zhúzhalka has started with self-published photo zines and expanded their engagement with other media forms and artistic formats, often exploring the links between scientific rationalities, the social and the anecdotal.
The collective's name colloquially denotes coal slag that remains after coal has been burned up in an oven and which is then used by households for different purposes. The exploration of the heritage of Donbas area is the main theme of the collective's body of work.
2016/06—08
Blue Sky Catastrophe, Villa Arson → Nice, France
2014/10
edge/mez/межа, OPEN A.i.R. program in PILSEN 2015 → Pilsen, Czech Republic
2014/01—03 and 06—07
Five Minutes To, IZOLYATSIA → Donetsk, Ukraine and CLOSER → Kyiv, Ukraine
2013/06
Appearance, DA SEIN art-location → Donetsk, Ukraine
2017/05—11
Ukrainian Pavilion on LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2017,
Shoot Me Please and Black Album books, → Venice, Italy
2016/11
'Deformation', SUWON INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, Passage video → Suwon, South Korea
2016/04
'Territory \\ Space', ODESSA BATUMI PHOTODAYS,
Passage and We Remain videos → Odessa, Ukraine
011-012:
Black Album and Shoot Me, Please,
specially for the Ukrainian Pavilion
on LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2017
published with Rodovid Press (Kyiv, Ukraine)
010:
Blue Sky Catastrophe,
specially for the 'Blue Sky Catastrophe' exhibition, 2016
006-009:
Dviglo
Shock! Photos!
Rhythmics
Rzhavchino
specially for the 'Five Minutes To' exhibition, 2014
005:
Glitch, specially for the 'Every Milkman Knows Seamstress', 2013
004:
Appearance, 2013
003:
Match, 2013
002:
Emergency exit, 2013
001:
Proletarian, 2012