Education
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. Specialist Degree, Environmental Design, 2014.
Victor Marushchenko School of Photography. Advanced Photography Course, 2010.
Rivne State Children's Art School, 2005.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – “Sky of War”, Swimming Pool, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2022 – “Microcosmos”, Ko-op, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2022 – “Dasha+Zhanar”, Industra, Brno, Czech Republic.
2022 – “Microcosmos”, JUMP Contemporary Art Center, Poltava, Ukraine.
2019 – “15 Seconds of You”, Theater on Podil, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 – “Urban Reframing”, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 – Inspire Art Award, Nitja, Lillestrøm, Norway.
2024 – POMA, Kosice City Park, Kosice, Slovakia.
2023-2024 – “WE SEE UKRAINE”, Forum Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia I City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria I Ko-op, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2023 – “Creative Resistance to War and Oppression”, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, NL.
2023 – “Transparency”, Jupiter, Hamburg, Germany.
2023 – “Closeness”, APL Studio, Vienna, Austria.
2023 – “Artists for Human Rights”, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria.
2022 – “Cozzzmonautica – Forest of Antennae”, Indecis, Timisoara, Romania.
2022 – “Over the Hump”, Localize festival, Potsdam, Germany.
2022 – 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire, Museum of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria.
2022 – “The Sidewalk Video Gallery”, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, USA.
2022 – “Boundary”, Video Art Space in Pastel, Berlin, Germany.
2022 – “Arts for Ukraine”, GLOKAL Kunschtzimmer, Kriens, Switzerland.
2022 – “No Longer Valid”, Momentum Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
2021 – “Change”, 8 Prichal, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
2021 – “Unreal Bonfires”, One Night Public Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2021 – “Contemporary Art Rivne”, Thumbelina fountain, Rivne, Ukraine.
2021 – “Interstice”, MOTOR, Los Angeles, USA.
2021 – “365daysafter”, MITEC, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – “Videofenster 2021”, K18 Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
2021 – “Mykolaiv ART Week: Connect”, 8 Prichal, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
2021 – “Exhibition of Art Activist Projects”, Artivism&Solidarity, online.
Screenings & Festivals
2024 – “Microcosmos”, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, USA.
2023 – “I Will Close The Sky So You Could Breathe”, Video Art and Experimental Film Event (VAEFE), Stichting SEA Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2023 – “Microcosmos”, SoMe festival, Bucharest, Romania.
2023 – “Microcosmos”, Salaam, Cinema, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2022 – “Microcosmos”, A Future World, Circa x Dazed Class of 2022, Piccadilly Lights in London, Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, K-POP Square in Seoul, Fed Square in Melbourne.
2022 – “I Will Close The Sky So You Could Breathe”, “State of the ART(ist)”, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
2022 – “Microcosmos”, “Cosmos” cinema, Context AiR, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2022 – “Log”, 2nd International Ecoperformance Festival, Cine Bijou, São Paulo, Brasil.
2022 – “90 Seconds”, “Place for Meditation”, Sofia Underground, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2022 – “Unlock Performances #3”, Kino Club, Helsinki, Finland.
2022 – “I Will Wake Up When This Fountain Is Filled Up”, Naibudekino, House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – “Paadmaan Video Event”, Sharif Gallery, Teheran, Iran.
2021 – "Place for Meditation #6", “Trance”, Performance Garten, Cologne, Germany.
Selected Performances
2024 – “KILLANAPPLE”, Central Park, NYC, USA.
2024 – “Garden for 2”, 5301.18a Arts & Culture Lab, Houston, USA.
2024 – “Split”, The Happening XXIII, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, USA.
2023 - "Through The Wall", Forum gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
2023 – “Cities of War”, The UN International Court of Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2023 – “Shelter for Freedom (I Follow the Fire)”, Salaam Cinema, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2022 – “Shelter for Freedom (Path of the Jaguar)”, Placcc Festival, Budapest, Hungary.
2022 – “I WILL CLOSE THE SKY SO YOU COULD BREATHE”, Brotherly Mound Monument, New Stages South East Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2021 – “I WILL WAKE UP WHEN THIS FOUNTAIN IS FILLED UP”, “Contemporary Art Rivne”, Thumbelina fountain, Rivne, Ukraine.
2021 – “90 Seconds”, National Museum of Military History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Awards
2023 – INSPIRE Art Award nomination, PRIO, Oslo, Norway.
2022 – Piccadilly Lights Prize, Circa x Dazed Class of 2022, London, UK.
2022 – State of the ART(ist), Ars Electronica Festival 2022, Linz, Austria.
2022 – Golden Aesop Grand Prix in section contemporary art, 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire, Museum of Humor and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria.
2022 – Special Mention, 2nd International Ecoperformance Festival, Cine Bijou, São Paulo, Brasil.
Grants
2022 – Prospect Art, Los Angeles, USA.
2021 – JUMP Grant, Poltava, Ukraine.
2020 – Artivism & Solidarity, online.
Residencies
2024 – CECArtslink International Fellowship, online and in-person, Huston, USA.
2023 – Collective Healing From War-Related Trauma, Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2023 – The Art Prospect Network Residency (CEC Artslink), Salaam Cinema, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2022 – Repression – Expression // Violence – Creative Resistance, PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway.
2022 – Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria.
2022 – Context AiR, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2022 – Radar Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2021 – Contemporary Art Rivne, Rivne, Ukraine.
Workshops
2024 – “Performance exercises to explore the space and imagine alternative ways of interaction within it using bodies, voice, etc.”, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.
2024 – Workshop for Ukrainian children, Music & Art, Nameless Sound, Houston, USA.
2024 – “Through The Wall”, workshop on fear for youth, UKM-festivalen, Lillestrøm, Norway.
2023 - "Body Mapping / Time Machine", WE SEE UKRAINE, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2023 – “Trauma and Performance Art”, Danssabeel, Cairo, Egypt.
2022 – “Room of Sadness”, PRAKSIS, Hovedøya island, Oslo, Norway.
2022 – “Shelter for Freedom”, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria.
Articles
vataha.nl/daria-pugachova-beauty-and-fear-in-performative-art/
vataha.nl/cities-of-war-performance
prospectart.org/one-work/blog-post-title-two-rabhd
circa.art/class_2022_finalist/daria-pugachova
ars.electronica.art/stateoftheartist/en/i-will-close-the-sky
Daria Pugachova (1990) is an multidisciplinary artist, performer and art activist born in Rivne, Ukraine. In her projects, Daria uses participatory practices to unite a community and integrate art into daily life. She studied architecture at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. From 2013 to 2019 she played drums in a female pop trio Panivalkova. She works with performance, video and socially engaged arts. In 2022 she won the Golden Aesop Grand Prix at the 25th Gabrovo Biennial in Bulgaria, and received the State of the Art(ist) prize at Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Daria is a finalist of Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 and a winner of the Piccadilly Lights Prize. Daria’s latest projects are based on her experience of war. She explores the topic of freedom and limitation, working towards emotional pain and war trauma with the voice, body and ritual.
