Maria Kulikovska was born in the harbor city of Kerch on the peninsula with the same name, which forms the eastern part of Crimea (Ukraine). After the occupation and
annexation of Crimea by Russia (spring 2014), she became a registered displaced with no.
254 in her home country (Ukraine). Currently, she is based in Kyiv and Stockholm in exile.
She studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, and in 2013 graduated with MA in architecture. She made her post-diploma course ‘Modernist Legacies and Constructions of Whiteness and Swedishness’ at the Royal Institute of Art (2016-2017) and currently (June 2020) finished her MA course in Fine Arts at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a multimedia artist – performance artist (actionist), sculptor, painter, and architect. She worked briefly in China and Switzerland as an architect. In 2011, while she was a student in the architecture department, her design was selected for the Shcherbenko Art
Center in Kyiv, which was built that year.
During that time she turned towards art, with work in performance and sculpture that has been widely noticed. In 2015, the artist established an artistic feminist collective, a platform for cooperation: ‘The Flowers of Democracy’. In the spring of 2017, she founded a non-governmental international cultural platform ‘The School of Political Performance’ which has been curated by her. By 2020, her creative work includes numerous exhibitions, actions and performances, installations, sculptural objects, and videos. She had a sculptural triptych bought by ArtCollection Deutsche Telekom. She is a winner and finalist of many international projects and competitions: awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Art for her master's degree
project ‘President of Crimea’ (2020); finalist of the Ukrainian-British SWAP program, participant of the Liverpool Biennial residency (2017); UK/Raine (2015) – the first Ukrainian-British competition for young artists, London.