Viktoria Berezina

Artist / Curator / Manager of artistic events / Member of the Tartu Artists' Union

Born in 1994 in Kherson, Ukraine, moved to Tartu, Estonia in 2022.

Her practice spans traditional and digital collage, graphics, and mixed media. Through poetic, multilayered visuals, she explores human–nature relationships, solitude, introspection, and responses to contemporary events. Participated in exhibitions in Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, and the USA.

In 2020, she co-founded the contemporary art festival MYCELIUM, a mobile platform for emerging voices in visual, musical, and performance art, held in Kherson (2020, 2021) and Sweden (2023). She is the author of two books: On the Other Shore (2021), awarded Best Book of the Exhibition in the Children’s World category at the XXII All-Ukrainian Forum Ukrainian Book in Odesa Region, and My Kherson. Letters from Ukraine (2023), a war diary presented in Tartu and Tallinn.

Berezina received the Kultuuri Tegu award in 2022 for her role in documenting the war and curating the Ukrainian–Estonian exhibition Päästik / Trigger / Тригер. Her project Viktoria’s Letters was nominated for the Tartu Culture Bearers 2022 award. In 2024, she jo...

2012 − 2017 Kherson National Technical University, Department of Design with honors
2009 − 2012 Kherson Art School & Design-Lyceum, Designer with honors

Solo exhibitions
2025
• A Face Assembled from Noise, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
• Interweaving, A-Art Gallery, Narva, Estonia

2024
• I am in Nature, Nature is in me, HAKI Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
• I am in Nature, Nature is in me, Oru Cultural Hall, Linnamäe, Estonia


Group exhibitions
2025
• Resilient Expression: Ukrainian Artists in Estonia, Vabamu, Tallinn, Estonia
• Unframed: AR for Artmakers, Finlayso, in the framework of TAD Week, Tampere, Finland
• Symbios, Eriksbergs museum , Tranås, Sweden
• Buy Young Art, Telliskivi, Green Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
• Tartu Art Auction 2025, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia

2024
• Symbiosis, Kulturhuset, Jönköping, Sweden
• Glitch Art 24, international online exhibition, Brazil
• Buy Young Art, Telliskivi, Green Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
• Wandering in the Storms of the World. Art created in the shadows of war: Geislingen 1944 –Tartu 2024, University of Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
• Afloat, Totem Center, PEN Ukraine Space, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Red Button, Gallery Sapere Aude, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023
• Animation of art resistance in occupation, Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Kherson. Art under Occupation, Lviv Municipal Art Centre, Lviv, Ukraine
• K...