Anzhelika Palyvoda
(UA)

Anzhelika Palyvoda (b. 2000, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Vienna-based artist working across painting, installation and sound. Her practice explores memory as a fragmented and evolving structure, investigating how personal and collective histories become embedded within materials, spaces and everyday gestures. Moving between intimate narratives and broader historical realities, she works in-between fundamental human experiences: joy and grief, care and loss, remembering and forgetting.

For Palyvoda, memory is not a static archive but an emotional connection across time that binds people, places, and events together. In times marked by war and violence, these fragile connections are often the first to be ruptured. Her work asks how such bonds persist despite displacement, destruction, or absence and how small acts of care and attention can become quiet forms of resistance against erasure.

Her long-term project Aperta Hortus examines the garden as both a physical and symbolic space—a place where, care, violence and cyclical time intersect. Drawing on family archives, oral histories, and vernacular landscapes, her work reflects on the fragile mechanisms through which memory is preserved and transformed across generations.

Recurring motifs such as perforation and repetition operate as both material and a process. Perforated surfaces become traces of absence as much as presence, while repeated gestures evoke cycles of rupture and repair. Sound recordings archive —family conversations, songs, ambient environments —extend these investigations into the acoustic wave, allowing memory to emerge not only as image but as atmosphere. Rather than producing autonomous objects, she creates works that function as fragments of larger narratives—remnants of something once whole or attempts to reconnect parts that have been interrupted, displaced, or lost. Her installations assemble these fragments into environments that invite viewers to connect through their own associations and to unconsciously become part of them.

Born in Kyiv, Palyvoda studied Monumental and Easel Painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv) before continuing her studies at the University of Applied Arts (Vienna), where her practice expanded into installation and spatial practice. Alongside her artistic work, she curates artist-run space arka arka, reflecting her ongoing interest in collaborative exhibition-making and dialogue between artists from diverse cultural contexts.

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