Is a multimedia/hybrid artist, architect, actionist-performer, researcher, and lecturer. She was born in 1988 in Kerch, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. She currently lives and works in Kyiv and Stockholm in exile (after the occupation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia in the spring of 2014, the artist never returned to her hometown).

Maria completed her master's degree at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2007-2013) in architecture of buildings and structures in Kyiv, Ukraine. She also pursued a second master's program in visual arts (2018-2020) at the leading art university in Europe – Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden. She worked as an architect in China and Switzerland and later returned to the field of art, initially in sculpture and later in performance. She gained international recognition and was acclaimed for her work. In 2010 and 2012, Maria created two of her most significant and influential art projects – "Army of Clones" and "Homo Bulla – Human as a Soap Bubble." However, in 2014, the occupying forces of the so-called "dnr" (Donetsk people's republic) destroyed these sculptural projects, which were exhibited at the Donetsk art center "Isolation." Maria was declared a "degenerate artist" by the authorities due to her non-binary art, queerness, political actions, performances, and sculptures.

The political reality of Ukraine obliges Maria to look for solidarity beyond the country's borders – in the EU, where, through the Ukrainian-Swedish residence RutaRuna (2013), she met with the Swedish-Assyrian artist Jacqueline Chabo, who became her official partner/wife (from January 2014 to March 2017) at that time in the same-sex marriage-as-performance “Body and Borders”, bringing the themes of freedom of woman's body, choice, queer, borders and war, women's place from occupied territory in the western civilization, and different social and political issues up. The artist founded the international art group and open feminist art platform "Flowers of Democracy" in 2015. Later, in 2017 together with Oleh Vinnichenko began the "School of Political Performance" – a cultural platform for independent art.

Starting from the end of 2016 (officially founded as MKUV Studio on March 8, 2017), Maria Kulikovska collaborates, develops, and companions with her partner and comrade Oleh Vinnichenko in all performative-sculptural projects. Oleh, born in 1978 in Chervonozavodske, Poltava Oblast, currently living and working in Kyiv and Stockholm, is an architect, engineer, developer of innovative materials and constructions, eco-activist, and producer-entrepreneur. Before collaborating with Maria Kulikovska, Oleh's experimental architectural studio "Osnova" cooperated with major construction holdings, developing cutting-edge innovative concretes and other building materials, as well as small architectural constructions. Oleg was involved in the reconstruction and implementation of the "Magdeburg Rights Stairs" in Kyiv. His studio collaborated with the international company Otis, developing innovative engineering constructions and materials for elevator and cargo systems. Oleh Vinnichenko implemented improvements in the manufacturing and operation of stormwater systems for public spaces in cities, and his developments are actively used by Ukrainian and international companies in urban projects. The studio also executed the reconstruction and decoration of several private houses.

In late December 2019, Maria Kulikovska and Oleh Vinnichenko founded and took the lead in the international non-binary art space GARAGE33. Gallery-Repository for Contemporary Art and Artists from the "conflict?" Both of them became co-architects of the gallery, with Maria serving as art director and co-curator, while Oleh Vinnichenko, in turn, acts as the general director and producer of the space.

The social sculpture «Raft CrimeA» is a long-term project, which was started in August 2016 and is still continuing. Under this project, some ten performances, several exhibitions and the lection-performance were organized.

In Kyiv, Ukraine, from 16 to 19 August, among luxury restaurants and yachts, temporarily appeared the migratory Parliament of the Displaced «Raft CrimeA» – a life raft with neon sign. On board the raft lived the Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska – a native Crimean, who received the status of the «displaced person» on 18 March 2014. The survival of the artist was dependent on compassion of other people that became the specific act through which Maria wanted to stress vulnerability of people that lost their homes and to appeal to the community to empathize with them. The «Raft CrimeA» was and is an alive dot on the map, which had become the place for meetings.

After that, Maria continued this project abroad, where she held eight more performances.