Vera Abakumova
AS a former student of the Kharkov Academy of Art and Design. I am keen on all kinds of fine arts, especially on the contemporary ones.
I have been engaged in making short films and participating in contests since 2005.
In 2009 my film took the third place at the all-Ukrainian contest of short films (as a part of the French Spring Festival in Ukraine). My works are devoted to people’s relationships and characters.
Kristina Borhes (MZM PROJECTS)
Kristina Borhes is a film director and independent researcher focused on storytelling in the very particular manner aimed to capture the merely visible essence through combining the personal experience with an artistic approach.
With a master’s degree in political science and interest in art, she started her way in mixing the two through developing the educational youth projects in Ukrainian NGO “OPORA”, specializing in art as a tool for social change and protest art. In 2015 she co-founded MZM PROJECTS, an independent group of film-makers interested in experimental art.
Oksana Chepelyk
was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, finished Art Institute, Kyiv, 1978-1984, followed post-graduate course, Moscow, 1986-1988, Residency Program, CREDAC, Paris, 1996, New Media Study Program, Banff Centre, Canada, 1998, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, 2000-2002, UCLA, USA, 2003-2004 & 2010-2011. She has shown her works at the festivals worldwide: in New York, London, Tallinn, St. Petersburg, Osnabruck, Montecatini, Linz, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Oberhausen, Liverpool, Belo Horizonte, Karlovy Vary, Venice /A category/, Chisinau, Weimar, Tel-Aviv, Ankara, Pesaro, Santa Fe, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Sebastopol, Sarajevo and Clermont-Ferrand. 1999 AIDO FilmVideo Award, Italy. 2003 Werklietz Award, EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany. 2013 Cinemadamare Award, Venice IFF, Italy.
Oleg Chorny & Gena Khamruk
Oleg Chorny, Born in 1963.
Graduated from the film director’s department of the State Institute of Theatre and cinema in 1985.
Worked at the Olexander Dovzhenko State Film Studio in Kyiv, various governmental and non-governmental film and video studios.
Shot a number of feature shorts, documentaries, ecological and promo films, musical video clips and art videos.
His short feature movies, documentaries and art videos participated at the programs at the Ukrainian and international festivals.
He is member of the Ukrainian Filmmakers Union and Ukrainian Film Academy.
Gena Khamruk
Born in 1972.
Graduated from the director’s department of the State Ukrainian Academy of Culture.
Worked as an editor and director at the non-governmental video and TV studios, worked as VJ and computer graphics designer.
In 1996 Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruk has founded the non-profit creative unit “SAMPLED PICTURES”.
A number of videos created by “SAMPLED PICTURES” were presented at the various film and video festivals, exhibitions and club screenings.
Alexander Isaenko
was born on October, 30th in 1976 in a city Izmail Ukraine. Studied in painting in art studio at university, further was fond of a collage, and after a photo and video Participated in every possible exhibitions, Exposed both painting and a photo
Oleg Kharch/Oleg Kharch Group
Oleg Kharch Group|Olga Shuvalova,Oleg Kharch. Comprehend in a common artistic practice an angular question to a person. Who are we? Where did they come from and where are we going?
Participant in
The Wake Up! Memorial – Wake Up! Climate Change! – The Wake Up! Memorial – Corona! Shut Down?
Anna Kryvenko
(1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist. She is a student of the last year of the Centre for Audio-visual Studies at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Before she studied theatre directing at KNUTKT(UKR) and alternative theatre directing at DAMU (CZ).
Her films and performances were screened at Fluidum Festival, Famufest student Film Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Intermedia BB (Slovakia) etc. She participated in several group exhibitions. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ). Her last film Listen to the Horizon won prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ).
Olexiy Khoroshko
Was born in 1985.
-1993 – 1998 – Studying in Luhansk college of Culture and Art (faculty of easel painting).
-1998 –2003 – Studying in Lviv Academy of Arts (faculty of monumental painting).
Participates in many group exhibitions, plein-airs and projects in Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Odesa), and abroad (Poland, Russia, Slovakia, France).
Sphere of interests: vidoart, installation, experimental graphic arts, monochromatic painting, (theatre) set design.
Oleksa Konopelko
Oleksa Konopelko is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Kamianske, Ukraine.
Her practice consists of an exploration of the ritualistic and mystical performed through the visual-sounding, combining dada methods. Her work is a transcendental-psychedelic revelation, a sense of horror, fanaticism and naive hilarity that sge experience several times a day. Combining performance music and painting
Yuriy Kruchak / Yulia Kostereva
Yuriy Kruchak was born in Poltava in 1973. He studied at the Kharkiv State Fine Arts School and at the Kharkiv Art Industrial Institute. In 1996-99 he did a postgraduate course at the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture.
In his work, Yuriy Kruchak breaks borders between art, science, mass-media and reality by creating specific game of the conventions existing in the modern world. A characteristic feature of his work is to encourage the audience to action.
Yulia Kostereva was born in Kharkov in 1973. In 2001 she got master degree in Graphic art from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv. Yulia works mainly in the field of Installations, Public Happenings, Media Art and Video Art. The particular attention focuses on research of interrelations of a person and material world.
Lilit Lysa
Lilit Lysa is an art and fashion photographer, director from Kyiv, Ukraine, who now lives in Prague due to the war. Her personal art projects are an assemblage of historical references and futuristic fabrications. She explores cultural anthropology, human behavior, and beliefs, as well as marginal aspects of culture. Lilit completed her bachelor’s degree in journalism. Now she utilizes the acquired knowledge to write expert articles, shape concepts, and incorporate a broad informational framework into her visual projects. Also she works as a photographer and art director in creating photo and video campaigns for brands.Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree at the Academy of Arts Architecture & Design (UMPRUM) in Prague, specializing in photography. She has exhibited in contemporary art galleries in Ukraine, Great Britain, America, Czech Republic, Germany, India, and in the NFT space around the world.
Nataliia Mashtaler
graduated In 2010from Kyiv Institute of Fine Arts and got a job as a film and television director.
My teacher repeatedly informed us that everything is possible in documentary works, except for takes. I believe that documentaries, with their keenness of perception, are the most sophisticated form of performing art. It is subtle and requires a degree of finesse. Script writers write dramatic scenes from real life, and documentary film is real life- everything is real and true. And that is why it is the most interesting form of presentation.
I have directed two films in the documentary genre: ProMotionand and High Achiever, which I have done at the institute. My the new film ” Demonstration Lesson” – yet another step in improving my skills.
Lena Nosenko
born on 15 July 1988 in Ukraine. In 2005, graduated from secondary school and started studying filmmaking at the Karpenko-Kary university of Theatre, Cinema and Television. Parallel to my screenwriting studies, I’m also taking a correspondence course in film critisicm at the same university. I’ve directed two short films and one stop-motion video since 2005.
Marina Shkarupa
Solo Exhibitions –
2023 Marina Shkarupa -Zwischen Krieg, Flucht und Hoffnung Michaeliskirche, Erfurt, Germany 2022 Marina Shkarupa: Ukrainians: Transformation, Kmytiv Art Museum, Kmytiv, Ukraine 2021 Marina
Shkarupa: The Main Hero, National Museum – Kyiv Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group Exhibitions 2023 Fragile Frontier| Zimmer 48, Berlin, Germany XXX International Nude Art Exhibition – Man and Woman: Stealing Europe, MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu,Estonia 2022 XXIX
International Nude Art Exhibition Man & Woman: Dream, MONA The Museum of New Art,Pärnu, Estonia 2018 2016 Art Convergence. Ukrainian Art Exhibition, Katara – Cultural Village Foundation, Doha, Qatar Man And Woman: Aliens, MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia 2015 Х Art- Kyiv Contemporary 2015, . MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia – 2014 ART-KYIV 1999 Videoformes 1999, Vidéoformes, Clermont Ferrand, France
Lidiya Starodubtseva
Film director, producer, radio and TV journalist, media expert, historian of culture and arts, art curator. Head of the Media Communications Department at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine), DPhil (Philosophy), Full Professor. Lidiya Starodubtseva was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She studied architecture at Civil Engineering Institute (Kharkiv). Since 2015 she collaborates with the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (US, based in Prague), freelance of the program ‘Above the Barriers’. Author and host of the Kharkiv TV programs ‘Tea Ceremony’ on the channel P1 (2005–2006), ‘Art Interrogation’ on the channel ‘Simon’ (2014–2015), and ‘Dialogues with Lidiya Starodubtseva’ on the ‘Channel 7’ (2011–2017). Scriptwriter and producer of the short films ‘Wine kills’ and ‘Days of Fear’. Scriptwriter, director and producer of the film ‘Time is Up’, director and editor of the films ‘Square Ukraine’, ‘Seam’, ‘Amputation’, ‘Holmes and Harms’, short films ‘Prose of Poetry’, ‘Boots’, ‘Physics of Fragile Body’, ‘Meridian Czernowitz’, etc. Author of 6 books and more than 200 publications on culture, arts and visual media theory. Member of the National Unions of Journalists and Artists of Ukraine.
Hanna Trofimova
Hanna Trofimova is a Ukrainian director and artist born on September 1, 1986 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Education: 2003 -2008 – The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, TV director 2007-2021 – worked as a director on television
Participation in exhibitions: 12.04 – 14.04.2019 – showing video art “Again” in the art program of the European, Lesbian Conferences (Kyiv), 09.10 – 11.10.2020 – ARTLAB exhibition with the support of the NGO “KyivPride”, video installation “Come in” (Kyiv, IZONE)
May 2022 – Installation “Parts”, was realized within the residence of Ukrainian artists, Villa Mueller, Feldkirch (Austria)
May 2022 – video installation “Extent”, was realized within the residence of Ukrainian, artists Villa Mueller, Feldkirch (Austria)
Festival: 2022 – documentary film “When will the winter of 2022 end?”, DOK Leipzig (Germany) – International Competition Short Film
Kostia Vozniuk,
born in Novodnistrovsk, Ukraine. After finishing high school, he moved to Kyiv to study Cinematography at KYIV NATIONAL KARPENKO-KARY UNIVERSITY OF THEATRE, CINEMA and TELEVISION. Worked at several student productions as Cinematographer, Gaffer, 1st AC, Key Grip. Love to do any kind of experimental movies, intrested in stop motion animation, making music and short film sketches.
Yaroslav Yanovsky
Mr. Yanovsky takes active part in international planners and programs by organizing art performances; he is successful in realm of photography, video, video installations and multimedia at the whole.
Alexander Yeltsin
Born September 13, 1983 in Lugansk /Ukraine
Education:
1998-2003 – College of Culture and Arts, Lugansk , specialty ” sculptor – artist ” , teacher
2003-2005 – National Pedagogical University T. Shevchenko, Lugansk, bachelor ” sculptor – artist “
One of the organizers and participants of the artist-run space ” ХАЯТ ” and group ” ЙОД “
Lives and works in Kiev.
Tatiana Zubchenko/Nikolaevna
media artist from Ukraine, work with video art and media installations. In my creative research I am interested in such topics as the development of human awareness, ancient art, its interpretation and modern rethinking. I started my career as a costume designer, but a few years ago I decided to expand my creative potential with the help of media art.
