Mariya Pavlenko is a visual artist from Kyiv currently living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine and Wroclaw, Poland. Pavlenko graduated from the MFA program “Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies”, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2017 and the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in 2007. She works with wide range of topics, among which are politics, history, memory, language, architecture, modernity, nuclear energy, ecology, landscape and others. The practice of the artist balances between theory and practice and addresses mainly the issues of Eastern European context.