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Volodymyr Liubyi
“Numbers” is a kinetic art object where the focus is not on physical form, but on its dynamic projection. The main material used is metal stencils of Arabic numerals — archaic carriers of information that humanity has used for centuries to measure the world and describe it with formulas.
Thanks to constant movement and the layering of shadows, familiar symbols are transformed into a continuous stream of new signs. This visual game can be perceived as a metaphor for information noise or as a meditative kaleidoscopic ornament. The viewer balances between pure visual contemplation and an attempt to find meaning: the eye subconsciously picks out familiar contours of numbers in the chaos of graphic lines, filling the abstraction with its own meaning.
Born: 1963
Graduated from the Republican Secondary Art School named after T. H. Shevchenko in 1981.
Graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (Faculty of Architecture) in 1987.
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (postgraduate assistantship–internship, Faculty of Graphics) in 2001.
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1992.
From 1991 to 1999, worked as a lithography master at the Experimental Creative Graphic Workshop of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
From 2002 to 2011, worked as a lecturer in lithography at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
Since 2017, has been teaching at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (Film Production Design / Production Designer’s Craft).
Works primarily in the fields of easel graphics, printmaking, painting, and also as a production designer in cinema.
Since 1989, has participated in numerous exhibitions.
1993 — 3rd International Biennale “Impreza”, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
1994 — “Intergrafia 94”, World Exhibition of Laureates, Katowice, Poland.
1994 — “Kyiv Graphics-94”, Gallery “Kyiv”, Kyiv.
1995 — Ukrainian–German Symposium “Art Against Violence”, Gallery “Kyiv”, Kyiv.
1995 — Second Kyiv Art Fair, Ukrainian House, Kyiv.
1995 — First Ukrainian–American Printmaking Symposium, Gallery “Brama”, Kyiv.
1996 — The Third Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan.
1997 — Solo exhibition “Concrete Improvisations”, Gallery “Irena”, Kyiv.
1999 — “Festival of Arts in Lavrskyi Lane”, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv.
2020 — “Lithography: Kyiv 1988–2020”, White World Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv.
2021 — 9th All-Ukrainian Triennial “Graphics-2021”, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv.
2021 — “Intaglio” – Second International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, White World Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv.
2024 — 13th All-Ukrainian Exhibition “Graphics in Kharkiv.”
2024 — 10th All-Ukrainian Triennial “Graphics”, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv.
2024 — 11th All-Ukrainian Exhibition-Competition named after Heorhiy Yakutovych.
2018 — “The Gateway / Brama”, directed by Volodymyr Tykhyi
Production: Dyrektoriya Kino.
2019 — “Our Kitties / Nashi Kotyky”, directed by Volodymyr Tykhyi
Production: Dyrektoriya Kino.
2019–2022 — “Prinzessin”, Switzerland, directed by Peter Luisi
Production: Spotlights Media Production AG (Switzerland), Dyrektoriya Kino (Ukraine).
Production designer of the Ukrainian part.
2020–2021 — “Yasa”, directed by Serhii Masloboishchykov
Production: Mendal Drive Studio.
2019–2021 — “Iron Butterflies / Zalizni Metelyky”, directed by Roman Liubyi
Feature-length documentary. Production: Babylon 13.