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, speculative futures, 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 in Oslo, and Schinkel Pavillion in Berlin. 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.
Upcoming:
February 2026 / Artist talk: How Feelings Become Battlefields: Ukrainian Art and Emotional Infrastructures of War; Palais de Tokyo, Paris
March / Solo exhibition: YesterLight - Sensing Ruptures of Time; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
May / Exhibition: Still Joy; Venice Biennale, Venice
June / Publication: Chronosphere; INC Longform Reader; Institute of Network
Cultures, Amsterdam
July / Performance: Blooming Midnight; MOLT, Berlin
September / Exhibition: TBA; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
January 2027 / Solo exhibition: TBA, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
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