Lesia Vasylchenko is a Kyiv-born artist based in Oslo. Her practice spans between installation, moving image and photography. Vasylchenko is a co-curator of the artist-run gallery space Podium and a founder of STRUKTURA. Time, a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice within the framework of visual arts, media archaeology, literature, and philosophy. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her works have been shown among others at Louvre Museum; Haugar Art Museum; Tenthaus Gallery; Berlin Transnational Queer Underground; The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale.
2022
June / Solo exhibition: TBA; Sol Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark
May / MFA graduation show; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2021
December / Performance: As We Worry We Dance; Autarkia; Vilnius, Lithuania
October / Publication: AI Glossary, Onassis Publications; Athens, Greece
September / Exhibition, public talk; Coast Contemporary 2021; Trondheim, Norway
September / Film screening: LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival; Zhovten Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
September / Solo Exhibition: TBA; Skylight Gallery, Oslo, Norway
August / Film Screening: Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
July / Curatorial: STRUKTURA. Time; BOA, Oslo, Norway
July / Exhibition: Gattitas; Katten Pop-Up Gallery, Oslo, Norway
June / Exhibition: Saksumdal Tempel; Lillestrøm, Norway
May / Performance: As We Worry We Dance, Oslo Kunsthall; Oslo, Norway
March / Radio show: Postcard From a Nonexhisting City; Radio Tenthaus; Oslo, Norway
February / Film Screening: Rencontres Internationales, Louvre Museum; Paris, France
March / Lecture series for OFKS/Oslo Art Photography School: Media Archeology of the Moving Image; Oslo, Norway
February / Artist talk at OFKS/Oslo Art Photography School; Oslo, Norway
January / Exhibition: Unteachable Moments, Tenthaus Gallery; Oslo, Norway
2020
December / Exhibition: Solastalgic, Seilduken Gallery; Oslo, Norway
October / Workshop: Speculative Futures – Are we burning our past?, Zurich University of the Arts; Zurich, Switzerland
October / Seminar: Archeology Of the Future, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; Oslo, Norway
July / Publication: artnews.lt / Tariamai priešiškos ateities vaizdas; artnews.lt
2019
Inbetween / Transnational Queer Undeground / Berlin, Germany
Transnational Queer Underground & Tom or Judy Moore / Whose Museum x KRETS / Malmö, Sweden
Supermarket Flow / KBH kunsthal / Skive, Denmark
Korea Queer Film Festival / Seoul, South Korea Behemoth (Got lamp?) / Akademirommet / Oslo
Hen - Flytende Kjønn / Sølvberget galleri / Stavanger
2018
unkNOW Live Stream / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Tre metri per quattro / Venice, Italy
Sensing Time: On Temporalities, Rhythms and Memories / Akademirommet, Oslo 59Åã54'41''N 10Åã45'28''E / Kunstneres Hus / Oslo
Gender Fluid / Haugar Art Museum / Tønsberg, Norway
2017
Gradually Slip in Some Intimacy / Seilduken Gallery / Oslo, Norway
Homeostasis Lab / The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale / Sao Paulo, Brazil
XX0Y / K4 gallery / Oslo, Norway (solo)
2016
Ogsaa / Kunstplass [10] / Oslo, Norway
Curatorial:
Podium Gallery
STRUKTURA.Time
K4 Gallery
Lecturing:
2021
Oslo Art Photography School / OFKS, Norway
2020
Zurich University of the Arts; Zurich, Switzerland
Other:
BKH Stipend 2021; Norway
Best Art Project 2020 / Beste Aarets Kunst / Osloprisen Natt&Dag; Norway
FKDS Grant 2017 / Fondet for kunst- og designstudenter; Norway