Yevgen Samborsky’s artistic practice is centred on painting. Reflecting on its historical development, he raises the question of how painting, through its own means, can represent contemporary reality. Taking into account the influence of other media on the formation of contemporary visual language, he examines how photography and the digital environment transform the nature of painting. A key component of his practice is the representation of the artistic process itself, which inherently incorporates a digital dimension and positions painting as a conceptual source of representation.


Bio

Born in Ivano-Frankivsk city, Ukraine. Graduated the Art Institute of the Carpathian National University (2005). Received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture (2009, 2012). The winner of the Main Prize of the competition for young ukrainian artists MUHI (2012). Initiator and founder of Open Group (2012), with which won the First PinchukArtCentre Special Prize in (2013). Winner of the Dymchuk Gallery Open Call for Young Ukrainian Artists (2017), nominee of the PinchukArtCentre Award (2018). Curator of the Residence for Artists in Ivano-Frankivsk (2015) and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Porto Franko (2018). Curator and teacher of the contemporary art course in KAMA Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2019-2022). Lives and works in London.




CV


Selected solo exhibitions

2024       Hard to Describe, Voloshyn gallery, Miami, USA

2019        СЕ 049201, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018        Action, Chech Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2018        Down the Rabbit Hole, Closer Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017        Untitled, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017        Beautiful exhibition, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2016        Laboratory of Friends, Children social-psychological rehabilitation centre, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2016        Ivano-Frankivsk Is Speaking, Psychiatric hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2016        We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for, Center for Contemporary Art, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2015        Sketches from nature, Port Creative Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015        Questions. An attempt of dialogue. And more of something important, Kyiv art gallery Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012        Velvet Nothing, PROTVOR gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011        Everything is identical with nothing, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2009       21 Freedom, Heppen Transfer gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Selected group exhibitions

2025       Looking into the Gaps II, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine

2023       Art and Life in Times of War, Wuerttemberg Art Association, Stuttgart, Germany

2023       Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine

2023       How Are You? Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

2023       Camera Obcura, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2022       DISSIAPATIO H.G. Massimo Ligreggi gallery, Catania, Italy

2022       On the Varge, Wetterling gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2022       What now?, Exhibitions Bureau/Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

2022       What is Depicted Here?, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2022       When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2022       Working Room, A:D: Curatorial, Berlin, Germany

2022       Working room, Independent Space Index 2022, Vienna, Austria

2022       Working room, Asortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2022       Yevgen Samborsky & Eliash Strongowsky, Reykjavic, Iceland

2022       Memory on Her Face, Miami, USA

2022       The Captured House, Berlin, Germany

2021        5 years ago, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2019        II Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2019        City Scanning Session, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2018        Where Do We Go From Here? IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018        Exhibition of PinchukArtCentre Prize nominees, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017        Ostrale, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany

2017        Show Promise, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine

2017        Childhood dream, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland

2016        Archaeology, Margines gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2016        Art of Galicia ХХ century - early ХХI century, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2014        Postcards from Maidan, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2014        4 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia

2013        Ars longa, vita brevis (with Open Group), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013        Exhibition of the first Kyiv residence KYIV AIR, The National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013        Component of presence, Small Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013        UKRAINE NOW, Czech Centres, Prague, Czech Republic

2013        Introversion, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012        MUHI-2012, MODERN ART RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012        Factory overlooking the lake, Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

2012        Ukrainian Body, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011        Shape of the void, Bottega gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011        Limit, Week of Contemporary Art, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2011        Collective dreams, MODERN ART RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kyiv, Ukraine




Scholarship, residencies, events

2018        Residence Zmina.Impulse, Bakhmut, Ukraine

2016        Residence Sorry We Have No Rooms Available, Uzhhorod, Ukraine

2015        Residence in Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

2013        First Kyiv residence program for artists - KYIV AIR, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012        Initiation and founder Open Group, Lviv, Ukraine

2012        Gaude Polonia - Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw, Poland

2009       Gaude Polonia - Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw, Poland



Curatorial projects


2018        Porto Franko festival, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2016        Archaeology, Margines gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2015        Residence for Artists in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine



Awards


2018        Finalist of PinchukArtCentre Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017        The winner of the Open Call for young Ukrainian artists, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013        First Special Prize of the PinchukArtCentre with Open Group, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012       The winner of the Main Prize of the competition for young ukrainian artists MUHI, Kyiv, Ukraine  





Contact

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