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The creative association has existed since 2015, from the first joint project created at the winter festival of land art Mythogenesis (Vinnytsia, Ukraine). Both participants — Marharyta Zhurunova (Vinnytsia, 29.11.1994) and Bohdan Lokatyr (Lviv, 04.05.1993) — studied together at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing and became partners and co-authors.

The main activities of the duo are land art, environmental art, and site-specific art. The preferred themes are the mutual influence of person and landscape and its toxic manifestations. Since February 24, 2022, most works have addressed the theme of war.

In 2019, both artists became laureates of the President of Ukraine scholarships for young writers and artists and also received a grant from the President of Ukraine.

Education

Bohdan Lokatyr
Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush — Artistic Ceramics (Junior Specialist, 2012)
Ukrainian Academy of Printing — Department of Book and Easel Graphics (Master’s degree, 2018)
Institute of Printing and Media Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic University (PhD in progress)

Marharyta Zhurunova
Ukrainian Academy of Printing — Department of Book and Easel Graphics (Master’s degree, 2018)
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria, 2023)
Climate Adaption for Creatives (Black Mountains College & The British Council, 2024–25)

Solo shows

Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2016
Khmelnytsky Regional Art Museum, Ukraine, 2017
AkademART Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine, 2018
Lviv National Literary Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko, Ukraine, 2018
Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2019
ART Gallery Basement of the Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine, 2019
Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Assortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2023
Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023
International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, 2023
Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023
Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv, 2024
Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025

Selected exhibitions

A4, BALLPOINT (Karas Gallery, Kyiv, 2015–2018)
Space of Borderland (Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, 2018)
Greater Space (Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, 2019)
Contemporary art competition named after Natan Altman (Vinnytsia, 2018)
Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019)
All-Ukrainian biennial of levkas (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2019–21)
Observations (White World Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Form of Space (Port.agency and LCD 044, Kyiv, 2020)
M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020)
Lacuna International Contemporary Art Festival “Distance” (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2021)
Mykolaiv ART Week: CONNECT! (Mykolaiv, 2021)
Exhibition on the results of the ART Kuzemyn residence (Kharkiv, 2021)
Time of War. Reflections (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2022)
Invasion. Before and After (Wroclaw, Krakow, Poland, 2022–23)
Kunstausstellung // pARTner residence (Feldkirch, Austria, 2022)
The Art of Resistance (University of Valencia, Spain, 2022)
Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (Vilafamés, Spain, 2023)
Indicators (Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, 2023)
Inner Landscapes (ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023)
Day after Day (atelier19, Paderborn; Berlin; Nürnberg, Germany, 2023)
Concentration of the Will (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2023)
Sculpture Week (Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2023)
Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023)
Spaces. Borders. Frontiers (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, 2023)
Formula of Resilience (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2024)
Unframed (Silandro & Turin, Italy, 2025)
Frieden (Museum Bruder Klaus, Sachseln, Switzerland, 2025)
OASIS? (Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2025)

Environmental art

International Land Art Festival “Mythogenesis” (Vinnytsia, 2015–2021)
International Land Art Symposium “Borderline Space. Mogrytsia” (Sumy, 2016–2021)
Khortytsia Land Art Festival (Zaporizhzhya, 2016)
Ex. plein air: Remote Access. Chernihiv (Chernihiv, 2017)
Film and Urban Festival “86”, land art program (Slavutych, 2017)
Curatorial project Yakunin Series “Luft Pause” (Lviv, 2017)
Land Art Festival “Spider Web” (Odessa, 2017)
International Festival of Arts of the Carpathian Region “Carpathian Space” (Ivano-Frankivsk, 2018)
International Land Art Symposium “Land of Power” (Tustan, Urich, 2018)
Land Art Festival “Nature and Art” (Vilnius University Botanical Garden, 2019)
Scholarship for the creation of land art CONTRmyf (2022)
Project “Land art and archaeology: new synergy across borders” (Akmyanje, Lithuania, 2022)

Residencies

MC6, Slavsko, Ukraine (2019, 2024, 2026)
ART Kuzemyn, Ukraine, 2021, 2023
pARTner Residency Program, Feldkirch, Austria, 2022
Hata-Maisternya (Creative Europe), Ukraine, 2022
the Navigation program (Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023)
ICA Residency (Artists at Risk), Italy, Monte Castello di Vibio, 2023
ArtsIceland (Culture Moves Europe), Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023
HOME Residency Program, Graz, Austria, 2023
Slow River House, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 2024
CreArt AiR, Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025