Uli Golub • Юлі Голуб

Born in 1990 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Emerging Ukrainian artist currently based in Oakland, California. She obtained M.A. in Philology at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2012. In 2013 she continued her education at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, where she completed her studies in 2016, under the mentorship of famous artist and photographer Sergey Bratkov. Her artistic practice embraces video, installation, performance, photography, and mixed media collages. In 2020 Uli was nominated for the second time for the Pinchuk Art Center Prize and won the Second Special Prize for the project “Look, she’s got beard”, she also received the Emergency Grant from the Foundation For Contemporary Arts for the same project. The cornerstone of Uli’s art practice is storytelling. Fascinated by speculative fiction, cosmism, and futurism, Uli has been trying to find alternative models for existence and coexistence. She is interested in constructing narratives that would inspire the viewers to dream of possible new realities, relations, and power dynamics.