Andrii Rachynskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi
Andrii and Daniil are the Kharkiv (Ukraine) artists who are fusing different formats of artistic practices (installations, reenactment, video, archives), researching the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of Ukraine. Graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, majoring in Graphic design. In 2012 created a public page "Pamjat" (Memory) in Vkontakte social network with the aim of researching the collective memory on the post-Soviet territory. That project was the starting point of their collaboration. Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Holders of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 public choice award for «Hooligans» project.
In 2022, Andrii and Daniil won the main prize of the "Allegro Prize" - the largest international competition of contemporary art in Poland.
On April 14, 2022 Andrii was published in "The New York Times", where his personal page on Instagram entered to "Top-5 most interesting art-accounts of Ukraine".
In 2024 Andrii Rachinskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi are representing Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Solo exhibitions:
«Let the Dream Follow the Night». Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2024
«Mickey Mouse's steppe». Odesa National Fine Arts Museum. Odesa. Ukraine. 2024
«Civilians. Invasion». Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2024
«Mickey Mouse's steppe». Annenstrasse53 Gallery. Graz. Austria. 2023.
«Mickey Mouse's steppe». Galeria Labirynt. Lublin, Poland. 2023
«Tailings dam. Engineer». Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2021
«Tailings dam». PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2021
«Premonition of disaster». Detenpyla. Lviv. Ukraine. 2020
«War of Inscriptions». Off/Format. Brno. Czech Republic. 2019
«Finally we are here». Miejski Osrodek Sztuki. Gorzow Wielkopolski. Poland. 2019
«Soot». Artsvit Gallery. Dnipo. Ukraine. 2018
«Troy VK». Flat #14. Troieshchyna, Kyiv. Ukraine. 2017
«The War of Inscriptions». Small Arsenal Gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2016
«Red director and blue prosecutor». "The Black captain" bar. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2016
«Direct contact». Arch at the address Velyka Zhytomyrska 30-a. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2016
Group exhibitions:
«Civilians. Invasion». «Net Making». Ukrainian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Venice. Italy. 2024.
«Clanking, hammering, dispute and gurgling». «From Ukraine. Dare to dream». Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. Presented by the PinchukArtCentre. Venice. Italy. 2024.
«Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour». University of Salford. United Kingdom. 2024.
«Ukrainian dreamers». Kommunale gallery. Berlin. Germany. 2024.
«Biruchiy Borowiec 023». Ukrainian house. Warsaw. Poland. 2024
«Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us». Jam Factory. Lviv. Ukraine.2023.
The Triennial of Contemporary Art "Ukrajins'kyj Zriz "UKRAINE! UNMUTED.” Galeria Biała. Lublin. Poland. 2023.
Kyiv Biennial. «Asortymentna Kimnata». Ivano-Frankivsk. Ukraine, 2023.
«Human». Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art. Slupsk. Poland. 2023.
«Tailing Dam. Engineer». «Ukrainian Dreamers. Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie». Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Germany. 2023.
«Kharkiv School of Photography. 50 years of artistic photography in Ukraine». Maxi.Kunst. Nuremberg. Germany. 2023.
«Thickets, Groves, Woods and Bushes». Apartment exhibition. Kyiv, Ukraine. 2023.
«Liste Art Fair Basel 2023». Basel, Switzerland. 2023.
«The Cross Line». MuseumsQuartier. Vienna, Austria. 2023.
«Biruchiy Borowiec «433-447». Nadwislanskie Museum. Kazimierzu Dolny, Poland. 2023.
«The Artist as Prophet». Gallery Weisser Elefant. Berlin, Germany. 2023
«Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s-Now». With the participation of Magnum Photos. 227 W 29th Street, NY 10001. New York, 2023.
«Clamour». Green On Red Gallery. Dublin, Ireland. 2023
«Chain reaction». Film program. Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia. 2023.
«To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014-2023)» BAK, basis voor actuele kunst. Utrecht, Netherlands. 2023.
Triennial of Contemporary Art «Ukraine! Unmuted». Biata Gallery. Lublin, Poland. 2023.
«Global spotlight: Video art from Ukraine». Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. Arlington, USA. 2023.
«The Sky Is Open. Voices From Ukraine». Online archive of works by artists from Ukraine. 2023.
«Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen». Marienburg 75. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023.
«Temptation of Modernity». Manifesta 15. Barcelona, Spain. 2023.
«Kharkiv School of Photography. 50 years of artistic photography in Ukraine». Nurnberg, Germany. 2023.
«Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War». Bildraum gallery, Vienna, Austria. 2023.
«How are you?» Ukrainian museum of contemporary art. Kyiv, Ukraine. 2023
«On loss». Lviv Municipal Art Center. Lviv, Ukraine. 2023
«Home». Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. 2023.
«Foto Wien 2023». MuseumsQuartier. Vienna, Austria. 2023.
«Mickey Mouse's steppe. Archives». «From 1914 till Ukraine». Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. 2023.
«The sky is open. Voices from Ukraine». Galeria Labirynt. Lublin, Poland. 2023.
«Ukraine Month in Europe». Zemstve House Cultural Center. Kishinev, Moldova. 2023
Triennial of Contemporary Art «Ukraine! Unmuted». Kaunas Central Post Office, Lithuania. 2022.
Allegro Prize. International competition for artists of visual art. (We received the main award). Poland. 2022
«BIVAF». The Busan International. Video Art Festival. Busan, Korea. 2022
«Mickey Mouse's steppe. The Seekers» Exhibition of shortlisted artists of PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2022
«On the Continuity of War». Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria. 2022
«To Watch the War - The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014-2022)». Coalmine. Winterthur, Switzerland. 2022
Festival «Ars Electronica 2022» Linz, Austria. 2022.
Film program «Chain reaction». Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia. 2022.
Film project «I Have No Words - There Is No Title». Rathausgalerie. Munchen, Germany. 2022.
«Other parts in the next quarter». The Naked room. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2022
Film program «Home and Abroad». Olomouc Museum of Art. Czech Republic. 2022.
33-rd International Film Festival Marselle. Film program «Ukrainian Youth (2014-2022)». Marseille, France. 2022.
«Visions of Ukraine». Film programm. Museum Folkwang. Essen, Germany. 2022.
«Chain Reaction». Film and video works from Ukraine. MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts. Rome, Italy. 2022. «Imagine Ukraine». Bozar, Council Room. Brussels, Belgium. 2022.
«Letter from the Front». Castello di rivoli. Turin. Italy. 2022.
«Film of Emergency». Ukranian Experimental Film and Video Art. National gallery. Sofia, Bulgaria. 2022.
«Peace is War». Film programm. 2022.
«An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room». Georg Kargl Fine Arts. Wien, Austria. 2022.
«Sensitivity». Arsenal. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2021.
«Biruchiy contemporary art project». Shargorod. Ukraine. 2021.
«Author in the game». Ermilov Centre. Kharkiv. Ukraine. 2021.
«Soot». Video platform «Springs.video». 2021.
«Artificial pain». Ermilov Centre. Kharkiv. Ukraine. 2021.
«Werhne Sinovidne. View from the tunnel». Detenpyla. Lviv. UA. 2021.
«Brudershaft». Ukraine. 2020
«Mischievous». Exhibition of shortlisted artists of PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020. PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2020
«Soot». E-flux. Artist Cinemas. New York. USA. 2020
«Artificial pain». Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun. Poland. 2020.
«Soot». Etc. Galerie. Prague. Czech Republic. 2019.
«Darkness». Ermilov Centre. Il Biennale of Young Art in Kharkiv. Ukraine. 2019.
«Soot». Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art. Kmytiv. Ukraine. 2019.
«Just don't tell Slava». Museum of Contemporary Art. Kherson. Ukraine. 2019.
«Soot». Exploding Cinema. London. Great Britain. 2019.
«Upturn». Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz. Berlin. Germany. 2019.
«Dnipropetrovsk region». Online edition «Creating Ruin». England. 2018.
«MTTU». Reading International. England. 2018.
«KTM-5». Exhibition of shortlisted artists of PinchukArtCentre Prize 2018. PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. Ukraine. 2018
«Overhaul». Labyrinth Gallery. Lublin. Poland. 2017.
«Sources of light». Museum of local lore. Lisichansk. Ukraine. 2017.
«Direct contact». Shishaki Fest. Shishaki. Ukraine. 2016.
«Self-destructing new buildings». Squat Autonomy. Kharkiv. Ukraine. 2015.