Sergei Sviatchenko is a Danish-Ukrainian architect, artist, photographer and curator. He is a representative of the Ukrainian New Wave, that arose in Ukraine up through the 1980s. Initiator and creative director of the Less Festival of Collage, Viborg and Just A Few Works. He has lived in Denmark since the 1990s. Sviatchenko graduated from Kharkov National University of Construction and Architecture in 1975, and in 1986 he studied a Ph.D. at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. Sviatchenko is the son of architect Evgenij Sviatchenko (1924–2004), who was professor of architecture and a member of the National Ukrainian Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, and engineer Ninel Sviatchenko (1926–2000). In 1975 Sergei Sviatchenko completed his architectural studies at Kharkov National University of Construction and Architecture. Sergei Sviatchenko is especially oriented towards architecture's modern expressions, among these are Constructivism and the contemporary European Bauhaus movement. From his teacher, Professor Viktor Antonov, Sviatchenko was introduced to the film director Andrei Tarkovsky, and particularly his film Mirror from 1975 has left a thematic footprint in Sviatchenko's more recent collage art. After having worked as an architect for a number of architectural firms in Kharkov until 1983, Sviatchenko moved to Kyiv, where he successfully graduated the master's program at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture|Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture, having completed his Ph.D. dissertation "Means to Visual Information in Architecture". In the 1980s he was one of the founders of the Soviart Center for Contemporary Art (Soviart) in Kiev and co-organizer and curator of the first Ukrainian exhibitions of contemporary art "Kiev-Tallinn" at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute|Kiev Polytechnic Institute(1987), "Kiev-Kaunas" (1988), the first joint exhibition by Soviet and American artists (1988) and curated the first Ukrainian exhibitions in Denmark: "21 perceptions. Young Contemporary Ukrainian Artists" (1989), "Ukrainian Art 1960–80" (1990), "7 + 7" which was the first joint exhibition by Soviet and Danish artists (1990) and "Flash. A New Generation of Ukrainian Art" (1990). At the end of 1990 Sviatchenko moved to Denmark with his wife Helena Sviatchenko having been awarded an art scholarship. In the same year he began to participate in solo and group exhibitions.
Vasiliy (Vasily) Sad is a Ukrainian abstract painter. He has been an active member "apartment exhibitions" in Odesa, which defended alternative forms of art against the Socialist Realism endorsed by the Soviet Union.
Non-commercial NT-Art Gallery was opened by Anatoliy Dymchuk in Odesa on December 20, 2007, based on the collection of more than 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and installations from the 1950s to the present day. Diversity is the key theme of the collection. It includes several collections within the collection.
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".
Nataliia Zabolotna is the president of the Ukrainian Humanitarian Development Foundation.
Konstantin Skoptsov is a Ukrainian artist, drawing artist, painter and an illustrator.
Pavlo Kerestey is a Ukrainian born German artist and painter. He often works with the artist Susanne Clausen under the name Szuper Gallery, creating multimedia pieces and performances. Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, also known as Mystetskyi Arsenal — is Ukraine's flagship public cultural institution, a museum and art exhibition complex located at 10–12 Lavrska Street, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Stepan Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian new media artist. His work includes digital art, conceptual architecture, sculpture, graphics, photographic art and light installations. In his artwork, the artist creates his own digital universe with its heroes and mythology. Known for his monumental prints, sculptures and video-art installations of non-existent characters, including Virtual Flowers, Electronic Winds, Computer Viruses, etc.
Vladimir Leonidovich Strelnikov is a Ukrainian artist, one of the central figures of the Second Odesa Avant-garde.
Oleksandr Rojtburd was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist, among other things with video and photo projects. He belongs to the first wave of post-independence, post-Soviet, and post-traditional Ukrainian artists.
Andriy Valerianovych Sagaidakovsky is a Ukrainian artist, participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. He works in the field of painting and practices unusual techniques, such as painting on rugs. Andriy is one of the most ironic contemporary Ukrainian artists, who finds unusual perspectives on everyday topics.
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.
Sergey Savchenko is a Ukrainian artist, a representative of abstract expressionism. Works in the field of painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental art. Member of the Odesa nonconformist movement. Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Ukrainian New Wave is 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.
Valery Arutyunovich Geghamyan was a Ukrainian artist of Armenian origin, teacher, founder and dean of the art and graphics faculty at the Odesa Pedagogical Institute (1965-1968).
Viktor Vasilyevich Marinyuk is an Honored Artist of Ukraine, one of the central figures of Odesa unofficial art.
Igor Oleksiyovych Voronov is a Ukrainian businessman, historian, public figure, philanthropist, and the founder of the Voronov Art Foundation (2008). Doctor of Political Sciences (2003), Professor at the State University of Information and Communication Technologies (2004).
Temo Svirely was a Georgian–Ukrainian artist.
Mykola Oleksiiovych Malyshko is a Ukrainian sculptor and teacher who became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1976, and a laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize.
