Bardula
- 2012: Founding of Bardula Studio.
2014: Permanent luminous kinetic installations at the Baccarat Hotel, New York.
2016: Permanent installation Solaris, Moncler flagship store, Madison Avenue, New York.
2018: Permanent installations Renaissance I (Moncler, Stockholm) and Renaissance II (Moncler, Mexico City).
2021: Permanent installation Alter Ego, Moncler GUM store, Moscow. Solo exhibitions: Galerie La Ligne (Zurich, Basel, Luxembourg), Galerie Denise René (Paris), Valmore Studio d’Arte (Vicenza), Oliver Cole Gallery (Miami). Participation in major international art fairs: Art Paris Art Fair, Art Miami, Art Wynwood, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Luxembourg Art Week, ArtVerona, Art Bologna.
2024: Solo exhibition Focus Bardula, Galerie Denise René, Paris.
2026: Création, entre Art et Mathématiques, Maison Poincaré – Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris. His work, at the intersection of kinetic art, light and mathematics, explores geometry, the dynamics of the visible, and the complexity of space.
- 2012: Founding of Bardula Studio.
BARDULA is a pseudonym, created by an artist born in Zurich to a Ukrainian father and a Belgian mother, based in Brussels until 1993, New York until 2002, and Paris ever since.
She studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1988, specialising in goldsmithing.
Bardula founded her collective in 2013 and collaborates with other artists on joint pieces.
Bardula’s work is rooted in the traditions of Op Art and Kinetic Art, revisiting these movements with a particular interest in science and new technologies.
Drawing on light, transparency, reflection and virtual volume, she explores optical effects and mathematical forms.
Bardula harnesses material and light to investigate the correlation between 2D and 3D: her luminokinetic works focus on the visual perception and spatial experience generated by luminous perspectives.
Since 2015, Bardula’s work has been shown in over fifty exhibitions, and is represented by seven galleries, all specialising in geometric abstraction, Concrete Art, Op Art and Kinetic Art: Galerie La Ligne (Basel), Valmore Studio d’Arte (Vicenza and Venice), Galerie Kellermann (Düsseldorf), Galerie Denise René (Paris), Galerie Nery Marino (Paris), Oliver Cole Gallery (Miami), and Galerie Wagner (Paris).
Blue Haze
2023
light sculpture, mirrors, pigments on plexiglas, LEDs,
aluminum
100x100x10 cm
square on point of 70 cm side
- 2012 — Founding of Bardula Studio
2013 — Research and development of Propagations; creation of installations X Cube and Narrows
2014 — 5 Elements, series of kinetic light installations (permanent works), Baccarat Hotel New York, 53rd Street, New York
2015 — KKDC Gallery (solo show), Paris 6th — Art Cinétique / Light Show, Piasa, Paris 8th
2016 — Light, Motion Space, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich — Solaris, monumental kinetic light installation (permanent work), Moncler flagship store, Madison Avenue at 59th Street, New York — Art Paris Art Fair
2016, Galerie La Ligne, Paris
2017 — Galerie La Ligne (solo show), Zurich — Art Paris Art Fair
2017, Galerie La Ligne, Paris
2018 — Renaissance I, kinetic light installation (permanent work), Moncler, Stockholm — Art Paris Art Fair
2018, Galerie La Ligne, Paris — Invisible Realm, a Kinetica exhibition, Lauren Baker Contemporary, London — ArtVerona
2018, 14th edition, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Verona — Renaissance II, kinetic light installation (permanent work), Moncler, Mexico City
2019 — Art Paris Art Fair
2019, Galerie La Ligne, Paris — La Geometria Della Luce (solo show), Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza — ArtVerona
2019, 15th edition, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Verona — Art and Light (duo show), Bardula and Jacques Toussaint, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza — 100%, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich — Zero-New Zero, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — COFA, Galerie Kellermann, Cologne
2020 — Art Paris Art Fair 2020, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, online and on Artsy — Art and Light, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza — Sommer 20, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — Visual Dynamics (duo show), Bardula and Dario Perez Flores, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Venice — Women & Abstraction, Galerie Denise René, Paris, on Artsy and Artnet — Cologne Fine Arts & Design COFA
2020, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, on Artsy and Artnet — Winter Exhibition
2020–21, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — Artists in Quarantine, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza, online — Alter Ego, kinetic light installation (permanent work), Moncler GUM store, Red Square, Moscow
2021 — Art Paris Art Fair
2021, Galerie La Ligne, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris — Structure du silence, Galerie Denise René, Paris (exhibition catalogue) — ArtVerona 2021, 16th edition, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Verona — Cologne Fine Arts & Design COFA 2021, Galerie Kellermann, Cologne — 26 years of gallery activity / Itinerary I: Dialogue among optical-kinetic generations, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza 2022 — Art Paris Art Fair 2022, Galerie La Ligne, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris — Exploration Dynamique du Visible (solo show), Galerie Nery Marino, Paris — A Geometric Journey (solo show), Galerie La Ligne, Zurich (exhibition catalogue) — Art Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami — Art Bologna Artefiera, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Bologna — Winter Show, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich — Fall Exhibition
2022, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — ORANGETHEWORLD, charity exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — 26 years of gallery activity / Itinerary II: Art Reflects on Itself, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza — Path through artists & works / Itinerary III: The Tricked Eye, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza
2023 — Art Paris Art Fair 2023, Galerie La Ligne, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris — Art Miami, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami — Art Wynwood, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami — Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Oliver Cole Gallery, Palm Beach — Knokke Art Fair, Galerie Kellermann, Knokke-Heist, Belgium — Lines and Perspectives, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami — The Women Who Investigate the Complexity of Space, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Artsy — Zero 23, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — 10-Years Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf
2024 — Art Wynwood, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami — Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Oliver Cole Gallery, Palm Beach — Art and Geometry — How Geometry Informs Art (first part), Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Ligne, Luxembourg — Focus Bardula (solo show), Galerie Denise René, Paris, on Artsy and Vimeo (exhibition catalogue)
2025 — Frühling 25, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf — Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Ligne, Luxembourg — Two Generations of Women Artists at the Turn of the New Millennium, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Artsy
2026 — Création, entre Art et Mathématiques, Museum of Mathematics / Maison Poincaré, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris — Convergences ∞: between arts, sciences and mathematics, Galerie Wagner, Paris — Space as a field of investigation — 5 women artists from the mid-20th century to the present day, Valmore Studio d’Arte, Artsy — Light and Movement, Galerie La Ligne, Basel