Victoria Unikel — Artist & Media Mogul
Victoria Unikel is an American artist and media mogul.
She is President and co-founder of VUGA Group, a portfolio of 17 companies across 4 continents. Its media network includes 4 television networks available on 600M+ devices worldwide through Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, iOS and Android, as well as 100+ digital newspapers and magazines. The group also operates across PR, technology, cybersecurity, film, music, publishing, electric aviation and philanthropy.
As an actress, Unikel has appeared in numerous films and television productions. As a musician, she has performed live shows for audiences of thousands. She has produced projects across film, music, animation and media. As UNIKEL, she has exhibited her paintings and mixed-media works since 2008.
Her work has appeared in Forbes, Daily Mail, New York Post, L’Officiel, The Independent, The Sun and more.
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Business
Called a “media mogul” by Forbes and Daily Mail, Victoria Unikel built VUGA Group — a portfolio of 17 companies across 4 continents, reaching 600M+ devices worldwide through television networks, digital media and technology platforms:
Media, Television & PR: VUGA Media Group, VUGA PR Services, VUGA TV, FashionBrava, Virtuoso TV, Gossip Stone TV, 24Fashion TV, VUGA Enterprises, VUGA Publishing
Technology, AI & Engineering: AgentPrizm, ViralPrizm, LogisticsPrizm, Edison Aerospace, Shoreline Protection, KERAUNOS
Film & Music: Apollo Film Production, Unikel Records
Philanthropy: VUGA Foundation
TV networks distributed across 600M+ devices worldwide via Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, iOS & Android.
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Charity
Victoria Unikel is President of VUGA Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit supporting emerging contemporary artists through exhibitions, film production, cultural programs, festivals, art therapy, and the upcoming public art museum.
She has worked with organizations including the AIDS Foundation (Berlin) and Make-A-Wish Foundation (USA), and is an advocate for the LGBT community.
In 2019, her work took the top art prize at the MOSAIC Federation gala at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York.
Art
As UNIKEL, she is a painter and mixed-media artist, exhibiting in galleries since 2008. She works across painting, mixed media, photography and sculpture.
Her collections — MONEY, WAR, GENDER, NEW YORK and the mixed-media DIAMONDS — are channeled, activist works addressing today’s social issues. Each release carries a message, and each one draws press.
She is the founder of Trancerealism, a movement in which the work is made through a channelling connection with the Universe rather than observation.
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EXORCISTA Universe
EXORCISTA is a dark universe created by Victoria Unikel — dark anime, gothic podcast, and real occult. Four shows in one world: Games of Souls, the flagship dark anime; Dark Fairytales, an anime anthology of the fairytales as they were; Secrets, Spells & Shadows, the original horror and true crime podcast; and Magic Lab, real rituals tested on camera — alongside original soundtracks and the Grimoire book series.
Victoria is the creator, artist and producer of the universe.
133K+ subscribers · YouTube Silver Creator Award 2026
Official website: theexorcista.com
Books
Emma + Luke = Disappear to Nowhere is Victoria’s debut novel — a full-length sci-fi adventure for readers ages 9 and up, and Book One of a series.
Two ordinary students from the oldest city in America find an ancient portal hidden in a basement — and walk straight into a galaxy that has been running social experiments on Earth for centuries.
The book is distributed in over 50 countries in paperback, hardcover and ebook, and has been featured in ELLE, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and The Sun.
A full-color manga edition is in production, and the series continues — Book Two is on the way.
As a writer, Victoria has also authored screenplays and the EXORCISTA Grimoire book series.
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Music
A professional cellist and mezzo-soprano, Victoria trained at the Gnessin School of Music and GITIS in Moscow, and has performed live shows for audiences of thousands.
She created and produced the gothic rock band “Exorcist,” and performed in the industrial project “Unikel” and the darkwave project “Balance.” Her music has been featured in international films.
Today she composes and produces the soundtracks for the EXORCISTA Universe — hardcore, hard techno, industrial and phonk, one album per story.
Her music is published by The Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Independently of that catalog, her albums have sold more than 200,000 copies. Her releases live at Unikel Records, the independent label for dark cinematic music.
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