Lesia Vasylchenko / Witch-hunt, technocapitalism and visual culture

A witch trapped in a bottle, c.1850
Courtesy: Pitt Rivers Museum — A witch trapped in a bottle, c.1850 Courtesy: Pitt Rivers Museum

LESIA VASYLCHENKO

Lesia Vasylchenko was born 1990 in Kyiv, Ukraine and is based in Oslo, Norway.
She participates with the presentation Witch-hunt, technocapitalism and visual culture followed by a roundtable discussion about the matters addressed, and how we can use the internet for global attention towards ongoing witch-hunts.

Location: Rødbanken in Tromsø.

Vasylchenko is an artist and curator. Her work with installations, moving images and photography raises questions around temporality, history and memorialising. She works across a range of media including video, photography and installation.

Vasylchenko is a co-curator of the artist-run gallery space Podium and a founder of STRUKTURA. Time, a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice within the framework of visual arts, media archaeology, literature, and philosophy. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Vasylchenko have been shown among others at Louvre Museum, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg; Tenthaus Gallery, Oslo; The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale. She also participated in Coast Contemporary 2021.