Vova Vorotniov
Vova Vorotniov (born in 1979 in Červonohrad, USSR). Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin. Works with walking practices, psychogeography, photography, ethnography, cultural heritage, sport and vandalism. In 2017, as part of the “ZaSkhid” (“ЗаСхід”) project, Vorotniov took a piece of coal from the mine in his hometown in western Ukraine and brought it to Lysychansk, a historic mining centre in Donbass. The artist walked the distance of almost 1000 km and donated the coal to the local museum after his month-long journey. He is a member of the De Ne De initiative, which focuses on research into Ukrainian Soviet-era art and architecture. Vorotniov often collaborates with Ukrainian fashion designers and runs his own clothing project, Volodia Samopal.
Drones
2025
Courtesy of the artist
This series of schematic drone images examines the evolving face of contemporary warfare. By presenting drones in motion—reduced to stripped-down visual diagrams—the work highlights their ambiguous position in our world: machines that can both survey and strike, protect and destroy.
Beyond the fascination with flight and engineering, the series points to the unsettling accessibility of these weapons. Drones are not monumental machines of past wars; they are comparatively cheap, replicable, and increasingly pervasive. Their simplicity belies their impact. The work asks whether technological progress should be measured only in terms of efficiency, or whether it must be judged by the purposes to which humanity applies it. In doing so, it opens a space for questioning the narratives of advancement, power, and security that shape our present.