Featured artists
Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938–2009), BOB-group, Oleksiy Borisov, Sergej Bratkov, Alexander Vlasenko, Artem Volokitin, Stanislav Gedzevich, Victor Gontarov (1943–2009), Hamlet Zinkovsky, Irina Ilyinskaya, Igor Ilyinsky, Alina Kleitman, Konstantin Zorkin, Boris Kosarev (1897–1994), Volodymyr Kochmar, Vitaliy Kokhan, Olena Kudinova (1958–2017), Vitaliy Kulikov (1935–2015), Pavel Makov, Roman Minin, Natalya Mironenko, Boris Mikhailov, Vachagan Norazyan, Elena Polaschenko, Alexander Ridny, Viktor Sidorenko, Sergei Solonsky, Alexander Suprun, "Shilo" art group, Eduard Yashin.
Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov or Borys Andriyovych Mykhailov is a Ukrainian photographer. He has been awarded the Hasselblad Award and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize.
Marat Aleksandrovich Gelman is a Russian collector, gallerist, and op-ed columnist. The former director of PERMM contemporary art museum in Perm. The deputy director of Channel One from June 2002 to February 2004. A political consultant, a co-founder of the Foundation for Effective Politics, and a member of Russia's Public Chamber. Gelman has lived in Montenegro since 2014.
Jury Rupin was a photographer, artist, writer.
Alexander (Oleksandr) Voytovych is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Figurative painting characterizes the majority of his work, and portrait and naked model painting are two main themes of his art.
Yuri Kosin was a Ukrainian photographer, lecturer, curator of exhibitions, and traveler. Kosin was a member of the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine, tutor and curator at the Independent Academy of the Photographic Arts of Ukraine, organizer and curator of the "Eksar" photo gallery, Ukraine. He was also a member of the "Kulturforum" association and the artistic studio "Kulturwerkstatt Trier", Germany. He was a permanent member of the TV Ukrainian program "Svoimi ochima" (eyewitness) dedicated to travel and tourism. Kosin was named one of the experts in photography criticism in Ukraine in expert poll conducted in 2011 and was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
Josephine Yaroshevich is a painter and pioneer in the field of Computer Art.
Ukrainian avant-garde is the avant-garde movement in Ukrainian art from the end of 1890s to the middle of the 1930s along with associated artists in sculpture, painting, literature, cinema, theater, stage design, graphics, music, architecture. Some well-known Ukrainian avant-garde artists include: Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sonia Delaunay, Vasyl Yermylov, Alexander Bogomazov, Aleksandra Ekster, David Burliuk, Vadym Meller, and Anatol Petrytsky. All were closely connected to the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Odesa by either birth, education, language, national traditions or identity. Since it originated when Ukaine was part of the Russian Empire, Ukrainian avant-garde has been commonly lumped by critics into the Russian avant-garde movement.
Alexander Gurevich is an Israeli painter and graphic artist. He was born in Alapaevsk, Ural where his family stayed during World War II. Gurevich's parents divorced when he was young; he and his mother returned to her hometown Leningrad when he was 18 months old. He was raised by his grandparents from mother's side. After finishing high school, he attended the then Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (LETI) during 1961-1967, majoring in electronic engineering. Upon graduation Gurevich worked as an engineer for 5 years. In 1971 Gurevich enlisted into High Art College, named Muhina, from which he graduated 3.5 years later; after earning a degree in Industrial Design. He worked as a decorator for 15 following years, at the same time pursuing his unofficial creative career as an artist.
Biruchiy contemporary art project is a leading residence of contemporary art in Ukraine. It was founded in 2006 by the Association of Contemporary Art Researchers. The project is held annually in May and September on the Byriuchyi Island, located in the Sea of Azov. Since 2016, offsite residences have been operating in other European countries. 17 seasons of Biruchiy contemporary art project were attended by 240 artists and 13 art groups from 21 countries. A part of participants goes to Italy (2014–2017), United States (2017–2018).
Vasiliy Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian painter, photographer, and installation artist. One of the key artists in contemporary Ukrainian art, and the "New Ukrainian Wave".
Gennadiy Kozub is an art production manager, publisher, art collector, gallery owner, and artist. He is a co-founder and organizer of the leading contemporary art residence in Ukraine – Biruchiy contemporary art project (2006). A CEO and co-founder of the Association of Contemporary Art Researchers (2008), the owner of the Art Zebs gallery (2008), editor-in-chief and founder of Biruchiy contemporary art magazine (2014).
Myroslav Yahoda, sometime transliterated as Yagoda was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist, playwright and set designer. The "Ukrainian Goya" – with true integrity in his diverse art – was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground art scene.
Ukrainian underground was a movement in Ukraine's Soviet period from the late 1950s through the early 1990s. This art form was banned by several totalitarian countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR. It was also known under other names, such as unofficial art, nonconformism, and dissident art. It ended due to the Perestroika reform movement, which led to Ukrainian independence in 1991. After the Soviet Union collapsed, similar counter-cultural processes developed under the names of "alternative" or "marginal" art. The avant-garde ideas of underground art were picked up and developed by the next generation of the Ukrainian New Wave.
The Kharkiv School of Photography (KSOP) is a Ukrainian artistic photography movement. It was created in opposition to the Soviet socialist realism art style, which reigned from 1934 until the 1980s. KSOP started to form in the 1960s when artistic photography revived in Kharkiv during the period of the Khrushchev Thaw. KSOP's official formation as a non-conformist underground movement was denoted by the establishment of a group by Kharkiv photographers named the Vremia Group 1971; its foundation is considered the sign of the revival of modernist art in Kharkiv.
Alexander Gnylytsky was a Ukrainian artist who was one of the pioneers of the Ukrainian New Wave. In 1994 he became a member of the Kyiv art group named "Paris Commune". From 1996 he was one of the founders and the head of the Institute of Unstable Thoughts. He worked on installation and video art and represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Much of his work resonates with the Italian transavantgarde movement.
Yermilov Center is a center of contemporary art in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which opened in March 2012. It is named after the famous Kharkiv artist, representative of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Vasyl Yermylov. Yermilov Centre is a multifunctional space for exhibition projects and interaction between artists, curators, critics, and researchers. The areas of activity of the center include exhibition projects, art residencies, educational projects, lectures and discussions, seminars, etc.
Vlodko (Vladimir) Kaufman is a Ukrainian artist of German descent, painter, graphic artist and performer. He is the author of many art projects, and participant in solo and group exhibitions.
Alexander Stovbur was a Ukrainian artist, known for his abstract minimalism. He was one of the active participants in the Odesa non-conformist movement. Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Ukrainian New Wave — a set of creative directions that arose in Ukraine in the period from the late 1980s to the early 2000s in reaction to turbulent socio-political events of that time such as collapse of the USSR, perestroika, Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. It is one of the most influential manifestation of Ukrainian postmodernism, which is characterized by a variety of works and groups of both destructive and constructive nature, aimed at both strengthening the features of fine arts and moving away from it towards actionism and replacing traditional art with the latest technologies. Bright polystylistism Ukrainian New Wave originated in the previous period Ukrainian underground art, which arose spontaneously, without censorship and ideological restrictions.
Olga Liashenko is a Ukrainian German artist und Icon painter, currently living in Germany.
