photo by Anton Saienko

bio
I was born summer of 1995 in Bolekhiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine.
I am the fifth child out of six children of an orthodox priest.
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 was a combatant in the Russo-Ukrainian war and was dismissed from service 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.
I am the fifth child out of six children of an orthodox priest.
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 was a combatant in the Russo-Ukrainian war and was dismissed from service 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
— Who will go for us, Lviv Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
— 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
— 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
— 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
— Delivering a message: mercy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
— Think twice stepping onto my land , Asortymentna kimnata, Khata maysternya, Babyn village, Ukraine
— 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
— School of creative solidarity, Ivan-Frankivsk, Ukraine/ Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
— KIOSK UKRAINE, Neurotitan, Berlin, 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
— 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
— 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
— 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
— 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