Teta Tsybulnyk (1987) is an artist and psychoanalyst from Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, social anthropology at the Central European University and clinical psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Her research ranges from human and non-human gaze on the landscape to dreaming and semiotics of the unconscious.In 2017, she co-founded the ruїns collective, an art group currently consisting of herself and Elias Parvulesco. They have collaborated on a series of video works that have been shown at the international film festivals (FIDMarseille, goEast, Glasgow Short Film Festival) and art exhibitions worldwide (MAXXI National Museum in Rome, Art & History Museum in Brussels, documenta fifteen in Kassel). In 2020, they had a personal exhibition NHT at the Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal.
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Selected works:
- 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:
- Interview with ruїns collective: what cannot be remembered is doomed to repeat itself // Pontón (2024, EN/SK)
- The Unconscious of the Landscape // SONIAKH (2024, EN)
- Несвідоме ландшафту // Krytyka (2024, UKR)
- Interview with Teta Tsybulnyk: doing what you can, with what you have, wherever you are // KORDON (2023, EN/EST)
- Black Sun. Silence féminin: Linguo-speechlessness // BLOK Magazine (2022, EN)
- Експлікація; Захоплення та естетичне несвідоме // Словник сучасного мистецтва. Метод Фонд (2021, UKR)
- K-Object from LL-Group // Creating Ruin (2019, EN/UKR)
Selected exhibitions:
- 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 / Programs:
- Scattered Communities (autumn 2024)
- 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)