Darja Lukjanenko is an interdisciplinary artist working across text, performance, and gardening. Her practice explores the postcolonial condition in regions affected by Soviet imperialism, with a focus on Ukraine, alongside themes of migration, identity, and collective memory. Her work is grounded in research, post-artistic strategies, and empathy-driven methods. She holds a BA in Journalism from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (2016) and an MA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM, 2023). Currently, she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, focusing on postcolonial identity and cultural practices for reconstructing collective memory in Ukraine after 2014. Her work has been presented internationally in Czech Republic, Ukraine, USA, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Poland. In 2024, she was named the main winner of the Secondary Archive OPEN CALL for young women artists from the Visegrad Group and Western Balkan countries.
Imagination Guide: Making Rockets Disappear https://makingrocketsdisappear.com/
Darja Lukjanenko on Secondary Archive https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/darja-lukjanenko/