About
Nikolay Karabinovych (born 1988, Odesa, Ukraine) The artist works in a variety of media, including video, sound, text, and performance. 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 2020 and 2018, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize. Featured Solo Exhibitions: “Why do you stand at the door?“, Belgium Jewish Museum, Brussels, “Eastern Union”, Hunt Kastner gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, (2022) “Vukojebina”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, (2021), Archive of random rendezvous. Department of sadness. Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, (2020), “From Sea to Sea”, Hit Gallery, Bratislava, (2019).
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Selected CV
Education:
2019-2020 Higher Institute for Fine Arts HISK, Gent, Belgium
2019 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2006-2011 National University Mechnikov, Department of Philosophy. Odesa, Ukraine
2005-2006 Odessa National Polytechnic University, Odesa, Ukraine
Select Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Estern Union, Hunt Kastner gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2022 Why do you stand at the door? Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2021 The store of broken magic inoperable things, (N.J.K.), Hoast, Vienna, Austria
2021 Vukojebina, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Become never, Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
2020 Archive of random rendezvous. Department of sadness. Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Sweet Pit, (curated by Ksenia Malykh), Maslo, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
2019 Herzliya caves (N.J.K.), Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
2019 From Sea to Sea, (curated by Lýdia Pribišová), Hit Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 It seemed that something would happen, Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine
Select Group Exhibitions:
2022 UNITED, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Worth fighting for, Campus M, Cologne, Germany
2022 Re-spirit/ Trans-spirit Collective Exhibition for SAW 2022, ReBonkers, Varna, Bulgaria
2022 4th Ukrainian contemporary art triennial „Ukrainian Cross-Section 2022. UKRAINE! UNMUTED“, Kaunas central post office, Kaunas, Lithuania
2022 Ukraine. Under a Different Sky, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
2022 Artist know better, Dallas Art Fair Projects, Dallas, U.S.A
2022 Loin du Centre, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2022 Just like Arcadia, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Yiddishland pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2022 Small and Big Stories, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Ein Brief von der Front, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden / Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2022 Art as a Critical Attitude, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Poetry and Perfomance: The Eastern European Perspective, Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine
2021 Kyiv Biennial Allied, House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Violence: all against you, Dzherelo, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Sonsbeek Quadrennial, “Conjunctions”, Arnhem, Netherlands
2021 New Songs for Old Cities, Netwerk Aalst, Alst, Belgium
2020 In a Long Blink of an Eye, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Bruederschaft, Online
2020 Swan Song, Sofia Art week, Bitaka, Sofia, Bulgaria
2020 Spring In The Jozef Bem Housing Estate, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2020 WHOmanity, Amsterdam ferry festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Winter Solstice Festival, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Today We Will Invent the Nations, Kmytiv museum of Soviet art, Kmytiv, Ukraine
2019 Scenography as a place of longing, KunstQuartier, Salzburg, Austria
2019 Construction, Dnipro, Ukraine
2019 Open Studios, Hisk, Gent, Belgium
2019 Ain’t nobody’s business, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Fragile State, Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine
2018 The SWAP: Toxteth TV, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2018 Ukraine: Learning From a Good Neighbour 1918-2018, Pasinger-fabrik, Munich, Germany
2018 Polylog, Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine
2018 The Human Condition, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia
2018 Shelter Festival-Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2018 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Curated projects:
2022 Ukrainian for beginners, Tic Tac, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 How To Set Your Signs On Fire (together with Sophia Bulgakova), w139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Anton Shebetko: Ditya Poroka, Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
2021 David Chichkan: Alternativ Hrivna, Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
2021 Stanislav Kholodnykh: The future has a silver lining!, Noch, Odesa, Ukraine
Performances:
2021 Faf and Tsalar honoring, w/Insitute for Mastering of Time, Galeria Foco, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Lipa, (NJK), Bohdana, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Was ist jüdische Musik? Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
2019 Ways of suicide by flag, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Archive of random rande vouz, Tic Tac, Antwerp, Belgium
Conference presentations / Discussions / Workshops:
2022 Future for everyone, Polish Pavilion at Venice Biennale, Italy
2022 When Language Is Lost: Possibilities of Art in the Face of War, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 Temporal Communities, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany
2022 The sky is getting closer, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France
2022 What is Enlightenment?, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
2022 Artist talk, Maia Muller Gallery, Paris
2022 Kino Ukraina, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Artist talk, Tic Tac, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Ukraine: Even Further with artist Nikolay Karabinovych, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
2022 Political emancipation of artistic practices in Ukraine, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (online)
2022 En solidarité avec l’Ukraine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2022 Report: the seams are starting to crack, alas. Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine
2021 Popit, Bataille, Vukojebina, Simple Dimple, Mamonov and dance with the wolves, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 International Panoram, Green theatre, Odesa, Ukraine
2021 In the beginning there was a rhythm, Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 The possibilities of individual storytelling, workshop in collaboration with Salaam Cinema Baku, Azerbaijan
2020 On Sergui’s Bratkov practice, Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine (online)
2020 Everything is true: on the narrative construction, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Introduction to unknown, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 In conversation with Ksenia Malykh, Maslo, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
2019 Diskusia s Nikolayom Karabinovychom, VŠVU, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 In conversation with Nikita Kadan, Green theater, Odesa, Ukraine
2019 (In)visible bodies: gender, sexuality and cultural institutions, Mimosa House, London, United Kingdom
2018 Artist talk, The John Lennon Art & Design Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2018 Aman, Aman!, Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Sound and Conflict, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Residencies:
2022 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2021 Donumenta, Regensburg, Germany
2021 Space 1520, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2021 From the deluge to the meltdown; life processes and feedback loops by Julieta Aranda, Stacion, Prishtina, Kosovo
2020 The Shofar School by Yael Bartana, Online
2019 Forum Regionum, Dnepr, Ukraine
2019 The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy, Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 The SWAP: UK/Ukraine Residency Programme, Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom
Awards and nominations:
2022 President of Ukraine one year stipend for young artists
2020, 2018 First Special Prize of Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Finalist of MUHI (Young Ukrainian artists) prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
Art initiatives:
Odesa Biennale
Kunsthalle Lustdorf
Neue Judische Kunst
NOCH artist run space
Public Collections:
M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine
IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotenberg, Belgium
Friends of S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium
Private collections: (Belgium, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, The Netherlands, France)
Kindly supported by Asylum arts