Vika Malysheva

_Artist spotlight: @vika.creating for <Fragility in the 👁️ of the beholder> @thewrong.biennale >>> You can watch the full version of the artwork via the bio link voidnomadic.gallery/thewrongbiennale

Time Heals, 2026 Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, vacuum packaging London, UK In the UK, there are strict limits on the sale of painkillers: no more than two packs of paracetamol or ibuprofen per transaction, with a maximum of 16 tablets per pack. To make this work, I needed 625 tablets. That’s approximately 39 packs — which meant at least 20 separate purchases, spread across different shops, different days, different cashiers. Each time, I placed two boxes on the counter. Each time, the transaction was perfectly legal. And yet there was something uncomfortable about it — a creeping sense of doing something illicit, even though I wasn’t. The repetition began to feel strange. Walking into another Boots, another Tesco, another Lidl. The same ritual. The same two packs. The same polite exchange. Once, when a cashier refused to sell me more than two, I asked: “Can you actually poison yourself with this amount?” She laughed. “No, not really.” The absurdity of it hung in the air. The rule exists to protect people from overdose, but even the person enforcing it acknowledged the gap between policy and reality. It wasn’t about the danger of three packs versus two. It was about procedure. I started to wonder if the cashiers noticed me. If they remembered. If buying painkillers in bulk, slowly and methodically, looked like something it wasn’t. Twenty trips to collect pills. Twenty polite transactions. The work had already begun before I arranged a single letter — in that repetition, in that friction between intention and restriction, in the slow accumulation of rationed relief.

Time Heals, 2026 Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, vacuum packaging London, UK The work doesn’t reject medicine or modern healthcare. It simply holds up a mirror to the gap between what we swallow and what actually heals us

Video Art Urban Voices currently taking part pf 8th edition of @thewrong.biennale The Wrong Biennale Urban Voices explores how cities speak through their accumulated text, creating an accidental poetry from the intersection of official language, commercial messaging, and personal expression. By collecting these words from their original contexts and allowing them to generate new stories, the piece examines how meaning shifts when urban language is freed from its intended purpose and allowed to recombine into something entirely new. The resulting video presents London not as a fixed geographical space, but as a living text—constantly being written, overwritten, and rewritten by its inhabitants through the simple act of placing words in public view. Curated by Olesya Ilenok @ilenok.art and Andrey Chugunov @873hz _VOID Nomadic Gallery @_void.gallery Glasgow, Scotland 12.11–11.12.2025 173 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HF, shopfront window, @16_collective

This is a fragment of my video art Urban Voices that currently taking part pf 8th edition of @thewrong.biennale The Wrong Biennale Urban Voices explores how cities speak through their accumulated text, creating an accidental poetry from the intersection of official language, commercial messaging, and personal expression. By collecting these words from their original contexts and allowing them to generate new stories, the piece examines how meaning shifts when urban language is freed from its intended purpose and allowed to recombine into something entirely new. The resulting video presents London not as a fixed geographical space, but as a living text—constantly being written, overwritten, and rewritten by its inhabitants through the simple act of placing words in public view. Curated by Olesya Ilenok @ilenok.art and Andrey Chugunov @873hz _VOID Nomadic Gallery @_void.gallery . Glasgow, Scotland 12.11–11.12.2025 173 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HF, shopfront window, @16_collective

I’m participating the 8th edition of @thewrong.biennale - an internationally recognised platform for digital and post-internet art as part a Pavilion of @_void.gallery with my new video art work Urban Voices. This video artwork transforms the linguistic landscape of a city into narrative, weaving together the fragmented texts that populate the city’s streets. Physical Embassy installation will took place at: Glasgow Embassy. 173 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HF, shopfront window, in collaboration with @16_collective Aberdeen Embassy. Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1LB, The Academy window, in collaboration with @kooperator.space Curated by Olesya Ilenok @ilenok.art and Andrey Chugunov @873hz _VOID Nomadic Gallery. Glasgow, Scotland

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London Menu, 2024 English tableware, permanent marker Exhibited at @shtager_shch BURSTING INTO FLAME Curated by Anastasia Garnova, Il Gurn @digitalmadonna @doctorpriestofarts Photos by @zoe.ruter Living in London has had a profound impact on my artistic practice. I decompose my experiences and emotions surrounding the city into a metaphorical dinner, where each plate serves as a representation of a specific aspect of London that excites or inspires me. These “dishes” reflect moments of interaction with the city—whether it’s the texture of its streets, the rhythm of its fast-paced life, the architectural contrasts, or the eclectic fashion and culture that define it. Each piece of my work becomes a plate in this conceptual feast, embodying the layers of sensory and emotional responses I have to London.

London Menu, 2024 English tableware, permanent marker Living in London has had a profound impact on my artistic practice. I decompose my experiences and emotions surrounding the city into a metaphorical dinner, where each plate serves as a representation of a specific aspect of London that excites or inspires me. These “dishes” reflect moments of interaction with the city—whether it’s the texture of its streets, the rhythm of its fast-paced life, the architectural contrasts, or the eclectic fashion and culture that define it. Each piece of my work becomes a plate in this conceptual feast, embodying the layers of sensory and emotional responses I have to London.

BURSTING INTO FLAME Curated by Anastasia Garnova, Il Gurn @digitalmadonna @doctorpriestofarts Featuring works by: Anastasiia Aleksandrenko, Tim Antonov, Stella Arion, Sergey Borisenko, Oxana Geets, Igor Khlopotov, Emmet Kierans, Jang Guin Lim, Margarita Lemann, Katia Lyubavskaya, Viktoriia Malysheva, Anya Mokhova, Anastasia Rak, Nataliia Ryzhova, Diana Rusyaykina, Alina Saffron, Viktoriia Saifutdinova, Sila Sen, Elena Timokhina, Anastasia Vandalkovskaya, VELLY. “Burning into Flame” delves into realms of confession, transformation, and self-representation within the urban vortex. The exhibition invites viewers to explore the tensions between the public and the private, self and city, seen and unseen, art and surroundings. Transcending the traditional showcase of artworks, we’ll challenge our artists to share a bit of themselves through simple confessions, creating a dialogue between their creations and their authentic selves. These admissions need not be profound – even simple food-preferences would do. For is it not in the conveyance of insights through humour – sometimes delightfully silly – or through self-deprecating irony, that we glimpse the true essence of creative spirit? Let something new begin. Shtager&Shch 52-53 Margaret Street Lower Ground Floor W1W 8SQ

This Is Mine project, Video Art, 2023 Emotions Section More - @this_is_mine_prjct This project is a glance at the emigration from Russia in 2022 from the material point of view. The author disassembled all the things that people shared into three components: material (the thing itself), stories (if you isolate the story from the object, then you can see the connection between the stories), and the third component, which is expressed in emotions, relation of its owner, rather than the object itself. Thus, the exhibition includes three sections. The third section contains emotions: the author invited to tell what an object meant for its owner and how it ended up in emigration.