Роман Міхайлов
Born 1989 in Chuguev, Ukraine
lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
MA in arts at Kharkiv State Academy of design & art
Awards and honors
2015 won the prize for the best installation at Saatchi
2015 finalist of UK/RAINE competition for emerging artists from UK and Ukraine
2015 was nominated for Pinchuk Art Prize
2014 Finalist of Non-stop media festival
2010 Member of the Nation Union of Artists of Ukraine
Artistic statement
I am a Ukrainian contemporary artist. My visual art includes sculptural installations, woodworking, video,
graphic and painting, focusing on the complex social and political processes taking place in Ukraine, in
particular exploring controversial issues of migration, deportation, war and suffering (both personal and
social). The main concept that I focus for the last 2 years is «creation through destruction» that I came up
after the revolution in my country. Thus I started my experiments with the fire when the new meaning and
form are created through destruction (burning, deconstruction, blackening with smoke, melting etc.).
Personal exhibitions:
2015 THE SCORCH OF REAL, The reality game, Gogolfest’15, VDNH, Kiev
2015 BLACK SEA, action-intervention into the House of Parliament of Ukraine and Administration of the
President on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea and the day of voting for the bill on
granting Donetsk and Lugansk regions the status of occupied territories, Kiev
2015 BLACK SEA, Ukrainian Crisis media centre, Ukrainian House, Kiev
2014 SPIRIT OF FREEDOM at Language and violence festival, Izolyatsia, Donetsk
Exhibitions (2014 - 2015):
UK/RAINE, Saatchi Gallery, London
PINCHUK ART PRIZE, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv
!WARNING!, multimedia festival TETRAMATIKA, Lviv
DIALOGIA:Ukrainian art in times with no name, National museum Mistetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
MANIFESTO, IV Odessa biennale of contemporary art, Museum of contemporary art of Odessa, Odessa
COEFFICIENT OF INDEPENDENCE, American House, Kyiv
PHILOSOPHY OF MIGRATION, Museum of Cultural Heritage, Kyiv
RESENTMENT, ARTVILNIUS’15, Vilnius
DECOMPRESSION 2, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
BORDERLINE, WE, video, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, 2015
BIRUCHIY Symposium of contemporary art
PAPER, National museum Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
DECOMPRESSION, Saint-Merry Church, Paris
Alliance 22, House-museum of M. Bulgakov, Kyiv
ELEMENTS OF REALITY, IX ART-KYIV Contemporary, National museum Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
TERROR OF SMALL DIFFERENCES, Municipal gallery, Kharkiv
THEORY OF REABILITY, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
WAR/SHE, Magelan city mall, Kharkiv
SPACE OF OPPORTUNITIES, GOGOLFEST 2014, Kyiv
GUILT, NonStopMedia 7 (curator Sergiy Bratkov), Kharkiv
I AM A DROP IN THE OCEAN, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna
CIVIL MYSTICISM, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv
SELF GOVERNMENT, the main program of III Odessa Biennale of Contemporary art, Odessa
X Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art