Daria Koltsova (b. 1987, Kharkiv, Ukraine; based in Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, public art interventions, performance, and participatory practice. She holds an MA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and a BA in Art History and Theory from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.

She was nominated for the PinchukArtPrize (2015) and received the MUHi Award (2015). In 2017 Koltsova was awarded with Gaudi Polonia Polish Scholarship of the ministry of culture and national heritage. In 2023–2024, she received the Kaiserring Scholarship and was an artist-in-residence at Domaine des Oseraies, France.

Koltsova’s practice unfolds at the intersection of memory, material culture, and the politics of perception. She investigates how individuals and communities reshape reality in order to remain within it—how gestures of protection, repetition, concealment, and ritual become strategies of survival. Her works often originate in modest, utilitarian actions—taping windows, weaving camouflage nets, preserving landscapes in stained glass—and expand into spatial environments that transform personal memory into public monument. Through these distilled gestures, she examines the fragile equilibrium between vulnerability and resilience, revealing the symbolic structures that allow societies to endure.

Rooted in Eastern European historical experience yet extending beyond it, her work engages broader questions of belief, protection, and the construction of collective narratives. Working with stained glass, architectural fragments, and communal actions, Koltsova elevates ephemeral acts into luminous, architectonic forms that balance political urgency with formal precision.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Albertina Modern (Vienna), Kunsthaus Graz, MO.CO Montpellier, Lentos Kunstmuseum (Linz), Kyiv Biennial, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), and Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest), among others.