KOVACH TARAS

1982

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Biography

Born in Uzhgorod, 1982. BA in graphic design, Uzhgorod College of Art (2002), MA in graphic, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFAA), Kyiv. Award winner of the Ukrainian Triennial of Graphics (2009). Since 2012 he is a lecturer on graphic department at the National Academy of Fine Arts and architecture/NAFAA (Kyiv) and engaged as an activist in the development of Soshenko 33 – alternative space and artists’ studio facility historically embedded within the postgraduate system of NAFAA. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Solo exhibitions

2013

«Noise», Scherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv

2012

«Frontman», Bottega gallery, Kyiv
«Wallpapers for Soshenko», Project space gallery, Kyiv
«Dream of the butterfly», ECCA «Tea factory», Odessa

Group exhibitions

2017

«Mocumenta» project, Soshenko 33 art studios, The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial
«Soshenko x Tokonoma», documenta 14, Kassel, Germany
«Title on the Spot» project, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany
Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

2016

«De ne de», Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information («UFO» building), Kyiv

2015

«Museum collection. Ukrainian contemporary art 1985-2015. From private collections», Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
X Art Kyiv Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
«Memory traces», Port Creative Hub, Kyiv

2014

«Awareness of opportunities» in cooperation with Anna Sorokovaya, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
IX Art Kyiv Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
«Glitch», curator Yanina Prudenko, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
«Ukrainian landscape. From other side of despare…», curator Evgen Karas, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
«Mobile print shop», within «Zahoplennya» project by Izolyatsia, Kyiv

2013

«Blinded with the beauty», Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv

2012

«Mobile graphics», Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv

2011

«Paper Work», Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
Miami International Art Fair, with Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
«The form of emptiness», curator Natalia Filonenko, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv
«Habitat», curator Maryna Shcherbenko, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv

2010

«Quick dreams», curator Natalia Filonenko, J. Greter art center, Kyiv