Oleg Kharch /Kharchenko(born 1963 in Sumy) is a Ukrainian visual and sound artist working in the figurative, new Ukrainian naive (Quasi- naive), post-conceptual direction in the ultra contemporary art movement "#BULLBASKA".
His works ranges from street art projects, sound sculptures and video collage to traditional painting. From December 2018-19 - a member of the "Hlebzawod". Founder and member of the Open’o’Pen $ group of artists since 2020. From October 2021 he declared himself exclusively as an artist New Brut Art. Together with his wife (Olga Shuvalova), Oleg Kharch Group was established in 2016.
From 1980 to 1985 he was a student of the Faculty of Building Technology in Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk) Construction Engineering Institute, [1] and during 1981–83 he attended the art studio of Stanislav Cherevko, Dnepropetrovsk.
1981 -83 studied in art studio of Stanislav Cherevko/ Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk)/ USSR. 1985 -87 junior sergeant, squad leader of armored vehicles Repair in the Soviet Army. Since December 2018 he has been a participant of "Hlebzawod".
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