Victoria Pidust
"Pidust's images are compositions of photographic-depicting and digital-algorithmic image fragments, which she puts together according to subjective criteria. The starting material is always of a photographic nature in the sense of depicting the reality of what is physically existing. The representational frays into the abstract, the virtual and the physical coexist equally. In this way, Pidust creates a world of simultaneity and all-round perspective, with the real and the digital inseparably merging with one another."
Group-exhibition "Expect the Unexpected" Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografie, 16.02.-01.05.2023
Exhibition text by Dr. Barbara J. Scheuermann, Curator for contemporary art, Graphics and Media Art Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Victoria Pidust (* 1992 in Nikopol, Ukraine) studied multimedia at the Institute of Book Studies and Printing Technology from 2010 to 2015, as well as photography at the NTUU KPI in Kyiv.
Photo ©Volo Bevza
From 2013 to 2015, Pidust took private photography courses with photographers Roman Pyatkovka and Alexander Lyapin. She received a DAAD scholarship from 2015-2017. In the following years she studied Visual Communication and from 2017 to 2021 Finde Arts and Painting, both at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (Prof. Nader Ahriman). Pidust has been awarded numerous prizes such as the Mart Stam Prize (2020) and the National Photography Prize of Ukraine several times (2013, 2015, 2017). She had a Solo Both Art Cologne New Positions (2022), Solo Both at Curiosa Sector at Paris Photo (2021) with the Gallery Judith Andreae and solo shows at Kunstverein kjubh (2021) and ZERO FOLD Cologne (2020). Most recently her work has been shown as part of group exhibitions at FUHRWERKSWAAGE, Cologne, the Stiftung Neue Kunst Berlin-Brandenburg (2022) and the Marburger Kunstverein (2021). Victoria Pidust lives and works in Berlin. www.victoriapidust.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
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
Expect the Unexpected, Kunstmuseum Bonn, catalogue
RAW Photo Trienale Worpswede, 2023, Worpswede
Realms, JVDW gaallery, 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, Gallery CRONE, curated by, Vienna
IST-BLN, Ambidexter, Istanbul
nezrydani slyozy, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn
New Talents 2022, FUHRWERKSWAAGE, Cologne
POSTOST : Україна / UKRAINE, Stiftung Neue Kunst Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin Reclaim Award 2022, Cologne
Micro Macro, Arsenal gallery, Hvar
OUT OF OFFICE, FAHRENHEIT space with Galerie Judith Andreae, 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
PRIZES/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
Kunstfonds Bonn NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium
Artist Inside Fellowship
2020
Mart Stam Prize
2015-2017
DAAD Studying grant
ART FAIRS
2022
Art Cologne, NEW POSITIONS, *Solo Booth, Galerie Judith Andreae
Art Brussels, OFFICE IMPART
2021
Paris Photo, CURIOSA SECTOR, *Solo Booth, Galerie Judith Andreae
Enter Art Fair, Galerie Judith Andreae
BOOKS/ PUBLICATIONS/ PODCASTS/ TEXTS/ PLATFORMS
Expect the Unexpected. Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografie, KUNSTFORUM April 2023, p.315
Catalogue‚ Expect the Unexpected‘ Aktuelle Konzepte für Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bonn, p.14-15, 52-57
Mobilized, Interwiew with Camille Ange Pailler, AUTRE ISSUE 15 FALL WINTER 2022: LOSING MY RELIGION, p.26-27
Artmagazine, 2022 - curated by Eva Kraus & Volo Bevza: Dem Krieg so nah, dem Krieg so fern
Super Super Markt In the studio: Victoria Pidust
A Look Back on Vienna’s “Curated by” Gallery Festival: AUTRE, CRONE WIEN curated by Eva Kraus & Volo Bevza
Publication ‚118 IMAGES 80 PAGES‘, Victoria Pidust, designed by STUDIO Anne Büttner, 2022
HUNDHUND. Studio Visit with Ukrainian Photographer Victoria Pidust. Catching Distortions of Reality.
VICTORIA PIDUST & VOLO BEVZA | PODCAST 'DIE FEINE ART
Fotomuseum Winterthur Plta(t)form 2022
1992 – Dreißig Jahre Gegenwart, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Mart Stam Preis catalogue, Verlag Kettler
Bedeutung als Artefakt – zu den Arbeiten von Victoria Pidust (German)
Foam Talks x Paris Photo - Simon Lehner & Victoria Pidust
AnOther, Three Artists You Need to Know, From Photoworks Director Shoair Mavlian Numéro, Paris Photo 2021: 5 young talents in photography to discover absolutel PHOTONEWS 11, 2021, Interview by Claudia Kursawe
UPHA made in Ukraine, book of contemporary photographers of Ukraine, BOOKSHA publishing
