Evgeniy Pavlov
Evgeniy Pavlov (b. 1949, Kharkiv) is one of the foudners of the Kharkiv school of photography. In 1967-1972, he studied at the department of Economy ar the O.M. Gorky Kharkiv State Univseristy (the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University today). As a student, Pavlov became a participant of the regional photo club at the Trade Unions’ Amateur Arts House, where met authors with whom in the early 1970s founded the Vremia photographic group (Oleg Maliovany, Boris Mikhailov, Oleksandr Sitnichenko, Oleksandr Suprun, Gennadiy Tublaev, later — Anatoliy Makiyenko). The artist created The Violin (1972), which became one of the seminal series for the group. Pavlov worked as the head of the photolab at the Sitenko Kharkiv Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology. After completing his military service, the photographer studied for cinema operator at the Kyiv State Theater Karpenko-Kary University (1974-1979).
Evgeniy Pavlov experimented with a variety of techniques, ranging from colour slides (Orwochrome series, 1974-1987) and overlays to collages and hand-colouring in the late 1980s – early 1990s (The Archival series, 1988, Total photography, 1990-1994). Cooperation with a painter Volodymyr Shaposhnykov was an important episode in his creative career: it resulted in several series of hand-coloured photography, like Common Field (1996), Pairnography (1998), Second Heaven (2007), created together with Pavlov’s wife, an art historian Tetiana Pavlova. Today the artist is the senior lecturer at the department of Television at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture.
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Photo credits — Vladyslav Krasnoschok, 2013.
Solo exhibitions:
1988 — House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
1988 — Kharkiv art museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1990 — Armmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
1991 — city council, Cologne, Germany
1991 — “Contemporary Soviet Photographers” (together with Guennadi Maslov and Oleksandr Suprun), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
1993 — Lichtblick art gallery, Colonge, Germany
1993 — Kharkiv art museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1994 — “Тотальна фотографія / Total Photography”, “Український засів” gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine,
1994 — Cypriana Majernika gallery, International month of photography, Bratislava, Slovenia
1995 — Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1995 — “Тотальна фотографія / Total Photography”, Kyiv Fortress museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1996 — “Спільне поле / Common Field” (with V. Shaposhnykov), House of Artist, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Pavlova)
1997 — “Спільне поле / Common Field” (with V. Shaposhnykov), “Ателье Карась” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Pavlova)
1998 — “Натюрморти / Still Life” (with V. Shaposhnykov), “Палітра” gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1998 — “Парнографія / Pairnography” (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kharkiv art museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Pavlova)
1998 — Poltava art museum, Полтава, Ukraine
1999 — “Затмение / Eclipse”, “Палітра” gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1999 — “The photography of Eugene Pavlov and Olexandr Suprun”, Wolf photogallery, Cincinnati, USA
2000 — “Detonation of hippy-end”, Kharkiv academic theater of opera and ballet, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator—Tetiana Pavlova)
2001 — “Shutup!”, “Палітра” gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator—Tetiana Pavlova)
2002 — Bastejs gallery, Riga, Latvia
2003 — “Другое небо / Second Sky” (with V. Shaposhnykov), International biennale of photography, headquarters of the National Unions of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 — “Інше небо / Second Sky” (with V. Shaposhnykov), Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2005 — “Проникливість Бонапарта / Insightfulness of Bonaparte” (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kyiv Photo Month, National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine curator—Tetiana Pavlova)
2006 — AVEC gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2007 — “Очі – вікна оселі / Eyes — Windows of a House”, International biennale of photograph, Museum of history, Lviv, Ukraine
2008 — “Боб-фест / Bob-Fest”, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator—Andrii Avdieienko)
2009 — Centre of art criticism “Академія,” Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2011 — “Double Elvis” gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 — “Home Life Book,” “Гайдай” studio, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 — “Сімейний альбом / Family Album”, “Карась” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 — “Евгений Павлов. Тотальная фотография / Evgeniy Pavlov. Total Photography”, COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 — “Хроніки тотальної фотографії / Chronicles of Total Photography”, International interdisciplinary festival GOGOLFEST 2017, Dovzhenko centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator—Tetiana Pavlova)
2017—“Євгеній Павлов, Тетяна Павлова. Метод: Тотальна фотографія / Evgenit Pavlov, Tetiana Pavlova. Method: Total Photography”, part of Interventsia project, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (curators—Yurii Polishchuk, Yurii Veselskyi)
2018 — “Chroniques de la Photographie totale”, Cultural and information centre of Ukrainian Embassy in France, Paris, France
2019 — “Yevgeniy PAVLOV: La Photographie Totale”, Little Odessa Gallery, Paris, France
2019 — “Freedom Street”, Set art-space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator—Maria Vtorushina)
Group exhibitions
1983 — Vremia group exhibition, House of Scientists, Kharkiv, USSR
1987 — “Ф-87 / F-87”, Palace of Students of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Kharkiv, USSR
1988 — “Ф-88 / F-88”, Palace of Students of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Kharkiv, USSR
1988 — Photovacacie International Festival, Bulgaria
1989 —“Выставка американских, эстонских и харьковских фотографов / Exhibition of America, Estonian and Kharkiv Photographers”, Moscow, RFSR
1989 — “Фотографии — 150 / Photography — 150”, Central House of Artist, Moscow, RFSR
1989 — “Charkov in Cheb”, 4 Gallery, Cheb, Czech Republic
1990 — “Exhibition of Kharkiv’s photographers,” 4 Gallery, Cheb, Czech Republic
1991 — “Photoexhibition”, Centre for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 — “Past/present: Photography from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts”, Houston, USA
1993 — “Kharkiv Photography”, Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg, Germany
1994 — “Искусство современной фотографии: Россия, Украина, Беларусь / Art of Contemporary Photography: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus”, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia (curator — Evgeny Berezner)
1995 — “Multiple Exposures: Ukrainian Photography Today”, Rutgers Art Center, Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA
1997 — “The Art of Contemporary Photography in Eastern Europe”, Museum Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
1999 — “The Exhibition of the Ukrainian Art”, Museum of modern Russian Art, New Jersey, USA
1999 — “Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov”, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2000 — “Фото и Видео. Харьков – 1960 – 90е / Photo and Video. Kharkiv — 1960 — 90s”, “Soviart” contemporary art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Andrii Avdieienko and Tetiana Pavlova)
2000 — Museum of contemporary Ukrainian art, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 — “Проект: Музей Фотографии / Project: Photography Museum”, Kharkiv municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator — Tetiana Pavlova)
2002 — “Культурний герой / Cultural Hero”, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2003 — “Kharkiv Photography”, Arsenal municipal gallery, Poznan, Poland
2003 — “Перша колекція / First Collection”, Central House of Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 — “Фотография 70-х годов / ’70s Photography”, International biennale of photography gallery, “Гончари” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 — “A Touring Ukrainian Photography Exhibit from Kharkiv ‘Dialogue: Mentors and their Students”, Elkins exhibition hall, Cincinnati, USA (curator — Bill Devis)
2004 — “Fotograficy z Charkowa”, Arsenał municipal gallery, Poznan, Poland (curator — Tatyana Tumasyan)
2004 — “Фотоэстафета: от Родченко до наших дней”, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia (curators — Yurii Rybchynskyi and Eduard Hladkov)
2005 — “Photography from Ukraine,” West Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
2007 — Eastern European Festival, Art museum, Cincinnati, USA
2008-2009 — “Behind Walls – Eastern Europe before and beyond 1989”, as a part of Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (curator—Wim Melis)
2011—“The Drawing Lessons: Ukrainian Photography”, International festival of photography PIP, Pingyao, China (curator—Misha Pedan and Irina Chmyrova)
2012 — “Perestroika, Liberalization and Experimentation (1980s-2010)”, FotoFest 2012 Biennale, Houston, USA (curator—Iryna Chmyrova, Irina Chmyrova, Evgeny Berezner, Natalia Tarasova)
2012 — “Харківська школа фотографії. Уроки малювання. Українська фотографія. 1890 – 2010 рр. / Kharkiv School of Photography. Drawing Lessons. Ukrainian Photography. 1890 — 2010”, the First Kyiv Biennial of Contemporary Art “Arsenale-2012”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator—Misha Pedan and Irina Chmyrova)
2013 — “Акт неповиновения. Тело как протест в харьковской фотографии 1970-2010 гг. / Act of Disobedience. Body as a Protest in Kharkiv Photography of 1970s-2010s”, Lumiere brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia (curator – Katerina Zuyeva)
2014 — “Biografie II – Wir,” Fotogalerie Wien, Viena, Austria (curators—Elke Krasny, Susanne Gamauf)
2015 — “Харьковская школа фотографии: от советской цензуры к новой эстетике / Kharkiv Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” (part IІ), municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator—Igor Manko)
2017 — “Харків. 18+ / Kharkiv. 18+” Odesa//Batumi Photo Days 2017, Museum of Modern art of Odesa, Odesa, Ukraine (curator—Sergiy Lebedynskyy)
2017 — “Un homme chapitre VI. La Mer Noire,” Romanian cultural institute, Paris, France (curator—Camilo Racana)
2017 — “Песня о буревестнике. Краткий курс / The Song of Petrel”, V Odesa biennale, Odesa, Ukraine, Ukraine (curator—Tatyana Tumasyan)
2017 — “Місто ХА. Харків Авангардний: Проект-дослідження / City of KhA. Avant-garde Kharkiv: Research Project”, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Харків (curators—Tatyana Tumasyan, Sergiy Bratkov)
2017 — “Дослідницька платформа: Анонімне суспільство / Research Platform: Anonymous Society”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator—Tetiana Kochubinska)
2017 — “Український архетип / Ukrainian Archetype”, Photo Kyiv 2017 fair, “Торонто-Kyiv” complex, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 — “École photographique de Kharkiv”, MOCA Kherson, Kherson, Ukraine (куратор—Victoria Bavykina)
2018 — “Політика тіла. Харківська фотографія із колекції родини Гриньових / Body Politics. Kharkiv School of Photography from the Collection of Grynovs Family”, “Maslo gallery, Khmelnytskyi, “Jump” gallery, Poltava, “Паланок” palace, “СлободаКульт” art forum, Mukachevo, Ukraine
2018 — “Швидкорозчинний час / Instant Time”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 — “Харківська школа фотографії з колекції сім’ї Гриньових / Kharkiv School of Photography from the Collection of Grynovs Family”, Mironova Foundation gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator—Victoria Bavykina)
2019 — “Palette of Pain,” Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Expo Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia (curator—Roman Pyatkovka)
2019 — “UPHA Made in Ukraine,” AKT art space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators—Victoria Bavykina, Maksim Horbatskiy, Yarolsav Solop, art director—Misha Buksha)
2019 — “Перетинаючи межу / Crossing lines”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators—Björn Geldhof, Martin Kiefer, Alicia Knock)
2019 — “Перетинаючи межу / Crossing Lines”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators—Björn Geldhof, Martin Kiefer, Alicia Knock)
2021 — “Автор у грі / Artist in the Game”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curators—Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Oleksandra Osadcha, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk)
2021 — “Відкрита можливість / An Open Opportunity” M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators—Oleksandr Soloviov, Viktoria Bavykina)
2021 — “Чутливість / Sensitivity”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine, (curators—Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov)
2021 — “Blowing the Medium: the Kharkiv School of Photography”, as a part of Kharkiv Year in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic (curator—Oleksandra Osadcha)
2021 — “Наші в Помпіду / Ours at Pompidou”, Henryk Siemiradzki Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator—Marina Konieva)
2022 — “Once Upon the War in Kharkiv”, Galerie nomade Alexandra De Viveiros, Paris, France (curator — Alexandra De Viveiros-Kalinina)
2022 — “Ukraine. Une donation contemporaine. Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odessa”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2022 — “You Know That You Are Human @ POINTS of RESISTANCE V”, Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany (curator — Kateryna Filiuk)
2022 — “Ukraine: The Path to Freedom”, Noorderlicht Photography Foundation, Groningen, Netherlands (curators — Kateryna Radchenko, Wim Melis)
2023 — “Home. Ukrainian Photography”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (curators — Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi)
2023 — “Ukrainian Dreamers. Kharkiv School of Photography”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (curator — Sergiy Lebedynskyy)
2023 — “Les facettes de la liberté”, Centre Culturel d’Ukraine en France, Paris, France (curator — Marina Koneva)
2024 — “Generations of Resilience”, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (curator — Kateryna Radchenko)
2024 — “Ukrainian Dreamers. Kharkiv School of Photography”, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany (curator — Sergiy Lebedynskyy)
Monographs, scientific papers
Pavlova, Tetiana. “Ukrainian photography 1970-2000”. In The History of European Photography, Т. ІІІ. Ed. – Václav Macek and others. Vienna-Bratislava: The Central European House of Photography, 2014, 765-791.
Szerszeń, Tomasz. “Selfie with my Wife”. View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, no. 13 (2016). http://pismowidok.org/index.php/one/article/view/406/796.
Павлова, Тетяна [Pavlova, Tetiana]. Авангард в образотворчому мистецтві Харкова ХХ ст.: Doctoral habilitation thesis, Lviv, 2018. https://lnam.edu.ua/files/Academy/nauka/specrada/Rozklad/26.03/Pavlova%20Dissertation%20Text%20%20Albom.pdf.
Павлова, Тетяна [Pavlova, Tetiana]. Фотомистецтво в художній культурі Харкова останньої третини ХХ ст. (на матеріалі пейзажного жанру). PhD thesis, Kharkiv, 2007.
Стигнеев, Валерий, Михалкович Валентин [Styhneiev, Valerii, Mykhalkovych Valentyn]. Поэтика фотографии. Moscow: Искусство, 1989.
Photo books
Pavlov, Evgeniy. Home Life Book. Kharkiv: Grafprom, 2014.
Pavlov, Evgeniy. Violin. Kyiv: Родовід, 2018.
Павлов, Євгеній [Pavlov, Evgeniy]. Тотальна фотографія. Kyiv: ArtHuss, 2016.
Catalogue
Behind Walls, Eastern Europe before 1989. Amsterdam: Idea Books Publication, 2008.
Contemporary Russian Photography: Houston Fotofest 2012. Houston, 2012.
The Drawing Lessons. Ukrainian Photography. 1980-2010s: Catalogue of International Pingyao Photography Festival. Pingyao, 2011.
Ukrainian Erotic Photography. Kyiv: Основи, 2017.
Фотоэстафета: От Родченко до наших дней: каталог. Moscow: Музей “Московский Дом фотографии”, 2006.
Rosengren, Annette. Fotografi tran Harkov i Ukraina, CCCR: B. Mihailov, S. Bratkov, V. Krei, J. Pavlov, M. Pedan, R. Pjatkovka. Stockholm, 1990.
Павлова, Тетяна [Pavlova, Tetiana]. “‘Інше небо’ Євгенія Павлова та Володимира Шапошникова”. In Від серця до серця. Мистецька акція: альбом. Kharkiv: ХДАДМ, Колорит, 2004.
Periodicals
Findsen, Owen. “Art Notes”. The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 15 (1991).
Findsen, Owen. “Putting Soviet Enigma in Focus”. The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 20 (1991).
Ilyushina, Tatiana. “Pejsaj s Figuratana Hudojnika”. Blgarske Foto, no. 11 (1987).
Krasny, Elke. “Biografie II – Wir”. В Bilder Fotogalerie Wien, no. 278 (2014).
Kupinska, Anna. “Olexandr Balahura: We Are Watching Both a Film and a Theatrical Play at Once”. http://docudays.ua/eng/2013/news/intervyu/balahura_interview/.
Manko, Igor. “The Kharkiv School of Fine Art Photography”. http://vjic.org/vjic2/?page_id=3352.
Pavlova, Tatiana. “The Realm of Flora”. Imago, no. 12 (2001).
Zimmer, William. “Ukrainian Photos, Rich and Raw”. The New York Times, July 23 (1995).
Бурлака, Виктория [Burlaka, Viktoriia]. “Опыты позитивного мышления”. Зеркало недели, no. 24 (2000).
Володимирова, Татьяна [Volodymyrova, Tetyana]. “Пейзаж з фігурою художника”. Новини кіноекрана, no. 10 (1988).
Глезер, Александр [Hlezer, Oleksandr]. “Украина в русском музее Джерси-Сити”. В новом свете, May 21-27 (1999).
Ильюшина, Татьяна [Iliushyna, Tatiana]. “Пейзаж с фигурой художника”. Советское фото, no. 11 (1990): 16-22.
Ілюшина, Тетяна [Iliushyna, Tetiana]. “Тотальна фотографія”. Ревю Фотографія, no. 1 (1996).
Ляпин, Александр [Liapyn, Oleksandr]. “Общее поле искусства”. День, April 9 (1997).
Сидор-Гибелинда, Oлег [Sydor-Hybelinda, Oleh]. “Тело как улика”. Столичные новости, no. 20 (2005).
Советское фото, no. 04 (1989): back cover.
Советское фото, no. 07 (1989): cover.
Советское фото, no. 08 (1989): 49.
Фотография, no. 03 (1994): 21.
Пригодич, Надежда [Pryhodich, Nadiia]. “Группа ‘Время’ – Теория удара”. 5,6, no. 7 (2012). http://issuu.com/magazine56/docs/7-2012?e=7379796/2620928.
Interviews, onlin publications
Akage, Anna. “From Ukraine: The Time of Yevgeniy Pavlov”. The Eye of Photography, 2018. https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/from-ukraine-the-time-of-yevgeniy-pavlov-bb/.
Pavlova, Tatiana. “Late 1960s to 1980s – The Vremya Group’s Time”. http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/ukraine-1/index.php.
Купінська, Анна [Kupinska, Anna]. “‘Час життя об’єкта в кадрі’ – кіноексперимент на межі фантазії та реальності”. Українська правда, December 16 (2012). https://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2012/12/11/117467/.
Павлова, Татьяна [Pavlova, Tatyana]. “Веер в кулаке”. Галерея, 2005. http://soviart.com.ua/artjournal/arch/num21/a16_u.html.
Павлова, Тетяна [Pavlova, Tetyana]. “До історії харківської школи фотографії: група ‘Время’ ”. Korydor: журнал про сучасну культуру, 2019. http://www.korydor.in.ua/ua/context/11657.html.
Рупин, Юрий [Rupin, Yurii]. Дневник фотографа в архивах КГБ. 2008. http://samlib.ru/r/rupin_j_k/dnewnikfotografawarhiwahkgb.shtml.
Рупин, Юрий [Rupin, Yurii]. Дневник фотографа. 2007. http://samlib.ru/r/rupin_j_k/dnevnik_fotografa-2.shtml.
Сандуляк, Алина [Sanduliak, Alina]. “Харьковская школа фотографии: Евгений Павлов”. Art Ukraine, 2015. http://artukraine.com.ua/a/kharkovskaya-shkola-fotografii–evgeniy-pavlov/#.WFRAyoo2vGg.
Шебетко, Антон [Shebetko, Anton]. “Евгений Павлов: ‘Жизнь круче самых богатых фантазий’ ”. Bird in flight, October 18, 2016. https://birdinflight.com/ru/portret/20161018-eugeniy-pavlov-interview-harkovskaya-shkola-photographiyi.html.
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