Zhenia Stepanenko (b. 1996, Kyiv, Ukraine) currently lives and works in Berlin.
Co-founder of music/performance project Poison dog saliva
Co-founder of Occult forces of Ukraine
Founder of Kreepy bakery and a Ohirok & Pomidor pickled vegetables project
Co-writer of the erotic fiction novel «Canceled Love»
Education
2022-2023 Chernihiv Collegium, History and archeology, Ukraine
2017-2018 Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, Ukraine
2013-2017 Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Graphic design, Ukraine
Selected shows
2025
PinchukArtCentre Art Prize 2025,
Kyiv, Ukraine
2024
«Canceled love» Performative reading,
Orainenberger, Berlin, Germany;
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
After the Hunger, Karpaten Biennale,
SomoS, Berlin, Germany
«Hedgehog Cakes: Sweet Weapon of Terror» screening,
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
«Artists Inside» fellowship group show,
Quartier am Humboldthain, Berlin, Germany
Friday the 13th,
Volonté 93, Paris, France
2023
All the Dots Connected Form an Open Space Within,
KVOST, Berlin, Germany
The Agrocist,
solo show, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Motherland,
Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Let the long. Road. Lead. To. Stairs in. The Heavens,
PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic;
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine
Four Slag Heaps,
Los Angeles, United States
I am You are,
Skylight Studios, New York, United States
2022
Holding The Line,
SomoS, Berlin, Germany
I See the World in Ruins,
CCCCCOMA, Berlin, Germany
Borderline,
Villa Müller, Feldkirch, Austria
Identity,
Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg, Austria
Battle Cry,
Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
How to Make a Creepy Cake, performance,
Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2021
Calico Caprice
solo show, Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
2019
Cross Sea,
Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018
The Peace Agreement,
Educatorium, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017
The Basics,
solo show, Educaorium, Kyiv, Ukraine
Works in collections
EIB Art Collection, Luxembourg
Publications
e-flux – Oliver Basciano on “PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025”
Sinner Magazine #4 – The Beauty and The Cringe
Spike Magazine #79 “The Pessimist Issue” – Artist's Favorites By Henrike Naumann
TAZ – With a touch of grotesque
On war, telegram and mushrooms
FRIEZE – Artists Reflect on the Future of Ukraine
Your Art – Що потрібно знати про «Перехресне Море» - кураторський проєкт Лесі Хоменко
VONO paper – Новый Киевский Андеграунд, или Музыкальный Анальный Секс
Telegraph – Ядовитая Собачья Слюна / інтерв'ю