Vitalii Kokhan
Born in 1987 in Sumy (Ukraine). Studied at the Sumy Profession-
al College of Arts and Culture of D. Bortniansky and at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Permanent participant and cu- rator of the international landart-symposium “Prostyr Pokordon- nya”. Since 2013 resident of BIRUCHIY contemporary art project. Participant of the International Biennial of Youth Projects NonStop- Media (2014), the Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists (2017). In 2018 was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Award. Works with media, painting, graphics, installations, photography, video and land art. Lives and works in Kyiv (Ukraine).
al College of Arts and Culture of D. Bortniansky and at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Permanent participant and cu- rator of the international landart-symposium “Prostyr Pokordon- nya”. Since 2013 resident of BIRUCHIY contemporary art project. Participant of the International Biennial of Youth Projects NonStop- Media (2014), the Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists (2017). In 2018 was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Award. Works with media, painting, graphics, installations, photography, video and land art. Lives and works in Kyiv (Ukraine).
Selected exhibitions and art-projects:
solo:
2024 - “Forever today”, The Naked Room, Kyiv.
2021 - “Circa 2020”, The Naked Room, Kyiv.
2020 - “Girlish”, Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv.
2017 - “Time Capsule”, Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv.
2017 - “Mara I”, “Mara II”, together with Kateryna Buchatska, Port creative hub, Kyiv.
2015 - “ПЦ 1 500 Н”, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv.
2014 - “Cerstve ovocie” gallery “Efremova 26”, Lviv
2013 - “Other/Unknown technique», “VOVATANYA” Gallery, Kharkiv.
2012 - “Untitled”, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv.
group:
2021 - “Artificial pain” YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2020 - “Artificial pain” Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland.
2019 - Second Biennial of Young Art “I think I’m coming to our garden”, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2019 - FRONTIER VR Art Festival, Kharkiv, Kyiv.
2018 - Exhibition of nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Award, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv.
2018 - “Census”, Afro-Asian Institute, Graz, Austria.
2017 - Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists “Today has never come”, Art Arsenal, Kyiv.
2017 - Art and Film Biennale Kyiv / Trading Illusions, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv.
2016 - “Embodying Mission. Art and Business”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev.
2016 - Photosynthesis, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv.
2016 - Dependence degree, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, Poland.
2016 - Sex Dialogues, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2015 - “Internal Territories”, Giesinger Bahnhof Cultural Center, Munich, Germany.
2014 - “The Freedom square” YermilovCentre, Kharkiv.
2014 - “Indemonstrable”, “In primo luogo” gallery, Turin, Italy
2014 - “Current”, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia.
2013 - “Introversion”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv.
2013 - “Emergency exit”, ice objects on city streets, within the project Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2012 - “Art Map of Ukraine”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine, Kyiv.
2011 - “Collective Dreams”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
2010 - Exhibition of Youth Self-Organization, Creative Exposition Center “TEC”, Kharkiv, Ukraine.