Maria Kulikovska is a multimedia artist, architect, actionist, performer, researcher and lecturer. After the annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation, she lived and worked in Kyiv, Donetsk, and different countries in exile. Returning to Kyiv for two years, Maria Kulikovska who is placed on the list of banned “degenerative” artists in Russia because of her non-binary and political art, finally had to flee Ukraine in March 2022. At the end of 2019 she creates, together with her partner and co-author Uleg Vinnichenko, the international non-binary art space, GARAGE 33. Galerie-Shelter for contemporary art(ists) from “conflict?”, which should have opened in summer 2022.