short bio and selected cv here






photo by Luca Basov

Bio
I am the fifth child out of six children of an orthodox priest.

I was born summer of 1995 in Bolekhiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine.

Studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University and Kyiv Academy of Media Arts.

I'm an ex-serviceman, I participated in the Russia-Ukraine war and was demobilized after being wounded. Currently, I’m a student at the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy.

Based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

I’m represented by The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.


2024
Ex Oriente Ignis, Pochen Biennale, Chemnitz, Germany
Slightly darker days. Bunchak, Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
You ain’t even try, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
What Hinders A Sermon Becomes One, St. Pancratius Church, Heerlen, Netherlands
What lasts longer than hope?, Ibrahim’s Khan, Velychko gallery, Paphos, Cyprus
Home Beyond the Star, MUSA, FIL Guadalajara, Mexico

2023
Psalm 90, Feelings Before Christmas of the 2nd Year of Full-Scale Invasion, thesteinstudio, Kyiv, Ukraine
— What Prevents a Sermon from Being a Sermon Becomes One, On The Periphery Of War, Kyiv Biennial 23’, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Then I dreamed of war, Kyiv Biennial 23’ Main exhibition, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
— This Is Just An Exhibition, Kyiv Biennial 23’, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
— How are you?, Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ukrainian house, Kyiv Ukraine
— Solidarity Screenings: Moving Image and War in Ukraine, Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Meanwhile at the Khanenkos', Khanenko museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Let the long. Road. Lead. To. Stairs in. The Heavens, Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic and DCCC, Dnipro, Ukraine

2022
School of creative solidarity, Ivan-Frankivsk, Ukraine/ Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
KIOSK UKRAINE, Neurotitan, Berlin, Germany
Think twice stepping onto my land , Asortymentna kimnata, Khata maysternya, Babyn village, Ukraine
air_basis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2021
No way, Project SCHLAGBAUM, Germany/Ukraine (online)
The gift, the answer, the forgiveness, and the miracle, Anabasis Online Residency, Germany/Ukraine (online)
Again, again and again, Construction festival VII, Dnipro, Ukraine
Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters!, Expocenter of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Matthew, Luke, Mark and John, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020
Statement dated January 06, 2020, Fake Performance Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (online)
On the patriarch’s funeral, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Untitled (collective listening), Upper Layers of Earth conference, Poltava, Ukraine
Stoglav.Archive, ArtSvit, Dnipro, Ukraine (online)
Dedicated to, ArtSvit, Dnipro, Ukraine
537-1453-1935-2020, #bruderschaft, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019
Cross sea, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Perhapse there’ll be a dome; or, About the young patriarch, 127Garage, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Untitled (unfinished), Sorry no rooms available AIR, Uzhhorod, Ukraine — On confessing to ignorance, Detector gallery, Ivan-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2018
On the beneficial significance of heresy, Naphthalene, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
On installation and restoration, Educatorium, Kyiv, Ukraine
On those who sleep, NOCH artist-run-space, Odesa, Ukraine
The place, Fundacja AIR, Klementowice, Poland
The pillory, 3.MICT AIR, Mariupol, Ukraine


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