intersection of human anatomy and architectural form. Her practice is built on a provocative inquiry: if cities are extensions of the body, what does it mean to exist within the skeletal remains of post-conflict landscapes? Rejecting the romanticism of ruins, Shulkin approaches architecture with a forensic eye, treating stairwells, slabs, and window grids as ribs, organs, and open wounds.

Her latest practice, ‘Flesh of the City’, explores fragments of the built environment as clinical records of violence. Her canvases function as dissections rather than mere representations; she employs oil and canvas as scalpel and sutures to peel back architectural layers and expose their raw connection to the human form. Through thick, dragged layers of oil that mimic biological tissue, she collapses perspective to visualize a building’s own trauma. What initially appears as abstraction often conceals specific historical injuries—a corridor used as a refugee route or a facade that witnessed a protest—transforming concrete and steel into living, breathing entities.

Shulkin’s career is marked by international acclaim and a deep commitment to art as activism, notably as the founder of New Belarus Art. She has been nominated for prestigious honors such as NORDWESTKUNST 2025 and the Art Prize of the Sparkasse Karlsruhe. Her work has been exhibited at the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, the Arsenale di Venezia, and the National Gallery of Macedonia, and is held in public collections including the German Literature Archive Marbach and the Berlin State Library. Through her "visual alchemy," Shulkin redefines man-made landscapes not as habitats, but as essential, vulnerable extensions of our very existence.

Exhibition & Projects (Selection)

2025

NORDWESTKUNST 2025, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Deutschland (Ausstellung der nominierten Künstler)

48. Kunstpreis der Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Deutschland (Ausstellung der nominierten Künstler)

Structures, KURA Gallery, Hamburg, Deutschland (Zwei-Personen-Ausstellung)

The Shape it Takes, Galerie Grolman, Berlin, Deutschland

2024

Future Perfect, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2023

FORWARD, Von Fraunberg Art Gallery & Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf, Deutschland

2022

Moving Cities: a changing metropolis, Anise Gallery, London, UK

2020

OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Nordmazedonien

2018

Solo exhibition of awarded artists, Gallery OSTEN, Skopje, Nordmazedonien

2015

Frauenmuseum Bonn, Art Fair 25, Bonn, Deutschland