From 21 June to 28 September 2025, the Tartu Art Museum’s project space will host A Face Assembled from Noise, a solo exhibition by Viktoria Berezina. The exhibition is part of the museum’s Young Tartu programme.
The collage series was created in 2023 during a time of personal crisis—marked by war, displacement, and the loss of a coherent identity. These works emerged from a moment when one’s own reflection felt unfamiliar, and each day began with the question: Who am I now? It is the story of a person who has lost everything to war. The world collapsed in an instant—what remained was silence, fractures, and the need to ask: What now?
According to the artist, the works resemble a city wall layered with posters, graffiti, and time’s residue—a surface that never fully lets go of the past. Memory functions in much the same way: fragmented, distorted, discontinuous. Yet even in this chaos, a foundation for identity can begin to take form.
The yellow that pierces through these compositions is not sunlight shining between garden flags; it is the afterglow of fire. It does not warm, but it keeps the cold at bay. It is resistance. It is faith.
Viktoria Berezina (b. 1994, Kherson, Ukraine) is an artist, graphic designer and curator. Since October 2022, she has lived and worked in Tartu, Estonia. She studied at the Kherson Art School and the Design Lyceum and graduated with honours in 2017 from the Faculty of Design at the Kherson National Technical University.
In 2022, she received the Kultuuri Tegu award for her outstanding contribution to culture and her courage in documenting the war. That same year, she co-curated the Ukrainian–Estonian exhibition Päästik / Trigger / Тригер. In 2023, her project Viktoria’s Letters was nominated for the Tartu Culture Bearers award in the “Event of the Year” category. In 2024, she became a member of the Tartu Artists’ Union.
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