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Radkevych Sergii
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The project “30 Meters Above Sea Level” is a form of visual monologue, composed of small mise-en-scènes that encapsulate the author’s personal experiences.
The central reference point is the subjective “I,” which expands and absorbs the entire world. The works consist of distinct elements that do not intersect, forming clusters of their own semantic signs, suspended in a vacuum. A set of symbols that represent a conditional reality. It is like cosmic gravity or the measurement of long jumps – a modern form of social competition and dependency. Once trapped in them, one is forced to obey the rules of a given ‘game’.
The image of a donkey serves as a self-portrait, a visual device borrowed from iconography, where human figures often take on zoomorphic forms, carrying diverse symbolic meanings.
In both content and composition, parallels can be drawn with the works of Bosch and Siqueiros. Their artworks transition from darkness to “light,” filled with intricate personal imagery that completely overtakes the canvas, creating an ordered chaos.
“Thirty years passed, like thirty meters above sea level. Above the horizon line, which is an absolute and a state of calm…”
Sergii Radkevych
Born in 1987 in Lutsk, Ukraine.
Graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Monumental Painting.
In 2011, he received the II Special Prize at the PinchukArtCentrePrize. Radkevych’s works were selected by artist Julien Malando for the presentation of the Ukrainian street art scene in the documentary film The New Explorers for CANAL+.
He is one of the founders of the street art festival BLACK CIRCLE FESTIVAL.
He combines street art with sacred themes, balancing between contemporary frescoes and graffiti. His themes are based on Eastern Christian iconography, blending simplified religious symbols with geometric forms.
He works with street art and public art, seeking out various architectural objects that have lost their original function, transforming them into spiritually active spaces. He also works with painting, graphics, and installation.
Selected projects
2021
Personal Space/Own Myth, Detector, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Art Resistentia, Rynok Square, 42, Lviv, Ukraine
ARTIFAKE (First Prize), Ukraine
2020
Art residence “Magical salt cities”, Drohobych, Ukraine
Equilibrium, Lviv street gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Local Art Sale, Atelier Deluxe, Lviv, Ukraine
2019
Be Careful With That Axe, Eugene, AKT, Kyiv, Ukraine
Synchronously/Different, Sheptytsky Center, Lviv, Ukraine
Common/Multiple, Vagabundo, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
IBMF, Byzantine Culture Festival, Iași, Romania
Within the Conscious/Personal Myth, 4/8 gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine
2018
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Equally Different, Institute of Contemporary Art Issues, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017
Clio Art Fair 2017, New York, USA
CONTRCHANGE, ICONART, Lviv, Ukraine
7th Land Art Festival, Bubel Łukowiska, Poland
OSTRALE Biennale, Dresden, Germany
30 Meters Above Sea Level, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
MUHi 2017, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016
Ukrainian Cross-Section, Wrocław, Poland
Artistic Dialogue with Ukraine, Schafhof–Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
Le Mur, Paris, France
Wall Drawings, Icônes Urbaines, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
Fragments, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015
CALENDAR/FULL CYCLE OF WORK, Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
Schafhof–Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern (residency), Freising, Germany
2014
Katowice Street Art Festival 2014, Piekary Śląskie, Poland
12, Domaine de Grandmont, Sumène, France
4th Land Art Festival, Roztocze National Park, Poland
2013
Embodiment, Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine
Introversion, M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian Cross-Section. Liman, Lublin, Poland
The Dream of the Third Day, ICONART, Lviv, Ukraine
2012
DO NOT WEEP FOR ME, MOTHER, Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
Entropy, Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine
ARSENALE 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
GRANNY HALL (residency), Samiylychi, Ukraine
2011
LIMIT, Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 (2nd Special Prize), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
