Stanislava Pinchuk (b.1988, Kharkiv, Ukraine) lives and works in Melbourne, Sarajevo and Barcelona. Pinchuk is an artist working between data-mapping and information-mining, conflict topographies, legacies of literature and the politics of translation. Her practice spans film, architecture, installation, performance, drawing, tattooing, painting and sculpture. She is the current serving Official War Artist of Australia, and has previously held career surveys of her work at Heide MoMA and FAC.
Recent exhibitions include the 17th Gjon Mili Bienniale at the National Gallery of Kosovo (curated by Valentine Umansky, Tate Modern), solo institutional exhibitions at The Dallas Contemporary Museum of Art (curated by Lilia Kudelia) and at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (curated by Fiona Trigg). She has also shown at Manifesta Biennale 14 (curated by Catherine Nichols, Hamburger Bahnhof), the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Salzburger Kunstverein, Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters (curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor), and the New Museum, New Inc. Columbia Architecture University Incubator (curated by Cristina Goberna-Pesudo).
Stanislava Pinchuk is the director of the roaming, radical architectural design school The Anti/Monumental Laboratory, which is currently the opening faculty unit of the experimental Masters Degree in Critical Design at the Elisava University of Architecture & Engineering in Barcelona.