Artwork information

Name
Untitled
Year
2019
Dimensions
60x90 cm
Provenance
Photographer's private archive
Catalog number
SUBO-03(2019)
Inscription

inscription on the verso side “Elena Subach ‘Бабусі на грані Раю’ 2019 2/5 + 2 АР”

About the artist

Untitled

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” galleryCatowice, 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 (curatorsAndrij 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 (curatorsLizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Katerina Filiuk

2017—“Znani-nieznani. Fotografia lwowska po roku”, as a part of “Białystok Interphoto”, festival, Ludwik ZamenhofCentre, Bialystok, Poland (curatorsAndrij 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”, “Labiryntgallery, 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 (curatorsAnastasiia Yevsieieva, Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska, Borys Filonenko)

2019—FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

2019—Fotofestival Lodz, Lodz, Poland

2019—“Inny, Obcy, Swoi”,“Labiryntgallery, 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”,“Unseenplatform, 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, (curatorsMaksym 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 LandscapesLandscape 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 (curatorsKateryna 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 datehttps://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 datehttps://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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