VASYLYNA BURYANYK

PAID ON CREDIT​

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February 21st - March 21st 2025

Exhibiton opening: Friday, February 21st, 19h

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Over the 33 years of its existence, the Russian Federation has initiated 14 military conflicts, each of which has had a significant impact on the environment. These wars not only left millions of human casualties and destroyed infrastructure, but also delivered systematic blows to ecosystems, undermining collective ecological security. The Russian Federation has become one of the largest violators of international environmental law, using military equipment, chemical, and biological agents that devastate the environment and pose long-term health risks—not only during the conflict but also in the post-war period.

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As of early 2025, there is no legal document prohibiting such practices or ensuring accountability for environmental crimes. While the concept of "war crimes" has become part of international law, and mechanisms exist within the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations to address such crimes, the effectiveness of these mechanisms in the context of environmental damage remains limited.

Vasylyna Buryanyk (1985) graduated in 2004 from the College of Arts Adalbert Erdely in Uzhhorod at the Department of Design and in 2010 at the National Academy of Arts in Lviv at the Department of Art Textiles. In her artistic practice and research, she deals with environmental and social issues in Ukraine and the rest of the world. In doing so, she uses transparent polyester fabrics that she shapes into changing kinetic installations. At the center of her experiments is textile, and by using its “softening” properties of this material, she talks about the open wounds on the body of reality. Working with mixed fibers, she refers to the relationship between man and nature, and through the meditative process of creating installations, she opens space and time for thinking about acute problems. She is the winner of numerous awards (2nd National Biennial of Young Art, 2019, Kharkiv; First Prize for Sculpture of Ukraine M17 Sculpture Prize, 2020, Kyiv; and 17th International Tapestry Triennial, 2022, Lodz); and has participated in residencies in Turkey, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and France.
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