(b. 1987, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine)
Eliza is a Ukrainian artist of Georgian descent working in the fields of visual and performative practices. In 2016, she earned a Master's degree in Monumental Painting from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
Her work explores themes of trauma, familial and autobiographical memory, place, and identity. Through an interdisciplinary approach, her practice reveals the interconnectedness and transformations within sociocultural and natural landscapes, focusing on performance, drawing, objects, and texts as forms of response.
Eliza investigates movement and transformation, emphasizing their participatory and performative nature. Her methodology is empirical, rooted in cyclical processes where action becomes the key component, and the selected materials serve as a foundation for its emergence.
Lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine.
Education
2016 - Master of Arts, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
Specialization: Monumental Painting. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2007 - Specialist, Zaporizhzhia Center of Vocational Education.
Specialization: Design. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 - “Between Farewell and Return,” Mystetskyi Arsenal National Cultural-Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - “How Are You,” Ukrainian House National Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - Liste Art Basel 2023, graphic series “Wound,” Basel, Switzerland.
2023 - “Tsinamdzgvrishvili 49 / Mazniahshvili 10,” Ic Queisser Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2023 - “Personal Staff,” YermilovCentre CCA, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2023 - “Personal Staff: Ukrainian Art in Times of War,” CCA “Signs of the Times,” Toruń, Poland.
2023 - “Indicators,” Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2022 - “Navigation,” Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine.
2022 - “Homeward,” Graz, Austria.
2021 - “Colored Shards: Life Among Others,” YermilovCentre CCA, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2020 - “Revision,” YermilovCentre CCA, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Selected Performances
2023 - “When Flowers Are Silent,” International Land Art Symposium “Mohrytsia: Borderline Space,” Lviv, Ukraine.
2023 - “Shadow,” Festival of Naked Forms, Prague, Czech Republic.
2023 - “Cover,” as part of the exhibition “How Are You” at the Ukrainian House National Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, and (as part of the exhibition) “Indicators” at Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2022 - “Before Entering, Remember,” Bastion Gallery, Krakow, Poland & Jam Factory Art Center (as part of “Navigation”), Lviv, Ukraine.
2022 - “Removing the Excess” (as part of “Apocalypse”), Diogenes Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2021 - “Countless Bone Fragments,” YermilovCentre CCA, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2021 - “The Remnant,” International Land Art Symposium “Mohrytsia: Borderline Space,” Sumy Region, Ukraine.
2020 - “Interval,” International Land Art Symposium “Mohrytsia: Borderline Space,” Sumy Region, Ukraine.
Residencies
2023 - Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland.
2022 - Art Kuzemyn, Kuzemyn village, Ukraine.
2022 - Cultural Traffic, Verkhnij Verbizh village, Ukraine.