DZVI (Dzvinya Podlyashetska) is a Ukrainian artist based in Vienna. 

In her paintings, she explores emotional and social states such as vulnerability, fear, intimacy, loss, and hope, with a particular focus on mental health and inner crises.

The artist critically interrogates the role of women in contemporary society, problematizing the frameworks through which care is assigned, questioning the persistence of normative expectations, and examining how ideas of strength and self-assertion are constructed, internalized, and performed. Her work unfolds as an open field of inquiry, asking not only how these conditions operate, but why they continue to shape lived experience.

She understands humans, animals, and nature as equally important forms of existence, connected within a delicate balance. Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, her work has evolved into a testimony to invisible wounds, inner fragmentation, and resilience, unfolding through expressive colors, simplified forms, and grotesque elements into visual worlds suspended between dream and reality.