Solo exhibitions

2012 — “Nails”, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

2013 — “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol”, Lviv, Ukraine

2013 — “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol”, as a part of Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland

2014 — “Les Amours Imaginaries”, Odesa Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine, Closer space, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014 — “Military Commissariat”, Estudio Ñ, Valdivia, Chili

2014 — “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol”, Fiebre gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014 — “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol”, as a part of Off_Festival Bratislava 2014 festival, Bratislava. Slovakia

2015 — “Les Amours Imaginaries”, as a part of Landskrona Fotofestival, Landskrona, Sweden

2017 — “PLAYDAY”, “FACE” foundation /Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017 — “Behind the Scenes”, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Trzecie Oko Gallery gallery, Krakow, Poland

2017 — “Behind the Scenes”/Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017″, as a part of Paris Photo 2017, Paris, France

2018 — “Behind The Scenes”, Claude Samuel gallery, Paris, France

2018 — “Behind the scenes”, European month of photography, Michalský dvor gallery, Bratislava. Slovakia

2018 — “Loneliness online”, SomoS gallery, Berlin, Germany

2018 — “Only Now Only Never”, FACE foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 — “Sztuka w dialogu”, Piekno Panie gallery, Lublin, Poland

2019 — “From Dusk Till Dawn”, f22 foto space, Hong Kong, China

2019 — “Шваренеггер — мій кумир”, COME IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2019 — Leica gallery, London, Great Britain

2020 — “Young and free”, Leica 6×7 gallery, Warsaw, Poland (curator — Adam Mazur)

 

 

Group exhibitions

2012 — “Cult of the Body” (UPHA — Ukrainian Photographic Alternative exhibition), Leisure gallery, London, Great Britain (curator — Misha Pedan)

2012 — First International Cinema Festival, Sevastopol, Ukraine

2012 — First International Art Festival, Odesa, Ukraine

2013 — “Золота Камера 2012”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 — “Фотограф року 2012”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 — “Ежемесячный платёж / Кумиры”, Vita Buivid’s studio, Moscow, Russia

2013 — “Поклик до архівації”, as a part of “Візії” festival,  “Kyiv Fortress” Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 — London Analogue Festival, London, Great Britain

2013 — launching “Posterjunkies”, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013 — together with “Взгляд” group, Chernihiv, Ukraine

2013 — II International Cinema Festival, Sevastopol, Ukraine

2014 — “A Process”, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany

2014 — “The Aesthetic Of Man”, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 — “Ukrainian Women Complex”, Odesa, Ukraine

2014 — “UPHA в Одессе: Послевчера” (UPHA — Ukrainian Photographic Alternative exhibition), Odesa, Ukraine

2014 — “Вина”, as a part of Non Stop Media VІІ festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2014 — “Внутренняя Украина”, as a part of Terra Futura XIII festival, Kherson, Ukraine

2014 — “Даже не мечтай!”, IV Moscow biennale of youth art, Moscow, Russia

2014 — “Еволюція”, Uzhorod, Ukraine

2014 — “Особисте / Політичне”, as a part of Art-Kyiv Contemporary IХ festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Oleksandra Nabiieva)

2014 — “Український зігафолк”, Bereznitsky Project gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Andrii Sihuntsov and Nazar Sheshuriak)

2014 — “Терор малих відмінностей”, Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2014 — London Analogue Festival, London, Great Britain

2015 — “Love and War in Ukraine”, Panoptikon Fotografins hus, Stockholm, Sweden (curator — Misha Pedan)

2015 — “Mama, I’ve Just Killed A Man”, Erratum gallery, Berlin, Germany

2015 — “Part 4” (разом з Романом Пятковкою), Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

2015 — “Гра в реальність”, as a part of GogoFest, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015 — “Зато Любов”, “Соус” gallery, Kherson, Ukraine

2015 — “Подія” (together Andrii Konontsev), Zlin, Czech Republic

2015 — “Slideluck Show”, Oakland, California, США

2015 — “Ukrainian Photography: In Progress”, as a part of Odessa//Batumi Photo Days 2015, Odesa, Ukraine

2015 — “Гібридна реальність”, Modern Art Research Institute of National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Kseniia Lytvynenko)

2015 — Feira Morta V, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 — winner’s exhibition of Photo Annual Awards 2015, Teplice, Czech

2015 — shortlist of PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2016 — “Pasa Página: Zilele Carții de Artist la Chișinău / Days of the Artist´s Book”, Chișinău, Moldova

2016 — “The Smell Of Dust”, as a part of Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France

2016 — Freierfest, Odesa, Ukraine

2017 — “Photographie Contemporaine d’Ukraine”, Centre Culturel d’Ukraine En France, Paris, France

2017 — “The Smell Of Dust III”, Sao Paolo, Brasil

2017 — exhibition of two winning projects of “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017”, as a part of Photolux Festival, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

2017 — Little Odessa gallery, Paris, France

2017 — screening of “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017″, as a part of Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France

2018 — “DEBUTS episode 2”, Sopot Photography Festival, Sopot, Poland

2018 — “DEBUTS episode 3”, as a part of Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2018 — “Off Limits pt.2”, as a part of Odesa Photo Days, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

2018 — “Off Limits pt.3”, as a part of Odesa Photo Days Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 — “Off Limits”, as a part of Odesa Photo Days Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 — “Sensitive Surface 2.0”, Vasli Souza photogallery, Olso, Norway

2018 — “So sweet Ukraine”, screening in the programme of Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon, South Korea

2018 — “So sweet Ukraine”, screening in the programme of International Photography Symposium. NIDA2018, Nida, Lithuania

2018 — “Transeúntes”, as a part of Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France

2018 — “Travel, Discovery, Aesthetics and Photography”, as a part of International İzmir Photo Days, İzmir, Turkey

2018 — “Fototeca Siracusana Estate Fotografia”, as a part of Med Photo Fest, Syracuse, Italy

2018 — Alghero Street Photography Awards Festival, Alghero, Italy

2018 — Batumi Photo Days, Batumo, Georgia

2018 — exhibition of winners of Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017, as a part of Fotofestiwal Lodz –, Poland, Łdk gallery, Lodz, Poland

2018 — exhibition of winners of Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017, Leica gallery, Wetzlar and Berlin, Germany

2018 — Millerntor Gallery #8, Hamburg, Germany

2018 — International contest “Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2018”, Tbilisi, Georgia

2018 — photoscreening Night, “Tsekh” gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018 — Maribor photography festival, Maribor, Slovenia

2019 — “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now”, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria

2019 — “DEBUTS episode 4”, as a part of Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland

2019 — “Love, Lust & Fury”, Klaipeda CCC, Klaipeda, Lithuania (curator — Darius Vaičekauskas, co-curator — Galyna Gleba)

2019 — “Through the Lens: Unbending Life”, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago, USA

2019 — “UPHA IN DA OFFICE”, office of “Starlight media”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019 — “face2face exhibition” (together with MYPH collective), “8 Причал” space, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

2019 — “UPHA Made in Ukraine”, AKT art space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Victoria Bavykina, Maksim Horbatskiy, Yarolsav Solop, art director — Misha Buksha)

2019 — “Інверсія пам’яті”, Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019 — “Перетинаючи межу” (Crossing lines), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Björn Geldhof, Martin Kiefer, Alicia Knock)

2019 — “Daring youth – mostra fotografica”, Open Art Week, Museum Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy

2019 — “Политическое – как персональное. Персональное – как публичное”, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

2019 — Let us in: together, Paris, France (curators — Taras Sereda, Sebastien Lepev, Andrii Sihuntsov)

2019 — Second Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2019 — “The Body of Propaganda”, Latvian Museum o Photography, Riga, Latvia (curator — Katerina Radchenko)

2020 — “Chamber of:», Lou Carter gallery, Paris, France

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