OLEKSANDR SOLOVIOV

Curator of contemporary art, author of numerous art publications. Graduated from the faculty of Theory and History of Art at the Kyiv Art Institute and postgraduate course at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In the nineties, he was the curator of iconic for a decade projects, such as "Artists of the Paris Commune", "Calm", "Space of the Cultural Revolution", "Greenhouse Affect". Member of the squat "Parkomuna". For several years (with a break) was a member of the Soros Center Supervisory Board for Contemporary Art in Kyiv and Odesa.  Most of the 2000s (from the beginning of 2003 to the middle of 2010) dealt with the activities of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation "Contemporary Art in Ukraine", and then the PinchukArtCentre. He was a curator of the projects "First Collection", "A Farewell to Arms" and "Reality Check", organized by the Pinchuk Foundation in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Since 2006, he has implemented exhibitions in the PinchukArtCentre such as: "New Space", Generations UsA, Reflection, "20 nominees PinchukArtPrize for young Ukrainian artists", "Red Forest". In some of them, the foreign artists, in addition to Ukrainian ones, also played a significant role. For the last eight years, he has been the curator of contemporary art projects at the NKMMK “Mystetskyi Arsenal, including "Independent. New art of the new country 1991-2011 "," Oleksandr Hnylytsky. Reality of Illusion", “Flashback. Ukrainian media art of the 90s", "Kyrylo Protsenko. Passionate", "Oleg Holosiy. Non-Stop Painting”, as well as a special Ukrainian-Polish “Double Game” project within the framework of the Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE-2012. In 2014, he was a member of the curatorial group in the "Premonition. Ukrainian art today " project, and in 2015, he was the curator and the jury member of the exhibition-competition of Ukrainian and British young artists Uk/raine. Both projects were exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London. In 2003, 2007 and 2013, he supervised the Ukrainian pavilion projects at the Venice Biennale.