Lesia Vasylchenko (b. Kyiv, Ukraine) is an artist and researcher whose practice spans video, photography, and installation. Her work focuses on the intersections of visual culture, media archaeology, and chronopolitics. She develops speculative frameworks such as “Tachyonic Data” (Onassis Publications) and “Chronosphere” (Institute of Network Cultures) to critically explore temporality, more-than-human time, and technologies of vision. Vasylchenko holds a degree in Journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a degree in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, MUNCH Museum, and Henie Onstad Art Center. She received the Sandefjord Kunstforening Art Award (2023), the PinchukArtCentre Prize Main Award (2025), and is currently nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize (2027). Her work is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.
2026
February / Artist talk: How Feelings Become Battlefields: Ukrainian Art and Emotional Infrastructures of War; Palais de Tokyo, Paris
February / Exhibition: TBA; PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv
March / Solo exhibition: TBA; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
May / Exhibition: TBA; Venice Biennale, Venice
June / Exhibition: Kyiv Biennale - A Bird That Cannot Land; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
June / Publication: Chronosphere; INC Longform Reader; Institute of Network
Cultures, Amsterdam
September / Exhibition: TBA; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
October / Exhibition: TBA; Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2025
January / Exhibition: Mirrormap; Fondation Opale, Lens
January / Exhibition: Blooming Midnight, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien
February / Solo exhibition: Children Of Infinity; ADIACENZE, Bologna
February / Exhibition: PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
May / Solo exhibition: Chronosphere, Riga Photography Biennial; Riga Art Space, Riga
June / Exhibition: Ring Of Fire; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
July / Exhibition: Planet on a Pin, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami
August / Exhibition: Ambient Propaganda, IMPAKT - Centre for Media Culture, Utrecht
September / Exhibition: Sunset Every Two Years; Klaipėda Biennial, Klaipėda
October / Exhibition: Breaking the Course of the European Boomerang; Pragovka Gallery, Prague
October / Exhibition: Near East, Far West - Kyiv Biennial; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
November / Exhibition: Vertical Horizon - Kyiv Biennial; Lentos Art Museum, Linz
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