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

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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