Valeria Prorizna

Valeria Prorizna is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist working between the black box and the white cube. She examines spatial justice and suppressed histories through video installations, spatial research, and film programming.

Valeria studied documentary filmmaking at the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv, was part of the Open Library of Fine Arts, Plivka Art Centre, and KINOKO Film Festival, and collaborated as a producer with multiple video artists and filmmakers in Ukraine and across Europe. As a member of the Centre for Spatial Technologies (CST), Valeria has worked on 'City Within a Building', 'Nebelivka Hypothesis', and situated testimonies for the 'Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive'. Their most recent work, 'Church, Chora, Chersonese', is a two-screen video installation tracing archaeological narratives about the Ancient Greek city of Chersonese that have served shifting political agendas from the late eighteenth century until the current Russian occupation of the peninsula.

Valeria's video works with CST were presented at the Ukrainian Pavilion during Venice Biennale Architettura 2023, received a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, were shortlisted for the IJ4EU Impact Award 2024, and were exhibited at Akademie der Künste Berlin, M HKA Antwerp, ETH Zurich, and others.

She is currently developing 'Nothing Ever Happens', a speculative film exploring what Ukrainian culture might have looked like in the 1960s under alternative socio-political conditions.