antwerp art box, Antwerpen, BEL
>upc 2024: "Recollecting the emptiness", Prima Kunst e. V., Kiel, DE
2022 — "Cargo - 200. Experimental projections on the surfaces", Leibnizstraße 57, Berlin, DE
>upc : Fatmah, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, IT
>upc: After the dust settles, TSA GVL, Atlanta, USA
>upc: Goldrausch exhibition, Kreuzberg Pavillon/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
>upc 2024: "Flight or flight", Adlerhalle, Berlin, DE
2024 — "A promise of tomorrow", frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2024 — "Traces of Timelessness", Künstlerhaus Sootböern, Hamburg, DE
2024 — "Memories we have forgotten", The Address Gallery, Brescia, IT
2023 — "Round Trip Fluidum, 2", Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 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 Space, Berlin, DE
2023 — "Living solidarity day", MOOS space, Berlin, DE
2022 — "Art Biesenthal", Wehrmuehle, Biesenthal, DE
2022 — "UKRAINIZATION", Galerie SLP, 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, Kyjiw, UA
2022 — "Divina commedia", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyjiv, UA
2022 — "Lviv Biennale", Lviv, Kyiv (UA), Košice (SK), Pilsen (CZ), Chicago, NYC (USA), Tel Aviv (IL), Antwerp (BE)
2021 — "The sky above us" exhibition in PEREMOGA, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "Ivory black". Self-organized exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "OUT AND ABOUT", The fourth art fest of Contemporary Women’s Art, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — "365 day after", International art project, MITEC, Kyjiw, UA
2021 — Diplom "Altar in a modern context. Part 1, 2, 3.", NAFAA, Kyjiw, UA
2020 — "REVIEW (of) THE ACADEMY". Self-organized student exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyjiw, UA
CURATION
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2024 — "The inner insularity of utopianism", Untergeschoss der Pandora gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 — "REVIEW (of) THE ACADEMY". Self-organized student exhibition in National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (with Daria Maiier), Kyjiw, UA
RESIDENCES / SCHOLARSHIP
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2024 — Goldrausch Künstlerinnen, Berlin, DE
2021 — "Soshenko 33 art residence", Kyjiw, UA
2018 — "Velikyy Pereviz art residence", Poltavs'Ka Oblast', UA
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
_
KUBAPARIS. Traces of timelessness. 2024.
KUBAPARIS. Memories we have vorgotten. The Address gallery, Brescia, IT.
Window Project/Fenster Projekt, Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin, Deutschland
DAZED. Summer issue 2022. The art of conflict.
Rundgang.io. Digital presentation of artworks.
Ukraine ablaze project. The Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal”
Monopol - das Magazin für Kunst und Leben.Ukrainisches Kulturzentrum in Berlin. Felix Leitmeyer
ASSOCIATED PRESS. Far from home but together. Ukrainian artists form Berlin collective
X-treme Women Art Prize Berlin. 2022
Points of Resistance V. You know that you are human.
Koisk of Democracy. Kiosk der Demokratie.
Tagesspiegel. Ausstellung in der Zionskirche.
KIOSK: Lines of Flight e - zine (2nd issue)
When the Firebird flies“: Ergreifende Ausstellung zu Krieg, Migration und Intimität in Meißen. DDN.