Mariya Pavlenko is an interdisciplinary artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. Pavlenko graduated from MFA program “Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies” at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2017 and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2007.

2024-2025 – guest research fellow at the Media Faculty of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

2022 – exhibition “Focus Europe II+III” at Schafhof - Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern and ph0n0l0gues at Belvedere am Kreuzberg, Berlin.

2021 – X Book Arsenal Book Fair in Kyiv, “Bibliothek der Künstlerinnen, Weimar” (pop-up events in the public space of Weimar), “Attempt of contact”, Viktor Marushchenko Photo School, Mala gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, as well as in the residence at Schafhof - Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern.

2020 – online residence ARTEFACT: CHOrnobyl x MADATAC XI.

2019 – "The Shadow of Dream* cast upon Giardini della Biennale", Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th International art exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

2019 – Wroclaw Drawing Triennial at BWA Wroclaw Glowny and group show “Recontexts of history” at Mala gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal.

2015-2017 – performance “Erfahrung” at Goethe National Museum; took part in group projects "(un)sounds of Buchenwald", Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar and Momentum Gallery, Berlin, "Tomorrow we will explain", public space/Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, "Kultursymposium Goethe Institut Weimar 2016", Weimar.

2015 – “The School of Kyiv” Biennial, curated by Austrian curators Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer.

In the period from 2010 - 2015 – numerous shows at different venues in Kyiv, Ukraine, among which are Mystetskyi Arsenal, Small Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Modern Art Research Institute, Ya-gallery, Bottega gallery, Labgarage gallery, Lavra gallery, Olena Zamostyan gallery, Mygallery, pidWALL gallery and outside of Ukraine, among which are MOCAK, Krakow, Poland, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria and Ukrainian institute of contemporary art in Chicago, USA.

2013 – Nomination for Henkel Art.Award.

2012 – grant from i3 foundation in Ukraine and completed personal project “Snow City” in Kyiv, Ukraine at different venues: Small gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Teplozvykoizolyatsiya plant and Main Astronomical Observatory of Ukraine.

2010 – nomination for MUHI award - competition for young Ukrainian artists.