Sergei Sviatchenko
Sergei Sviatchenko was born on October 7, 1952 in Kharkiv. An artist, painter, photographer, he also works in genres of collage, video, installation, photo art.
Since 1990, he has been living and working in Denmark. Member of the Union of Danish Artists and Graphic Artists (BKF). Laureate of the International Award for the Yellow Pencil Award 2007 (London). In the 1980s, he headed the Centre for Contemporary Art in Kyiv. Since 1990, he has participated in numerous collective and personal exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Austria, France, the UK, Canada and the USA.
The founder of the art gallery Senko Studio, the author of the photo art project Close Up and Private. He is considered to be one of the most influential and most famous collage artist in contemporary art.
Literature
Sviatchenko, Sergei. Sergei Sviatchenko, Borgens Forlag, 2002
Sviatchenko, Sergei. Sergei Sviatchenko: Paintings & Others 1991-2006, Hovedland, 2006
Supergraphics. Unit Publishing, London, 2010
RARACURIO - Sergei Sviatchenko: Art, Archetypes and Philosophy, 2010
CUT & PASTE, 21ST Century Collage. Laurence King Publishing, London, 2011
Cutting Edges, contemporary collage. Gestalten, Berlin 2011
Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It: The Art of Sergei Sviatchenko 2012
The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art. Gestalten, Berlin 2013
Sergei Sviatchenko: Collages Edited by Rick Poynor, Schlebrugge Editor, Vienna
External links
sviatchenko.dk
closeupandprivate.com
gestalten.com/sviatchenko
For Light and Memory. Painting and Collage by Sergei Sviatchenko
senko.dk
https://www.nowness.com/story/sergei-sviatchenko-for-light-and-memory
Sergei Sviatchenko (Wikipedia)
Selected exhibitions
2024
People live here, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv
White and Black, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv
2023
Spaces. Boundaries. Borders, National Center Ukrainian House, 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
2020
Strange Time, online, www.strangetime.art
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2019
Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 - 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
The Long Journey. Contemporary Ukrainian Art 1985 - 2004 from private collections, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2018
Tribute to Viborg, 1018 – 2018, An exhibition of Contemporary Collage Art. Viborg, Denmark
International Weird Collage Show, Jealous Gallery, London
Nature Matter, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
2017
You, Retrospective, curated by Helene Nyborg Bay, Kunsthal Viborg, Denmark
Face and Identity, Kunstcenter Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Meta-Matter, curated by Faye Dawling, Karst, Plymouth, UK
2016
Secretly, Wall installation at the MQ Fore Court, Vienna
Detached, Now and tomorrow, EIKON gallery at MQ, Vienna
2015
Collages, Augustiana center for contemporary art, Denmark
2013
For Light and Memory, Gestalten Space, Berlin
2012
Mirror by Mirror, Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky, photocollage, installation, Riga Film Museum, Riga
2010
21st International Poster and Graphic Design Festival, Chaumont, France
2009
Mirror by Mirror, Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky, photocollage, installation, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland / Gallery Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin
Broken Images, Liaison Controverse, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Shape of White, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY, USA
2008
The Trip, Homage to the Psychedelic era, collage installation, ROJO artspace, Barcelona, Spain
Rojo Out, Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid
Ink 01, International Illustration Rally, Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, Bilbao
2006
You are Not the Only One, installation, video, photography, Filosofgangen, Odense, Denmark
2005
Playface, collage installation, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy
Display, collage installation, Kforumvienna, Vienna
Plotarteurope, Museo laboratorio di arte contemporanea, Rome
2000
Katarsis, installation, video, photography, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark
Time, Kunsthallen Braenderigaard, Viborg, Denmark
Mixed Landscape, installation, video, photography, Nielsen & Holm-Møller Museet, Holstebro, Denmark
Art 2000, Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1999
Art Miami, Galerie Egelund, Miami, USA
1998
Artissima, Galerie Egelund, Turin, Italy
1996
Galerie Protée, Paris
Art Cologne, Galerie Egelund, Cologne, Germany
1995
Works, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kunstrai Art Fair Kunsthandel Frans Jacob, Amsterdam
1994
The Wind, Gallery Nord, Denmark
FIAC (International Art Fair), Gallery Nord, Paris
1993
FIAC (International Art Fair), Gallery Nord, Paris
1992
Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
1991
Celebration, Gallery Nord, Randers, Denmark
Gallery Thea Fisher-Reinhardt, West Berlin
1990
Gallery at the magazine Decorative Art of USSR, Moscow
Flash – New Ukrainian Art, House of Architects, Kyiv
Three Generations of Ukrainian Paintings: 1960s-1980s, Kyiv-Denmark
1989
Кiev–Kaunas exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art, Kyiv
The 1st Soviet-American Exhibition, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Tbilisi, USSR
1986
Institute of Design, Kyiv
Selected books and catalogues:
2017
Sergei Sviatchenko – You, Helena Nyborg Bay, Viborg Kunsthal 2017
2014
Rick Poynor, Sergei Sviatchenko: Collages, Schlebrueger.editor, Vienna
Skull Art Prints, 20 removable posters, Laurence King Publishing, London
2013
Dennis Busch, Hendrik Hellige and Robert Klanten (eds.), The Age of Collage, Gestalten, Berlin
2012
Silke Krohn (eds.), Everything Goes Right & Left if You Want It: The Art of Sergei Sviatchenko
2011
Hendrik Hellige, Robert Klanten and James Gallgher (eds), Cutting Edges: Contemporary collage, Gestalten, Berlin
2008
Trine Rytter Andersen, Viktor Antonov, Marina Tarkovskaya, Mark Le Fanu, Irina Tchmyreva, Per Carlsen, Mirror By Mirror
Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky by Sergei Sviatchenko, Galleri Image, Aarhus
2007
Sergei Sviatchenko, Less, limited edition artist’s book, Rojo, Barcelona
2006
Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Paintings & Others 1991–2006, Hovedland, Aarhus
2003
Viktor Antonov, Georgy Nikich and Martine Arnault-Tran, Sviatchenko: Multimedia, Light, Art, Stories, Borgen, Copenhagen
1996
Jørgen Hansen, Sergei Sviatchenko: Paintings 1993-1996, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
1995
Jesper Overgaard, Byens Magi, Art Sted, Viborg
1994
Torben Weirup, When the Light Breaks Through, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
1993
Jørgen Hansen, 3 års malerier I Danmark, Galerie Nord, Randers & Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
Tom Jørgensen, Sergei Sviatchenko: Works on Paper 1989-1998, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
