Vasylysa Shchogoleva (*1991, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Berlin-based artist with a background in architecture. As a creative, she believes participatory practice opens space for diverse voices to meet, where perspectives fuse and something truly new can emerge. This ethos underpins her work across participative design, public art, community engagement, and education.
Her vision has shaped projects such as the award-winning community housing design in Berlin-Steglitz, interactive installations like to heal in Kharkiv, and I miss Home in Berlin, and public space interventions across Ukraine and Germany. She has contributed illustrations and designs to publications like CoHousing Inclusive, Social Ecological Community Housing, and a board game House of Gossip, and is co-author of Kharkiv is a dream. Public Art and Activism 2013–2023.
Vasylysa co-founded Critical Thinking e.V. as a way to connect socially engaged urbanism with lived experience—particularly in her native Kharkiv. Her projects in Saltivka and Zaporizhia reflect a deep commitment to community-led transformation, while her development of a participation module for the Kharkiv School of Architecture (as part of a GIZ fellowship) underscores her role in shaping cross-border educational dialogue. Rooted in both Berlin and Kharkiv, she builds pathways between contexts, using design, art, and activism as connective tools.
Her work weaves together architecture, illustration, public art, and education—bridging professional fields as fluidly as she bridges places. Whether through a sound installation in Jena, a publication in Berlin, or a cardboard memorial in Kharkiv, her evolving practice centers on collectivity, memory, and belonging. She moves between commissioned and self-initiated projects, treating each as an opportunity to spark new connections across cultures and disciplines.
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id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability e.V., Netzwerk Immovilien e.V., be able e.V., Humboldt Universität: Stadtlabor, Stiftung Preußischer Häuser: Haus Bastian – Zentrum für Kulturelle Bildung, Neue Nationalgalerie, König Galerie.