1960

A representative of Ukrainian neo-baroque, one of the leaders of the New Ukrainian Wave. Born August 25, 1960, in the village of Vradiivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. Graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts) in 1984. In 1987, Oleh Tistol and Konstantin Reunov announced the program "The Strong-Willed Edge of National Post-Eclecticism," the main idea of ​​which was the desire to delineate national space as a topic for study, to renew and rethink artistic language, artistic traditions, and the very foundations of painting. After participating in the 1st Soviet-American exhibition "Soviart" (1988, Kyiv), he received an invitation to participate in the activities of the Moscow squat "Furmanny Lane." Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. His works are in the collections of the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Norton Dodge Museum, USA; Moscow History Museum; Ministry of Culture of Turkey; Christoph Merian Stiftung Foundation, Basel, Switzerland; Gradobank, Kyiv; UkrSocbank, Kyiv; Va-Bank, Kyiv; Alfa-Capital, Kyiv; private collections in Switzerland, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Finland, Ukraine and Russia.