JULIA-ANNA
SIMONCHUK
Artist Statement
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Julia has been a Londoner for six years now. She graduated from BA Fine Art course at CSM and recently finished Fine Art MA course at the Slade.
Julia is working with sculpture, collage, installation, printmaking, socially-engaging projects and moving image. Her art practice is informed by research into history as well as personal experiences of witnessing history-in-making. She is working with the questions of power, ideology, memorialisation, decolonisation, hauntology, and time.
Credits: Varvara Uhlik
Education
2023-2025
MA Fine Art, Slade, UCL
2020-2023
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins.
1st Class Honours
2019-2020
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and Design,
Central Saint Martins - University of Arts London
2017
Short Courses - University of the Arts London - Fine Arts and Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins college and Fine Arts at Chelsea college
Exhibitions and projects
2025
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Conference: Mobilizing and Weaponizing Memories of Soviet Oppressions (Warsaw, Poland). Screening of my films 'Testimony of Chaika-II' and 'Backgrounds'. Link
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‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, online group show of Phantasmal Gallery. Link
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‘Women in Jazz Archive’, portraits of Mabel Hampton and Gladys Bentley for an online archive project. Link
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Slade MA/MFA Degree Show. Link
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‘It Fit On The Way Here’, Group Show Barbican Trust. Link
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‘Between the Lines’, Libreria Bookshop. Link
2024
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Slade Interim Show, showcasing 'Testimony of CHAIKA-II'. Link
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Fundraising auction and exhibition 'Art Aid Ukraine'. Link
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'There is Something New Under the Sun', Slade Postgrad group show at TANK Magazine space, London. Link
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Showcased 'Monumental Threat' and 'Friendships End' at Museum Late in the context of William Blake and Conflict Beyond Borders and Forms.
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Album cover art design 'Alternative Readings' by Michael Finnissy (label: Métier). Release: March 2024. Link
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'Re-Prise' - group show at the OPENING, Koppel Project, London. Link
2023
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Slade Postgraduate interim showcase. Link
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Event in a context of a project: Camouflage. Wings We Desire. St Andrew's Chruch. 4th and 6th June. Link
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Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase. Link to online showcase of the graduation project
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Presenter at Central and Eastern European Creatives Network event hosted by Centrala. Link
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Poster design (based on Jonas Staal painting) for 'Socialist Anthropocene in Visual Art. Project' by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Postsocialist Art Centre UCL).
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Regaining Paradises'. Link
2022
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'I Dance the Other' (collaboration of CSM BA Fine Art and Studio Wayne McGregor
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'Touched' (CSM BA Fine Art and the National Gallery) - participant at Yasse Saidi's performances. Link
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Monumental Threat'. Link
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USU Fundraiser Gala for Ukraine. Link
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'Sounds for Ukraine' - a fundraising piano concert in support of Ukraine, which took place in St Paul's Actors Church Covent Garden. Julia was in charge of organization, management, performance, communication and advertisement. Link
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Altered City' and 'The Falling'.
2021
2020
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UAL Graduate Showcase (online)
2019
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Group show 'Painting Beyond Itself' at the Bomb Factory, London. Link
2018
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Illustration accompaniment to a literature event - Dramgurtok at Gogolfest, Vinnytsia
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Internship in the educational department of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2017
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Co-curation of an exhibition in the context of a performance of Nadar Ensemble on Gogolfest, Kyiv Link
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Participation in a performance "Freedom to be yourself” by Daria Koltsova at He for She Art Week, Kyiv
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Internship as an assistant in communication at the Unit.City Art Prize, Kyiv
2016
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Personal exhibition in Maisteriya gallery at The House of Artist, Kyiv