Lesia Vasylchenko (born in Kyiv, Ukraine) works across a range of media, including video, photography, installation, and curatorial. In her research-based practice, Vasylchenko explores encounters between visual cultures, media technologies, and chronopolitics. She is the 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 in Fine Arts from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Vasylchenko has recently exhibited at the Pochen Biennial for Multimedia Art (Ex Oriente Ignis), the MUNCH Museum's Triennale (The Machine Is Us), and the Henie Onstad Triennale for Photography and New Media (New Visions). She was nominated for the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Grant Exhibition in 2022 and is the recipient of the Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Prize in 2023. She is currently nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025. Her work is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.
January 2024 / Exhibition: Feels Like Home, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma; Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
March / Solo exhibition: Punishment Of Endlessness, Sandefjord Kunstforening, Sandefjord
April / Solo exhibition: CHRONOSPHERE, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo
May / Future Art Fair; Chelsea Industrial, New York
May / Exhibition: A Time In Pieces; Kyiv Biennale & Between Bridges, Berlin
May / Artist talk: Chronopolitics Of Photographic Image, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
May / Artist talk: Planetarium & Billedkunst, Trondheim
August / CHART Art Fair; MELK & Kunsthall Charlottenburg, Copenhagen
September / Exhibition: Ex Oriente Ignis; Pochen Biennale, Chemnitz
September / Screening: Mascara Film Club; London
October / ARTVILNIUS Art Fair; Project Zone, Vilnius
October /Panel talk: Moving images, Drifting geographies, Changing times; Project Zone, Vilnius
November / Solo exhibition: Echoes Of Not Yet, Gyldepris Kunsthall, Bergen
December / Screening: Mirrormap; Fondation Opale, Lens
January 2025 / Exhibition: TBA, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien
February / Solo exhibition: Children Of Infinity, ADIACENZE, Bologna
February / Exhibition: PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
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