Andriy Sydorenko
ANDRIY SYDORENKO
Artist, Curator, Researcher.
Andriy (Andrii) Sydorenko was born in 1983 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since the 2010s, he has been combining artistic creativity with scientific work and the organization of exhibitions. In particular, Andriy Sydorenko works as a co-curator for the annual platform "Newest Directions", which hosts exhibitions and other cultural events, such as lectures and theoretical competitions for more than 10 years. In 2014, he contributed to the organization of the project "Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now" at the Saatchi Gallery in London. His works are regularly exhibited in leading international institutions, in particular, in the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brazil), the Künstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria), the Ukrainian Institute of Contemporary Art (Chicago, USA), the Wilson Center (Washington, USA) the Ukrainian Museum (New York, USA). In 2018, Andriy Sydorenko became a co-founder of the Pankoptikum art group. In 2023, he acted as co-curator and author of the concept of the "Concentration of Will" project, which was displayed in the exhibition spaces of the National Academy of Arts, the Center for Contemporary Art M17 and the Modern Art Research Institute.
Most of Andriy Sydorenko's works of art immerse the viewer in the atmosphere of dystopia. One of the central objects of his work is the image of a society in which people have become hostages of false ideological experiments. The thoughts and emotions of these people are heavily manipulated, but they do not even know about it, because critical reflection is not practiced among them.
Education:
2021 Ph.D. in History of Art.
2001 - 2007 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1998 - 2001 State Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Grants, Awards:
2015 Finalist, «UK/RAINE» Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Festival prize, International Art festival, La Ferte Bernard, France.
2009 Finalist, «MUHi» Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007 Finalist, «Self-defense», Eidos foundation, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 Finalist, V International Art Festival, Magdeburg, Germany.
Selected exhibitions:
2023 «Individual Variability», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 «Insight», Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 «Iron Sky», National Museum «Kyiv Picture Gallery», Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 «The invisible costs of war», ARC Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2021 «Art as life, life as art», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 «We are all at home» online exhibition, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 «Convergence horizons», Suzhou Industrial Cultural Center, Suzhou, China.
2019 «Media addiction», Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.uadim.in.ua
2018 «Clinical Picture» Karas Gallery Kyiv, Ukraine. www.chernozem.info
2018 «Punkfuturism», Expocenter of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.obozrevatel.com
2018 «Transmimesis: empathy to ugliness», Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.artsy.net
2017 Bienal de Curitiba, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brasil. Catalog
2017 «Show Promise» Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine. Catalog
2016 «Kylym. Contemporary Ukrainian artists» YermilovCenter, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Catalog
2016 «Botanika» Come in gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2016 «Recipe for utopia» Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. Catalog
2016 «What If fest» Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 «UK/RAINE» Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (shortlist). www.birdinflight.com
2015 «R-EVOLUTION» Beulas Foundation, Huesca, Spain.
2015 «Images From Ukraine's Maidan, 2013-2014» - The Ukrainian Museum,
New York, USA, - Wilson Center, Washington, USA, - Ukrainian Cultural Center, Baltimore, USA. www.wilsoncenter.org www.ukrainianmuseum.org
2014 «Long Path To Freedom» Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA. uima-chicago.org
2014 «I'm a drop in the ocean», Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
2014 «Civil mysticism», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.issuu.com
2014 «Will-detecting» IX ART-KYIV Contemporary, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.tsn.ua
2014 «Reliability theory», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. Catalog
2013 International Art festival, (festival prize) La Ferte Bernard, France.
2013 «Industrial Eden», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. Catalog
2013 «Gogolfest» EMZ, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 «The Society Of The Spectacle», Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 «Habitat» Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. www.issuu.com
2012 «I Love Kyiv», Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 «Social euphoria» Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 «Gurzuf Open Air», Open space, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 «Collective Dreams», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 «Did painting die?», Contemporary Art Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 «Space Odyssey 2011», Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 «Illumination», Modern Art Research Institute and Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 «Gogolfest», Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 «MUHi» Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 «Self-defense», Eidos foundation, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 V International Art Festival, Magdeburg, Germany.
Auctions:
2015 - 2019 "Art for Life" (charity auction) Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Playground", Ya Gallery, (charity project-auction in support of children with cancer), Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 Contemporary art, Vakulenko consulting, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 "Hand of a Friend", Master class, exhibition, charity auction in support of the study of Rett syndrome in Ukraine, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 Contemporary art, Golden Section, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 Ukrainian Young Contemporary Art, Golden Section, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Curation:
2023 "Concentration of the Will", Contemporary Art Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 "Concentration of the Will", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 "Iron Sky", National Museum «Kyiv Picture Gallery», Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 "Labyrinths of Discourse", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 "Visiocracy", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 "Alchemy of Motivation", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 "Anatomy of simulacrum", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 "Funnel of Time", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 "Future in the Past", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 "The Mechanism of Evolution", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 "Recipe for Utopia", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 "The Coefficient of Independence", America House, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 "Practice of Metamorphosis", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now" Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2014 «Long Path To Freedom» Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA.
2014 "True evidence: from the Revolution of Dignity until the present day", National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Experience of unity. Maidan 2013-2014", Fulbright Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Will-detecting" ART-KYIV Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Reliability Theory", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 "Civil Mysticism", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 "Industrial Eden", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 "Social Euphoria", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 Exhibition, auction for support for research on Rett syndrome in Ukraine, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 "Collective Dreaming", Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Research activity
http://www.mari.kiev.ua/about/our-staff/sydorenko-andrii
https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=ru&user=478k8lcAAAAJ