About
Viktoriia Rozentsveih
Viktoriia Rozentsveih is a contemporary Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist. She lives and works between Kyiv and Berlin, Germany. In her artistic practice, she works with media such as graphics, installation, art objects, video, textile, and photography, actively experimenting with form and material. Her work emphasizes the interaction of light and space, with many of her projects exploring transparency, layering, and illumination.
Her practice is focused on themes of memory, home, loss, and the experience of being “in-between”—a state where presence and absence coexist simultaneously. Rozentsveih’s projects often explore the juxtaposition and interaction of opposites. In her works, she pays particular attention to transparency, layering, and the interplay of light and space. These strategies serve as a means of investigating liminal states, where the fragility, lightness, or temporality of materials becomes a metaphor for the instability and vulnerability of experience, while also allowing for interaction with space, expanding and complementing it. Through her experiments with light and semi-transparent surfaces, she creates works at the threshold of the visible and invisible, reflecting ruptures in memory where the personal intersects with the collective.
Rozentsveih actively engages with landscape and environment, which serve as carriers of space, time, and memory. She often draws on personal photo archives and the context of Kherson Oblast, her place of origin, which has been affected by ongoing conflict since 2022. In her practice, she frequently works with new materials and forms, bringing a high degree of experimentation to her work. Some projects develop gradually, acquiring new forms and meanings throughout the creative process.
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Education
2025 - now Universität der Künste Berlin, Bildende Kunst. Berlin, Germany
2022 - 2023 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Graphic Arts, Master degree. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Kunsthochschule, one semester in comics and illustration class, Prof. Hendrik Dorgathen. Kassel, Germany
2018 - 2022 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Graphic Arts, Bachelor degree. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 - 2023 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Graphic Arts, Master degree. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Kunsthochschule, one semester in comics and illustration class, Prof. Hendrik Dorgathen. Kassel, Germany
2018 - 2022 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Graphic Arts, Bachelor degree. Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal exhibitions
2024 Beyond the horizon line, Haus Berneburg. Kassel, Germany
2023 Nova Kakhovochka, Dim gallery. Warsaw, Poland
2023 Nova Kakhovochka, Dim gallery. Warsaw, Poland
Group exhibitions
2025 Archipelago of History, PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 The Way We Remember, LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive, Ukraїnka Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 Transitus, Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile, Berlin, Germany
2025 And the Wind will take us Away, Stasys museum, Panevezys, Lithuania
2025 Stolen Past, Threatened Future, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse. Vienna, Austria
2025 The Way We Remember, LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive, Ukraїnka Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 Transitus, Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile, Berlin, Germany
2025 And the Wind will take us Away, Stasys museum, Panevezys, Lithuania
2025 Stolen Past, Threatened Future, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse. Vienna, Austria
2024 Transitus, Hallenbad ost. Kassel, Germany
2024 Pool!it, UK14, Kassel Museum Night. Kassel, Germany
2024 Heart of the Earth, Ukraine House in Denmark by Mystetskyi arsenal. Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 Nobody. Nowhere. Never. God willing!, Dnipro Contemporary Culture Centre, DCCC. Dnipro, Ukraine
2024 Between Farewell and Return, Mystetskyi arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War, Galeria Labirynt. Lublin, Poland
2024 Pool!it, UK14, Kassel Museum Night. Kassel, Germany
2024 Heart of the Earth, Ukraine House in Denmark by Mystetskyi arsenal. Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 Nobody. Nowhere. Never. God willing!, Dnipro Contemporary Culture Centre, DCCC. Dnipro, Ukraine
2024 Between Farewell and Return, Mystetskyi arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War, Galeria Labirynt. Lublin, Poland
2023 Individual variability, charity exhibition, Modern Art Research Institute. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Resistance, shelter of the University of Duet. Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2023 Is Kryvyi Rih "artistic"?, Diia.Business, 39.9 gallery. Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2023 Mykolaiv Art week, online and offline exhibition in shelter. Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Access mode: https://memory.myart.org.ua
2023 Brave to Witness, Ukraine House in Denmark. Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Are you okay?, Ukrainian house. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Paving the way, group exhibition, Peremoga coworking space. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 One with the other. Spatial dialogues. Viktoriia Rozentsveih and Asya Harmash, Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 AGGRESSION EXPLODES IN SILENCE, online exhibition, Art space "KOLO"
Access mode: https://readymag.com/u2513350486/4133852/
2023 Resistance, shelter of the University of Duet. Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2023 Is Kryvyi Rih "artistic"?, Diia.Business, 39.9 gallery. Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2023 Mykolaiv Art week, online and offline exhibition in shelter. Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Access mode: https://memory.myart.org.ua
2023 Brave to Witness, Ukraine House in Denmark. Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Are you okay?, Ukrainian house. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Paving the way, group exhibition, Peremoga coworking space. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 One with the other. Spatial dialogues. Viktoriia Rozentsveih and Asya Harmash, Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 AGGRESSION EXPLODES IN SILENCE, online exhibition, Art space "KOLO"
Access mode: https://readymag.com/u2513350486/4133852/
2022 Na chasi, a charity art event. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Ukraine Ablaze, online exhibition, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine. Access mode: https://ukraineablaze.art/artists/viktoria-rosentsveih/nova-kakhovka-occupied 2022 Citizenship Ukraine, presentation, Documenta 15. Kassel, Germany
2022 Ukraine Ablaze, online exhibition, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine. Access mode: https://ukraineablaze.art/artists/viktoria-rosentsveih/nova-kakhovka-occupied 2022 Citizenship Ukraine, presentation, Documenta 15. Kassel, Germany
2021 Your names, Ukraine, Korsak Museum of Contemporary Art. Lutsk, Ukraine 2021 Avangard, festival of contemporary art, Lviv Palace of Arts. Lviv, Ukraine
Residencies
2025 Summer Art Academy. Salzburg, Austria
2024 - 2025 LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive, interdisciplinary art lab organised by NGO Docudays. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Residence retreat at Khata-Maysternya, Asortymentna kimnata. Babyn, Ukraine
2024 - 2025 LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive, interdisciplinary art lab organised by NGO Docudays. Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Residence retreat at Khata-Maysternya, Asortymentna kimnata. Babyn, Ukraine
Awards
2024 Featured in «Secondary Archive» – visual archive of Eastern European female artists
Publications & Press
2025 Artslooker, Що у нас і як: Про виставку «Як ми пам’ятаємо» від DOCU/СИНТЕЗ by Liza Korneichuk
2025 Artslooker, Що ми робимо з архівом (чи він — із нами)? Розмови з художниками/-ицями LAB: DOCU/СИНТЕЗ х Архів Війни by Asia Pavlenko
2025 Echo Gone Wrong, "Exhibition 'And the Wind Will Take Us Away" at Stasys Museum in Panevėžys
2025 Artslooker, Що ми робимо з архівом (чи він — із нами)? Розмови з художниками/-ицями LAB: DOCU/СИНТЕЗ х Архів Війни by Asia Pavlenko
2025 Echo Gone Wrong, "Exhibition 'And the Wind Will Take Us Away" at Stasys Museum in Panevėžys
2024 E-flux “Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War”
2024 LB.ua, "Women artists in war: the view of the twice invisible", by Kseniia Bilash
2024 Secondary Archive. Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, "Viktoriia Rozentsveih / Вікторія Розенцвейг", the text is written in a collaboration with Oksana Briukhovetska
2024 LB.ua, "Women artists in war: the view of the twice invisible", by Kseniia Bilash
2024 Secondary Archive. Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, "Viktoriia Rozentsveih / Вікторія Розенцвейг", the text is written in a collaboration with Oksana Briukhovetska
2023 Mystetskyi Arsenal, “Viktoriia Rozentsveih” in Ukraine Ablaze catalog
2022 Gallery "Neotodresh”, “Viktoriia Rozentsveih” in a zine catalogue of project "A View from Two Thousand Yards"
2022 Gallery "Neotodresh”, “Viktoriia Rozentsveih” in a zine catalogue of project "A View from Two Thousand Yards"
Organizational and curatorial work
2025 Transitus, Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile, Berlin, Germany
2024 Beyond the horizon line, Haus Berneburg. Kassel, Germany
2024 Transitus, Hallenbad ost. Kassel, Germany
2023 "(Pro)movy", participation of the zine community in collaboration with Maria Matyasheva, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 People, feeling, thoughts, in collaboration with Kana Nishimori "How I don't forget and forget", Haus Berneburg. Kassel, Germany
2024 Beyond the horizon line, Haus Berneburg. Kassel, Germany
2024 Transitus, Hallenbad ost. Kassel, Germany
2023 "(Pro)movy", participation of the zine community in collaboration with Maria Matyasheva, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 People, feeling, thoughts, in collaboration with Kana Nishimori "How I don't forget and forget", Haus Berneburg. Kassel, Germany