MARYNA SEMENKOVA

Maryna Semenkova continues to participate in The Me Before The War No Longer Exists: Ukrainian Portraits, an ongoing participatory photographic project by Ukrainian-born, Baltimore-based photographer Elena Volkova. The project’s title comes from a phrase Maryna spoke during an interview with the artist. Maryna and Elena first met in Berlin in 2023 for their first photographic… Read more: Maryna Continues Her Collaboration with Elena Volkova

The conceptual art project ‘Red Utopia’ by artist Maryna Semenkova has been officially featured in the European art publication 16mag, offering an in-depth look at its visual narrative and artistic concepts. The complete article and artwork showcase are available for viewing on the publication’s platform. You can read the full feature at 16mag.

On December 3, 2025, Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist and researcher Maryna Semenkova took part in the seminar War-ning Art: Resilience, Response, and Artistic Knowledge in Finland, held in Helsinki. Within the seminar program, Maryna Semenkova presented a talk titled“Psychological Resilience in Wartime Art: An Eco-Mind Feminist Perspective.” In her presentation, she reflected on four years of… Read more: Maryna Semenkova at the seminar War-ning Art: Resilience, Response, and Artistic Knowledge in Finland

The project Red Utopia will be presented at Kunstschaufenster in Vienna on November 25, 2025. The exhibition features photographic works centered on the image of a red yarn ball, alongside video documentation of the durational performance in which the artist knitted a red flag over 77 hours across 22 days. Through this minimalist yet intense… Read more: Red Utopia in Vienna — November 25, 2025

In preparation for her role in the film Block 10, Maryna Semenkova made a deeply personal decision — she agreed to cut her long hair. It was the first time in her life that she had ever done so. Having always worn her hair long, this act became not only part of the artistic process… Read more: Semenkova Cuts Her Hair for the Film Block 10

Maryna Semenkova takes part in the group exhibition The 11th Annual Autumnal Exhibition at Ideal Glass Studio, New York, USA.Her photo series FROSTY GREY is presented as part of the show, opening on September 28, 2025. The exhibition poster in New York features one of Maryna’s photographs from the series on the cover.

For the last three and a half years, Ukrainian artist Maryna Semenkova has been living in exile in Germany because of the war. This summer, during her only possible three-week vacation, she once again returned home to Odesa — a city whose port is constantly under shelling. Despite the danger, daily life continues: people shop… Read more: Life Reflected: Video After Returning from Home Town ODESA UKRAINE

Semenkova took part in the Heidelberg Workshop on Human Rights Education and Solidarity in Uncertain Times, which took place at the Mark Twain Center on Transatlantic Relations. There, Maryna presented the performance Eulogy based on her work on the documentary film the Loom.

Maryna Semenkova is going to take part in the exhibition with two performances: THE VYSHYVANKA – on the opening day and ZERO LINE – on September 21st. More information on Instagram and Facebook

Starts at 17.00.The exhibition is dedicated to the issues of forced migration and will feature video PARAGRAPH24. Video performance Paragraph 24 is shown on the wall in a office of Wilhelm Pieck — the first and only president of the GDR (1949–1960) The exhibition will last from May 18 to November 10, 2024. Read more

Group exhibition in New York with a series of photographs that Maryna took in 2017 in her city of Odesa (Ukraine) after returning from India. This was the time when she needed to reintegrate into the society from which she fell out 3 years ago and she returned in a new capacity. If you are… Read more: Opening at IDEALGLASSSTUDIO (New York USA)

Maryna took down her monumental installation TAPED at Atelier 11 in Cité Falguière (L’air ARTS, Paris) to mark two years of her life in exile.

A video documentation of the performance Paragraph 24 was presented at the release of the 11th issue of the magazine Paris lit up in Paris. This issue also contains an article about the mentioned performance.

Artist talk by the Ukrainian Solidarity Residences program artists, where Semenkova presented the beginning of work on the project Sense of Home.

29 of October, 2023 Maryna repeated her site specific the Zero Line performance at Myymälä2 pop up gallery at Bock House on Katariinankatu 4 (Senaatintori) after almost one year, when she first showed it at Vila Vainola (Nelimarkka Museum in Alayarvi, Finland)

On October 28, Maryna takes part in HIAP Open Studio in Helsinki During this event She will present her art practice and speak about her escape from the war in Ukraine, her life in exile and how this experience has influenced her art.  Artist will also speak about transformation from a lawyer into an artist.… Read more: HIAP Open studio, Helsinki, FINLAND

Maryna took part in a round table on the panel discussions “REFUGEES. GEOPOLITICS OF EXILE” within the framework of the festival LES RENCONTRES, Arles, France – together with curators of the exhibition To heal a world – Nathalie Herschdorfer and Pascal Hufschmid. The discussion was moderated by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot. Watch video At this meeting, artist… Read more: Semenkova at LES RENCONTRES: Geopolitics of Exile, Arles FRANCE