Daria Koltsova (b. 1987, Kharkiv, Ukraine; based in Paris)

The Kiosk (2025)
Found kiosk, stained glass installation

News from Home (2024)
Installation, stained glass, metal postcard stands and holders

Daria Koltsova est une artiste ukrainienne pluridisciplinaire dont le travail se déploie dans des installations, des interventions dans l’espace public, de la performance et des pratiques participatives. Son œuvre se situe à la croisée de la mémoire, de la culture matérielle et de la politique de la perception, examinant comment les individus et les communautés remodèlent la réalité pour pouvoir y demeurer — comment les gestes de protection, de répétition, de dissimulation et de rituel deviennent des stratégies de survie.

L’installation est composée d’un kiosque trouvé en Europe de l’Est, dont les vitrines et les présentoirs sont remplis de « cartes postales » en vitrail, représentant chacune un paysage ukrainien menacé de disparition. Kiosks, ubiquitous during the artist’s childhood in Ukraine, formed informal meeting and trading places of everyday life. They have gradually disappeared or left abandoned. Found in a junkyard and displaced into the exhibition space, the kiosk becomes a fragment of a life lost in time and space, an architectural remnant of home, another repository for memory. Stained-glass landscapes depict Ukrainian ecosystems threatened by war. The landscapes are based on photographs taken by the artist, shared by friends, found on social media or reimagined based on memories shared by interviewers. Landscapes are simplified to the compositions of colourful stripes, a visual code, yet recognisable to those who belonged there. What is a postcard, if not a symbolic piece of land that can be carried, saved and shared — a portable fragment of home that saves it from disappearance.

“Whenever I close my eyes, my garden is in front of me.” — from an interview with a Crimean Tatar forcibly deported to Uzbekistan in 1944.

Koltsova was nominated for the PinchukArtPrize (2015) and received the MUHi Award (2015), the Gaudi Polonia Polish Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017), and the Kaiserring Scholarship from the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (2023–2024). In 2026 she became a laureate of the international program “Les artistes émergents d’ici et d’ailleurs” by Fond Porosus and Thanks for Nothing. Selected institutional solo exhibitions include Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (2023); Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara (2023); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2023); and Albertina Modern, Vienna (2022). Selected group exhibitions include Kyiv Biennial, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2024); Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (2023); MO.CO Montpellier (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Goslar (2022); and the Odesa Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa.
d’Odesa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa.

Dedicated to showcasing conceptual art practices from Eastern and Central Europe, SUPRAINFINIT represents emerging, mid-career, and established artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The gallery engages both local and international audiences through a wide range of media, with a strong commitment to newly commissioned works and large-scale installations. It plays a key role in Bucharest’s cultural ecosystem and contributes significantly to the artistic landscape of Eastern Europe. In addition to its exhibitions, SUPRAINFINIT prioritises public programming that deepens and expands curatorial and artistic visions.