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Nikolay Karabinovych (b. 1988, Odesa, Ukraine) works across various media such as video installation, performance, sound, and sculpture. In his artistic practice, Karabinovych addresses complex social (hi)stories, particularly those from the expanses of "Eastern Europe" combining them with personal family narratives. In his work, which questions notions of identity, belonging and exclusion, the artist often refers to music, which plays an important role in his practice. He revisits epochal songs, genres and personalities and uses their ability to illuminate a different era in a different climate or socio-political arena..

In 2020 he graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. Karabinovych was an assistant curator of the 5th Odesa Biennale. In 2022, 2020 and 2018, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize.

His work has been shown extensively at public institutions: HKW, Berlin; M UHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; MAXXI, Rome; Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Belgium Jewish Museum, Centre for Fine Arts Bozar, Brussels; w139, Amsterdam; Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw; and many others.

He has also participated at the Steirischer Herbst (2024), Kaunas Biennale (2023), the Kyiv Biennale (2023, 2021), Survival Kit (2023) and in parallel program of Venice Biennale (2024, 2022).