Olena Subach
Olena Subach (b. 1980, Chervonohrad, Lviv Oblast) is a Ukrainian photographer. Studied economics at the Volyn State University, Lutsk. For several years lived in Kyiv, earning a living with textile design. Got interested in photography in 2011. Today resides in Lviv. Since 2012 Subach has been working on art projects together with Viacheslav Poliakov. Winner of theBird In Flight “New East Photo Prize” (Calvert Foudnation, 2016, London, UK) for the Meteorite Berdychiv project, nominee of the Future Talents 2019 (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Gaude Polonia fellow from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland in 2019.
Solo exhibitions:
2014—“Retablos de Galicia”, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2016—“Слід: Taxidermia / Trace : Taxidermia”, as a part of Periscope photographic initiative, Lviv, Ukraine
2018—“Субач / Поляков / Subach / Poliakov”, The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators—Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko)
2019—“City of Gardens”, “EEP Berlin” gallery, Berlin, Germany (curator—Maya Hristova)
2019—“Heroic Trip”, “Szara” gallery, Catowice, Poland (curator—Andrzej Tobis)
2020—“City of Gardens”, “Galerie 21 – im Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift”, Hamburg, Germany (curator—Jewgeni Roppel)
2020—“Žensko lice Zenice / Female face of Zenica”, as a part of “Urbanherstories” project, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2022—”Druh Druha / Друг друга”, Galeria Szara, Warsaw, Poland
Group exhibitons:
2016—“ПогранКульт: ГаліціяКульт / BorderCult: GaliciaCult”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2016—“Elementary Manipulation”,as a part of Ukrainian Week in Gdansk, Gdansk, Polamd
2016—screening, “The Boutographies”, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2017—“EASTSTREET 4“ photofestival, Centre for the Meeting of Cultures, Lublin, Poland
2017—“Knowns-Unknowns. Lviv’ photography after the year 2000”, “Białystok” festival, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok, Poland (curators— Andrij Bojarov, Magdalena Świątczak)
2017—“re_form“, Ostrale Biennale, Erlwein slaughterhouse, Dreseden, Germany (curators—Mykola Dzhychka/Ukraine, Oliver Kratz, Detlef Schweiger, Holger Wendland, Antka Hofmann, Andrea Hilger)
2017—Festival of Ukrainian Youth Art (topic—“Today, which has never come”), “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators— Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Katerina Filiuk)
2017—“Znani-nieznani. Fotografia lwowska po roku”, as a part of “Białystok Interphoto”, festival, Ludwik ZamenhofCentre, Bialystok, Poland (curators— Andrij Bojarov, Magdalena Świątczak)
2017—Festival of Ukrainian Youth Art (topic—“Today, which has never come”), “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators— Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Katerina Filiuk)
2018—“Tam gdzie teraz”, “Labirynt“ gallery, Польща
2018—“Ciruclations” festival, Paris, France
2018—exhibition of “New East Photo Prize” short list, Calvert Foundation, Londong, United Kingdom 2019—Second Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curators— Anastasiia Yevsieieva, Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska, Borys Filonenko)
2019—FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2019—Fotofestival Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2019—“Inny, Obcy, Swoi”,“Labirynt“ gallery, Lublin, Poland
2019—“Український зріз / Ukrainian Section”, at ІVTriennale of Contemporary art as a part of Cultural Congress “Перехід 1989” (topic—“Rituals of Transition”), tenement of Semiradsky, Lviv, Ukraine (curators— Serhii Petliuk, Vlodko Kaufman)
2019—“Ostlook platform: How to deal with history”, as a part of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia (curator—Jewgeni Roppel)
2019—“Поговорімо про модерність / Let’s Talk about Modernity”, as a part of the cicle of exhibitions “24H Extended”, «Jam Factory» art centre, Lviv, Ukraine (curators— Paulina Olszewska, Antek Burzyński)
2019 — “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now”, Semperdepot Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildendenKünste Wien, Vienna, Austria (curators — Alisa Lozhkina, Konstantin Akinsha)
2019—“Woven Matter”,“Unseen” platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020—“Staged Realities”, exhibition of “Ostlook Platform” (curator—Jewgeni Roppel) and “EEP Berlin” (curator—Maya Hristova), as a part of “Transcultural Festival Volksbühne Berlin”, Berlin, Germany
2021—“Чутливість / Sensitivity”, “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine, (curators—Maksym Gorbatskyi, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov)
2022—“In Ukraine”, Gallery at Dobbin Mews, New York, USA (curator—Ira Lupu and Fred Ritchin)
2022—“Slava Ukraini”, Czwartek gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2022—“Unfolding Landscapes—Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Art Centre SilkeborgBad, Silkeborg, Denmark (curator—Faye Dawling)
2022—“Ukraine. The Pass to Freedom”, Noorderlicht Photography Foundation, Groningen, Netherlands (curators—Kateryna Radchenko, Wim Melis)
2022—Photaumnales Diaphane Photo Festival, Église Saint-Etienne, Beauvais, Haut de France, France
Blanco, Alex. “Interview with Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov”. GUP Magazine, no date. https://gupmagazine.com/interview/interview-with-elena-subach-and-viacheslav-poliakov/?fbclid=IwAR1d1dSpHO20wIVbQbK9l6x7XWVdixjUaHPEI1dk98qgYeVTknZbJ47kGJM.
Bolwell, Sarah. “Elena Subach”. Burlington Contemporary, June 10, 2022. https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/articles/elena-subach.
Kinstler, Linda. “The Angels of Lviv”. The Atlantic, October, 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/elena-subach-photographs-ukraine-invasion/671240/.
Kozma, Leila. “Interview—Elena Subach: Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven”. Paper Journal, April 30, 2020. https://paper-journal.com/interview-elena-subach-grandmothers-on-the-edge-of-heaven/.
Premiyak, Liza. “Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov: post-industrial Silesia, but not as you know it”. Calvert Journal, November 23, 2018. https://gupmagazine.com/interview/interview-with-elena-subach-and-viacheslav-poliakov/?fbclid=IwAR1d1dSpHO20wIVbQbK9l6x7XWVdixjUaHPEI1dk98qgYeVTknZbJ47kGJM.
Premiyak. Liza. “Elena Subach compels us to imagine war beyond the frame”. The British Journal of Photography, July4, 2022. https://www.1854.photography/2022/07/elena-subac-compels-us-to-imagine-war-beyond-the-frame/.
“Photo Journal Monday: Elena Subach”. Musée Magazine, July 20, 2020. https://museemagazine.com/culture/2020/7/20/photo-journal-monday-elena-subach.
Rózyc, Marcin. “Ukraińskie artystki w czasie wojny”. Vogue Polska, March 03, 2022. https://www.vogue.pl/a/ukrainskie-artystki-w-czasie-wojny
Snoad, Laura. “Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap”. It’s Nice That, May 13, 2019. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/viacheslav-poliakov-lviv-gods-will-photography-180419.
Wright, Sophie. “City of Gardens”. Lens Culture, no date. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/viacheslav-poliakov-city-of-gardens?fbclid=IwAR1zUm99xqIzT_xAjoLZj3Blj0RC0Z1vU25RahK9x7zIvBgeV07Rwbh-nM8.
Лозицкий, Богдан [Lozytskyi, Bohdan]. “ Елена Субач: ‘Хорошая фотография — та, о которой жалеешь, что ее снял не ты’ ”. Bird in Flight, December 7, 2016. https://birdinflight.com/ru/portret/20161207-elena-subach-horoshaya-fotografiya-ta-o-kotoroj-zhaleesh-chto-snyal-ne-ty.html.
“Чай, кава, Дзвіниця. Олена Субач і В’ячеслав Поляков — у ‘Рівні цензури’”. Zaborona, no date. https://zaborona.com/chaj-kava-dzvinyczya-olena-subach-i-vyacheslav-polyakov-u-rivni-czenzury/.
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