Anzhelika Palyvoda
Anzhelika Palyvoda (b.2000, Kyiv, Ukraine) currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Since 2022 student of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, painting department (prof. H. Bohl). Graduated in monumental painting at National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture (Kyiv) with a master’s degree in 2022.
Works in such media as painting, installation and sound. Co-founder and curator of an artist-run space „arka arka“ (Vienna).
The artist was recently exhibited at periscope, Salzburg (solo), FAVU gallery, Brno, discotec, Vienna (group), Haunt/frontviews Kunstverein, Berlin(group), Kulturbahnhof, Kassel (group).
In her practice she gradually shifts from the personal toward a broader, more universal language. By translating human experience into abstract gestures and scenes, she creates works that aim not so much to tell a story as to become images of collective memory, hope and co-presence.
“My works function as imitations of reality — of what has passed or what may have never existed (...).”
In my practice, I explore forms of resistance to forgetting and violence by translating personal and collective memory into physical space. Using materials such as charcoal, concrete, metal, and sound, I create installations that understand memory as fragile and mutable. These works often take the form of gardens of resistance. My works function as imitations of reality — of what has passed or what may have never existed — and carry a nostalgic, sentimental dimension.
I approach installation as a spatial condition rather than an object, where the viewer’s body becomes implicated in the work. Through light, sound, and architectural interventions, I construct environments that shift between distance and intimacy, inviting a state of attention, hesitation, and quiet participation.
Drawing from personal histories while opening toward collective experience, I work with fragments, traces, and repetitions as ways of holding what cannot be fully articulated. My practice unfolds through accumulation and subtle transformation, creating spaces where memory is not fixed, but continuously negotiated and shared.
