Photo: Sam Rye, SeaM, Weimar, 2023
Uliana Bychenkova CV
Uliana Bychenkova is an audio & visual artist, designer, researcher and curator. She was born in 1986 in Kerch (Crimea, Ukraine). Living and working in Kyiv (Ukraine) and in Weimar (Germany). As methods, she practices Feminist Artistic Research, the intersection of disciplines, strategic imagination, and tactical inventions, which are formalized through a variety of mediums, including sound performance, ceramic objects, self-publishing, conceptual terms, etc.
As a sound artist, Uliana focuses on the timbre-oriented aesthetics of electroacoustic music, conceptual equality of different sonic materials, and the political dimension of spatial compositional gestures. She draws inspiration from feminist musicology studies and the compositional methods of female composers, especially the pioneers of early electronic music.
Her current interest lies between intersections of Feminist and Intermedia theories — as a Master student at the SeaM (Studio for Electroacoustic Music Weimar) she is focusing on the relationships of Electroacoustic Composition with different dimensions of the field of Visual Composition, the Sound Design & Film Scoring practices in particular.
Education
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Graphic Arts (2011); Rodchenko Art School of Photography and Multimedia, Media Art, Moscow (2015); European Humanities University Summer School, Artistic Research, Vilnius (2014); Feminist Writing Workshop, Lviv (2020); Bauhaus University, Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Design, Weimar (Since April 2022), Concordia University, Electroacoustic Studies, Montréal (Exchange Semester, Fall 2023).
Group projects & collaborations
Girls Noise Band “Pripoy!” (2013–2017); Self-publishing initiative “Urbanfeminism” (together with Alexandra Talaver, 2015–2017); Design research trio “U,N,A collective” (together with Nika Kudinova and Alena Solomadina, since 2017).
Scholarships, residencies, awards
Grand Prix of the Non-Stop Youth Art Festival, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, 2012; Grand Prix of the competition “Best Book Design", project “Znak. Ukrainian Trademarks of the 1960–1980s” (U,N,A collective), Book Arsenal, Kyiv, 2020; Feminist Research Residence “Dreams of Sisterhood”, LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, 2021; Künstlerhof Frohnau Art Residence, Berlin, 2022; Donumenta Artistic Research Residence, Regensburg, 2022.
Curatorial projects
Exhibition “Coordinate system. Exhibition, discussion, experiment”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, 2013 (together with Alina Kleitman); Design research exhibition project “ZNAK. Ukrainian trademarks of the 1960s–1980s”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, 2017 (as part of the U, N, A collective); International feminist art project “Cave of the Golden Rose”, Closer Art Center, Kyiv, 2019 (together with Anna Scherbyna, Zhanna Dolgova, and Valentina Petrova), “Vystavka-Chytanka” (Exhibition-Reading), Artspace Kryla, Kyiv, 2020 (together with Anna Scherbyna); “How do we turn salt into sugar?”, Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin, 2023 (together with Anna Scherbyna).
As a sound artist, Uliana focuses on the timbre-oriented aesthetics of electroacoustic music, conceptual equality of different sonic materials, and the political dimension of spatial compositional gestures. She draws inspiration from feminist musicology studies and the compositional methods of female composers, especially the pioneers of early electronic music.
Her current interest lies between intersections of Feminist and Intermedia theories — as a Master student at the SeaM (Studio for Electroacoustic Music Weimar) she is focusing on the relationships of Electroacoustic Composition with different dimensions of the field of Visual Composition, the Sound Design & Film Scoring practices in particular.
Education
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Graphic Arts (2011); Rodchenko Art School of Photography and Multimedia, Media Art, Moscow (2015); European Humanities University Summer School, Artistic Research, Vilnius (2014); Feminist Writing Workshop, Lviv (2020); Bauhaus University, Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Design, Weimar (Since April 2022), Concordia University, Electroacoustic Studies, Montréal (Exchange Semester, Fall 2023).
Group projects & collaborations
Girls Noise Band “Pripoy!” (2013–2017); Self-publishing initiative “Urbanfeminism” (together with Alexandra Talaver, 2015–2017); Design research trio “U,N,A collective” (together with Nika Kudinova and Alena Solomadina, since 2017).
Scholarships, residencies, awards
Grand Prix of the Non-Stop Youth Art Festival, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, 2012; Grand Prix of the competition “Best Book Design", project “Znak. Ukrainian Trademarks of the 1960–1980s” (U,N,A collective), Book Arsenal, Kyiv, 2020; Feminist Research Residence “Dreams of Sisterhood”, LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, 2021; Künstlerhof Frohnau Art Residence, Berlin, 2022; Donumenta Artistic Research Residence, Regensburg, 2022.
Curatorial projects
Exhibition “Coordinate system. Exhibition, discussion, experiment”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, 2013 (together with Alina Kleitman); Design research exhibition project “ZNAK. Ukrainian trademarks of the 1960s–1980s”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, 2017 (as part of the U, N, A collective); International feminist art project “Cave of the Golden Rose”, Closer Art Center, Kyiv, 2019 (together with Anna Scherbyna, Zhanna Dolgova, and Valentina Petrova), “Vystavka-Chytanka” (Exhibition-Reading), Artspace Kryla, Kyiv, 2020 (together with Anna Scherbyna); “How do we turn salt into sugar?”, Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin, 2023 (together with Anna Scherbyna).