Daria Lytvynenko

Daria Lytvynenko (Yalta, Ukraine, currently based in Vienna, AT) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in mime and physical theatre, working primarily with performance, video and installation. She addresses the audience in a provocative way, based on experiments with humour, satire and circus elements to voice the complexities of political and civil spheres. Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, Daria has been creating action-performances in public spaces in Vienna. Since January 2024, Lytvynenko has been collaborating with Jasmin Schaitl on the "Narrative Presences" project, which facilitates performative workshops and events in Ukraine, Austria, and the Czech Republic, connecting Ukrainian communities in Europe. In July-September 2022, Daria participated in the community-building project “Great Oven” in Lebanon, where she initiated workshops with local children and created the film “Due to the Burning Wave” with the small Ukrainian community in Bekaa Valley.