Nikolai Matsenko
Ukrainian artist Nikolai Matsenko
Born in 1960 in the village of Prutivka, Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
Graduated from the T. H. Shevchenko Republican Art School and Lviv State Institute for Applied and Decorative Art (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts).
Co-founder and member of Natsprom art group (with Oleg Tistol). A painter and photographer, he also creates installations, sculptures and performances. He lives and works in Cherkasy and Kyiv.
His works have been exhibited at multiple solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, the UK, Canada, the USA, Slovakia, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary and Cyprus.
COLLECTIONS
His works can be seen in collections of PinchukArtCentre, Fund Christoph Merian Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland), the United States Department of State, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Cherkasy Oblast Museum of Fine Art, Zaporizhia Oblast Museum of Fine Art, as well as in many private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Selected exhibitions
2024
People live here, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv
White and Black, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv
Byzantine Nostalgia, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2023
My Story: 32 Years of Independence, Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv
2022
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Switzerland
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art & History Museum, Бельгія
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2021
30х30.Contemporary Ukrainian art, National Center «Ukrainian House», Kyiv
2020
Strange Time, online, www.strangetime.art
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
The Artifical Pain, Сontemporary Art Centre ZnakiCzasu, Toruń, Poland
Epistemological Exercises. Cherkassy Art Museum, Cherkasy, Ukraine
2019
Media dependence. Ukranian version, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
The Long Journey. Contemporary Ukrainian Art 1985 - 2004 from private collections, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Art United, Mandarin Maison, Kyiv
2018
Auguste Rodin. Premonition of the future. Cherkasy Museum of Fine Arts, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Natsprom, 1991-2018, Gallery "Dzyga", Lviv, Ukraine
Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2017
Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts. Ukraine
Reymuzey. ArtUkraine Gallery. Kyiv.
2016
Recipe for Utopia , Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015
Wien,Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde,Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne, 20-29 november, 2015
The Museum Collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art. 1985–2015, 22.09–10.10.2015. From Private Collections
2014
Am A Drop In The Ocean Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
I am a drop in the Ocean, MOCAK, Krakow
A New Ukrainian Dream, Forbes Ukraine and Mystetskyi Arsenal Art Project Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
OURS, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv
2013
Terrain Orientation National Art Museum of Ukraine Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Kyiv (catalog)
Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Saatchi Gallery. London (catalog)
2012
Neofolk, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (solo show)
2011
Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (catalogue)
20 years of presence, Modern Art Research Institute (NAAU), Kyiv (catalogue)
Independent, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (catalogue)
A Space Odyssey 2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Prochez, Docks en Seine, Paris (catalogue)
Labour Show, VCRC, Kyiv
Land, Art Museum, Cherkasi
BАrt Plotinnos, MMAU, Kyiv
Circulation, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv
2010
VozhdiЛєnіє, Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2010, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (catalogue)
RESTART , Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2009
Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2009, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
2008
Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2008, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
Gogol-fest, Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Ideal Age, Collection Gallery, Kyiv (catalogue)
Culture, Ya-Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (solo show)
Transformation of Time, Gurzuf, Ukraine
2007
The action A Black Square for Every Home! under the auspices of ArtMoskva, TSDKH, Moscow
A Wave, the Krasnokamenka mountain lake near Gursuf, Ukraine
The Crops, Ya-Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (solo show)
Made in UKR, Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv
2006
Neo-Folk, Ya-Gallery, Kyiv (solo show)
The Museum of Ukraine - 3, SKHU Exhibition Hall, Kherson, Ukraine
2005
Reality Check, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
2004
A Farewell to Arms, Arsenal, Kyiv (catalogue)
2003
The First Collection, Central House of Artists, Kyiv (catalogue)
2002
Behind the Threshold, ArtMoskva, Moscow
Natsprom, The Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
2000
1+1, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv
1998
Accommodation, The Jesuit Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1997
Photosynthesis, The Artists- Union Gallery, Kyiv
Ostry nawrot dekadencji, The Jesuit Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Roses and Grapes, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
1996
Schweizergeld, Schuper Gallery,Munich, Germany
Family Album, CMA at NaUKMA, Kyiv
The Museum of Architecture, CMA at NaUKMA, Kyiv
On The Margin, Mandel Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
1995
Kyiv Art Meeting, Cultural Center Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
Lebensmitte, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
Sud-Ost, +/- Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
The Bone-Grown, CMA at NaUKMA, Kyiv
1994
September, 17, Brama Gallery, Kyiv
Free Zone, The Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
Alchemical Capitulation, flagship Slavutich, Sebastopol, Ukraine
Artistic Impressions, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv (catalogue)
1993
The Kyiv Mohyla Academy: A Study of Space, Kyiv
Europe's Steppe, CCA Uyazdovsky Castle, Warsaw
1992
Kosoi Kaponir, The Kyiv Fortress Museum, Kyiv
