Maria Kulikovska is a Kyiv‑based multimedia artist and architect working across performance, sculpture, and spatial installation. Her solo practice spans 2010 onward; since 2017, she has worked with Oleh Vinnichenko under the joint authorship MKOV.
The old WordPress site surfaced fewer than 20 works from a practice that had been growing for almost a decade. The rest lived across disconnected sources, and every gallery, curator, or press request triggered another manual search.
This was not simply a website redesign. There was no structured archive to migrate. I created the system behind the website: a taxonomy, content model, cross‑linked information architecture, and reusable publishing workflow. I led the original visual design in 2018–2020; the current website’s later visual redesign is not my work.
Timeline
2018–2020
Company
Maria Kulikovska and Oleh Vinnichenko
Role
UX designer and researcher
Team
Artist and archive owner: Maria Kulikovska
Collaboration: Oleh Vinnichenko
Research, information architecture, content model, UX, and original visual design: Karyna Aviutska
The system worked when its owner no longer needed its designer
Maria added a new project independently on her first try. The archive could keep growing without a designer rebuilding the page or the content structure each time.
The lasting outcome was not a specific visual treatment. It was a connected model of the practice that made the website useful to both sides: people researching the work and the artist maintaining it.
A publishing system, not a one‑off website
Every work page followed the same metadata structure: title, description, medium, dimensions, year, series, exhibition history, and publication mentions. Search stayed globally accessible because it was the primary studio workflow, not an extra feature.
The website’s visual design was updated by other designers after I finished the project. The archive structure, content model, and information architecture from my work remain the foundation.