About

Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu (b. 1987, Lviv, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist living and working in the United Kingdom. Her practice unfolds across installation, sculpture, ceramics, painting, performance, and socially engaged projects, with a focus on material processes, spatial experience, and embodied engagement.

At the core of her work is a transformative process – moving from lived experiences of war, displacement, and destruction toward questions of responsibility, justice, and the possibility of futures shaped through conscious rebuilding. Working with clay, soil, natural pigments, found objects, and documents, she allows matter to embody unresolved realities instead of translating them into visual symbols.

Drawing on archival research, historical records, and legal documents, Yuliia examines how systems of power and responsibility become embedded within material traces. Her use of non-conventional pigments such as kumkum, sindur, turmeric, and earth shifts attention from representation toward material presence by foregrounding their physical weight, texture, and cultural resonance, allowing transformation to emerge through prolonged engagement rather than symbolic depiction.

Across installations, performative situations, and participatory formats, she creates spaces that slow perception and invite attentive presence. Repetition, modular structures, and restrained gestures operate as meditative tools, opening questions of care, fragility, and balance within unstable conditions.

Her practice is closely connected to Ukrainian cultural heritage and its vulnerability to erasure, approaching identity as something lived, carried, and continuously reassembled. Through material and spatial work, she explores peace not as resolution, but as an ongoing process shaped through attention, responsibility, and participation.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Europe and is held in private collections in Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Europe.