Biography
Stepan Ryabchenko (born 1987 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian new generation artist, one of the leading figures in digital and new media art. He participates in international projects and Biennales. The focus of his work is on the interaction between the new media and classic visual art tradition, the boundary between the real and the virtual world, and the new nature of art.
Stepan Ryabchenko came to the contemporary art through the architecture. In his bold and vibrant projects the artist “plays” with the space, transforming it, designs new environment. Means of making digital images are at the same time tools of creation of a virtual world and a subject of reflections on “virtualization” of the existing reality. In his various installations, sculptures and pictures Stepan Ryabchenko tells a large-scale and ambitious story of the virtual reality with its ideas, heroes and mythology.
2011 – Graduated from Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Architecture - Art Institute.
2010 – Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
2010 – The winner of the First All-Ukrainian Triennial of abstract art «ART-ACT».
2011 – Nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize.
2012 – Laureate of the international competition of contemporary sculpture «Kyiv Sculpture Project».
Lives and works in Odessa, Ukraine.
Selected exhibitions:
2015
«3rd Danube Biennale», Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
«The Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale», Mdina, Malta
«Enfant Terrible. Conceptual Art of Odessa», National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Arsenal of Ideas», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Make Art Not War», Mystetska Zbirka Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Make Art Not War», Tochni Village, Larnaca, Cyprus
«Walking Cloud», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014
«Long Path to Freedom», Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
«Art Kyiv Contemporary», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Probability theory», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Homeland», Contemporary Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine
«Octants», Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
«Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now», Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
«Cosmoscow», Manege, Moscow, Russia
«Homeland», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«The Ukrainian landscape», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Auditions», HudPromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
«New Ukrainian Dream», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Art Vilnius’ 2014», Lithuanian Exhibition Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
«Ukrainian breakthrough», Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
«Freedom Square», YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine
«Ukraine. Archetype of freedom», Novomatic Forum, Vienna, Austria
«Blinded by Beauty», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013
«Sculpture about Sculpture», YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine
«Art Kyiv Contemporary», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«The power of IT and life of genius», Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Myths and Legends of Eastern Europe», LWW Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
«Industrial Eden», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Contemporary Ukrainian Artists», Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
«The chaos of cyberspace. Abstract surrealism», LWW Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
«Biruchiy Contemporary Art Project», Biruchiy island, Ukraine
«Great and Grand », Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«The Odessa School. Tradition and Currency», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Terrain Orientation», National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012
«Scenarios of the Future - 2», Museum of Contemporary Art, Odessa, Ukraine
«Social Euphoria», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Arsenale 2012». International biennale of contemporary art, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«The Myth. Ukrainian baroque», National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Art-Pulse», Jakob Greter's Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
«Kyiv Sculpture Project», Kyiv, Ukraine
2011
«Art Kyiv Contemporary», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«PinchukArtCentre Prize», PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Independent», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Space Odyssey», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Moments of silence», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010
«Art Kyiv Contemporary», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«TOP-10 contemporary artists of Odessa», HudPromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
«Those, who came at the start of 2000», M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
«Fast dreams», Jakob Greter's Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
«ART-ACT». First All-Ukrainian Triennial of abstract art, Chernovtsy, Ukraine
«Star Wars», Contemporary Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine
«Abstract Vision Test», Ya gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Fine Art Ukraine», Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Restart», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Abstract art of Odessa», Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2009
«Restart», Marine Art – Terminal, Odessa, Ukraine
«Wanted Design Week», Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Art Kyiv Contemporary», Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Outside of the System», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Kunstart», Festival of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2008
Seventy Years Anniversary Exhibition of regional department of National Union of Artists
of Ukraine, Exhibition Hall of National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
«Odessa Contemporary Art», Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
«The Picturesque Ukraine», Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
