Sonya Isupova (Kyiv, Ukraine, 1994) is a Ukrainian visual artist and researcher, currently pursuing her PhD in artistic practice at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Her work combines art and design in the creation of machines that map Ukrainian territory affected by war. Current projects focus on postcoloniality, territoriality, and the inherent contradictions of mapmaking in uncertain times. Through her machines, she explores the relationship between humans and remote-sensing infrastructures, and the limitations of both. Her Mapping Uncertain Landscape project received an honorary mention from the S+T+ARTS Prize Ars Electronica, she is laureate of the Nestlé Young Art Prize and finalist for the Red Cross Prix Art Humanité in 2023.


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Exhibition / Selected projects


2025

Mensch Maschine: Soil, Sound, Memory Symposium

Panel: Art and the Seeding of Hope in the Polycrisis, moderated by Wesley Goatley

Akademie der Kunste
Berlin, Germany


Mensch Maschine:
Return to Earth
E-WERK Luckenwalde,
Luckenwalde, Germany


Art in Ukraine after 2000
Glossary
National Center “Ukrainian House”
Kyiv, Ukraine


Oltre la Pietra
Castelgrande
Bellinzona, Switzerland


Máquinas Digitales
group exhibition
LABoral Centro de Arte
Gijon, Spain



2024

HUMAN MACHINE SYMPOSIUM
Akademie der Kunste
Berlin, Germany

2023

Prix Nestlé Jeune Création
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Finalist of the Geneva Art Humanity Prize 2023.
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Appropriate BarragánExhibition / Workshop
Barragán Gallery ( Vitra Museum)
Basel / Switzerland
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MAPPING UNCERTAIN LANDSCAPE:
Exhibition / Performance
Hack the Promise Festival
Basel / Switzerland
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Vaata mind! Kuula mind!
group exhibition
Tartu Art Museum
Tartu / Estonia

2021

Tallinn Photomonth 
satellite programme exhibition
Tallinn / Estonia


2020

Cultural codes  
solo exhibition
Tartu Art House
Tartu / Estonia




Residency:


2024

“HUMAN-MACHINE”
E-WERK LUCKENWALDE
by Akademie der Kunste
Berlin, Germany

2024
LA BECQUE
La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerlad



Education:

2025-2029
PhD program
in Visual Art
Estonian Academy of Art
Tallinn / Estonia


2021-2023
Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Geneve /
Space and Communication
(MA) Geneva / Switzerland


2013-2014
Escola Superior de Artes e Design
Graphic Design / Erasmus
Porto / Portugal


2010-2015
Estonian Academy of Arts
Media Graphics
(BA) Tallinn / Estonia