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Kokhan Vitaliy
The urban public spaces are what the city is made of and where people live (excluding their homes). By using art tools, it is possible to show the hidden properties of space, by using architecture and design tools – to make the space comfortable and functional.
This work is at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and design. It is precisely the harmonious interaction of such components the objects of public space lack. Vitalii Kokhan created functional sculpture or sculptural architecture. On an unequipped observation deck, the viewer can move between elements.
FRONTIER: New Monuments exhibition & FRONTIER VR Art Festival
Exposition #Laboratory
Born in 1987 in Sumy. He is a painter, graphic artist, author of installations, photographs, videos and land art works. Resident of BIRUCHIY since 2013.
Education.
Graduated from the Sumy Higher School of Arts and Culture named after D. Bortnyansky and Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
Participates in personal exhibitions:
2020
GRAPHICS, ART-OBJECTS, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv;
2017
Time Capsule, Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Mara II, together with Kateryna Buchatska, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2016
Mara I, together with Kateryna Buchatska, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2015
PC 1 500 H, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
2014
Cerstve ovocie, Efremova 26 Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine;
Foundation, as part of the International Biennial of Youth Projects NonStopMedia, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine;
Nothing new, AcademArt gallery, Sumy, Ukraine;
2013
Other / Unknown technique, VOVATANYA gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
Indeed for a while, within the framework of the K.A.I.R. residency programme, Košice, Slovakia;
2012
Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine;
Between a Dog and a Wolf, Gallery 21, Sumy, Ukraine;
2009
Conservation of Ideas, together with Ivan Svitlychnyi, Garage Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
New History, together with Ivan Svitlychnyi, Kharkiv Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
2006
Night, together with Oleg Karpeev and Artur Samofalov, SGA Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine;
Night, together with Oleg Karpeev and Artur Samofalov, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Group exhibitions:
2019
“FRONTIER Festival of Art and Virtual Reality”, CCA M17, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2018
Exhibition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize nominees, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Raskraski, special project by BIRUCHIY within Kyiv Art Week, Toronto Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Utopia: transformations of the Ukrainian East, Isolation. A platform for cultural initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Census, Afro-Asian Institute, Graz, Austria;
City of Ha, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine;
City of Ha. Avant-garde Kharkiv. Vol 2, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
2017
Baba Reed Land Art Festival, Lviv, Ukraine;
OpPORTunity, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine;
White Triptych, Shukhliada exhibition environment, Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Art and Film Biennale Kyiv / Trading Illusions, National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Forpost. Paintings, drawings, sculptures by artists of the East and South of Ukraine, Art Kafedra Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine;
The Song of the Petrel. Short course, project of Kharkiv Municipal Gallery / 5th Odesa Biennial of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine;
Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Land art programme of the International Film and Urbanism Festival “86”, Slavutych, Ukraine;
2016
From a Common Root, co-organiser of the International Symposium of Contemporary Art BIRUCHIY, Clementówice, Poland;
Embodying the mission. Art and Business, M17 Centre for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Photosynthesis, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Apartment exhibition dedicated to Vaghrich Bakhchanyan, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
Stopień Zależności / Dependence degree, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland;
Residence in the programme “PogranKult: GaliciaCult”, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
Sex Dialogues, Ermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
BIRUCHIY 016, International Symposium of Contemporary Art, Biruchiy, Ukraine;
Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Land Art Symposium Khortytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine;
“Biruchiy comes Closer”, Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine;
“Artificial Pain”, Centre for Contemporary Art “Signs of the Times”, Torun, Poland
