Born in Nikopol, Ukraine
Lives and works as an artist and photographer since 2015 in Berlin
Education
2020 - 2021 Postgraduate, Fine Art, Painting, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2017 - 2020 Diploma, Fine Art, Painting, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2015 - 2017 Visual Communication, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Teaching
2024 Guest lecturer, summer semester, MA Photography, écal, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prizes / Scholarships
2022 Kunstfonds Bonn NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium
Artist Inside Feelowship
2022 Mart Stam Prize
2015-2017 DAAD Studying grant
Art fairs
2022 New Positions, Art Cologne
Art Brussels
2021 Curiosa sector, Paris Photo
Exhibitions
2025
pidust/bevza, bevza/pidust, Forum Neun, Leipzig
Atfer You, with Volo Bevza, Museum Bensheim, Bensheim
Gathering gallery, Mosaic Art Award 2024, London
ssl1, SOX, Berlin
2024
Jühnsdorf Church, Jühnsdorf, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Berlin
From Venice with love, Stallmann, Berlin
Giudecca Showroom, Stallmann, Venice
Lossy, with Volo Bevza, Galerie Crone, Vienna
2023
Another Day at the Office, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin
Junger Berliner Salon, Ludwig space, Munich
The Lobster Needs to Get Rid of Its Shell, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Home. Perspectives., Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
RAW Photo Trienale Worpswede, 2023, Worpswede
Expect the Unexpected. Current concepts for Photography, Kunstmuseum Bonn, catalogue
Realms, JVDW gallery, Düsseldorf
Only a part, not the hole, Lage Egal, Berlin
2022
Hot Little Pool Vol.1, Lobe Space, Berlin
GRASSROOTS, JVDW space, Düsseldorf
Sirens are calling from the shadows, A:D:CURATORIAL, Berlin
Artist Inside fellowship, C&A Kaufcenter, Berlin
2022, CRONE, curated by festival, Vienna
IST-BLN, Ambidexter, Istanbul
New Talents 2022, FUHRWERKSWAAGE, Cologne
POSTOST : Україна / UKRAINE, Stiftung Neue Kunst Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin
Reclaim Award 2022, Cologne
OUT OF OFFICE, FAHRENHEIT space, Berlin
Extension, BEL ETAGE project, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin
SUPER SUPER MARKT, 7 Himmel bio markt, Berlin
CONVERGENCE, KUNZTEN Show #1, Projektraum 145, Berlin
2021
Cross-side crystal hybrid orbital, HVW8, Berlin
*AND THAT’S A GOOD THING. , Gallery Judith Andreae, Bonn
HYPERTEXT FICTION, Bistro21, Leipzig
BETWIXT, 054 Am Tacheles, Berlin
Which side up, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian photography, MYSTETSKYI ARSENAL, Kyiv
open-ended photography, Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin
PORÖS, Lobe Block, Berlin
Bildmassage, jvdw space, Düsseldorf *Solo
I will not think about this for too long, Kunstverein kjubh, Cologne *Solo
Mart Stam Prize 2020, Parterre, Berlin
Mart Stam Prize 2020, Kunstverein, Marburg
2020
DIG IT, Caldo Worldwide, Online, Internet
Hybrids, ZERO FOLD, Cologne *Solo
Not canceled, Weserhalle, Berlin
Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving, Haimney, Barcelona, Spain
New generation of contemporary art, Haimney, Artsy Online
2019
STRG alt, Bar K Berlin, Berlin
*, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin
Painting Painting Painting, Vollreinigung Raum, Berlin
2018
SPOT-T - project / 2nd edition, Venco, Berlin
2017
EPISODE, Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin
Drag & Drop, curated by Victoria Pidust und Volo Bevza, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2023
Bonn Expect the Unexpected. Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografi e., KUNSTFORUM, April 2023, by Pamela C. Scorzin, p.315 Buch‚ Expect the Unexpected‘ Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografi e, 2023, Kunstmuseum Bonn, p.14-15, 52-57
2022
VICTORIA PIDUST, 2022, Fotomuseum Winterthur Plta(t)form
LEUCHTENDE ZUKUNFT, Weltkunst, November 2022, by CHRISTIANE MEIXNER & CLARA ZIMMERMANN Publication ‚118 IMAGES 80 PAGES‘, Victoria Pidust, 2022, designed by STUDIO Anne Büttner
2022 - curated by Eva Kraus & Volo Bevza: Dem Krieg so nah, dem Krieg so fern, Artmagazine, September 2022, by Victor Cos Ortega IM FADENKREUZ, Weltkunst, May 2022, by Simone Sondermann
Reality Ruined and Rebuilt: An Interview with Victoria Pidust and Volo Bevza, Berlin Art Link, March 2022, by Natasha Klimenko Ukrainian Artists Are Building Anti-Tank Obstacles, Hyperallergic, March 2022, by Hakim Bishara
Das ist auch ein Identitätskrieg, Monopol Magazine, March 2022, by Elke Buhr
Der Krieg wird gewonnen. Die Frage ist, zu welchem Preis, March 2022, t-online, by Sebastian Späth
Mobilized, Interwiew with Camille Ange Pailler, AUTRE ISSUE 15 FALL WINTER 2022: LOSING MY RELIGION, p.26-27
2021
Mart Stam Preis 2020, catalogue, Oktober 2021, Verlag Kettler
Text ‚Bedeutung als Artefakt – zu den Arbeiten von Victoria Pidust‘, 2021, by Michael Reisch: https://victoriapidust.com/Bedeutung-als-Artefakt-zu-den-Arbeiten-von-Victoria-Pidust Podcast. Foam Talks x Paris Photo - Simon Lehner & Victoria Pidust, November 2021, FOAM
Three Artists You Need to Know, From Photoworks Director Shoair Mavlian, AnOther, November 2021, by Sarah Moroz
PHOTONEWS 11, Victoria Pidust. Interview. 2021, by Claudia Kursawe
Victoria Pidust. Works from ‚iphone zooms‘ series ‚UPHA made in Ukraine‘, Book of contemporary photographers of Ukraine, 2021, by BOOKSHA publishing
Lives and works as an artist and photographer since 2015 in Berlin
Education
2020 - 2021 Postgraduate, Fine Art, Painting, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2017 - 2020 Diploma, Fine Art, Painting, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2015 - 2017 Visual Communication, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Teaching
2024 Guest lecturer, summer semester, MA Photography, écal, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prizes / Scholarships
2022 Kunstfonds Bonn NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium
Artist Inside Feelowship
2022 Mart Stam Prize
2015-2017 DAAD Studying grant
Art fairs
2022 New Positions, Art Cologne
Art Brussels
2021 Curiosa sector, Paris Photo
Exhibitions
2025
pidust/bevza, bevza/pidust, Forum Neun, Leipzig
Atfer You, with Volo Bevza, Museum Bensheim, Bensheim
Gathering gallery, Mosaic Art Award 2024, London
ssl1, SOX, Berlin
2024
Jühnsdorf Church, Jühnsdorf, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Berlin
From Venice with love, Stallmann, Berlin
Giudecca Showroom, Stallmann, Venice
Lossy, with Volo Bevza, Galerie Crone, Vienna
2023
Another Day at the Office, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin
Junger Berliner Salon, Ludwig space, Munich
The Lobster Needs to Get Rid of Its Shell, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Home. Perspectives., Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
RAW Photo Trienale Worpswede, 2023, Worpswede
Expect the Unexpected. Current concepts for Photography, Kunstmuseum Bonn, catalogue
Realms, JVDW gallery, Düsseldorf
Only a part, not the hole, Lage Egal, Berlin
2022
Hot Little Pool Vol.1, Lobe Space, Berlin
GRASSROOTS, JVDW space, Düsseldorf
Sirens are calling from the shadows, A:D:CURATORIAL, Berlin
Artist Inside fellowship, C&A Kaufcenter, Berlin
2022, CRONE, curated by festival, Vienna
IST-BLN, Ambidexter, Istanbul
New Talents 2022, FUHRWERKSWAAGE, Cologne
POSTOST : Україна / UKRAINE, Stiftung Neue Kunst Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin
Reclaim Award 2022, Cologne
OUT OF OFFICE, FAHRENHEIT space, Berlin
Extension, BEL ETAGE project, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin
SUPER SUPER MARKT, 7 Himmel bio markt, Berlin
CONVERGENCE, KUNZTEN Show #1, Projektraum 145, Berlin
2021
Cross-side crystal hybrid orbital, HVW8, Berlin
*AND THAT’S A GOOD THING. , Gallery Judith Andreae, Bonn
HYPERTEXT FICTION, Bistro21, Leipzig
BETWIXT, 054 Am Tacheles, Berlin
Which side up, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian photography, MYSTETSKYI ARSENAL, Kyiv
open-ended photography, Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin
PORÖS, Lobe Block, Berlin
Bildmassage, jvdw space, Düsseldorf *Solo
I will not think about this for too long, Kunstverein kjubh, Cologne *Solo
Mart Stam Prize 2020, Parterre, Berlin
Mart Stam Prize 2020, Kunstverein, Marburg
2020
DIG IT, Caldo Worldwide, Online, Internet
Hybrids, ZERO FOLD, Cologne *Solo
Not canceled, Weserhalle, Berlin
Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving, Haimney, Barcelona, Spain
New generation of contemporary art, Haimney, Artsy Online
2019
STRG alt, Bar K Berlin, Berlin
*, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin
Painting Painting Painting, Vollreinigung Raum, Berlin
2018
SPOT-T - project / 2nd edition, Venco, Berlin
2017
EPISODE, Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin
Drag & Drop, curated by Victoria Pidust und Volo Bevza, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
Books / Publications / Podcasts / Text / Platforms
2023
Bonn Expect the Unexpected. Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografi e., KUNSTFORUM, April 2023, by Pamela C. Scorzin, p.315 Buch‚ Expect the Unexpected‘ Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografi e, 2023, Kunstmuseum Bonn, p.14-15, 52-57
2022
VICTORIA PIDUST, 2022, Fotomuseum Winterthur Plta(t)form
LEUCHTENDE ZUKUNFT, Weltkunst, November 2022, by CHRISTIANE MEIXNER & CLARA ZIMMERMANN Publication ‚118 IMAGES 80 PAGES‘, Victoria Pidust, 2022, designed by STUDIO Anne Büttner
2022 - curated by Eva Kraus & Volo Bevza: Dem Krieg so nah, dem Krieg so fern, Artmagazine, September 2022, by Victor Cos Ortega IM FADENKREUZ, Weltkunst, May 2022, by Simone Sondermann
Reality Ruined and Rebuilt: An Interview with Victoria Pidust and Volo Bevza, Berlin Art Link, March 2022, by Natasha Klimenko Ukrainian Artists Are Building Anti-Tank Obstacles, Hyperallergic, March 2022, by Hakim Bishara
Das ist auch ein Identitätskrieg, Monopol Magazine, March 2022, by Elke Buhr
Der Krieg wird gewonnen. Die Frage ist, zu welchem Preis, March 2022, t-online, by Sebastian Späth
Mobilized, Interwiew with Camille Ange Pailler, AUTRE ISSUE 15 FALL WINTER 2022: LOSING MY RELIGION, p.26-27
2021
Mart Stam Preis 2020, catalogue, Oktober 2021, Verlag Kettler
Text ‚Bedeutung als Artefakt – zu den Arbeiten von Victoria Pidust‘, 2021, by Michael Reisch: https://victoriapidust.com/Bedeutung-als-Artefakt-zu-den-Arbeiten-von-Victoria-Pidust Podcast. Foam Talks x Paris Photo - Simon Lehner & Victoria Pidust, November 2021, FOAM
Three Artists You Need to Know, From Photoworks Director Shoair Mavlian, AnOther, November 2021, by Sarah Moroz
PHOTONEWS 11, Victoria Pidust. Interview. 2021, by Claudia Kursawe
Victoria Pidust. Works from ‚iphone zooms‘ series ‚UPHA made in Ukraine‘, Book of contemporary photographers of Ukraine, 2021, by BOOKSHA publishing