‘The Prettiest Beetle of Eastern Europe. Book of Colours’ (Найкрасивіший жук України. Книга кольорів) is a hybrid visual/literary experiment presented … More
Author: Lia Dostlieva
Ten Faded Faces (2026)
Multichannel video installation What remains of one’s history when the archive is lost? What remains of one’s memory when the … More
Nobody Knows The Trouble (2025, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
3-channel video, 18 min Set against the backdrop of a school production of Othello, this work critically engages with the … More
#cyrillic_poland (2019-2025, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
Visual anthropology research, generative video Since 2019, we have been documenting vernacular Cyrillic inscriptions that appear in Polish urban spaces, … More
Comfort Work (2024, Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
Video installationCommissioned for the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia curated by … More
Book of Long Objects (2023)
Twenty stories about three grandmothers (with pictures) This collection of images and fairytale-like short stories, where each narrative is tied … More
In your region, even mountains are fake (2023)
Screen printing on textile (1,30*6 m), installation Heavy industrialization and collectivization under Soviet rule not only took millions of lives … More
Riding towards the sunset (2023, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
3-channel video, 13 min Nowadays migration can be portrayed as ‘the quintessential experience’ since market forces, wars and environmental disasters … More
Soviet Anthropocene 1933 (2022)
Textile sculptures, installation. This project aims to explore the connection between genocides and ecocides, looking into the notion of the … More
Sweet Waters Broke (2021, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, Olga Skliarska)
Photographic triptychs, diasec. This project is built upon memoirs by people who as children had experienced deportations and life in … More
Project of the Memorial to the victims of the Holodomor in Melitopol, Ukraine (2021; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
The concept of our proposal for the Memorial to the victims of the Holodomor in Melitopol, Ukraine is based on … More
So that no one would see (2021; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
Performance documentation; bones, soil. …it needs to be boiled alive in nine waters;In the ninth it should be boiled until … More
Textile sculptures (2017 – 2021)
Various dimensions, recycled textile, doll parts, glass eyes, vintage light bulbs, etc.
Licking War Wounds (2016 – 2021; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
This tank-shaped salt lamp was purchased from a souvenir shop in Bakhmut in late 2016. Bakhmut (formerly Artemivsk) is a … More
Black on Prussian Blue (2020; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
photographic prints, video loops This project is a reconstruction based on the family album of a Wehrmacht soldier aiming to … More
The Wondrous and True Story of Kubuś Hirschler (2020; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
Fairy Castles of Donetsk (2018 – 2020; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
Diasec photo prints 50×70 cm, audio recordingsseries of 8 Remember how in the nineties we had cockroaches at home, and … More
An unduly restrictive view of salvation (Vinnytsia Limbo) — the book (2020; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
Photographic prints, video interviews. A publication based on our photographic project “An unduly restrictive view of salvation (Vinnytsia Limbo)” shot … More
Dark COVID edition (2020)
COVID-19 extension of the Dark (2018). Set of collages inspired by abnormal mental states and related comments. In 2018 I … More
An unduly restrictive view of salvation (Vinnytsia Limbo) (2019; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
Photographic prints, video interviews. In the 2000s, Vinnytsia, a relatively small city in Ukraine, temporarily became an important hub of … More
I Love When Canaries Are Singing (2019)
Installation. Armchairs, indoor plants, table, stuffed birds from recycled materials, the sound of singing canaries. “Miner’s canary” is an expression … More
Abobal → Yabobal (2018; Lia Dostlieva, Dmytro Kuziakin, Zakenty Gorobiov)
We don’t exactly know, who Abobal is. Or if exists even. Nevertheless, here is the book about his adventures. Book … More
Dark (2018)
Set of collages inspired by abnormal mental states and related comments. In 2018 I was diagnosed with MDD (major depressive … More
Red flowers (2018)
Marker pen on photography, series of 12.
Broken Landscape (2018)
“I still feel sorry when I throw away food – Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor.” (2018; Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva)
Ink and pencil on toned paper, fragments of found photographs. Series of 44. Post-photographic research, which explores traces of a … More
In Donetsk, there were no real mountains so we used to stare at spoil tips instead and dream (2018)
I Lied in Visa Center (2018)
The starting point of this project was an anonymous inscription on the toilet wall in Martin-Gropius-Bau, which said “I lied … More
The cynocephali of Donbas (2017)
Lia (32) and Andrij (33), a cynocephali couple from Donetsk The myth about dog-headed people (“cynocephali”) inhabiting Eastern Ukrainian territories … More
298 (2017)
“298” was an 8 hours long performance during which the artist and the volunteers made 298 dolls which symbolise each … More
Reconstruction of Memory (2016; curatorial; Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev)
The Russian occupation of Crimea and the military invasion into Eastern Ukraine forced a million and a half people (according … More
The Beach (2016; Lia Dostlieva, Yulia Polunina)
Installation. Stones from Crimea. Dimensions variable. The south coast of Crimea has been the traditional place to spend their summer … More
Connection (2013-2014)
Connection project is an emotional art intervention into urban space. Urbanization pulse dictates us its accelerating pace. We exist in … More
Affect of Memory (2013)
Here’s a photo from a family album: there are my relatives on it and also strangers whose names I don’t … More
Sacrifice (2012)
I hand over my vulnerability to thee, I throw it to thy feet, a silent sacrifice. I put myself at … More
Textile sculptures (2010 – 2015)
Exhibitions: 2009 Ruchnye veschi, Kyiv, Ukraine2009 Shtuki, Kyiv, Ukraine2009 personal exhibition, Gung`ю`buzz, Donetsk, Ukraine2009 Artefact, Donetsk, Ukraine2010 Heart Made, Kyiv, … More