Alina Kopytsa

Alina Kopytsa was born as the daughter of a submarine sailor and grew up surrounded by the textiles, ribbons, buttons and the sewing machines of her mother, in Poliske, north of Kyiv. Her family was working in the textile industry for generations, and so it was natural that Alina transformed this family-tradition in her very own way. Alina graduated in 2006 from the National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the Faculty of Graphic Arts. In 2017 she continued her studies at the ZHdK, the University of Arts in Zurich, Switzerland, where she is graduating this year. She was a nominee of the MUHi (2012) Award and the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2013). Lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland.

2020 Play. Pause. Stop, The Naked room, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019 TURN, Schcherbenkoart center, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 Something suggestive, In realty, Boston, USA

2017 Mein Gott, Material, Zurich, Switzerland

2016 Plug it, Lokal int gallery, Biel, Switzerland “Puppenhaus”, Sihlhhalle gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2010 Childhood Re-Creation”, Raum Junge Kunst /Ratskeller Lichtenberg, Berlin

2008 “Personal Space”, finalist of the grant program “Public Space 07-08” of EIDOS Arts Development Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Windows” within the program for young artists Center of Contemporary Art at NaUKMA and Swiss cultural program in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020 Biennale Ve věci umění / Matter of Art 2020 (VVUMOA); Prague

2019 Catch of the Year(s), Dienstgebaude, Zurich, Switzerland -♀— Positionen zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen, Kunstpavillon, Luzern, Switzerand
Collapse Sink, Zurich University of Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

2018 A Space of One’s Own, PinchukArtCentre Kyiv, Ukraine

2017 Enter Art Foundation – 49 Contemporary Artists, Kantgaragen-Palast, Berlin, Germany
Die Grenze, an exhibition Organized by Goethe-Institut Moscow
Textus, Visual Culture Research Center Kyiv, Ukraine
Artwork, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine and Dworcowa Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Bentega. Independent Kyiv Scene, SALÒ, Paris, France

2016 Performance “Alternative story”, Cabaret der Kunstler, Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland

2015 “Zero without a stick”, Yermylovcenter gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
“Body and Freedom Festival”, Biel, Switzerland
“What in Me Is Feminine?”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Moved On!”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 “SPACES: Architecture of Common” Kyiv, Ukraine
Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012 “Gender in IZOLYATSIA”, Medpunkt, IZOLYATSIA – platform for cultural initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine
“MUHі 2012” nominates exhibition, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011 Pre-auction exhibition “Simply. Art”, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv