Asya Yakovlieva

Born in 2001 in Luhansk, Ukraine. In 2016, I moved to Dnipro because of the russian occupation of my
hometown.

I work with graphics, sculpture, beads, and textiles. In my practice, I explore themes of violence, corporeality, and vulnerability, transforming and reflecting on them through playful, ironic visual symbols, often with phallic allusions. I am interested in how the act of decorating and embellishing can become a tool for expressing the cruel, the traumatic, the unbearable. I combine painful and vulnerable topics with irony, playfulness, and naivety, creating tension between form and content.

I use corporeality as a visual language, linking physiological processes with emotions: the process of absorption — with the negative emotional spectrum, the process of release — with the positive.

My personal biography, which includes the experience of living under russian occupation and losing my home as a result of russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, is an important part of my art and is manifested in my works as a dialogue with the enemy, the aggressor.

2019–2023, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, Restoration, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University,
Dnipro, Ukraine

Solo exhibitions:
2025, The Game of Disguise, Experimental Studio of DCCC, Dnipro, Ukraine
2023, Pop-up exhibition within the Poetry in the Art Alley, Dnipro, Ukraine

Group exhibitions:
2025, Selection of Values, Voitok Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2025, Point of Exhaustion, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2024, The Current That Carries Us Upstream, based on the results of the residency in Muzychi village, Kuznia
Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024, Performance Where People Tread, Grass Doesn't Grow, within the Integration Lab residency, Artsvit
Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
2024, Performance Tigers in the Garden, within the Integration Lab residency, SDK Słonecznik, Museum of
Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
2024, Installation Garden. The Third Spring, DniproArtStage, Dnipro, Ukraine
2024, Pop-up exhibition based on the results of the residency for young artists, DCCC, Artsvit Gallery,
Dnipro, Ukraine
2023, Contemporary practices, Dnipro House of Arts, Dnipro, Ukraine