Andriy Sydorenko
ANDRIY SYDORENKO
Artist, Curator, Researcher, Ph.D. in Art History, born in 1983 in Kharkiv.
Andriy work mostly in media such as painting, video and photo. His art work can be described as a visual dystopia. One of the central themes of his concepts is the image of a society in which critical reflection is not practiced, and therefore most people in it are accustomed not to notice any weird things. The source of such image he draws in everyday life and outdated newsreels of the 20th century in which sweet advertising is mixed with obsessive propaganda.
Andriy Sydorenko combines work in his art studio with participation in exhibitions, curating and researching art history in Ukraine and worldwide. Andriy's videos have been screened at international exhibitions like «UK / raine» contest in Saatchi Gallery (London, UK); Curitiba Biennale in Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brasil); «I'm a drop in the ocean», Künstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria).
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:
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