ZHURUNOVA
CV
Marharyta Zhurunova, an artist from Ukraine. Born on November 29, 1994 in Vinnytsia. Engaged in printed graphics, installation, and graphics transitioning into installation. Explores the sacred and the non-human-made. Works with themes of emotional trauma and ways to deal with it through artistic methods.
Studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Department of Book and Easel Graphics, and graduated in 2018 with a Master's degree. Later completed a course of study in Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (2023, Salzburg, Austria) and Climate Adaption for Creatives (2024-25, online, Black Mountains College & The British Council).
Since 2015, she has been working in co-authorship with Bohdan Lokatyr in the field of environmental, site-specific art.
In 2019, both artists became winners of scholarships of the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists, and received a grant from the President of Ukraine.
Finalists of the contemporary art competition named after Natan Altman (Vinnytsia, 2018), Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020), Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023).
Solo shows:
Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2016
Khmelnytsky Regional Art Museum, Ukraine, 2017
AkademART Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine, 2018
Lviv National Literary Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko, Ukraine, 2018
Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2019
ART Gallery Basement of the Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine, 2019
Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Lithuania, Vilnius, 2019
Assortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2023
Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023
International center for the arts in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, 2023
Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023
Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv, 2024
Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025
Selected exhibitions:
A4, BALLPOINT (Kyiv, Karas Gallery, 2015-2018)
Space of Borderland (Kyiv, Soviart Gallery, 2018)
Greater Space, (Kharkiv, Yermilov Center, 2019)
Contemporary art competition named after Natan Altman (Vinnytsia, 2018)
Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019)
All-Ukrainian biennial of levkas (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2019-21)
Observations, (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Form of space (Port.agency and LCD 044, Kyiv, 2020)
M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Lacuna International Contemporary Art Festival «Distance» (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2021)
Mykolaiv ART Week: CONNECT! (Mykolaiv, 2021)
Exhibition on the results of the ART Kuzemyn residence (G. Semiradsky Gallery, Kharkiv, 2021)
Time of war. Reflections. (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2022)
Invasion. Before and after (Wroclaw, Krakow, Poland, 2022-23)
Kunstausstellung // pARTner residence (Feldkirch, Austria, 2022)
The Art Of Resistance (University of Valencia, Spain, 2022)
(Museu d´Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Vilafamés, Spain, 2023)
Indicators (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2023)
Inner Landscapes (ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023)
Day after Day (atelier19, Paderborn, Germany, 2023)
(Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany, 2023)
(Galerie LeonART, Nürnberg, Germany, 2023)
Concentration of the Will (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2023)
Sculpture Week (Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2023)
Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023)
Spaces. Borders. Frontiers. (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, 2023)
Formula of Resilience (Center of Contemporary Art M17, Kyiv, 2024)
OASIS? (Lviv, Palace of Arts, 2025)
Unframed (BASIS 16.05.—31.05.25 Silandro, Italy; SILENCIO 6.06.—10.07.25 Turin, Italy.)
Frieden (Museum Bruder Klaus, Sachseln, Switzerland, 2025)
Print exhibitions:
International Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms "Graphics MINI SPACE" (Lviv, 2015)
ESTAMP'15 (Lviv, 2015)
Exhibition of student works “Graphics. Progress of the young” (Lviv, 2015)
BREST PRINT TRIENNIAL (Belarus, Brest, 2015)
VII BIENNAL INTERNATIONAL D'EX-LIBRIS CONTRATALLA-2015 (Spain, Terragona 2015)
Małe Triennale Grafiki Myślenice 2015 (Poland, Myslenice, 2015)
International Biennial of Graphic Arts “Leopolis” 2016 (Lviv, 2016)
Bucharest International Print Biennale (Romania, Bucharest, 2017)
International Contest of Small Graphics and Exlibris Ostrów Wielkopolski (Poland, Ostrów Wielkopolski, 2019, 2021)
20th International Print Biennale Varna (Bulgaria, Varna, 2019)
the 17th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, (Poland, Lodz, 2020)
International Virtual Engravist Printmaking Biennial (Engravist, online exhibition)
Biennial of International Art Museum Timisoara 2020 (Romania, Timisoara, 2020)
International ex-libris competition Finland 2020 (Naantali, Finland, 2020)
Second International mini print Triennial "Intaglio» (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021)
Land art:
International Land Art Festival “Mythogenesis” (Vinnytsia, 2015 - 2021)
International Land Art Symposium “Borderline Space. Mogrytsia” (Sumy, 2016-2021)
Khortytsia Land Art Festival (Zaporizhzhya, 2016)
Ex.plein air: Remote access. Chernihiv (Chernihiv, 2017)
Film and Urban Festival “86”, land art program (Slavutych, 2017)
Curatorial project Yakunin Series “Luft pause” (Lviv, 2017)
Land Art Festival “Spider Web” (Odessa, 2017)
International Festival of Arts of the Carpathian Region “Carpathian Space” (Ivano Frankivsk, 2018)
International Land Art Symposium “Land of Power”, within the project Territory of Inspiration (State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Tustan”, Urich, 2018)
Land Art Festival “Nature and Art” (Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019)
Scholarship for the creation of land art CONTRmyf (2022)
Project "Lendart and archaeology: new synergy across borders" (Akmyanje, Lithuania, 2022)
Residences:
MC6, Slavsko, Ukraine, 2019, 2024
ART Kuzemyn, Ukraine, 2021
pARTner Residency program at Villa Müller, Feldkirch, Austria, 2022
Residence at Hata-Maisternya (financed by the Creative Europe program), Ukraine, 2022
the Navigation program (Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023)
ICA residency (financed by the Artists at Risk program), Italy, 2023
ArtsIceland (financed by the Culture Moves Europe program), Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023
HOME residency program, Graz, Austria, 2023
Slow River House, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 2024
CreArt AiR in Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025