Daria Khozhai

Daria Khozhai is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist, architect and professor based in Amsterdam. Her practice operates at the intersection of art, architecture and cognitive science, using architectural models at small scale and immersive 1:1 scale to investigate memory, displacement, loss and the emotional architecture of home.

Architectural scale models are a central medium within her practice. Rather than functioning as preparatory maquettes, they are autonomous works and the DNA of realised 1:1 immersive installations - condensing larger spaces into a concentrated scale while carrying their spatial, material and emotional qualities.

Her works are built through one material, one sustained action and repetition: newspapers are layered into walls, fabric is transformed into architecture, and domestic objects and textures become carriers of memory. The work moves between intimate personal narratives and wider histories of displacement, violence, war and collective memory.

Khozhai was a member of the core team of the architects collective RAAAF for six years (2018–2024) and currently works from her own studio in Amsterdam.

National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
B.A. Fine Art / Contemporary Art

Politecnico di Milano, Italy
M.A. Architecture

Apartment No. 8 — Kunstenlab, Deventer, Netherlands
Engaging Trauma Through Contemporary Art — UvA Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Load-bearing Wall — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Load-bearing Wall — National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Load-bearing Wall — Dordrecht Museum, Netherlands — Galatea Art Prize Winner
Pravda — FENIX Migration Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands — Permanent Collection
Architecture of Loss — ARCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Room No. 1 — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Room No. 2 — Parallel Programme of the Venice Biennale, CREA Gallery, Venice, Italy

Pravda (Правда – “Truth”) — Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Solo presentation

Pravda (Правда – “Truth”) — Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Landscape — Ukrainian Art Biennale, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine