Yulia Krivich (born Dnipro) is a visual artist, curator, PhD fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Krakow, and co-founder of the Solidarity Cultural Center "Sunflower" at the Museum of Modern Art in
Warsaw.
Graduated from the Department of Architecture of the State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Dnipro and the Faculty of Media Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Yulia currently working on her PhD project on visual arts related to language, Central-Eastern Europe and the decolonization processes.
Yulia has participated in numerous international projects and exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are in the public collection of the ING Art Foundation in Poland as well as various private collections. Her work explores issues of identity, using elements of activism and collective practices while exploring her position as a migrant. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Graduated from the Department of Architecture of the State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Dnipro and the Faculty of Media Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Yulia currently working on her PhD project on visual arts related to language, Central-Eastern Europe and the decolonization processes.
Yulia has participated in numerous international projects and exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are in the public collection of the ING Art Foundation in Poland as well as various private collections. Her work explores issues of identity, using elements of activism and collective practices while exploring her position as a migrant. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Selected solo/group exhibitions:
Upcoming: Festival 1955, Warsaw Museum, 2025
Change to Come, SKD (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden), DE, 2024
State of Emergence, NADA East Broadway, NY, USA, 2023
Refugee Welcome, auction exhibition, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2023
Tatsuno Art, Hyōgo, Japan, 2023
From place to community, from community to place, Magic Carpets, Kaunas Biennale, 2023 Collection reenactment project, Museum of Modern Arts in Zagreb, Croatia (SDK Słonecznik), 2023 Vilnius Art Performance Biennale, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2023
10th Orońsko Youth Triennial, Orońsko Polish Sculpture Center (as SDK Słonecznik), 2023 Preview, ING Polish Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland., 2023
Ukrainian Perspectives: photography from 1940-now, Chashama, New York, USA, 2023
Survey: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, group exhibition, Japan, 2023
You Know That You Are Human, Zionskirche, group exhibition, Berlin, 2022
Warsaw Under Construction Festival '14, MoMA Warsaw, group exhibition, 2022
Potential Narratives, Pracownia Wschodnia gallery, Warsaw, group exhibition,2022 2022Reclaiming Agency, Southern Utah University, USA, group exhibition, 2022
Secondary Archive, Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo, group exhibition, 2022
Restlessness comes at dusk, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2022 Solidarity, protest and concern, Festival of Photography in Lodz, group exhibition, 2022 Dictionary/Vocabulary, Teatr Nowy, public program, Warsaw, 2022
Manifesto for a Better Tomorrow, Academy Salon Gallery, group exhibition, 2021
Ceremonial, Złoty Kiosk, Wroclaw, solo exhibition, 2021
Milk Me Sugar, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, group exhibition, 2021
Zapping the Archive, Phroom, Getxo Photo Festival, group exhibition, 2020
Warsaw Under Construction 12 Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2020
Three is a crowd, BWA Wrocław, group exhibition, October 2020
Love, Lust & Fury, group exhibition, CCC exhibition hall in Klaipeda, Lithuania, 2019
Daring&Youth, EEP Berlin, Berlin Photo Week, Germany, solo exhibition, 2019
Daring&Youth, Museo Civico di Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy, solo exhibition, 2019
Foreign artists living in Poland, Biennale Warsaw, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2019
Daring & Youth, IS Gallery, Turin, Italy, solo exhibition, 2018
Daring & Youth / Go Home Polish, Institute of Photography Fort, WGW 2018.
Vilnius Queer Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, group exhibition
Daring & Youth, Curciut OFF, Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia, Italy, solo exhibition, 2018
Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine, group exhibition, 2018
Daring & Youth, Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, solo exhibition, 2017
Salon of New Photography, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2016
Livre Circulation(s), Festival Circulation(s), Paris, group exhibition, 2016
ShowOFF, Month of Photography in Krakow, Poland, group exhibition, 2015
Awards, scholarships, residencies:
Artslink International Fellowship, United States, 2024.
Past: Magic Carpets project residency, Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania, 2023
Nomination for Polityka Passport award in the field of visual arts (SDK Słonecznik collective), Tygodnik Polityka, 2022
Citizenship Ukraine, Documenta Fifteen, public program, 2022
Future Photography Platform, Lodz-Amsterdam, 2021
WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia, residency, 2021
City of Warsaw scholarship program, 2021
Solidarity Fellowship, ZA*Group, Krytyka Polityczna, 2020
Curciut OFF Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia, Italy, honorable mention, 2018.
Pla(t)form Winterthur, Fotomuseum, Switzerland, participant, 2018.
Pinchuk Art Center Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine, award nomination, 2018
Gaude Polonia Scholarship Program, Warsaw, Poland, 2016
ShowOFF, Month of Photography, Krakow, Poland, laurate, 2015
Scholarship of the Association of Authors and Composers ZAiKS, 2014
Coming Out Best Diploma Project Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, winner, 2013
Curatorial Practices:
Dear Future, vol.2, group project of Polish and Ukrainian artists, BWA Bielsko-Biala, 2023-2024
A Road. Leads. To Stairs in. The Heavens, group exhibition of Ukrainian male and female artists, Dnipro Center of Contemporary Culture, Ukraine, 2023
A Road. Leads. To Stairs in. The Heavens, in collaboration with Clemens Poole and Milena Khomchenko, group exhibition-project, Plato Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2023
Dear Future, group exhibition in the public space of Warsaw in collaboration with Galeria Promocyjna and SDK Słonecznik, Poland. 2023
SDK Słonecznik public program, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland 2022
In Ukraine, group exhibition during the Druh Druh art fair, Unit gallery, 2022
If there is no war today, it doesn't mean there is no war, group exhibition in collaboration with Marta Romankiv and Agata Cieślak, gallery Goethe Institute in Krakow, Poland, 2022
ZA*zine, curatorial project on the migration of art workers to Poland, publication, Institute of Culture in Gdansk, 2020-2021
Lectures/Conferences:
Artistic and Activist Solidarity Practices in Ukraine, discussion moderation, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, 2023 Decolonial Resistance lecture and workshop, Central-Eastern Europe edition, KEM School / TR theater, Warsaw, 2023
Feinart conversations, Feinart platform (University of Wolverhampton, UK; University of Edinburgh, UK; Zeppelin University, Germany; University of Iceland, Iceland), 2023 (online);
Lecture to participants and attendees of the art residency at ARTSVIT gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, 2023
Would there be decolonial art and activism if there were no (neo)colonial relations, as part of the exhibition "OME" The neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, Germany, 2023
At other ends of the world, symposium, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023
ArtsLink Assembly 2022: Greener Grass? Cultivating Transborder Connections Between Ukrainian Cultural Communities, U-Jazdowski Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2022
On Westsplaining, Unsound Festival discussion, Krakow, 2022
Ukraine Through a (De)Colonial Lens. On Western Art Knowledge Production in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022
Ukraine Through (De)Colonial Lens, Plant Fictions at Dutch Design Days, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2022 Reconstruction of Ukraine, A Symposium of Ideas and Strategies, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, Yale University New Haven, USA, Visual Culture Research Center Kyiv, 2022;
On Westsplaining and Decolonization of Ukraine, Citizenship Ukraine on Documenta Fifteen, Ruruhaus, Kassel, 2022;
On Ukraine, artist talk, Kunstsammlung (K20), Düsseldorf, Germany, 2022;
The Humanity Dialogues, symposium, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 2022 (online)
Future Photography Platform for Crisis Photographers, HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative, conference, Melkweg Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021
Manifestations of (in)Activism in the Latest Baltic Art, symposium, Riga Photography Biennale, Riga, Latvia, 2019
Upcoming: Festival 1955, Warsaw Museum, 2025
Change to Come, SKD (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden), DE, 2024
State of Emergence, NADA East Broadway, NY, USA, 2023
Refugee Welcome, auction exhibition, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2023
Tatsuno Art, Hyōgo, Japan, 2023
From place to community, from community to place, Magic Carpets, Kaunas Biennale, 2023 Collection reenactment project, Museum of Modern Arts in Zagreb, Croatia (SDK Słonecznik), 2023 Vilnius Art Performance Biennale, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2023
10th Orońsko Youth Triennial, Orońsko Polish Sculpture Center (as SDK Słonecznik), 2023 Preview, ING Polish Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland., 2023
Ukrainian Perspectives: photography from 1940-now, Chashama, New York, USA, 2023
Survey: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, group exhibition, Japan, 2023
You Know That You Are Human, Zionskirche, group exhibition, Berlin, 2022
Warsaw Under Construction Festival '14, MoMA Warsaw, group exhibition, 2022
Potential Narratives, Pracownia Wschodnia gallery, Warsaw, group exhibition,2022 2022Reclaiming Agency, Southern Utah University, USA, group exhibition, 2022
Secondary Archive, Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo, group exhibition, 2022
Restlessness comes at dusk, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2022 Solidarity, protest and concern, Festival of Photography in Lodz, group exhibition, 2022 Dictionary/Vocabulary, Teatr Nowy, public program, Warsaw, 2022
Manifesto for a Better Tomorrow, Academy Salon Gallery, group exhibition, 2021
Ceremonial, Złoty Kiosk, Wroclaw, solo exhibition, 2021
Milk Me Sugar, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, group exhibition, 2021
Zapping the Archive, Phroom, Getxo Photo Festival, group exhibition, 2020
Warsaw Under Construction 12 Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2020
Three is a crowd, BWA Wrocław, group exhibition, October 2020
Love, Lust & Fury, group exhibition, CCC exhibition hall in Klaipeda, Lithuania, 2019
Daring&Youth, EEP Berlin, Berlin Photo Week, Germany, solo exhibition, 2019
Daring&Youth, Museo Civico di Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy, solo exhibition, 2019
Foreign artists living in Poland, Biennale Warsaw, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2019
Daring & Youth, IS Gallery, Turin, Italy, solo exhibition, 2018
Daring & Youth / Go Home Polish, Institute of Photography Fort, WGW 2018.
Vilnius Queer Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, group exhibition
Daring & Youth, Curciut OFF, Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia, Italy, solo exhibition, 2018
Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine, group exhibition, 2018
Daring & Youth, Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, solo exhibition, 2017
Salon of New Photography, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, group exhibition, 2016
Livre Circulation(s), Festival Circulation(s), Paris, group exhibition, 2016
ShowOFF, Month of Photography in Krakow, Poland, group exhibition, 2015
Awards, scholarships, residencies:
Artslink International Fellowship, United States, 2024.
Past: Magic Carpets project residency, Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania, 2023
Nomination for Polityka Passport award in the field of visual arts (SDK Słonecznik collective), Tygodnik Polityka, 2022
Citizenship Ukraine, Documenta Fifteen, public program, 2022
Future Photography Platform, Lodz-Amsterdam, 2021
WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia, residency, 2021
City of Warsaw scholarship program, 2021
Solidarity Fellowship, ZA*Group, Krytyka Polityczna, 2020
Curciut OFF Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia, Italy, honorable mention, 2018.
Pla(t)form Winterthur, Fotomuseum, Switzerland, participant, 2018.
Pinchuk Art Center Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine, award nomination, 2018
Gaude Polonia Scholarship Program, Warsaw, Poland, 2016
ShowOFF, Month of Photography, Krakow, Poland, laurate, 2015
Scholarship of the Association of Authors and Composers ZAiKS, 2014
Coming Out Best Diploma Project Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, winner, 2013
Curatorial Practices:
Dear Future, vol.2, group project of Polish and Ukrainian artists, BWA Bielsko-Biala, 2023-2024
A Road. Leads. To Stairs in. The Heavens, group exhibition of Ukrainian male and female artists, Dnipro Center of Contemporary Culture, Ukraine, 2023
A Road. Leads. To Stairs in. The Heavens, in collaboration with Clemens Poole and Milena Khomchenko, group exhibition-project, Plato Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2023
Dear Future, group exhibition in the public space of Warsaw in collaboration with Galeria Promocyjna and SDK Słonecznik, Poland. 2023
SDK Słonecznik public program, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland 2022
In Ukraine, group exhibition during the Druh Druh art fair, Unit gallery, 2022
If there is no war today, it doesn't mean there is no war, group exhibition in collaboration with Marta Romankiv and Agata Cieślak, gallery Goethe Institute in Krakow, Poland, 2022
ZA*zine, curatorial project on the migration of art workers to Poland, publication, Institute of Culture in Gdansk, 2020-2021
Lectures/Conferences:
Artistic and Activist Solidarity Practices in Ukraine, discussion moderation, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, 2023 Decolonial Resistance lecture and workshop, Central-Eastern Europe edition, KEM School / TR theater, Warsaw, 2023
Feinart conversations, Feinart platform (University of Wolverhampton, UK; University of Edinburgh, UK; Zeppelin University, Germany; University of Iceland, Iceland), 2023 (online);
Lecture to participants and attendees of the art residency at ARTSVIT gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, 2023
Would there be decolonial art and activism if there were no (neo)colonial relations, as part of the exhibition "OME" The neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, Germany, 2023
At other ends of the world, symposium, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023
ArtsLink Assembly 2022: Greener Grass? Cultivating Transborder Connections Between Ukrainian Cultural Communities, U-Jazdowski Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2022
On Westsplaining, Unsound Festival discussion, Krakow, 2022
Ukraine Through a (De)Colonial Lens. On Western Art Knowledge Production in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022
Ukraine Through (De)Colonial Lens, Plant Fictions at Dutch Design Days, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2022 Reconstruction of Ukraine, A Symposium of Ideas and Strategies, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, Yale University New Haven, USA, Visual Culture Research Center Kyiv, 2022;
On Westsplaining and Decolonization of Ukraine, Citizenship Ukraine on Documenta Fifteen, Ruruhaus, Kassel, 2022;
On Ukraine, artist talk, Kunstsammlung (K20), Düsseldorf, Germany, 2022;
The Humanity Dialogues, symposium, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 2022 (online)
Future Photography Platform for Crisis Photographers, HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative, conference, Melkweg Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021
Manifestations of (in)Activism in the Latest Baltic Art, symposium, Riga Photography Biennale, Riga, Latvia, 2019