Swimmer in The Grass #1, 2023

Valeriia Burliuk   New & remarkable Artists

Valeriia Burliuk is a spatial visual artist working at the intersection of photography, installation and bioart. Trained in art, design and performance in Moscow, she gradually moved towards expanded spatial practices in which images become objects and environments. In 2022–2023 she was a fellowship researcher and visiting artist at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She currently lives and works between Berlin, Valencia and London, developing projects that connect artistic intuition with research-based approaches.

Artist statement

For Valeriia, space is the primary medium. It is something that breathes, responds, and draws the viewer into a whole-body experience. Her practice is structured as work with the environment: from photographic series that grow into installative objects, to bioart projects where materiality and scientific processes become a language of expression.

Her background in research and education (including her fellowship at Bauhaus University) brings precision and methodology to her work, while her poetic and physical approach opens this structure to sensorial experience. In her photographic and installation projects, as well as in her exhibition designs, space functions as an organism in which sound, light, texture, temperature and rhythm interact, creating a soft, tactile field of attention that gently leads the viewer toward clarity.

Valeriia Burliuk
(1993, Moscow, Russia)
Spatial visual artist
Based in London, UK 

Education and membership in professional organisations

2022–2023 – Fellowship researcher / visiting artist, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2020–2021 – Contemporary photography, Photoplay, Moscow, Russia
2019–2020 – Plastic Theatre Laboratory, Gogol School, Moscow, Russia
2013–2016 – British Higher School of Art and Design, Art and Design / Motion Design, Moscow, Russia
2008–2012 – Moscow State Academic Art School in Memory of 1905, Design (in the field of culture and arts), Moscow, Russia
2003–2008 – S. T. Richter School of Art, Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Cooperation with galleries

Science 2022 -  Bizar, Moscow, Russia
Science 2025 - A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany

Publications

2025
– Artists to watch 2024–2025, Pale Space Gallery, New York, USA

2024
– Snob: member of the expert jury for the interdisciplinary competition Yandex Plus × Universal University, speaker at public talks

2023
– Bl8D | Vol.2 (Link)
– Al-Tiba9, International Art Magazine ISSUE13 | Print Magazine

2022
– Bl8D | Vol.1, photographic work for main sections

2020
– Mob Journal, International Photography Magazine
– Swiss Art Competition "February 2021", HelvetArt, Switzerland

Personal exhibitions

2023
– A Tale of Wandering, solo exhibition, M BOOKS Gallery, Weimar, Germany (28 September – 14 October)

Group exhibitions

2025
– Bodylandscapes in 2 acts, exhibition with Ksenia Malurika and Rina-Green Noodle, curated by Anna Galeeva, TAKT Berlin, Kopenhagener Str. 31b, 10437 Berlin, Germany; funded by Berlin Senat, Culture Department of Pankow district
– Chronicles of Intimacy, group exhibition, 5 Broad Street, Margate, UK (Link)

2023
– Illuminating the Beauty of Science, group exhibition, Kunstmatrix, Berlin, Germany (6–26 May) (Link)
– Hidden Flames, group exhibition, Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany (9–18 February) (Link)

2021
– Contemporary Photography, group exhibition, Photoplay, Moscow, Russia 

2019
– The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100, group exhibition, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (28 June – 1 December)
– The starting point is the forest, group exhibition, Bitsevsky Park, Moscow, Russia (22 June)
– Catalog of Mountains and Seas, group exhibition, NOL Art Space, Moscow, Russia (8–9 July)

Collections
Works are held in private collections in Russia and Germany.