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elisELIS prosto

elisELIS is a visual philosopher, working at the intersections of collage, video art, performance-happenings, ikebana installations, writing, and experimental theatre. her multifaceted practice investigates the relationship between physical bodies, natural materials, emotions, technological interventions and space. Her research is translated into works that prioritise a chance-based process over the finished product, and the limits and possibilities connected to the ideal of freedom. She prefers to stay on the verge of rawness and marginal beauty.

ps. “prosto tak” (translates to: just like that or just because) – as part of her personality, together with metamodern views and wabi-sabi philosophy.

 

pps. working and performing internationally (available around the world in person, and or remotely, and based in england):

side activities – dominatrix, modern geisha (sophisticated adult entertainment with poetry, tea ceremony, dance, visual aesthetics, style, chic and weird, etc), bdsm-practitioner, kinky and fetish lifestyle, artist and art, meow

Creative Genre

  • collage, video art / digital art, ikebana practitioner, still life photography, art / creative direction

Work Undertaken

  • She co-founded Kyiv Collage Practice (2019–2021)
  • the first platform for contemporary collage art in Ukraine
  • and holds a BA in Contemporary Photographic Practice from the University for the Creative Arts
  • UK
  • and finished a Masterschool Software Engineering program in Berlin in 2025. Her artworks are in private collections in America
  • Great Britain
  • Germany
  • Spain and Ukraine
  • and have been exhibited in galleries around the world and on various digital platforms.  2025 Won the July Hackathon
  • team project “Tailcockado”
  • Masterschool 2023 "Tryptophylia" (experimental theatre project)
  • funded by Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media
  • premiered during Yokohama Performing Arts Market (YPAM) in Japan 2022-2023 two interdisciplinary performances: "feel my goosebumps" and "#ukrwarbody"
  • funded by ART Connects and U*act
  • premiered in Lichthof Theatre
  • Hamburg 2022–2023 Scholarship of the President of Ukraine Residencies 2025 L’Oasis
  • Monlet
  • France 2023 Workshop 'Poetics of the Subsoil' by Marina Barsy and Isil Sol
  • and group performance during “Territori” festival
  • Ibiza
  • Spain 2023 #BeyondDigital Speculation Unit during Hauptsache Frei Festival
  • Hamburg 2022-2023 Lichthof Theater
  • Hamburg 2021 International Winter Festival and residency of Environmental Art "MYTHOGENESIS" 2019-2022 various residencies and workshops around Ukraine

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