Teta Tsybulnyk is an artist and psychoanalyst from Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research ranges from more-than-human gaze on landscape to dreamwork and (im)possibilities of language. She studied sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, social anthropology at the Central European University and clinical psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2017, she co-founded ruїns collective, an art group currently consisting of herself and Elias Parvulesco. They have collaborated on a series of video works that were shown at the international film festivals and art exhibitions around the world.
Selected works:

• Penelope's Dreams (2025)
• Psychohistorical Journey No. 4 (2025)
• Other Storms (2024)
• I Am a Rock (2024)
• Endless Sea of Sand (2023)
• Salty Oscillations (2021)
• K-Object from LL-Group (2019)
• zong (2019)
• dendro dreams (2018)

Selected publications:

• Penelope's Dreams [Сни Пенелопи] @ Kontur (2026, ukr)
• The Unconscious of the Landscape @ SONIAKH (2024, en) & Несвідоме ландшафту @ Krytyka (2024, ukr)
• Interview with ruїns collective @ Pontón Magazine (2024, en/sk)
• Interview with Teta Tsybulnyk @ KORDON (2023, en/est)
• Chapter "Explication" in A Dictionary of Contemporary Art (Method Fund, 2021, ukr) // Словник сучасного мистецтва (Метод Фонд, 2021)
• K-Object from LL-Group @ Creating Ruin (2019, en/ukr)

Selected exhibitions:

• Art After 2000. Glossary, Kyiv, Ukraine (18.07—24.08.2025)
• Earth as a Body, Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania (18.12—29.12.2024)
• Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany (14.09—14.12.2024)
• Landscapes of an Ongoing Past, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, Germany (16.08—22.09.2024)
• Implantations, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany (07.12—10.12.2023)
• To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023), BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands (09.09—29.10.2023)
• Chain Reaction, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (06.02—12.02.2023)
• The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (20.01—03.03.2023)
• Non-Human Agents During the War at documenta fifteen, documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany (17.09.2022)
• To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2022), Coalmine — Raum für Fotografie, Winterthur, Switzerland (08.09—18.12.2022)
• Unfolding Landscapes — Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium (08.07—18.09.2022)
• Chain Reaction, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy (03.05—15.05.2022)
• Unfolding Landscapes — Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark (29.01—01.05.2022)
• Kyiv Biennial 2021, The House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine (22.10.2021)
• NHT, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine (04.09—20.09.2020)
• Climate Emergency Movement, MetaCulture, Kyiv, Ukraine (12.06—18.06.2019)

Selected festival screenings:

• Filma. Feminist Film Festival (23.11—08.12.2024) 
• KORDON Art Film Festival, Kärdla, Hiiumaa island, Estonia (01.08.2024)
• goEast International Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany (28.04.2024)
• FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille, France (08—11.07.2022)
• Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK (25.03.2022)
• Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (24.04—10.05.2020)
• Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (31.05.2018)

Residencies / Fellowships / Programs:

• Scattered Communities: first round, second round (2024–25)
• Kyiv to LA / 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA (spring 2024)
• KORDONair, Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estonia (autumn 2023)
• DAAD Artists-in-Berlin, Berlin, Germany (summer 2023)
• Bodies as Lands, Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania (spring 2023)
• Grounding, IZOLYATSIA Foundation, Soledar, Ukraine (summer 2021)
• Course of Art. Positions of the Artist, Method Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine (autumn 2020)
• V:UNCASE sound residency, Zhytomyr, Ukraine (summer 2020)
• Climate Art Labs, Slavske, Ukraine (spring 2019)