Sofiia Vinnichenko

About

Sofiia Vinnichenko (b. 2000) is a Ukrainian artist whose practice, involving sculpture and collage,
is mostly based on photography. Her work, inspired by duality and strong self-expression, reflects intimate topics in a societal mirror.

With a series of solo exhibitions in Germany at the fiftyfifty Gallery and the Kyiv School of Photography Gallery in Ukraine, Sofiia has established herself as a strong voice in the world of art. She has also taken part in group exhibitions, including TYME x Art Biesenthal, Im
Impro97-Photo+ Düsseldorf – Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media in Germany, and
“New Seeds” by the Float Magazine (USA).

Postponed Disbelief (2024 – Present)

Continuous battle between inability and desire to believe. Whether in divinity or the future—who cares, maybe they share the same mother. I sift through my family’s archival images, I translate them, blindly – the way I learnt to translate memories about my dreams that stuck in the language I don’t use anymore.

I repeat. It both terrifies and comforts me. Life is but a single moment, stretched out to eternity during a fall.

My parents were raised in a world of godless utopia. I was born nine years after God was reinvented. I don’t believe in it, but can I reinvent myself too?

There are days when I still fight a wish to believe. And days when I make pictures of a woman I can’t see, then the only thing left – to believe.

Sofiia graduated from the RCA in 2024, winning the Shadow Labs Award and receiving a Special Mention from Metro Imaging.