Sergiy Lebedynskyy (born in 1982 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is the artist belonging to the Kharkiv School Photography. As many other Kharkiv photographers, he has an engineering background: in 1994-2004 Sergiy studied in Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University, in 2005-2012 worked as scientist at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, where he defended his PhD thesis in 2013.
Sergiy Lebedynskyy has been engaged in photography since 2007. Together with Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Vadim Trykoz and Oleksiy Sobolev, he co-founded a group Shilo in 2010. The artist’s manner is defined by the fusion of documentality and variety of technological manipulations and performativity.
Sergiy also a curator and a collector of Ukrainian and East-European photography artists. His collection became the core of the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP) founded in 2018.
Sergiy Lebedynskyy has been engaged in photography since 2007. Together with Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Vadim Trykoz and Oleksiy Sobolev, he co-founded a group Shilo in 2010. The artist’s manner is defined by the fusion of documentality and variety of technological manipulations and performativity.
Sergiy also a curator and a collector of Ukrainian and East-European photography artists. His collection became the core of the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP) founded in 2018.
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Solo exhibitions (selection):
2019 Homeland, as part of Shilo Group, COME-IN art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2017 Quiet is the Ukrainian Night, Stolp gallery, Maribor, Slovenia From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts: Beginnings, Forever, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokio, Japan In Flux, Getxophoto Festival, Punta Begoña gallery, Getxo, Spain 2016 Ukraine — Memory under Revision, Alma Löv museum, Östra Ämterviks, Sweden 2015 Healing Muds, Spectrum Gallery at Lumiere Photo, Rochester, USA Healing Muds, Odesa - Batumi Photodays, Batumi, Georgia Euromaidan, as part of Shilo Group, National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia Euromaidan, as part of Shilo Group, Kaunas Photo, Kaunas, Lithuania Discovery Award, as part of Shilo Group, Les Rencontres d’Arles festival, Arles, France Chronicle, as part of Shilo Group, BildBand Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2014 UPA hände hoch, as part of Shilo Group, Kharkiv municipal art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine Finished Dissertation, as part of Shilo Group, Asymetria Galeria, Warsaw, Poland Finished Dissertation, as part of Shilo Group, FotoLoft gallery, Moscow, Russia Hrushevskoho Street / Euromaidan, as part of Shilo Group, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2013 Health treatments, as part of Shilo Group, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia Tvorcheskiy vecher, as part of Shilo Group, Vovatanya gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine Timoshenko’s Escape or the first step to the exhibition on Mars, as part of Shilo Group, FotoFest’s Biennial 2013, Houston, USA 2012 Timoshenko’s escape, as part of Shilo Group, PHOTOVISA International Photofestival, Krasnodar, Russia 2011 Storing negatives, as part of Shilo Group, Kharkiv municipal art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2010 Conservations, as part of Shilo Group, Kharkiv municipal art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine Group exhibitions (selection): 2020 Sztuczny ból. Współczesna sztuka Ukrainy, Centre of contemporary art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun, Poland 2019 UPHA Made in Ukraine, AKT art space, Kyiv, Ukraine Palette of Pain, Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Expo Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia |
2018 New Chic screening, Riga Photomonth 2018, Kanepes Culture Centre, Riga, Latvia
2016 Stopień zależności, BWA Contemporary Art gallery, Wroclaw, Poland Euromaidan: At the Break of Dawn, Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Flaneúr in Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania Archetypes of my War, Odesa-Batumi Photodays festival, Odesa Museum of Modern Art, Odesa, Ukraine Deformation, Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon, Southern Korea Nuit de la Photo, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland 2015 Young Portfolio Exhibition, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan Love and War in Ukraine, Panoptikon Fotografins hus, Stockholm, Sweden In Flux, Leonidas Kanellopoulos Cultural Center, Eleusis, Greece 2014 Ucraina — La guerra dei freelancers (Ukraine — The freelancers’ War), the Festival of Ethical Photography, Lodi, Italy Outpost of War Correspondents, Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia Publish/Curate, TJ Boulting, London, Great Britain I’m a drop in the ocean, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria Handmade II, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria An Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Leeuwarden, Netherlands 2013 Golden Camera award, nominees’ exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine Photographer of the Year, 2nd place in “Fine Art Photography” category, Kyiv, Ukraine International Discoveries IV, FotoFest, Houston, USA Act of Disobedience. Body as a Protest in Kharkiv Photography of 1970s-2010s, Lumiere brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia 2012 Stop allo 048 degli oggetti, Le Ciminiere art centre, Catania, Italy Celeste Prize 2012, Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, finalists’ show, Rome, Italy 2011 SHILO and friends. Photographs from East, East European Cinema Festival, Haus 23 gallery, Cottbus, Germany 2010 Two Views on Ukrainian Photography, Gaidai gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine Collections (selection): Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP), Kharkiv, Ukraine Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Publications (selection):
Shilo Group’s: From the Fog of the Barricades, by Feuerhelm, Brad in American Suburb X., December 10, 2015 Shilo Group, (in French) by les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, 2015 Interview with Shilo group, by Anna Grabatskaya, Colta Ru, July 2015 Sarah Topol, Fugue State: The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine, Harper’s Magazine, July 2015 Donald Waber, The Rules of Photojournalism Are Keeping Us From the Truth, Medium, May 2015 Brad Feuerhelm, Shilo Group’s: From the Fog of the Barricades, American Suburb X., December 2015. Krasnoshchok Vladyslav, Lebedynskyy Sergiy. Euromaidan. Spain, Riot Books, 2014. Colin Pantall, Chronicle: No Progress, No Photography, Old Country, New Country, Colin Pantall’s blog Tatiana Pavlova, The Kharkiv Photography School. The Shilo Group, Widok, 2014 Reporter ohne Grenzen, Fotos für die Pressefreiheit, Berlin, TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs, 2014 Golden Camera International Photo Award, Kyiv, Kyiv school of photography, 2012 |
Bibliography (selection):
Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, exhibition catalogue, Actes Sud, 2015 Sergiy Lebedynskyy and Vladyslav Krasnlshchok: Chronicle, (Хронiкa), art book, Dncht Publishing, 2015 |