# Event Details - **Event Name**: ON THE EDGE EXHIBITION - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: On the Edge is a duo exhibition by UK-based Ukrainian artists exploring shared lived experience shaped by instability & World`s ruptureAbout this EventOn the Edge is a duo exhibition by two UK-based Ukrainian multidisciplinary artists, Olha Barvynka and Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu, whose work includes sculpture, installation, painting, sound, text, and photography, and engages with a shared field of lived experience. The exhibition is structured as a constellation of parallel practices, where proximity does not imply resolution.Through translation between verbal and visual languages, gesture, material, sound, and narrative are activated as interdependent elements within Barvynka’s practice. In Voice of the Sculpture, sound art unfolds as a collaboration between the artist and her sculpture-as-musical-instrument, Fragmented Stories, a modular sculptural structure composed of industrial and architectural elements that exist without fixed utility.If in Barvynka’s sculptures, concrete, metal, and glass speak through human resilience, in Holovatiuk-Ungureanu’s Where Rights End, legal documents and language function as material placed under physical pressure, exposing the fragility of social systems and the collapse of guarantees once assumed to secure peace and safety. In Unstated Objectives, as well as in video work The Grammar of Violence, text operates as form across different surfaces, exploring the instability of systems once assumed to provide continuity: social and political bonds, legal frameworks, and international commitments made in the name of securing peace and order.Reflecting on her practice, Holovatiuk-Ungureanu comments: “I am interested in the theme of rebirth. I feel responsible for restoring the truth and rebuilding the future.”Found objects become metaphors suspended in space, speaking through their hidden poetry. In Yuliia`s kinetic sculpture, The Word That Changed Meaning material, movement, and time allow language to surface through physical consequence. This emergence of language continues in textual works such as Self Portrait by Barvynka and The Work of Continuity by Holovatiuk-Ungureanu, where words function as voice, gesture, and presence rather than narration. That voice then detaches from the body, passing into sound through Olha`s Voice of the Sculpture, and is further translated into her abstract imagery in Escape.Where We Begin, is a time-based, site-responsive installation that combines photographic wallpaper depicting damaged residential spaces in Ukraine, found objects recovered from destroyed homes, and ceramic bricks. The work brings together material tension and spatial confrontation, where domestic traces and architectural forms, modular structures, and fractured surfaces collide.Testing the medium and its limits is central to Becoming The Self, a large-scale modular ceramic brick installation that bears cracks, text, and mark-making. Several elements were fired beyond standard limits to withstand excess pressure, remaining intact despite visible deformation. Cracks function as material records of stress rather than failure, while embedded language acts as internal support, holding memory and formation within the structure. Juxtapositions of fragile substances and industrial elements similarly appear across Barvynka’s sculptural, photographic, painterly, and sound works, where matter resonates as an independent agent.Modularity in the sculptural and painterly works of both artists balances between childlike playfulness and humour, and moments of desperation and adaptation. Within this tension, Rebirth by Holovatiuk-Ungureanu and Emergence by Barvynka operate as sites of transformation.On the Edge resists closure and invites the viewer to explore questions such as: Where is the boundary between sculpture and painting, painting and text, text and sound, sound and performance, meaning and form, truth and speculation? What remains hidden between these shifting states? How are art practices transformed under contemporary conditions marked by hybrid conflict, disinformation, and the manipulation of historical reality?Public ProgrammeCuratorial Tours:22nd of January 2026, 12:00-13:00 pm4th of February 2026, 11:00-12:00 pmPrivate View and Live Performance:26th of January 2026, 5:3-8:30 pmSelf-realisation. Becoming The SelfPerformed by Yuliia Holovatiuk-UngureanuJoin the ConversationStay connected and share your experience using contacts:Yuliia Holovatiuk-UngureanuEmail:ungureanuyuliia@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yuliia_art_uk_ua/Olha BarvynkaEmail: olhabarvynka@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/olhabarvynka/About ArtistsOlha Barvynka works across sculpture, painting, photography, text, and sound. Her practice explores transformations of meaning through acts of translation between media. Rather than representing the meaning of materials, she treats objects as nonhuman actants (Bennett) that participate in the work’s unfolding. This method enables forms to collaborate with one another, where one work may alter, respond to, or precede another.By treating compounds as possessing unstable agency, Barvynka collides multiple elements to activate their dialogue. Text and sound are approached as matter in itself, presences guiding an open-ended artistic process. The use of industrial and rejected materials, fragmentation, modularity, and mobility form a formal language through which displacement and the instability of the contemporary world are expressed.Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu works across material and spatial practices, including sculpture, installation, and archival-based work. Engaging with war, displacement, and legal documents, her practice examines questions of rebuilding, responsibility, and endurance, focusing on how meaning can be held when social, political, and legal systems are placed under sustained pressure.Her work frequently operates at the intersection of structure and vulnerability, where materials such as ceramic, found objects, documents, and text become carriers of memory and testimony. Through processes of fragmentation, repetition, and reconstruction, Holovatiuk-Ungureanu develops artistic strategies that resist erasure and address the ethical task of restoring truth while imagining future-oriented forms of continuity.Agenda22nd of January 2026, 12:00-13:00 pmUntitled agenda?: 12:00 AM - 01:00 AMCuratorial Tour 22nd of January 2026, 12:00-13:00 pmHost: Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu?: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PMCuratorial Tour 4th of February 2026, 11:00-12:00 pmHost: Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/stoke-on-trent/on-the-edge-exhibition/100001980830947687 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, literary-art, live-music - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fon-the-edge-exhibition-tickets-1980830947687 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Stoke-on-Trent - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: ST4 2DE - **lat**: 53.0090126 - **long**: -2.1794778 - **full address**: ST4 2DE, Henrion Gallery, University of Staffordshire, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu (https://allevents.in/org/yuliia-holovatiuk-ungureanu/27386939) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/2e9266f97a5beb671bf1d318653f30f60dfabfa4cb0c0b277bab40b2cb4563cd-rimg-w1200-h900-dc332e2c-gmir.jpg?v=1769089798 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/c414ea43ceb64e10080bf6cee52a52f1db0cbb500f7e966142b2dd7c4d09373a-rimg-w400-h400-dc332e2d-gmir.jpg?v=1769089797 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** ST4 2DE, Henrion Gallery, University of Staffordshire, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, exhibitions, fine-arts, literary-art, live-music - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about ON THE EDGE EXHIBITION ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "ON THE EDGE EXHIBITION", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/2e9266f97a5beb671bf1d318653f30f60dfabfa4cb0c0b277bab40b2cb4563cd-rimg-w1200-h900-dc332e2c-gmir.jpg?v=1769089798", "startDate": "2026-01-19", "endDate": "2026-02-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/stoke-on-trent/on-the-edge-exhibition/100001980830947687", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "ST4 2DE", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Henrion Gallery, University of Staffordshire, College Road", "postalCode": "ST4 2DE", "addressLocality": "Stoke-on-Trent", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.0090126", "longitude": "-2.1794778" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "On the Edge is a duo exhibition by UK-based Ukrainian artists exploring shared lived experience shaped by instability & World`s rupture", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-05", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/stoke-on-trent/on-the-edge-exhibition/100001980830947687" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/stoke-on-trent/on-the-edge-exhibition/100001980830947687", "price": 0, "name": "Curatorial Tour\n4th of February 2026," } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Yuliia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/yuliia-holovatiuk-ungureanu/27386939" } ] } ] ```