Evgeniy Pavlov (1949, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
ENG
Evgeniy Pavlov is one of the founders of the Kharkiv school of photography. As a student, he became a participant of the regional photo club, where in the early 1970s he co-founded the Vremia photographic group. He worked as the head of the photo laboratory at the Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology. After completing his military, studied for cinema operator at the State Theater University.
In 1972, he created The Violin - one of the seminal series for the group. Evgeniy Pavlov experimented with a wide range of techniques - from color slides and overlays to collages and hand-coloring - creating a phantasmagoric imagery that breaks away from a documentary approach.
For the last years he has been the senior lecturer at the department of Television at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture .
In March 2022, Pavlov managed to leave the bombarded city of Kharkiv. He lives now in Graz, Austria.
Pavlov’s works belong to major international collections such as Tate Modern, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, USA, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, RF.
Recently, Pavlov participated in exhibitions in Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Hangar Photo Center, Brussels, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Pavlov was invited to give the conference at the opening of the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in 2022. The artist is in the spotlight for being participated in the documentary Kharkiv, capital of the rebel photography commissioned by ARTE (France - Germany).
FR
Evgeniy Pavlov est un des fondateurs de l'École de photographie de Kharkiv. Au cours de ses années d’études, Pavlov devient membre du photo club régional où il co-fonde le groupe Vremia. Il travaille également comme chef du laboratoire photo à l'Institut de recherche d'orthopédie et de traumatologie. Après avoir terminé son service militaire, il étudie pour devenir chef opérateur à l'Université théâtral d'état.
En 1972 il crée la série Violon qui est l'une des plus importante pour le groupe. Pavlov a expérimenté un large éventail de techniques : collages, colorisation à la main, surimpressions et grattages qui composent un imaginaire fantasmagorique en rupture avec la démarche documentaire.
L'artiste est aujourd’hui maître de conférences au département de télévision de l'Académie de la culture d'État de Kharkiv.
Les oeuvres de Pavlov font partie d’importantes collections internationales dont celles de Tate Modern, London, UK; du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France ; Musée de l’école de photographie de Kharkiv, Ukraine ; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, Etats-Unis ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Etats-Unis.
Récemment l’artiste a participé à des expositions au Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Allemagne ; à la Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Allemagne ; à Hangar Photo Art Center, Bruxelles, Belgique ; au Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Evgeniy Pavlov a été invité à donner une conference à l’ouverture des Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles en 2022. En 2024, le travail de l’artiste fait l’objet du documentaire Kharkiv, capitale de la photo rebelle commissionné par ARTE (France - Allemagne).
ENG
Evgeniy Pavlov is one of the founders of the Kharkiv school of photography. As a student, he became a participant of the regional photo club, where in the early 1970s he co-founded the Vremia photographic group. He worked as the head of the photo laboratory at the Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology. After completing his military, studied for cinema operator at the State Theater University.
In 1972, he created The Violin - one of the seminal series for the group. Evgeniy Pavlov experimented with a wide range of techniques - from color slides and overlays to collages and hand-coloring - creating a phantasmagoric imagery that breaks away from a documentary approach.
For the last years he has been the senior lecturer at the department of Television at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture .
In March 2022, Pavlov managed to leave the bombarded city of Kharkiv. He lives now in Graz, Austria.
Pavlov’s works belong to major international collections such as Tate Modern, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, USA, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, RF.
Recently, Pavlov participated in exhibitions in Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Hangar Photo Center, Brussels, Belgium; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Pavlov was invited to give the conference at the opening of the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in 2022. The artist is in the spotlight for being participated in the documentary Kharkiv, capital of the rebel photography commissioned by ARTE (France - Germany).
FR
Evgeniy Pavlov est un des fondateurs de l'École de photographie de Kharkiv. Au cours de ses années d’études, Pavlov devient membre du photo club régional où il co-fonde le groupe Vremia. Il travaille également comme chef du laboratoire photo à l'Institut de recherche d'orthopédie et de traumatologie. Après avoir terminé son service militaire, il étudie pour devenir chef opérateur à l'Université théâtral d'état.
En 1972 il crée la série Violon qui est l'une des plus importante pour le groupe. Pavlov a expérimenté un large éventail de techniques : collages, colorisation à la main, surimpressions et grattages qui composent un imaginaire fantasmagorique en rupture avec la démarche documentaire.
L'artiste est aujourd’hui maître de conférences au département de télévision de l'Académie de la culture d'État de Kharkiv.
Les oeuvres de Pavlov font partie d’importantes collections internationales dont celles de Tate Modern, London, UK; du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France ; Musée de l’école de photographie de Kharkiv, Ukraine ; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, Etats-Unis ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Etats-Unis.
Récemment l’artiste a participé à des expositions au Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Allemagne ; à la Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Allemagne ; à Hangar Photo Art Center, Bruxelles, Belgique ; au Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Evgeniy Pavlov a été invité à donner une conference à l’ouverture des Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles en 2022. En 2024, le travail de l’artiste fait l’objet du documentaire Kharkiv, capitale de la photo rebelle commissionné par ARTE (France - Allemagne).
Solo exhibitions (selection):
2018 Chronicles of Total Photography, Cultural and Information Centre of Ukrainian Embassy in France, Paris, France
Evgeny Pavlov, Tetyana Pavlova. Method: Total photography, part of Interventsia project, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Evgeniy Pavlov, Taniana Pavlova: Methods of Total Photography, part of Interventsia project, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2007 Eyes - windows of the house, International biennial of Photography, Museum of history, Lviv, Ukraine
2005 Bonaparte's insight (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kyiv Photo Month, National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 Other Sky (with V. Shaposhnykov), International Biennale of Photography, headquarters of the National Unions of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 The photography of Eugene Pavlov and Olexandr Suprun, Wolf gallery, Cincinnati, USA
1998 Pornography (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kharkiv art museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1995 Total Photography, Kyiv Fortress museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1995 Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1994 Cypriana Majernika gallery, International month of photography, Bratislava, Slovenia
1991 Contemporary Soviet Photographers (together with Guennadi Maslov and Oleksandr Suprun), Centre of contemporary art, Cincinnati, USA
1990 Armmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
1988 Kharkiv Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1988 House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions (selection):
2026 Upcoming: Ukrainian Dreamers. The Kharkiv School of Photography, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 Paris Photo 2024, sector Voices, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Ukrainian Dreamers, Communal Galerie, Berlin, Germany, curator: Sergiy Lebedyndskyy
Generations of Resilience - 22 Ukrainian photographers, Hangar, Brussels, Belgium, as a part of the PhotoBrussels Festival, curators: Hangar and Kateryna Radchenko
2023 Ukrainian Dreamers. Kharkiv School of Photography, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Ukraine: the Path to Freedom, Nationaal Monument Kamp, Vugh, Netherlands, with Noorderlicht Photography and the Old Groningen Churches Foundations
Home. Perspectives, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Les facettes de la Liberté. Oeuvres de la collection de Tetiana et Boris Grynyov, Ukrainian Culturel Center in France, Ukrainian Embassy in France, Paris, France
2022 Ukraine. Une donation contemporaine. Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odessa, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Paris Photo, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Paris, France
Photo London, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Somerset House, London, UK
Kharkiv School of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Once upon the war in KHARKIV, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Paris, Franc
2019 Crossing lines, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Björn Geldhof, Martin Kiefer, Alicia Knock)
Palette of Pain, Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Expo Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 Ukrainian Archetype, Photo Kyiv 2017 Art Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research Platform: Anonymous Society, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
The city of Kha. Kharkiv Avant-garde: Research project, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2017 Song about Bourevestink, The 5th Odesa Biennial, Odesa, Ukraine
2017 Un homme chapitre VI. La Mer Noire, Romanian cultural institute, Paris, France
Kharkiv. 18+, Odesa//Batumi Photo Days 2017, Museum of Modern art of Odesa, Odesa, Ukraine
2014 Biografie II – Wir, Fotogalerie Wien, Viena, Austria
Act of Disobedience. Body as a Protest in Kharkiv Photography of 1970s-2010s, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2012 Kharkiv School of Photogtaphy, the 1st Kyiv Biennial of Contemporary Art “Arsenale-2012,” Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Perestroika, Liberalization and Experimentation (1980s-2010), FotoFest 2012 Biennial, Houston, USA
The Drawing lessons: Ukrainian Photography, International Festival of Photography PIP, Pingyao, China
2008-2009 Behind Walls – Eastern Europe before and beyond 1989, within Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2007 Eastern European Festival, Art museum, Cincinnati, USA
2005 Photography from Ukraine, West Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
2004 Photo relay: from Rodchenko to our days, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
A Touring Ukrainian Photography Exhibit from Kharkiv ‘Dialogue: Mentors and their Students, Elkins exhibition hall, Cincinnati, USA
2003 Photography from 70s, International biennale of photography gallery, “Hontchary” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kharkiv’s Photography, municipal gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
Cultural Hero, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1999 Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
The Exhibition of the Ukrainian Art, Museum of modern Russian Art, New Jersey, USA
1997 The Art of Contemporary photography in Eastern Europe,” Museum Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
1995 Multiple Exposures: Ukrainian Photography Today, Rutgers Art Center, Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA
1993 Kharkiv Photography, Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg, Germany
1992 Past/present: Photography from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
1991 Photoexhibition, Centre for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Charkov in Cheb, gallery “4,” Cheb, Czech Republic
1988 New Soviet Photography, Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Collections (selection):
Tate Modern, London, UK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP), Kharkiv, Ukraine
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Bibliographie (selection)
Book: Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine: Reflections, Perspectives, Challenges, publishers: the University of Salford and 89books, multiple contributors, 2025
Magazine: Photographie et idéologie. Stratégies subversives de l’école de photographie de Kharkiv (1971-1991) / Photography and Ideology: Subversive Strategies of the Kharkiv School of Photography (1971–1991), Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, Histoire de l’Art N 91, publisher: INHA, Paris, France, 2023
The exhibition catalogue: You Know That You Are Human, edited by 89books, supported by the Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut & Goethe-Institut im Exil (page 59), 2022
Magazine: The Information Front, #2. “Ukraine – The Path to Freedom, Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2022
Book: Kharkiv School of Photography, Game against Apparatus, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, publisher: Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine, 2020
Tetiana Pavlova, Evgeniy Pavlov, book: Violin, edited by Rodovid, Ukraine, 2018
Lesya Smirna, book: Століття нонконформізму в українському візуальному мистецтві (Hundred years of non conformist Ukrainian visual art), edited by Фенікс, Ukraine, 2017
Viktor Maushchenko, Olga Kostirko, Sasha Kurmas, book: Ukrainian Erotic Photography, edited by Osnovy, Ukraine, 2017
Book: The History of European photography. Vol. III, The Central European House of Photography, FOTOFO and Eyes On - European Month of Photography Vienna, Austria, 2016
Evgeniy Pavlov, book: Home Life, edited by Grafprom, Ukraine, 2014
The Drawing lessons. Ukrainian Photography. 1980-2010-s, catalogue of International Pingyao photography festival, Pingyao, Chine, 2011
Publications and Press (selection):
Evgeniy Pavlov, 7. Kulturverein fur Steiermark, Austria, Tetiana Pavlova, December 2025
Evgeniy Pavlov. Overcoming the Soviet Union with the Violin, Camera Austria #171, Herwig G. Höller, December 2025
À nous le Grand Palais!, Le Quotidien de l’Art, France, Raphael Pic, 9 November 2024, pdf
"Paris Photo 2024: Voices : Entretien avec Sonia Voss", L’Oeil de la Photographie, France, Zoé Isle de Beauchaine, 6 November, 2024
Against Image Fatigue: On Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine, e-flux, online publication, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, 31 October 2025
"Kharkiv, capitale de la photo rebelle”, sur arte.tv : soixante ans d’histoire ukrainienne à travers l’objectif, Telerama, France, Pauline Demange-Dilasser, 16 October 2024
Ukrainian Dreamers: Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie, fotoPROworld, 1 March 2024
La force de résistance de la photographie ukrainienne dans une expo à Bruxelles, BeauxArts, Belgique, Charlotte Jean, 24 February 2024
Photo Brussels passe un cup, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Sophie Bernard, France, 15 February 2024
Dans l'œil de Libé. En images - A Bruxelles, les photographes ukrainiens à l’honneur, Libération, France, 17 February 2024
In Ukraine a battle for the future, Blind Magazine, Iris Mandret, 9 February 2024
Bruxelles expose les pépites de la photographie ukrainienne, Marianne, France, Anne Dastakian, 31 January 2024
Resilience and bravery in Ukraine: PhotoBrussels festival 2024, The Guardian, UK, Fiona Shields, 30 January 2024
Miasto na granicy, Oksana Barshinova, Herito Journal № 49, Poland, 2023
Ukrainische Fotografie in Wolfsburg. Das Leben war weiter als das System, Monopol, Lennart Laberenz, 12 Oct 2023
Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie" im Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, NDR Info, 13 Oct 2023
Quand l'Ecole de Kharkiv en avait plein le dogmes, Liberation, France, Clémentine Mercier, February 28 2023
Text for the exhibition and symposium You Know That You Are Human, Galerie Eigenheim Weimar, Presented by MOMENTUM & IZOLYATSIA, supported by the Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut & Goethe-Institut im Exil, Germany, 9 May – 3 June 2023
L’oeul de Kharkiv, Jean-François Bouthors, Les Cahiers du Témoignage chrétien, France, 2023
Paris Photo joue avec le spectateur, Blind Magazine, 2022
L’École de Photographie de Kharkiv : De la censure soviétique vers une nouvelle esthétique, Igor Manco, L’oeil de la photographie, France, 2022
Kharkiv. La mémoire à vif d’une école de photographie ukrainienne, Réponses Photo, France, Carine Dolek, Mai 2022
Les Insolites Photographes de Kharkiv, M Le Monde Magazine, France, Roxana Azimi, September 2022
A Photo London, une diversité de regards sur l’Ukraine, Le Monde, France, Roxana Azimi, 13 May 2022, pdf
The Kharkiv School of Photography – in pictures, The Guardian, UK, 13 May 2022
Leap of the imagination: the best of Photo London 2022, The Guardian, Mee-Lai Stone, 12 May 2022
Photo London 2022. Top five fair highlights. Selected by Alessandro Merola, 1000 Words, 11 May 2022
À Kharkiv, l'art sous les bombes, Marie Claire, France, Galia Loupan, 1 April 2022
The Dissident Photographers of Ukraine, Aperture, Luca Fiore, 25 March 2022
Late 1960s to 1980s: The Vremya Group’s Time, Tetiana Pavlova, online platform Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine, 2021
ОБ ОДНОДНЕВНОЙ ВЫСТАВКЕ ГРУППЫ «ВРЕМЯ» В ХАРЬКОВСКОМ ДОМЕ УЧЕНЫХ (About one day exhibition of the Vremia group in House of Scientists in Kharkiv), Tetiana Pavlova, online magazine Your Art, Ukraine, 3 August 2020
Тело Времени ХАРЬКОВСКАЯ ФОТОГРАФИЧЕСКАЯ ГРУППА «ВРЕМЯ» (1971–1980-e) (Body of Time. Photographic group Vremia (1970s-1980s)), Galina Gleba, online publication in Research Platform Online Tool on the site of Pinchuk Art Center, Ukraine, 2019
Ukrainian erotic photography, Osnovy, Ukraine, 2017
Selfie with my Wife, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, no. 13, Tomasz Szerszeń, 2016
Евгений Павлов: «Жизнь круче самых богатых фантазий (Yevgeniy Pavlov. Life steeper richest fantasy), Bird in Flight Magazine, Anton Shebetko, October 18, 2016
Kharkov School of Photography: Evgeny Pavlov, Art Ukraine, Alina Sanduliak, Ukaine, 2015
Biografie II – Wir, В Bilder Fotogalerie Wien, Krasny, 2014
Kharkiv’s school of photography, “5,6” Magazine N7, Ekaterina Degot, Nadezhda Prigodich, Ukraine, 2012
Behind Walls, Eastern Europe before 1989, Idea Books Publiсation, Holland, 2008
"Violin” and “Fotografia", Tetiana Pavlova, Magazine Fotografia N4, Poland, 2001
Magazine “Парта” (“Desk”), N1, Ukraine, 1997
Ukrainian Photos, Rich and Raw, The New York Times, William Zimmer, USA, 23 July 1995
Putting Soviet enigma in focus, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Findsen Owen, USA, 20 January 1991
Art Notes, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Findsen Owen, USA, January 15, 1991
Fotografi tran Harkov i Ukraina, CCCR: B. Mihailov, S. Bratkov, V. Krei, J. Pavlov, M. Pedan, R. Pjatkovka, Anette Rosengren, Sweden, 1991
Magazine “Новини кіноекрана” (“News of the Cinema”) №10, Kyiv, URSS, 1988
Magazine “Българско фото” (“Bulgarian Photo”) №11, People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1987
Magazine “Fotografia” (“Photography”) №1, The Polish People's Republic, 1973
Artist' Portfolio: pdf
2018 Chronicles of Total Photography, Cultural and Information Centre of Ukrainian Embassy in France, Paris, France
Evgeny Pavlov, Tetyana Pavlova. Method: Total photography, part of Interventsia project, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Evgeniy Pavlov, Taniana Pavlova: Methods of Total Photography, part of Interventsia project, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2007 Eyes - windows of the house, International biennial of Photography, Museum of history, Lviv, Ukraine
2005 Bonaparte's insight (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kyiv Photo Month, National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 Other Sky (with V. Shaposhnykov), International Biennale of Photography, headquarters of the National Unions of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 The photography of Eugene Pavlov and Olexandr Suprun, Wolf gallery, Cincinnati, USA
1998 Pornography (with V. Shaposhnykov), Kharkiv art museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1995 Total Photography, Kyiv Fortress museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1995 Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1994 Cypriana Majernika gallery, International month of photography, Bratislava, Slovenia
1991 Contemporary Soviet Photographers (together with Guennadi Maslov and Oleksandr Suprun), Centre of contemporary art, Cincinnati, USA
1990 Armmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
1988 Kharkiv Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1988 House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions (selection):
2026 Upcoming: Ukrainian Dreamers. The Kharkiv School of Photography, Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 Paris Photo 2024, sector Voices, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Ukrainian Dreamers, Communal Galerie, Berlin, Germany, curator: Sergiy Lebedyndskyy
Generations of Resilience - 22 Ukrainian photographers, Hangar, Brussels, Belgium, as a part of the PhotoBrussels Festival, curators: Hangar and Kateryna Radchenko
2023 Ukrainian Dreamers. Kharkiv School of Photography, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Ukraine: the Path to Freedom, Nationaal Monument Kamp, Vugh, Netherlands, with Noorderlicht Photography and the Old Groningen Churches Foundations
Home. Perspectives, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Les facettes de la Liberté. Oeuvres de la collection de Tetiana et Boris Grynyov, Ukrainian Culturel Center in France, Ukrainian Embassy in France, Paris, France
2022 Ukraine. Une donation contemporaine. Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odessa, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Paris Photo, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Paris, France
Photo London, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Somerset House, London, UK
Kharkiv School of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Once upon the war in KHARKIV, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Paris, Franc
2019 Crossing lines, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Björn Geldhof, Martin Kiefer, Alicia Knock)
Palette of Pain, Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Expo Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 Ukrainian Archetype, Photo Kyiv 2017 Art Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research Platform: Anonymous Society, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
The city of Kha. Kharkiv Avant-garde: Research project, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2017 Song about Bourevestink, The 5th Odesa Biennial, Odesa, Ukraine
2017 Un homme chapitre VI. La Mer Noire, Romanian cultural institute, Paris, France
Kharkiv. 18+, Odesa//Batumi Photo Days 2017, Museum of Modern art of Odesa, Odesa, Ukraine
2014 Biografie II – Wir, Fotogalerie Wien, Viena, Austria
Act of Disobedience. Body as a Protest in Kharkiv Photography of 1970s-2010s, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2012 Kharkiv School of Photogtaphy, the 1st Kyiv Biennial of Contemporary Art “Arsenale-2012,” Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Perestroika, Liberalization and Experimentation (1980s-2010), FotoFest 2012 Biennial, Houston, USA
The Drawing lessons: Ukrainian Photography, International Festival of Photography PIP, Pingyao, China
2008-2009 Behind Walls – Eastern Europe before and beyond 1989, within Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2007 Eastern European Festival, Art museum, Cincinnati, USA
2005 Photography from Ukraine, West Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
2004 Photo relay: from Rodchenko to our days, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
A Touring Ukrainian Photography Exhibit from Kharkiv ‘Dialogue: Mentors and their Students, Elkins exhibition hall, Cincinnati, USA
2003 Photography from 70s, International biennale of photography gallery, “Hontchary” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kharkiv’s Photography, municipal gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
Cultural Hero, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1999 Сarte blanche a Boris Mikhailov, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
The Exhibition of the Ukrainian Art, Museum of modern Russian Art, New Jersey, USA
1997 The Art of Contemporary photography in Eastern Europe,” Museum Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
1995 Multiple Exposures: Ukrainian Photography Today, Rutgers Art Center, Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA
1993 Kharkiv Photography, Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg, Germany
1992 Past/present: Photography from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
1991 Photoexhibition, Centre for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Charkov in Cheb, gallery “4,” Cheb, Czech Republic
1988 New Soviet Photography, Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Collections (selection):
Tate Modern, London, UK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP), Kharkiv, Ukraine
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Bibliographie (selection)
Book: Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine: Reflections, Perspectives, Challenges, publishers: the University of Salford and 89books, multiple contributors, 2025
Magazine: Photographie et idéologie. Stratégies subversives de l’école de photographie de Kharkiv (1971-1991) / Photography and Ideology: Subversive Strategies of the Kharkiv School of Photography (1971–1991), Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, Histoire de l’Art N 91, publisher: INHA, Paris, France, 2023
The exhibition catalogue: You Know That You Are Human, edited by 89books, supported by the Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut & Goethe-Institut im Exil (page 59), 2022
Magazine: The Information Front, #2. “Ukraine – The Path to Freedom, Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2022
Book: Kharkiv School of Photography, Game against Apparatus, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, publisher: Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine, 2020
Tetiana Pavlova, Evgeniy Pavlov, book: Violin, edited by Rodovid, Ukraine, 2018
Lesya Smirna, book: Століття нонконформізму в українському візуальному мистецтві (Hundred years of non conformist Ukrainian visual art), edited by Фенікс, Ukraine, 2017
Viktor Maushchenko, Olga Kostirko, Sasha Kurmas, book: Ukrainian Erotic Photography, edited by Osnovy, Ukraine, 2017
Book: The History of European photography. Vol. III, The Central European House of Photography, FOTOFO and Eyes On - European Month of Photography Vienna, Austria, 2016
Evgeniy Pavlov, book: Home Life, edited by Grafprom, Ukraine, 2014
The Drawing lessons. Ukrainian Photography. 1980-2010-s, catalogue of International Pingyao photography festival, Pingyao, Chine, 2011
Publications and Press (selection):
Evgeniy Pavlov, 7. Kulturverein fur Steiermark, Austria, Tetiana Pavlova, December 2025
Evgeniy Pavlov. Overcoming the Soviet Union with the Violin, Camera Austria #171, Herwig G. Höller, December 2025
À nous le Grand Palais!, Le Quotidien de l’Art, France, Raphael Pic, 9 November 2024, pdf
"Paris Photo 2024: Voices : Entretien avec Sonia Voss", L’Oeil de la Photographie, France, Zoé Isle de Beauchaine, 6 November, 2024
Against Image Fatigue: On Researching and Curating Photography from Ukraine, e-flux, online publication, Nadiia Bernard-Kovalchuk, 31 October 2025
"Kharkiv, capitale de la photo rebelle”, sur arte.tv : soixante ans d’histoire ukrainienne à travers l’objectif, Telerama, France, Pauline Demange-Dilasser, 16 October 2024
Ukrainian Dreamers: Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie, fotoPROworld, 1 March 2024
La force de résistance de la photographie ukrainienne dans une expo à Bruxelles, BeauxArts, Belgique, Charlotte Jean, 24 February 2024
Photo Brussels passe un cup, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Sophie Bernard, France, 15 February 2024
Dans l'œil de Libé. En images - A Bruxelles, les photographes ukrainiens à l’honneur, Libération, France, 17 February 2024
In Ukraine a battle for the future, Blind Magazine, Iris Mandret, 9 February 2024
Bruxelles expose les pépites de la photographie ukrainienne, Marianne, France, Anne Dastakian, 31 January 2024
Resilience and bravery in Ukraine: PhotoBrussels festival 2024, The Guardian, UK, Fiona Shields, 30 January 2024
Miasto na granicy, Oksana Barshinova, Herito Journal № 49, Poland, 2023
Ukrainische Fotografie in Wolfsburg. Das Leben war weiter als das System, Monopol, Lennart Laberenz, 12 Oct 2023
Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie" im Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, NDR Info, 13 Oct 2023
Quand l'Ecole de Kharkiv en avait plein le dogmes, Liberation, France, Clémentine Mercier, February 28 2023
Text for the exhibition and symposium You Know That You Are Human, Galerie Eigenheim Weimar, Presented by MOMENTUM & IZOLYATSIA, supported by the Ukrainian Institute, Goethe-Institut & Goethe-Institut im Exil, Germany, 9 May – 3 June 2023
L’oeul de Kharkiv, Jean-François Bouthors, Les Cahiers du Témoignage chrétien, France, 2023
Paris Photo joue avec le spectateur, Blind Magazine, 2022
L’École de Photographie de Kharkiv : De la censure soviétique vers une nouvelle esthétique, Igor Manco, L’oeil de la photographie, France, 2022
Kharkiv. La mémoire à vif d’une école de photographie ukrainienne, Réponses Photo, France, Carine Dolek, Mai 2022
Les Insolites Photographes de Kharkiv, M Le Monde Magazine, France, Roxana Azimi, September 2022
A Photo London, une diversité de regards sur l’Ukraine, Le Monde, France, Roxana Azimi, 13 May 2022, pdf
The Kharkiv School of Photography – in pictures, The Guardian, UK, 13 May 2022
Leap of the imagination: the best of Photo London 2022, The Guardian, Mee-Lai Stone, 12 May 2022
Photo London 2022. Top five fair highlights. Selected by Alessandro Merola, 1000 Words, 11 May 2022
À Kharkiv, l'art sous les bombes, Marie Claire, France, Galia Loupan, 1 April 2022
The Dissident Photographers of Ukraine, Aperture, Luca Fiore, 25 March 2022
Late 1960s to 1980s: The Vremya Group’s Time, Tetiana Pavlova, online platform Kharkiv School of Photography, Ukraine, 2021
ОБ ОДНОДНЕВНОЙ ВЫСТАВКЕ ГРУППЫ «ВРЕМЯ» В ХАРЬКОВСКОМ ДОМЕ УЧЕНЫХ (About one day exhibition of the Vremia group in House of Scientists in Kharkiv), Tetiana Pavlova, online magazine Your Art, Ukraine, 3 August 2020
Тело Времени ХАРЬКОВСКАЯ ФОТОГРАФИЧЕСКАЯ ГРУППА «ВРЕМЯ» (1971–1980-e) (Body of Time. Photographic group Vremia (1970s-1980s)), Galina Gleba, online publication in Research Platform Online Tool on the site of Pinchuk Art Center, Ukraine, 2019
Ukrainian erotic photography, Osnovy, Ukraine, 2017
Selfie with my Wife, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, no. 13, Tomasz Szerszeń, 2016
Евгений Павлов: «Жизнь круче самых богатых фантазий (Yevgeniy Pavlov. Life steeper richest fantasy), Bird in Flight Magazine, Anton Shebetko, October 18, 2016
Kharkov School of Photography: Evgeny Pavlov, Art Ukraine, Alina Sanduliak, Ukaine, 2015
Biografie II – Wir, В Bilder Fotogalerie Wien, Krasny, 2014
Kharkiv’s school of photography, “5,6” Magazine N7, Ekaterina Degot, Nadezhda Prigodich, Ukraine, 2012
Behind Walls, Eastern Europe before 1989, Idea Books Publiсation, Holland, 2008
"Violin” and “Fotografia", Tetiana Pavlova, Magazine Fotografia N4, Poland, 2001
Magazine “Парта” (“Desk”), N1, Ukraine, 1997
Ukrainian Photos, Rich and Raw, The New York Times, William Zimmer, USA, 23 July 1995
Putting Soviet enigma in focus, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Findsen Owen, USA, 20 January 1991
Art Notes, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Findsen Owen, USA, January 15, 1991
Fotografi tran Harkov i Ukraina, CCCR: B. Mihailov, S. Bratkov, V. Krei, J. Pavlov, M. Pedan, R. Pjatkovka, Anette Rosengren, Sweden, 1991
Magazine “Новини кіноекрана” (“News of the Cinema”) №10, Kyiv, URSS, 1988
Magazine “Българско фото” (“Bulgarian Photo”) №11, People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1987
Magazine “Fotografia” (“Photography”) №1, The Polish People's Republic, 1973
Artist' Portfolio: pdf