Artwork information
- Author
- Igor Chekachkov
- Project
- Ternopilska 8 str.
- Name
- Untitled
- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- C-print
- Dimensions
- 21 × 29,7 cm
- Provenance
- The photographer's private archive
- Catalog number
- CHEI-14
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About the artist
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Igor Chekachkov (b. 1989, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian photographer and educator from Kharkiv. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and a master’s degree in Art History from Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. In 2022, he received a Chevening Scholarship to study in the MA program “Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts” at Goldsmiths, University of London. He lives and works in London.
He has been involved in photography since 2008, beginning as a photojournalist covering cultural, public, and sporting events before transitioning to fine art photography. From 2017 to 2022, he headed the Chekachkov Photo Academy at the COME IN Gallery, creating an important educational platform in the city. His work explores the boundaries between public and private spaces, as well as the impact of digital technologies and algorithms on imagery. Following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, his practice has focused on themes of Ukrainian identity and the rethinking of the concept of home.
His work has been published in international media outlets such as Forbes, National Geographic, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and The Economist. Chekachkov’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including Mystetskyi Arsenal, Ukrainian Museum, Odesa Photo Days, Photo Elysée, Fisheye Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and Stills Gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 — “Daily Lives”, COME IN Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2015 — “Daily Lives”, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
2016 — “Деконструкция / Deconstruction”, Art Basement of the S. Vasylkivsky Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2018 — “NA4JOPM8”, COME IN Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2018 — exhibition with Polina Polikarpova, within the framework of the “SlobodaKult” festival, Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2019 — “NA4JOPM8”, Le Mur Photo Gallery, within the framework of HYBRID Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
2021 — “Виробництво снів, або Що пропонує сучасна медіа-машина / The Production of Dreams, or What the Modern Media Machine Offers” (together with Mstyslav Chernov), Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 — “Igor Chekachkov: Daily Lives of Displaced”, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France
2024 — “Leaving Home”, within the framework of Interphoto Festival, Białystok, Poland
2025 — “Happy Days”, Open Eye Gallery Digital Window, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2026 — “Daily Lives of the Displaced”, British Residence, Brussels, Belgium
2026 — “100 Days of War”, Leneuf Sinibaldi Gallery, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2014 — “Послевчера / The Day Before Yesterday”, Tea Factory Experimental Center of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine (curator — Olga Lannik)
2014 — “Young Talent” category, within the framework of the La Quatrième Image competition, Paris, France
2015 — “Ukraine 24: War and Peace”, Ukrainian Museum, New York, USA
2016 — “Сегодня ночью / Tonight”, Art Basement of the S. Vasylkivsky Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 — “/Berlin,/”, Art Area DK, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 — “Завтра сьогодні / Tomorrow Today”, within the framework of the International Festival Odesa // Batumi Photo Days, Odesa Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine (curator — Kevin WY Lee)
2018 — “Empty Pedestal”, Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris, France; Lovaas, Munich, Germany (curator — Oleksandr Mykhed)
2018 — “IGOR CHEKACHKOV & SINGUL.AR”, within the framework of the Festival Donaube Dialogs, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018 — “SKIP INTRO”, EEP Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 — “Анатомія симулякра / Anatomy of Simulacrum,” as a part of XI platform “Новітні спрямування,” Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Andrii Sydorenko, Oleksandra Khalepa)
2018 — “Проще, чем хештег / Simpler than a Hashtag”, within the framework of Museum Night 2018, Art Area DK, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2018 — “Швидкорозчинний час / Fast-Dissolving Time”, “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (Olena Afanasieva, Max Afanasiev, Viktoriia Bavykina, Anatolii Zvizhynskyi, Max Kovalchuk, Anastasiia Nechyporenko, Andrii Palash, Nadiia Pryhodich, Kateryna Rusetska, Kateryna Semeniuk, Tolik Tatarenko, Asya Tsisar)
2018 — Eyes on Main Street Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival, Wilson, USA
2019 — “Eyes on Ukraine: Five Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers”, CEPA Gallery Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts Center, New York, USA
2019 — “Eyes on Ukraine”, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
2019 — “Palette of Pain”, Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Expo Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia (curator — Roman Pyatkovka)
2019 — “Uglification”, MetaCulture, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 — “UPHA Made in Ukraine”, AKT Art Space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Viktoriia Bavykina, Maksym Horbatskyi, Yaroslav Solop; art director — Misha Buksha)
2019 — “Сліпа пляма / Blind Spot”, within the framework of the International Festival Odesa Photo Days, Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa, Ukraine (curators — Songte Jong and Kateryna Radchenko)
2021 — “Чутливість / Sensitivity”, “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Oleksandr Soloviov, Solomiia Savchuk, Maksym Horbatskyi)
2021 — Interphoto Festival, Białystok, Poland
2022 — “#Ukraine. Images of War”, Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2022 — “CHWILA. Bardzo długi czas”, Galeria Zajazdu, Dworek Białoprądnicki Cultural Centre, Kraków, Poland
2022 — “Спалах. Українська фотографія сьогодні / Flash. Ukrainian Photography Today”, National Cultural Centre “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Oleksandr Soloviov)
2023 — “Alarming Beauty”, Fisheye Gallery, Paris, France (curator — Camille Leprince)
2023 — “HOME: Perspectives”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom (curators — Maksym Horbatskyi, Viktoriia Bavykina)
2024 — “HOME: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words”, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; Turnpike Gallery, Wigan, United Kingdom (curators — Maksym Horbatskyi, Viktoriia Bavykina)
2024 — “Перше необхідне / The First Necessary”, Culture Pavilion, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Sonya Kvasha and Isabella van Marle)
2025 — “Die transgressive Kraft des Kummers / La puissance transgressive du chagrin”, Institut français – French Embassy, Berlin, Germany (curator — Camille Leprince)
2025 — “HOME: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words”, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom (curators — Maksym Horbatskyi, Viktoriia Bavykina)
2025 — “Tu i Tam / Here and There”, Bradford City of Culture, Bradford, United Kingdom (curators — Tim Smith, Marta Szymańska)
2025 — “Мистецтво після 2000-го. Глосарій / Art after 2000. Glossary”, National Cultural Centre “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Tetiana Kochubinska, Valerii Sakharuk, Oleksandr Soloviov, Kateryna Tsykalo)
2026 — “Home: Perspective”, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway (curators — Maksym Horbatskyi, Viktoriia Bavykina)
2026 — “Ukrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography”, Radziwiłł Palace Museum of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania (curators — Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Boris and Vita Mikhailov, Darius Vaičekauskas, Olena Chervonik, Oleksandra Osadcha)
Online publications
Chekachkov, Igor. “Estes veteranos lutaram pela URSS, pela Rússia e pela Ucrânia”. Publico, 9 June 2015.https://www.publico.pt/2015/06/09/p3/fotogaleria/estes-veteranos-lutaram-pela-urss-pela-russia-e-pela-ucrania-385139#.
Schmitz, Carole. “The Questionnaire : Igor Chekachkov by Carole Schmitz”. The Eye of Photography, 11 March 2026. https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-questionnaire-igor-chekachkov-by-carole-schmitz/.
“Reinvent the everyday: photo project of Igor Chekachkov”. Ukraïner, 5 November 2022.https://www.ukrainer.net/en/photo-project-igor-chekachkov/.
Zhang, Izabela Radwanska, “For the Record: Ukrainian photographer Igor Chekachkov on identity in crisis”. British Journal of Photography, 7 March 2022. https://www.1854.photography/2022/03/for-the-record-ukrainian-photographer-igor-chekachkov-on-identity-in-crisis/.
“Ukrainian photographer Igor Chekachov’s visual diary”. Financial Times Magazine, 26 березня 2026. https://www.ft.com/content/210db4cf-ce72-4f25-b369-5ae63ae8b84b.
Баштовий, Андрій [Bashtovyi, Andrii]. “Камера спостереження: Ігор Чекачков знімає Харків”. Village, 26 October 2017. https://www.village.com.ua/village/city/street-photo/264041-chekachov-kharkiv.
Бліндюк, Марія [Blindiuk, Mariia]. “Випадкові алгоритми. Як фотограф Ігор Чекачков переосмислює цифрову фотографію”. Суспільна Культура, 10 January 2022. https://suspilne.media/culture/193977-vipadkovi-algoritmi-ak-fotograf-igor-cekackov-pereosmislue-cifrovu-fotografiu/.
Леонова, Анастасія [Leonova, Anastasiia]. “Ми з тобою однієї крові”. Bird in Flight, 27 September 2020.https://birdinflight.com/nathnennya-2/project-uk/20220927-mi-z-toboyu-odniyeyi-krovi-chekachkov.html.
Михед, Александр [Mykhed, Oleksandr]. “Искаженная панорама родной земли”. Bird in Flight, 7 October 2020.https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/20201007-iskazhennaya-panorama-chekachkov.html.
Носко, Катерина [Nosko, Kateryna]. “Игорь Чекачков: ‘Мне бы не хотелось говорить о фотографии отвлеченно’”. YourArt, 29 November 2019. https://supportyourart.com/conversations/chekachkov/.
Щебетко, Антон [Shchebetko, Anton]. “Стіл переговорів: Підуст і Чекачков про сучасні техніки та фотографічну освіту”. Bird in Flight, 3 September 2021. https://birdinflight.com/nathnennya-2/dosvid/stol-peregovorov-pidust-i-chekachkov-o-sovremennyh-tehnikah-i-fotograficheskom-obrazovanii.html.
Щелканова, Віталія [Shchelkanova, Vitaliia]. “Игорь Чекачков: ‘Для меня фотогарфия очень похожа на хокку’”. Korydor, 5 May 2019. https://korydor.in.ua/ua/opinions/igor-chekachkov-dlya-menya-fotografiya-ochen-pohozha-na-hokku.html.
Catalogues and photobooks
Незалежні. Історія сучасної України у світлинах кращих документалістів. Kyiv: Ваш авторграф, 2021.
СПАЛАХ. Українська фотографія 2022-2023. Kyiv: Український дім, 2024. Published on the occasion of “СПАЛАХ. Українська фотографія 2022-2023” exhibition at the National Cultural Centre “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023.
Chekachkov, Igor. NA4JOPM8. Kharkiv: ist publishing, 2021.
Chekachkov, Igor. The Mayor’s Funeral. Kharkiv: MOKSOP, 2025.
Ukrainian erotic photography. Kyiv: Основи, 2017.
UPHA Made in Ukraine. Kyiv: BOOKSHA Publishing, 2021. Published on the occasion of “UPHA Made in Ukraine ” exhibition at the AKT Art Space, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
War Chronicles: Ukraine 2014- 2025. Montpellier: FotoEvidence, 2025.
Works of the artist
