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
Akademie der Kunste
Mensch Maschine:
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
Education:
2025-2029
2024
“HUMAN-MACHINE”
E-WERK LUCKENWALDE
by Akademie der Kunste
Berlin, Germany
2024
LA BECQUE
La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerlad
Education: