Lesia Vasylchenko (born in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an artist and a researcher. Her practice spans video, photography, and installation, focusing on the intersections of visual culture, media technologies, and chronopolitics. She develops speculative terminology 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 is the founder of STRUKTURA.Time, an interdisciplinary initiative bridging visual art, media archaeology, literature, and philosophy. 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 shown, among others, at the MUNCH Triennial, Pochen Biennale, and New Visions Triennial. She received the Sandefjord Kunstforening Art Award (2023) and the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2025). Her work is part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.
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
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/19/lesia-vasylchenko-wins-pinchukartcentre-prize
https://networkcultures.org/longform/2024/12/10/chronosphere/
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/603298/lesia-vasylchenkochronosphere/
https://necsus-ejms.org/scale-infrastructure-and-extractivism/
https://kunstkritikk.com/the-chrononaut/
https://www.norskebilledkunstnere.no/billedkunst/aktuelt/planetarisk-sansing-en-samtale-med-lesia-vasylchenko/
https://www.xronosphere.com/
https://struktura-time.com/