Maria Kulikovska’s collection

Maria Kulikovska
Plate
From the series Stitched Womb, golden edition; Ceramics; Ceramics Produced at Manufaktur Gmunden, Austria, 2024, D 14 in | 35 cm, $1,500
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Maria Kulikovska
Bowl
From the series Stitched Womb, golden edition; Ceramics; Ceramics Produced at Manufaktur Gmunden, Austria, 2024
D 15 in | 35 cm, $1,800
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Maria Kulikovska
Gravy boat
From the series Stitched Womb, golden edition; Ceramics Produced at Manufaktur Gmunden, Austria, 2024, $1,000, 6 x 8 in
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Maria Kulikovska
Deep plates with handles #1
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,200

Maria Kulikovska
Rectangular plate
15 x 7 x 3 in | 40 x 20 x 10 cm
$1,200

Maria Kulikovska
Deep plates with handles #2
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,200

Maria Kulikovska
Urn with lid #1
D 7 in x 12 in | 17 x 30 cm
$500

Maria Kulikovska
Urn with lid #2
D 7 in x 12 in | 17 x 30 cm
$500

Maria Kulikovska
Urn with lid #3
D 7 in x 12 in | 17 x 30 cm
$500

Maria Kulikovska
Plate 1
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Plate 2
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Plate 3
D 11 | 25 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Deep Plate 1
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Deep Plate 2
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Deep Plate 3
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Fruit bowl on a leg
D 12 in | 31 cm
$1,200

Maria Kulikovska
Deep Plate 4
D 11 4/5 in | 30 cm
$1,000

Maria Kulikovska
Oval plate
17,5 x 9 in | 45 x 25 cm
$1,000

Watercolors from the series Drawings on the
Paper Received from Migration Offices, 2018-ongoing, The Saga about Me and my Pregnant Husband, 2021, and others
11 4/5 × 8 3/10 in | 30 × 21 cm, 2023-24
$1,000 each

When the artist was studying art in her hometown of Kerch, her teacher, trained in the doctrine of ‘Socialist Realism’, prohibited students from using watercolors. However, after moving to Kyiv and later to Stockholm to pursue her master’s degree, watercolor became a tool of self-reflection and therapy for Kulikovska.Facing the exhausting procedures of legalizing her stay in the EU and experiencing discrimination due to the unrecognized status of Crimea after the occupation, Kulikovska realized that the notion of home was deeply problematic in her situation.

Kulikovska no longer knew where home was or whether she would ever have one. In response to the pressure to fit her identity into a formal box, the artist began painting watercolors on blank forms from migration services, responding with them to the requests from these institutions.

The series The Saga about Me and My Pregnant Husband was created in 2021 during a very difficult pregnancy—one that was shared by two people, Kulikovska and Oleh Vinnichenko. The only difference was that Vinnichenko could not physically carry their child.

The watercolors from these series are in the collections of the Phoenix Museum (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz, Austria), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, (Bucharest, Romania).

The series of watercolor artworks on the medical reports and ultrasound pictures issued on Maria Kulikovska’s pregnancy.
Selected watercolors are from the Museum for Media Art Francisco Carolinum’s collection (Linz Austria).

“The Saga About Pregnant Me and My Pregnant Husband”
Watercolors on paper, 25 drawings
11 4/5 × 8 3/10 in | 30 × 21 cm, 2023-24

Jøssingfjord Museum, Norway (“23 February 2022, 12 h before bombing” – epoxy sculpture with flowers and bullet’s shells from East part of Ukraine), 2023;  

Phoenix Museum of Migration, Rotterdam, Holland (watercolors from migration series), 2023; 

OÖ Landes Kultur / Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz Austria (soap figure with wholes from shooting, watercolors from migration series, ceramics dishes and special edition as part of “Table of Negotiations?”), 2022; 

Ichikowiz Family Foundation, UK/South Africa (epoxy sculptures with wholes from bullets, epoxy sculpture with flowers, watercolors from migration series), 2023,2024;

The City of Gmunden Collection, Gmunden, Austria (paints ceramic dishes) 2022, 2024;

Academy of Ceramics/Gmunden Ceramic Manufactures Archive (ceramic dishes and part of “Table of Negotiations?” as special edition), 2022, 2024

Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (watercolors from 888 and migration series), 2022; 

National Museum of War, Kyiv, Ukraine (soap sculpture with wholes from shooting), 2024; 

National Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine (soap figure with flowers), 2019;

Crimean Platform, Office of the President of Ukraine (Stardust.2, performative sculptures series), 2021;

Deutsche Telekom Collection, Bonn, Germany (soap sculptures with wholes and scars from the performance “Happy Birthday” in Saatchi gallery), 2016;

Q Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary / Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong (green epoxy sculpture), 2018;

Sculpture Park 3020, Lviv region, Ukraine (Memento More sculptural project) 2017;

Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine (sculpture from Carpe Diem series, watercolors from Swimming in freedom series, one figure from Army of Clones series, photo documentation of the performance Flowers of Democracy) 2020; 

Mystetskiy Arsenal National Museum Complex (Startdust performative sculpture at the experimental collection exhibit in the public area of the museum), 2019; 

Izolyatsia Art Center, Donetsk, Ukraine (Homo Bulla performative sculpture series; Army of Clones performative sculptures series) 2012-2014;

And in private collections in different countries.