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Turyhin Ilya
In March 2022, a childhood friend of mine, who also happened to be my former classmate and a graduate of a military academy, was deployed to one of the hotspots. Part of her duties involved operating drones and identifying new targets for artillery strikes.
One day, she and her comrades were reviewing footage from a drone flying over the so-called “grey zone,” where both our and enemy positions were located. While studying the drone footage, they discussed potential targets. A pink mansion particularly caught their attention. The house seemed so appealing that they decided not to destroy it but to save it for when they advanced along the frontline and could use it as a base. One of her comrades exclaimed, “We’ll keep this one, we’ll live here.”
Ilya Turyhin
Born in 2002 in Lviv, Ukraine.
Works with video art, performance, and installation media. In artistic practice, explores themes of identity, memory, and personal experience.
Participant in group projects and exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.
Lives and works in Lviv.
EDUCATION
2018 – 2023 – Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Contemporary Art Practices (Master’s Degree)
2008 – 2016 – Lviv Children’s Art School named after Oleksa Novakivskyi
PROJECTS
2024 – “Days of Performance Art. Performance School,” FNAF (Festival of Naked Forms) (Lviv, Dzyga Art Center, Ukraine)
2023 – “Pulsation of the Ground,” group exhibition (Lviv, “Powder Tower,” Ukraine)
2022 – “We Are All Connected,” group exhibition (London, Migration Museum, England)
2022 – “Art of Resistance | Artistes d’Ucraïna per la pau,” group exhibition (Valencia, Universitat de València, Spain)
2022 – “During,” group exhibition (Lviv, Dzyga Art Center, Ukraine)
2021 – “Tower 3.0. Form (Dis)Independence,” international festival of architecture and arts (Lviv, “Powder Tower,” Ukraine)
2021 – “Mimicry,” group student project (Lviv, LNAU Gallery, Ukraine)
2021 – “#quarantinediaries,” group exhibition (Lviv, LNAU Gallery, Ukraine)
2020 – Project “FrankoLaboratorium 2.0” (Lviv, Ivan Franko National Literary Memorial Museum, Ukraine)
2020 – Artistic online plein air at the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Tustan.” Curator: Oleksii Khoroshko (Tustan, Ukraine)
2019 – Performance School as part of the “Days of Performance Art in Lviv” festival. Lecturer: Janusz Baldyga (Lviv, Ukraine)
2019 – International artistic plein air “GIARTINO. TRANSIT.” Curator: Yaryna Shumska (Toruń, Poland)