Mariya Hoyin

Mariya Hoyin (Ukraine, 1982) is an artist working in analog photography, performance, collage and graphics. A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts. She completed the photographic project Periphery during her stay at the AIR Wro residence (curator: Magdalena Skowrońska, Wrocław, Poland, 2016).
Gaude Polonia (tutor Ewa Zarzycka, Wrocław, Poland, 2017). During her stay at the Multimedia Ukrainian Plein Air in Ustka, she created an art book “Diary during the War” (curator: Weronika Teplicka, Ustka, Poland, 2022).

Mariya Hoyin is an Artist in Residence at Live Art Ireland with her Partner and collaborator Volodymyr Topiy

Performance:
2022 performance festival “Malamut”, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2022 performance Festival of Naked Forms, Prague, Czech Republic
2022 performance “Never Again” Multimedia Ukrainian Outdoor in Ustka, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
2022 performance festival “ECHT JETZT”, Tübingen, Reutlingen, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 video performance at the Blurborders festival, Thailand
2021 X Tychy performance festival, streaming, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 performance at “PERFORMANCE symposium”, gallery “Dzyga”, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 online festival of the group “ZABIH”, Instagram, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 online performance festival at Galeria XXI, Warsaw, Poland
2020 performance at the festival “The wheel of time”, Toruń, Poland
2020 participation in Moments II online, Galeria MD_S Wrocław, Poland
2019 performance “Gradient”, gallery “MD_S” Wrocław, Poland
2019 Festival of Performance Art “Malamut” Ostrava, Czech Republic
2018 International Festival of Ephemeral Art “KONTEXSTY” Sokołowsko, Poland
2018 first Performance Festival «Zabih» Lviv, Ukraine
2018 International Performance Art Festival «Interakcje» Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
2016 performance at the Bruno Schulz Festival Drohobych, Ukraine
2015 performance Dobrotvir, Ukraine

Mariya Hoyin Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/mariyahoyin/

Solo Performance for Rogue Women Culture Night 2023

The performance I performed during the Night of Culture is a reflection on the
theme of Home. What my own home looks like. This is a combination of two
different performances connected by the same theme of war…

Collaboration with Mariya Hoyin for Convergence 2023

We conceived this joint work of ours in the middle of June this year while staying on the border of Lithuania and Poland in the area of Krasnogrud in the family estate of the Nobel laureate in literature Czeslaw Milosz. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 460 days of war have passed, according to official data, the number of people killed has reached 9,000. There were 60,000 murdered children in the Chechen Republic, mass murders in Georgia and Syria. All this was preceded by the annexation of Moldova and the historical memory of millions of people who died of hunger in Ukraine. We did not yet know that the next step of the Russian Empire would be to blow up the Kakhovskaya HPP, water from which would flood thousands of square kilometers of land, people, animals and houses would be under water. And most importantly, the fields on which wheat was grown will be flooded, hundreds of kilometers of land will remain without an irrigation system. Ukraine will not be able to export hundreds of thousands of tons of wheat to African countries. Therefore, hunger among the population of this country will become even more real. The increase in the price of fodder wheat will lead to even greater impoverishment of the people of Africa. Our performance is based on footage from news networks covering burials and reburials of tortured and killed civilians during this war. The land in the territories where hostilities are taking place as a result of the use of modern weapons, which include chemical components, will be suitable for growing grain and other crops for a long time. As a result of hostilities, rivers become suitable for drinking water for a long time, and the main thing is that fish and other flora and fauna cannot survive there. Hundreds of species of birds and animals died in the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP or began to look for another place to live. As a result, these events globally disrupted the ecosystem of southern Ukraine. Due to the spill of water from the reservoir, many thousands of kilometers of fresh water entered the sea. Fresh water changes the ecosystem of the Black Sea and the water becomes unsuitable for marine fish. Our performances are largely based on the factors of nature, that is, air, water, earth, and rarely fire. These are the elements that globally make up a person. Therefore, man is the main subject of our research in all its manifestations –
physical, mental and spiritual, he is the subject of our research.