Nika Kupyrova
*1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine
living and working in Vienna and Prague
Education:
2013 – 2016 University of Applied Arts in Vienna / MA TransArts — Transdisciplinary art
2004 – 2008 Edinburgh College of Art / BA Painting
2007 Iceland University of the Arts / Department of Fine Arts
Selected solo exhibitions:
2025 Simulacra, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2024 Fake Fur, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana
2022 Woman in Green, Bildraum 07, Vienna
2021 Yaekahngai, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
2020 A difficult weekend, hoast, Vienna
2018 No More Mr Nice Guy, Fait Gallery, Brno
2018 White Honey, Galerie 35m2, Prague
2018 Adventure, fantasy, mystery, action, Wien Museum MUSA
2018 Otis Rem, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava
2017 Otis Rem, das weisse haus, Vienna
2012 Mud Cake, Lust Gallery, Vienna
2011 Earwax, MeetFactory, Prague
2010 Earwax, Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly, Vienna
2009 Fish Fingers, lothringer13/laden, Munich
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 20 Jahre Kardinal König Kunstpreis, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2024 ETC. / Selling Out, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
2023 Boundaries: Travel, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen
2023 No time to have you lurking, Bistro 21, Leipzig
2023 Uncanny Valley, PRÁM Studio, Prague
2022 Finding Forte, designforum Wien, Vienna
2022 Viktor Frešo, Marek Kvetan, Nika Kupyrova, DOT. Gallery, Bratislava
2021 The Meek One, Karlin Studios, Prague
2021 Hi, How Are You?, Cerquone Gallery, Madrid
2021 Talking Hands, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
2021 mud-mother#1 Bathybius haeckelii, new jörg, Vienna
2020 Cruel Summer Camp, EXILE, Vienna
2020 Anything Goes pt. 2.: Techno ed., White&Weiss, Bratislava
2020 Otherwordly, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana
2019 Über das Neue, Belverede 21, Vienna
2019 ECHO — the Fait Gallery collection, Fait Gallery, Brno
2018 UNFRAMED/FRAMED, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
2018 ”, ”, ”, — Footnotes, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
2017 A ditto, ditto device, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna
2017 Urgent Perspectives #1, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna
2017 Sonata for Four Hands, Berlínskej model, Prague
2016 Rethinking, das weisse haus, Vienna
2016 Juxtapositionen, Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna
2015 Re-, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2015 WYSINWYS, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava
2015 When Sophisticated People Think They Are Having Fun, FLUC, Vienna
2013 On the Road, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten
2013 Global Locals, National Library of Technology, Prague
2013 Little bit of history deleting...,GPLcontemporary, Vienna
2011 Factory Installed, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2011 Über Dinge, Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag
Festivals and biennials:
2021 The Art of Appreciating, Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague
2019 UKYA City Takeover Nottingham, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2016 A Character’s Coat, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Alte Post, Vienna
2012 Inconclusive Analysis, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Young Art, NCCA Moscow
2010 Globe(E)scape, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Design Center Artplay
2010 Triennale Linz 1.0., Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Art fair participations:
2024 NADA Miami 2024 solo presentation
2024 OPENING, Curated Programme at ARCO Lisboa
2022 ZONE1 solo positions, viennacontemporary art fair
2022 Liste Showtime Online, Liste Art Fair Basel
Prizes and scholarships:
2023 Kardinal König Kunstpreis, Salzburg
2023 City of Vienna Promotion Award for Fine Arts
2019 Startstipendium Fine Arts, Federal Chancellery of Austria
2017 Erste Bank ExtraValue Art Award, das weisse haus, Vienna
2017 Kapsch Preis — nomination, MUMOK, Vienna
2011 Disaronno Photo Award, International Talent Support, Triest
Residencies:
2017 Theory of Leaves, residency by E.M.M.A., Ancona
2016 ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia
2010 Egon Schiele Art Centre, Český Krumlov
2009 lothringer13/laden, Munich
Curatorial:
2024 4 whales in a soft sponge, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2023 Giulia Cacciuttolo: Rituals, Pragovka Gallery, Prague
2022 Dispatches from a Troubled City, Wien Museum MUSA
2022 The Somnambulists, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt
2019 Your delicious dreaming, Salon Goldschlag, Vienna
2019 Hydrobutter, GOMO Art Space, Vienna
2017 Neverwhere, Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Prague
2017 Working Knowledge, Academy of the Performing Arts Prague
2016 Working Knowledge, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Artist features, intrerviews and reviews:
Parnass Kunstmagazin / Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition / Magazyn Szum / Sculpture Magazine / Radio FM4 / all-over Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik / Tzvetnik / BLOK Magazine / Komfortmag / Die Presse Schaufenster / c/o Vienna magazine / Falter / Dolce Vita Prague / Monika Magazine / Artmirror / Sodobna Umetnost / Salzburger Nachrichten / Artviewer / Easttopics / Daily Lazy / Tired Mass / Kuba Paris / YYYYMMDD / Artalk.cz / A2 kulturní čtrnáctideník / Slanted Magazine / EIKON Magazine for Photography and Media Art / O FLUXO / ETC. Magazine / Slanted Magazine
Lectures and talks:
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna / Kunsthalle Bratislava / The University of Art and Design Linz / Galerie IG Bildende Kunst Vienna / The English College in Prague / Kunstverein das weisse haus / Bird in Flight Photo School Kyiv / Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) / Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art Pilsen / University of Applied Arts Vienna
*1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine
living and working in Vienna and Prague
Education:
2013 – 2016 University of Applied Arts in Vienna / MA TransArts — Transdisciplinary art
2004 – 2008 Edinburgh College of Art / BA Painting
2007 Iceland University of the Arts / Department of Fine Arts
Selected solo exhibitions:
2025 Simulacra, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2024 Fake Fur, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana
2022 Woman in Green, Bildraum 07, Vienna
2021 Yaekahngai, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
2020 A difficult weekend, hoast, Vienna
2018 No More Mr Nice Guy, Fait Gallery, Brno
2018 White Honey, Galerie 35m2, Prague
2018 Adventure, fantasy, mystery, action, Wien Museum MUSA
2018 Otis Rem, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava
2017 Otis Rem, das weisse haus, Vienna
2012 Mud Cake, Lust Gallery, Vienna
2011 Earwax, MeetFactory, Prague
2010 Earwax, Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly, Vienna
2009 Fish Fingers, lothringer13/laden, Munich
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 20 Jahre Kardinal König Kunstpreis, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2024 ETC. / Selling Out, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
2023 Boundaries: Travel, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen
2023 No time to have you lurking, Bistro 21, Leipzig
2023 Uncanny Valley, PRÁM Studio, Prague
2022 Finding Forte, designforum Wien, Vienna
2022 Viktor Frešo, Marek Kvetan, Nika Kupyrova, DOT. Gallery, Bratislava
2021 The Meek One, Karlin Studios, Prague
2021 Hi, How Are You?, Cerquone Gallery, Madrid
2021 Talking Hands, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
2021 mud-mother#1 Bathybius haeckelii, new jörg, Vienna
2020 Cruel Summer Camp, EXILE, Vienna
2020 Anything Goes pt. 2.: Techno ed., White&Weiss, Bratislava
2020 Otherwordly, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana
2019 Über das Neue, Belverede 21, Vienna
2019 ECHO — the Fait Gallery collection, Fait Gallery, Brno
2018 UNFRAMED/FRAMED, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
2018 ”, ”, ”, — Footnotes, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
2017 A ditto, ditto device, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna
2017 Urgent Perspectives #1, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna
2017 Sonata for Four Hands, Berlínskej model, Prague
2016 Rethinking, das weisse haus, Vienna
2016 Juxtapositionen, Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna
2015 Re-, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2015 WYSINWYS, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava
2015 When Sophisticated People Think They Are Having Fun, FLUC, Vienna
2013 On the Road, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten
2013 Global Locals, National Library of Technology, Prague
2013 Little bit of history deleting...,GPLcontemporary, Vienna
2011 Factory Installed, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2011 Über Dinge, Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag
Festivals and biennials:
2021 The Art of Appreciating, Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague
2019 UKYA City Takeover Nottingham, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2016 A Character’s Coat, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Alte Post, Vienna
2012 Inconclusive Analysis, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Young Art, NCCA Moscow
2010 Globe(E)scape, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Design Center Artplay
2010 Triennale Linz 1.0., Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Art fair participations:
2024 NADA Miami 2024 solo presentation
2024 OPENING, Curated Programme at ARCO Lisboa
2022 ZONE1 solo positions, viennacontemporary art fair
2022 Liste Showtime Online, Liste Art Fair Basel
Prizes and scholarships:
2023 Kardinal König Kunstpreis, Salzburg
2023 City of Vienna Promotion Award for Fine Arts
2019 Startstipendium Fine Arts, Federal Chancellery of Austria
2017 Erste Bank ExtraValue Art Award, das weisse haus, Vienna
2017 Kapsch Preis — nomination, MUMOK, Vienna
2011 Disaronno Photo Award, International Talent Support, Triest
Residencies:
2017 Theory of Leaves, residency by E.M.M.A., Ancona
2016 ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia
2010 Egon Schiele Art Centre, Český Krumlov
2009 lothringer13/laden, Munich
2024 4 whales in a soft sponge, Medium Gallery, Bratislava
2023 Giulia Cacciuttolo: Rituals, Pragovka Gallery, Prague
2022 Dispatches from a Troubled City, Wien Museum MUSA
2022 The Somnambulists, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt
2019 Your delicious dreaming, Salon Goldschlag, Vienna
2019 Hydrobutter, GOMO Art Space, Vienna
2017 Neverwhere, Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Prague
2017 Working Knowledge, Academy of the Performing Arts Prague
2016 Working Knowledge, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Artist features, intrerviews and reviews:
Parnass Kunstmagazin / Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition / Magazyn Szum / Sculpture Magazine / Radio FM4 / all-over Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik / Tzvetnik / BLOK Magazine / Komfortmag / Die Presse Schaufenster / c/o Vienna magazine / Falter / Dolce Vita Prague / Monika Magazine / Artmirror / Sodobna Umetnost / Salzburger Nachrichten / Artviewer / Easttopics / Daily Lazy / Tired Mass / Kuba Paris / YYYYMMDD / Artalk.cz / A2 kulturní čtrnáctideník / Slanted Magazine / EIKON Magazine for Photography and Media Art / O FLUXO / ETC. Magazine / Slanted Magazine
Lectures and talks:
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna / Kunsthalle Bratislava / The University of Art and Design Linz / Galerie IG Bildende Kunst Vienna / The English College in Prague / Kunstverein das weisse haus / Bird in Flight Photo School Kyiv / Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) / Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art Pilsen / University of Applied Arts Vienna