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Mazur Maksym
On February 24, the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, I created this work in my studio at the Institute of Automation for a small group of invited friends. I occasionally use my studio space to create temporary installations. Such works are an important part of my experimental artistic process, aimed at fostering direct engagement with viewers and encouraging dialogue around issues that concern me.
This work was created using old books that had been discarded as waste. Their destruction, in a metaphorical sense, is intended to reveal the materiality of a constructed myth. To some extent, the piece was my response to acquaintances in Russia who, after an entire year of war, had made no public reaction to it, as well as to those who justify it using the arguments of official propaganda. I wanted to emphasize that the concepts and narratives manipulated by a dictatorship are fictional, unlike the suffering they cause, which is very real.
Born in 1990 in Reshetylivka, Poltava region.
Education:
2005-08 – State Art High School named after Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv.
2008-12 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Crimean branch). Kolchugino, Crimea.
2012-14 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Kyiv.
Personal exhibitions:
2023 – Time Forms. New life. Together with Vasyl Tatarskyi, Imagine point, Kyiv. 2022 – Transliteration, Portal 11, Kyiv.
2022 – Ex libris, Dzyga, Lviv.
2019 – Day two, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv.
2018 – A priori, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv.
Group exhibitions:
2024 – Kyiv Time, Institute of Automation, participation in the alternative art fair TRYST 2024, Torrance Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2024 – Second Breath of the Earth, Imagine Point, Kyiv
2024 – My Territory, Mercury Center of Intellectual Arts, Lviv
2024 – A Place on Earth, Institute of Automation, Dzyga Art Center, Lviv
2024 – Territory of Freedom: Maidan, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv
2023 – Assembly Scheme, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv (Co-curator)
2023 – Satellite Exhibition of the 7th International Biennale of Non-Objective Art, Institute of Automation in collaboration with KNO, Kyiv
2023 – International Collage Festival CUTOUT COLLAGE FESTIVAL, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv
2023 – Shared Space, Institute of Automation, Kyiv
2023 – Concentration of Will, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv
2023 – Forms of Presence, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
2022 – Ukraine! unmuted, Triennial of Ukrainian Contemporary Art “Ukrainian Slice”, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2022 – Unity: British and Ukrainian Art, Koppel X Gallery, London, UK.
2022 – Relocation, Institute of Automation, PM Gallery, Lviv.
2022 – The second international exhibition ART FAIR ART COMPENSA, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2022 – Terra Libera, Venice Art Gallery, Venice, Italy.
2022 – Time of war, reflection…, Dzyga, Lviv.
2022 – Institutionalisation, Imagen point, Kyiv.
2021 – Labyrinths of discourse, as part of the opening of the XIV platform “New Directions”. Institute of Contemporary Art Problems. Kyiv.
2021 – “Your Name is Ukraine”, Korsaks Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk.
2021 – Second All-Ukrainian Levkas Biennale, CSM White world, Kyiv.
2021 – Visiocracy, as part of the opening of the XIII platform “New Directions”. Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
2020 – International project “One Day After”, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv.
2020 – Co-organiser of the project space “Institute of Automation”, Kyiv.
Artworks Mazur Maksym
