vitaliy koKhan
Born in 1987 in Sumy, Ukraine. Graduated from Higher College of Culture and Art named after D. Bortnianskyi (Sumy, Ukraine) and Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Painter, graphic artist, author of installation, photos, video and land-art works. Lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Resident of BIRUCHIY since 2013.
Selected exhibitions and art-projects:
- solo:
2017 | Time capsule, Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
Mara ІІ, in cooperation with Kateryna Buchatska, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
2016 | Маrа І, in cooperation with Kateryna Buchatska, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
2015 | ПЦ 1 500 Н, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
2014 | Cerstve ovocie, Еfremova 26 Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine. |
Foundation, as a part of biennale NonStopMedia, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Nothing new, AcademArt Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine. | |
2013 | Other/Unknown technique, VOVATANYA Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
Indeed for a while, in the frame of K.A.I.R. residency, Košice, Slovakia. | |
2012 | Untitled, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
Between a Dog and a Wolf, Gallery 21, Sumy, Ukraine. | |
2009 | Conservation of ideas, in cooperation with Ivan Svitlychny, Garage Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
New History, in cooperation with Ivan Svitlychny, Museum of Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
2006 | The Night, in cooperation with Oleg Karpeyev and Arthur Samofalov, SGA Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine. |
The Night, in cooperation with Oleg Karpeyev and Arthur Samofalov, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
- group:
2018 | Exhibition of shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
Utopia: Ukrainian East Transformation, IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Census, Afro-Asian Institute, Graz, Austria. | |
City Kha, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
City Kha. Vol.2, Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
2017 | The Festival of young Ukrainian artists, Mystetskyi arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
2017-2006 | Land Art symposium Mogrytsia, Mogrytsia, Ukraine. |
Land Art festival "Baba Rod", Lviv, Ukraine. | |
Art and Film Biennale Kyiv/Trading Illusions, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Forpost. Painting, drawing, sculpture of artists from East and South of Ukraine, ArtKafedra Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine. | |
The song of the Stormy Petrel. Short course, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery project/ 5th Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine. | |
Land Art program of Cinema and Urban Studies festival "86", Slavutych, Ukraine. | |
Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
2016 | From the common root, BIRUCHIY Contemporary Art Project, Klementowice, Poland. |
Mission objectifying. Art and Business, М17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Photosynthesis, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Apartment exhibition, dedicated to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Dependence degree/Stopień Zależności/Ступінь Залежності, BWA Modern Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland. | |
Sex Dialogues, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
BIRUCHIY 016, Contemporary Art Project, Biruychiy peninsula, Ukraine. | |
Land Art Symposium Khortytsia, Zaporizhia, Ukraine. | |
2015 | Upon Boh, Residency, Vinnytsia, Ukraine. |
Internal Territories, Art Museum, Berdiansk, Ukraine. | |
Botany, Come In Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
International public space project "Understanding/Розуміння", Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Internal Territories for "SHREDDING MAPS" project, Giesinger Bahnhof, Munich, Germany. | |
International Symposium "Irshansk. Recreation", Irshansk, Ukraine. | |
2014 | BIRUCHIY 014, Contemporary Art Project, Biryuchiy peninsula, Ukraine. |
The Freedom square, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Indemonstrable, In primo luogo Gallery, Turin, Italy. | |
Draught, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia. | |
The Golden rain above us, Closed Cluster #10, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Land Art program at ARTPOLE.LU, Mstsykhovskiy's manor, Seleznivka/ Alchevsk, Ukraine. | |
"ArtPole" Symposium, Unizh, Ukraine. | |
2013 | BIRUCHIY 013, Contemporary Art Project, Biryuchiy peninsula, Ukraine. |
Indeed for a while, in the framework of "Night of Museums", Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
System of coordinates, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Industrial Eden, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Power of IT and life of genius, Spiritual treasures of Ukraine Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
The exhibition in the Dolgoruky’s manor, Dolgoruky’s manor, Myropillya, Ukraine. | |
Introversion, М17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Emergency Exit, ice objects on the city streets, in the framework of the Goethe-Institut project, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
2012 | Social euphoria, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
Emergency Exit, installations in the windows of the city's buildings, in the framework of the Goethe-Institut project, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
Art Map of Ukraine, Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
2011 | “Waiting for Filling”, Land Art program of “ArtPole” festival, Chufut-Kale, Crimea, Ukraine. |
Collective Dreams, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Exhibition of Young Artists, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
Sandbox, Maestro Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
2010 | The exhibition of the youth self-organization, Creative exhibition centre "TEC", Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
School of Painting, Pavlo Gudimov Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
2008 | Kalyaki-Malyaki, International Biennale of youth projects NonStopMedia, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |