Evgeniy Pavlov (1949, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Pavlov is one of the founders of the Kharkiv School of Photography. Studied at the economical department of Kharkiv State University. During his student years was a participant of the regional photo club. Together with Jury Rupin organized the Vremia Group. 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.
Experimented with a wide range of techniques – from overlays to collages and hand-colouring, which emerged in his legacy in the late 1980s – early 1990s.
For the last years he was 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 is one of the founders of the Kharkiv School of Photography. Studied at the economical department of Kharkiv State University. During his student years was a participant of the regional photo club. Together with Jury Rupin organized the Vremia Group. 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.
Experimented with a wide range of techniques – from overlays to collages and hand-colouring, which emerged in his legacy in the late 1980s – early 1990s.
For the last years he was 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
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):
2024 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 FoundationsHome. 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, V Odesa biennale, 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 First Kyiv Biennial of Contemporary Art “Arsenale-2012,” Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Perestroika, Liberalization and Experimentation (1980s-2010), FotoFest 2012 Biennale, 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):
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)
The Information Front, #2. “Ukraine – The Path to Freedom, Schilt Publishing, Netherlands, 2022
Violin, Kyiv: Rodovid, by Pavlov, Yevgeniy, 2018
Home Life Book, Kharkiv: Grafprom, by Pavlov, Yevgeniy, 2014
The Drawing lessons. Ukrainian Photography. 1980-2010-s, catalogue of International Pingyao photography festival, Pingyao, 2011
Publications and Press (selection):
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
In Ukraine a battle for the future, Blind Magazine, Iris Mandret, 9 February 2024
Resilience and bravery in Ukraine: PhotoBrussels festival 2024, The Guardian, Fiona Shields, 30 January, 2024
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, Libération, Clémentine Mercier, Feb 28, 2023
Kharkiv. La mémoire à vif d’une école de photographie ukrainienne, Réponses Photo, Carine Dolek, Mai 2022
Les Insolites Photographes de Kharkiv, M Le Monde Magazine, Roxana Azimi, Sept 2022
A Photo London, une diversité de regards sur l’Ukraine, pdf, Le Monde, Roxana Azimi, 13 May 2022
The Kharkiv School of Photography – in pictures, The Guardian, 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 Alex Merola, 1000 Words, 11 May 2022
À Kharkiv, l'art sous les bombes, Marie Claire, Galia Loupan, 1 April 2022
The Dissident Photographers of Ukraine, Aperture, Luca Fiore, 25 March 2022
Ukrainian erotic photography, Kyiv: Osnovy, 2017
Selfie with my Wife, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, no. 13, by Szerszeń, Tomasz, 2016
Kharkov School of Photography: Evgeny Pavlov, Kyiv: Art Ukraine, by Sanduliak, Alina, 2015
Biografie II – Wir, В Bilder Fotogalerie Wien, by Krasny, 2014
Behind Walls, Eastern Europe before 1989, Amsterdam: Idea Books Publiсation, 2008a_photo_london_une_diversité_de_regards_sur_l’ukraine.pdf
Ukrainian Photos, Rich and Raw, The New York Times, by Zimmer, William, July 23, 1995
Putting Soviet enigma in focus, The Cincinnati Enquirer, by Findsen Owen, January 20, 1991
Art Notes The Cincinnati Enquirer, by Findsen Owen, January 15, 1991
Fotografi tran Harkov i Ukraina, CCCR: B. Mihailov, S. Bratkov, V. Krei, J. Pavlov, M. Pedan, R. Pjatkovka, Stockholm, by Rosengren, Annette, 199
Artist' Portfolio: pdf