Now Open
Admission is Free

Illya Chychkan

Not finished version, filling up
Biography
August 29, 1967

Born in Kyiv in a family of artists

1980s

Without completing formal art education, he studied painting in the studio of his grandfather, an artist

1987

Beginning participation in group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad

1988 - 1993
Participant of the squat on Paris Commune street.
1990s

Member of the artistic movement «New Wave»

1993

The first solo exhibition "Gene Mutation" took place in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists.

1994

The second solo exhibition «Alter Idem» at the Bramа Center for Contemporary Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine.

mid 1990s - 2000

Work in the advertising business

1996

Participation in the International Biennale in São Paulo.

1997

Contemporary Art Biennale in Johannesburg

2001 - 2003

Residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2003

Participation in the Prague Biennale

2004

Biennale in Belgrade

2004

European Manifesta Biennial

2008

The artwork "It" was sold at the Phillips de Pury auction for a record amount of $70,000.

2009

Representing Ukraine at the 53rd International Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art

Exhibitions
2013.11.16
Where there is a will, there is a chance
2018.03.01
FLASHBACK. Ukrainian media art of the 1990s.
2016.05.21
Transformation
2016.10.22
Spirit of the Time
2011
Back entrance to the museum, a special project by Illia Chichkan and PSYFOX within ART-KYEV contemporary
2009
Over The Wall
2017.04.27
Exhibition of Achievements of Ukrainian Media Art
2010.06.09
Abstract Vision Test
1999.11.23
Public Art
2007.10.06
Reflection
2003.06.26
And the Prague Biennale
2016.04.01
[Re][Con]struction
1996
Ukrainian presentation, International Biennale in São Paulo
2002.11.22
Girls, nymphs, girls
2007.10.11
Sex. Boxing. Jazz
1999.09.09
The future has arrived. Ukrainian art of the 1990s
1999
Glances at Ukraine
2003
Start
2009.07.08
Artists are drawing. A4, ballpoint pen at the "Art-Vilnius 2009" fair
2006.10.10
Postoranjart
2003
Extra-Schengen
2007.06.16
Bloomsday ’07
2007.05.31
On Geekdom: artists of the post-Soviet space within the framework of the Art-Athens festival
2010.09.10
Star Wars
2003.11.28
They are watching us…
2002.10.23
Blue clay
2014.04.29
The Show Within The Show
2014.09.27
Presentation of the "Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art"
2015.04.23
Presentation of the "Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art"
2015.05.30
On the Edge. Ukrainian Art 1985–2004
2012.06.02
Contemporary Ukrainian artists, within the framework of the parallel program ARSENALE 2012
2011.03.11
Painting of the 1960s–2000s. From the MSM “Soviart” collection
2015.09.22
ART-KYIV Contemporary 2015. The tenth annual forum of art projects. Special project "Museum Collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art 1985–2015 from private collections"
2002
P.V.O.
2003
Ukrainian Lolitas
2004
Pops Art
2004
Black eyes
2005
Monkey or Man
2016.10.21
Parkomuna. Place. Community. Phenomenon
2005
Totalitarian Darwinism
2006
PornoPops
2006
Moments/Monuments
2007
Mind Games
2008
Mind Games
2009.04.25
Domestic Surrealism
1994
Alter Idem
2001
Noble is only the understanding of one's own ignorance
2001.12.12
Jokingly
2003
Month of Photography in Kyiv. Photo Biennale 2003
2009.01.06
Steppes of Dreamers. Ukrainian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale
2000
Sleeping Princes of Ukraine
2001
Girls and rabbits
2006.09.14
KISSKI
2001.12.15
Brand "Ukrainian"
2011.12.07
RAS-UA: Exhibition «Back Entrance to the Museum»
2011.05.17
Monkeywood
2010.06.05.
Skin and gold
2012.05.24
Double Game, ARSENALE 2012 Special Project
1995
Множинні експозиції
1993
Mazepa
2003
Puppies
2000
New painting, 2000
1999
Carte blanche
1999
Modern photographers of Ukraine
1999
New Europe
1997
Purple and green
1996
Chichkan Party
2000.05.01
Photobiennale 2000
2001
Animal Farm
2002.04.29
Photobiennale 2002
2003
Documenta
2003
10th Photography Biennale
2004.06.11
Manifesta 5
2005
South Wing
2006
Defenders
2000
Sleeping princes of Ukraine
2001.03.20
Girls and rabbits
2001
Illya Chychkan
2004
L.S.D. Rabbits
2005
Timeout
2005.11.23
Psychodarwinism
2006.04.05.
Ukrainians
2007.03.02
Mind-Player
2001
Art versus Geography
2011.08.23
20 years of presence
2010
Chiefdom
2003.09.23
Donumenta. Festival of Ukrainian Art
1996.01.10
Hermetic forest
1996
International Art Festival
1996.06.26
Looks with jam
1993
Gene mutation
2010
Якщо / Если / If. Українське мистецтво на зламі
2009.10.31
Рудий ліс
2008.07.10
Bloomsday ’08
2008.04.11
Нове українське мистецтво
2005.05.21
Перевірка реальності
2004
Доба романтизму
2001
Iskusstvo 2000. Нове мистецтво з Москви, Санкт-Петербурга та Києва
2000
Нові спрямування
2000
1+1
1999.06.18
Майбутнє настало. Українське мистецтво 90-х
1999.04.30
…und ab die Post 1999!, 3-й фестиваль молодого експериментального мистецтва
1998
ІнтерМедіа
1998
Accommodation / Місце мешкання
1998.11.07
Кримський проект ІІ
1998
Month of Photo
1997.07
Симптоматична анонімність
1996
Товарний фетишизм, спеціальна експозиція в рамках Міжнародного Арт-фестивалю
1998.06.05
Міжнародний фестиваль відеоарту та коротких фільмів Dreamcatcher
1996
До сімейного альбому
1995.11.06
Вирощене у кістці
1995.03.29
Барбарос
1995
Аналіз крові
1994
Вільна зона
1994.07.20
Алхімічна капітуляція
1993.08.13
Ангели над Україною
1991
Міжнародний фестиваль сучасного мистецтва
2014.09.17
Передаукціонна виставка АД «Золотое сечение» «POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART», 2014 р.
2011.08.23
Незалежні
1997.01.30
Парниковий афект
1997.03.[?]
Фото…синтез
2000
Дві сторони
2009.06.25
Bloomsday ’09. Ідеальний вік
1994.05.26
Простір культурної революції
1995.02.23
Рот медузи
1995
Чорно-біле
1999
Пінакотека. Спеціальний проект «Нова фігуративність»
1992
Нові роботи художників Києва
1992.05.06
Косий Капонір
1987
Всесоюзна виставка «Молодість країни»
2003.11.22
Перша колекція
2009.09.18
Українська Нова хвиля. Мистецтво другої половини 1980-х — початку 1990-х років
2008.10.31
Арт-Київ — 2008
1992.06.10
Летó
1992.03.06
Штиль
1991.11.12
Художники Паризької комуни
Bibliography
  1. Doroshenko K. A Man Opened Like a Matryoshka [Electronic resource] / Kostyantyn Doroshenko // magazine «NON», #6, 2000, p. 24. – 2000. – Access mode to the resource: http://kd-archive.livejournal.com/1946.html
  2. Essays on the History of Visual Arts of Ukraine in the 20th Century / Editorial board: V. Sydorenko (head) et al.; Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine: In 2 vols. – Kyiv: Intertekhnolohiya, 2006. – Vol. 2. – 656 p.
  3. Solovyov O. Turbulent Locks: Collection of Articles / Oleksandr Solovyov // Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of AMU. – Kyiv: Intertechnology, 2006. – 192 p.: ill. – Access mode to the resource: http://www.mari.kiev.ua/PDF/solovev.pdf
  4. Solovyov O. The New History of Contemporary Art. Point Zero. Part V. The Second Half of the 90s (1996–1998). From Media Art to Post-Media Painting [Electronic resource] / O. Solovyov, A. Lozhkina // TOP 10. – 2010. – Access mode to the resource: http://spoononthemoon.blogspot.com/2010/05/point-zero-v-90-19961998.html.
  5. Solovyov A., Lozhkina A. Point Zero [Electronic resource] / A. Lozhkina, O. Solovyov // Modern History of Ukrainian Art. Part II. Generation at its Zenith. 1990 – mid-1992 / Alexander Solovyov, Alisa Lozhkina // Special project of TOP10 magazine – 2010. – Access mode to the resource: http://top10-kiev.livejournal.com/281049.html?thread=894681.
  6. Solovyov A., Lozhkina A. Point Zero. The Latest History of Ukrainian Art. New Wave, Part III. Summer 1992 – Summer 1994: Temptation by Europe and the Decline of the Paris Commune / Alexander Solovyov, Alisa Lozhkina // Special project of TOP10 magazine – Access mode to the resource: http://top10-kiev.livejournal.com/284904.html
  7. Solovyov A., Lozhkina A. Point Zero. The Newest History of Ukrainian Art. New Wave. Part 1. 1987-1989 / Alexander Solovyov, Alisa Lozhkina // Special project of TOP10 magazine – Access mode to the resource: http://spoononthemoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/point-zero_8527.html
  8. Illya Chichkan. Selected Uncensored Works – Kyiv: Ludmila Bereznitska and Partner Gallery, 2009.
  9. Made in India. Interview with Ilya Chichkan [Electronic resource] // 2010 – Access mode to the resource: http://korrespondent.net/showbiz/1089747-sdelano-v-indii-intervyu-s-ilej-chichkanom.
  10. Lozhkina A. Ilya Chichkan: "I am one of the offspring of mass culture" [Electronic resource] / Alisa Lozhkina // Art Ukraine. – 2012. – Access mode to the resource: http://www.artukraine.com.ua/a/ilya-chichkan-ya-odno-iz-porozhdeniy-mass-kultury/#.WB_AWjWg_IU.
  11. Bazdireva A. Humor and Conscious Secondariness [Electronic resource] / Asya Bazdireva // Art Ukraine. – 2011. – Access mode to the resource: http://www.artukraine.com.ua/a/yumor-i-soznatelnaya-vtorichnost/#.WB_EWDWg_IU
  12. Smirnova E. Ilya Chichkan: "What I do always has a schizophrenic nature" [Electronic resource] / Evgenia Smirnova // Art in Ukraine. – 2016. – Access mode to the resource: http://artinukraine.com/ilya-chichkan-to-chto-ya-delayu-vsegda-nosit-shizofrenicheskij-harakter/.
  13. Дорошенко К. «Взрыв вкуса» в контексте выставки / Константин Дорошенко. // газета ”День”. – 2000.
  14. Кисельчук Т. Внимание, говорит художник: Илья Чичкан [Електронний ресурс] / Татьяна Кисельчук // Artmisto. – 2015. – Режим доступу до ресурсу: http://artmisto.net/2015/09/06/vnimanie-govorit-hudozhnik-ilya-chichkan-2/
  15. Баркарь Г. Трип с дедушкой или Несерьезное интервью [Електронний ресурс] / Галина Баркарь // Art Ukraine. – 2013. – Режим доступу до ресурсу: http://artukraine.com.ua/a/trip-s-dedushkoy-ili-nesereznoe-intervyu/#.WJsdLBKLTeT
  16. Pedalkina Z. A contemporary with a powerful jaw / Zina Pedalkina. // Profile. – 2006.
  17. Педалькина З. Современник с мощной челюстью [Електронний ресурс] / Зина Педалькина // Мітєц. – 2006. – Режим доступу до ресурсу: http://mitec.ua/sovremennik-s-moshhnoy-chelyustyu/?_utl_t=fb.
Location
Opening Hours
Calendar
This website uses cookies

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.