Kateryna Pomeichuk
Kateryna Pomeichuk is a movement artist, choreographer, and performer from Ukraine, based in Austria. Her practice explores ambiguity as a choreographic strategy, investigating the relationship between body, image, and perception across performance and video. Rooted in movement research and task‑based improvisation, her works emerge through collaboration and exchange in cross‑cultural contexts. She holds an MA in Movement Research, an MA in Choreography, and a BA in Performance and Pedagogy.
“I am drawn to the moment before recognition settles, where the body exceeds what we expect it to mean.”
My work exists in the space between — in the charged moment before a label is applied, before a body is fully read, before a first impression hardens into certainty. As a movement artist, choreographer, and performer working across live performance, video, and research, I explore how perception is shaped: how we look at bodies, how images are constructed, and how meaning can remain suspended rather than resolved. Movement and the body are my media.
Ambiguity is my primary choreographic tool, developed through artistic practice and my MA research. My process is rooted in the relationship between the body and the images it produces — researching unusual movement qualities and investigating how they change in dialogue with different materials, objects, and spatial conditions. A piece of white fabric, a specific costume, or the architecture of a space can each become an active force in this inquiry, shifting the body's appearance and the meaning it carries. Through improvisation and visual composition, this becomes a practice of constructing and destabilising bodily images. I also develop works specifically for the camera, treating it as a third body and collaborator rather than a recording device.
My work resists the urge to fix — fixed readings of the body, fixed narratives on stage, fixed categories of identity. I am drawn to the moment before recognition settles, where the body exceeds what we expect it to mean. I seek choreographic possibilities that expand beyond familiar narratives and toward the unresolved and the multiple. At the core of this is a deep curiosity about the human — about visibility and invisibility, belonging and erasure, and the social and political conditions that shape how bodies are seen and valued. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these questions have become inseparable from my practice. My collaborations with queer artists, including a film project exploring the utopia of queer parenthood, extend this inquiry into the possibility of imagining otherwise.
