Stefaniia Bodnia
Stefaniia Bodnia (born in Mariupol, Ukraine) works across a range of media, including communication, installation and printed matter. Her research-based work manifests as visual poetry and engages with the materiality of typography and graphics, used as a tool to construct narratives that address history, society and personal experience. Her artistic exploration revolves around projects that have a sense of urgency, underlined by connections, origins and experiences informed by her background.
| Coal Mine, Land Mine, The Body of Mine | Book, editorial design | DummyAward ’25 shortlist. Part of the collection of The PhotoBook Museum, Cologne.' 27,5 x 20 cm, 104pp; open spine, softcover with a flap, French-fold dust jacket; |
| Coal Mine, Land Mine, The Body of Mine | Silkprinted steel plates with carbon ink | A1, steel, carbon, transparent base. 594 x 841 mm |
| The Portrait | Neon light installation | in collaboration with Alexandra Hunts. Old Ukrainian window grill, steel, neon gas, borosilicate glass, power transformators |
| Pochen Biennale 2024 | Website, Visual identity, Poster, Printed matter, Exhibition | Chemnitz, Eastern Germany. w/ Aliona Ciobanu |
| Prison Diaries | Book, editorial design | w/ Celine Hurka |
| Kyiv Perennial | Visual identity, Poster, Printed matter | Berlin, Germany |
| SeaSummer | Typedesign | w/Celine Hurka |
| Kyiv Biennial 2023 | Website, Visual identity, Poster, Animations, Printed matter | Designed with Aliona Ciobanu. Kyiv, Vienna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorog, Warsaw |
| 2025 | ||
| ПYK! #20 | Pop-up book exhibition | 3 – 6 April 2025, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Library In partnership with: The PhotoBookMuseum, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria |
| GO2025! European Capital of Culture | Messages From Another Borderless Area | Curated by Peter Purg. Xcenter, Nova Gorica, Slovenia |
| 2024 | ||
| Pochen Biennale 2024 | Ex Oriente Ignis– Fire Comes From the East |
Curated by Serge Klymko. Chemnitz, Eastern Germany |
| Graduation show | Royal Academy of Art | The Hague, Netherlands |
| 2023 | ||
| WIP | Group exhibition, Pre-grad show | West Den Haag,Paradise |
| Love is in the Air | Group exhibition, Design Research | Laak, The Hague |
| Hacking Stuffing Reshelving | Group exhibition | Royal Academy of Art, The Hague |
| 2022 | ||
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Dutch Design Week Those Among Us |
Collective exhibition with Uzvar Collective, film screening, panel talk. | Plant Fiction Studio, Eindhoven |
| Vechirka | Exhibition at snack mashine, fundraiser | Snack Amsterdam. With Collect4Ukraine, Uzvar Collective |
| How to set your sign on fire | Fundraiser | W149, Amsterdam |
| Drawing Appreciation Day | Group exhibition organised by Htomi Rosa | ...Ism Project Space, The Hague |
| Unmuted: Can you see my screen? | Group graphic design exhibition | Het Hem, Amsterdam |
| ATypI 2025 Copenhagen | Seasummer: A Variable Font Telling the Story of European Border Politicst | A Keynote with Céline Hurka |
| Zefir 7 | New Signatures | Stroom, Den Haag |
| International Artistic Research Days at KABK: Taking the Chairs off the Table | Royal Academy of Art in the Hague | Presentation with Trang Ha |
| 2023 | ||
| Spassky Fischer | Design Internship | Paris, France |
| Metahaven | Design Internship | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2021-2022 | ||
| Bettter.Us | Graphic Designer | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Royal Academy of Art | Graphic Design | 2020-2024, The Hague, Nethelands |
| National Academy of Art & Architecture | Graphic Arts | 2018-2020 Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam | ||
| Between Bridges | ||
| LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive | ||
| Kyiv Biennale, ESI, Visual Culture Research Center | ||
| Pochen, Spinnerei | ||
2024 ©Stefaniia Bodnia