Ukraine House in Denmark, in collaboration with Spilne Art, presents a new chapter of Ukrainian artist Mariia Kulykivska’s long-term project — My Body is a Battlefield. Copenhagen. The open-air installation at the waterfront, located near Ukraine House, will run from November 18 to December 26.
The exhibition unveils Kulykivska’s latest sculptural work — Pregnant Figure — from the forthcoming series After Death Comes Life. Cast from the artist’s own body five months before the full-scale Russian invasion, the sculpture contains bullet casings, fragments of mines, and dried flowers from Ukrainian battlefields and fields — symbols of death and rebirth united within one form.
Through this coexistence of fragility and power, pain and hope, Mariia Kulykivska transforms the body into a battlefield — a space of memory, vulnerability, and resilience. Her work is a reflection on how life continues to emerge even amid destruction, how mourning turns into renewal, and how art becomes a vessel for survival.
Mariia Kulykivska (b. 1988, Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine) is a multimedia artist, architect, performer, and curator whose work examines displacement, embodiment, and the transformative power of fragility as forms of resistance. Working across sculpture, watercolor, performance, and political action, she treats the human body as both a political and poetic material.
Following the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Kulykivska became a nomadic artist, working across Scandinavia, Europe, and Ukraine. She is currently based between Kyiv and London, where she is pursuing her PhD research.
Her works have been exhibited internationally in major museums and biennials, including Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Accelerator (Stockholm), Saatchi Gallery (London), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Albertinum (Dresden), and Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv), and are represented in collections such as the Fenix Museum of Migration (Rotterdam) and Francisco Carolinum Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Linz).
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