Oleg Kharch

Oleg Kharch /Kharchenko (born 1963 in Sumy) is a Ukrainian artist in the figurative, new Ukrainian naive (Quasi- naive), post-conceptual direction of movement in contemporary art.

His works ranges from street art projects, artistic collage to traditional painting.

Education and personal life

From 1980-85 he was a student of the Faculty of Building Technology in Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk) Construction Engineering Institute,[1] and during 1981–83 he attended the art studio of Stanislav Cherevko, Dnepropetrovsk.

1981 -83 studied in art studio of Stanislav Cherevko/ Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk)/ USSR. 1985 -87 junior sergeant, squad leader of armored vehicles Repair in the Soviet Army. Since December 2018 he has been a participant of “Hlebzawod” .

Oleg Kharch is a resident of Kiev, Ukraine.[2]

Publications
  • 2015 Ukraine: Short Stories about Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, Luciano Benetton, Italy.[1]

2019 The book of the artist. “Chronicles of the unpublished (hybrid) war. Or [Cotton Accounting], from Oleg Kharch”;

2019 KYIV ART WEEK 2019 "TRIES TO BRING UKRAINE CLOSER TO THE WEST",TEXT: EMMANUEL GRYNSZPAN, BEYOND RUSSIA,CONTENTS № 8 "Russian Art Focus";

Selected exhibitions
  • 2020: Corona! Shut down!| international festival network @ New on NewMediaFest2020!, (Germany), curator – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne;
  • "CAM PANDEMIC ART"| CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum/ Naples, Italy, curator-Antonio Manfredi;

“THE ENVIRONMENT OF EXISTENCE. MANIFEST 2020”| Kyiv City Art Gallery LAVRA / Kyiv, Ukraine, curator - Yulia Nuzhina;

  • 2019: Wake up! – Climate change!| international festival network @ The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne (Germany), curator – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne;
  • 2019:- MEDIA ART EXHIBITION ARTEFACT: CHERNOBYL33/ River station/Kyiv, Ukraine;
  • 2019: KYIV ART WEEK 2019| ART FAIR "HLEBZAWOD"|May 23-26 "Toronto - KYIV" Complex;
  • 2019:The book of the artist. “Chronicles of the unpublished (hybrid) war. Or [Cotton Accounting], from Oleg Kharch”| Contemporary art center “Hlebzawod”/ Kyiv, Ukraine;
  • 2018: -Hlebzawod Art Prize 2018| Contemporary art center “Hlebzawod”/ Kyiv, Ukraine;

Participate in “Creative Climate Awards 2018” (“CCAs2018”), of the Human Impacts Institute’s (HII) at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in New York, USA;

  • 2017: -Participate in Art- Projekt– "Auto / Macht / Mobilität" /„KUNSTPREIS WORPSWEDE 2017“, Einbeck, Germany;

- “GOGOLFEST 2017 Oleg Kharch”/ Visual Art Programm/ Kyiv, Ukraine;

  • 2017 "GOGOLFEST", visual art, Kiyv;
  • 2017 5th Odessa Biennial "Turbulence Area"/ Gallery "HUDPROMO", Odessa;
  • 2017 Semi- project Oleg Kharch& Volodymir Kharchenko/ "khARTchenko- No CONJUNCTURE promenade" ;
  • 2016 Project of Contemporary Art "Event Horizon", curators- A. Soloviev, A. Lozhkina, S. Savchuk, Mysteckyi Arsenal, Kiyv;
  • 2016 Parallelismes/ The (Instead Undo VIII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art "Pushing the boundaries, unite the world") / Uzbekistan;
  • 2016 Mashrou' Proletkult/ AUB Art Galleries/ Beirut, Lebanon.[3]
  • 2016 Freierfest / Odessa, Ukraine.
  • 2016 "Goodбaй Хутiр Postмодерн"/ KZ ART ROOM/ Kiev,Ukraine.
  • 2015 Manifesto / IV Biennale Contemporary/ Odessa, Ukraine.
  • 2014 "Snailices or snails attack" / Art Kyiv Contemporary IX/ MyGallery / Kiev, Ukraine.[4]
  • 2014 Ukrainian Pictorial Exhibition / The Museum of Arts of Cherkasy region, Ukraine.[5]
  • 2014 International Art Projects "fame not fallen heroes" [6] & "Fame Maydan Heroes", V.Akhunov (Uzbekistan) & O.Kharch (Ukraine)/ Grushevskiy str. Second Barricade/ Maydan Nezalezhnosti/ Hreshchatyk str. by KSGA, Kiev, Ukraine.
  • 2013 “Such earnings”/ Mala Gallery of Mystetsky Arsenal art center/ Kiev, Ukraine.
  • 1991 Exhibition Folk-Applied Art of Poltava region, The Poltava Museum of Local Lore, Ukraine;
  • 1989 Exhibition of Bergen in Kingdom Norway;
  • 1988 Exhibition, Museum of Local Lore Murmansk ex-USSR;

Art residencies: 2019- Media Art Residence Carbon/”ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33”/Kyiv, Ukraine; 2015/2013 Private artistic residency in Cap-d'Ail, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France;

Collections
  • Mystetsky Arsenal art center |Kyiv/ Ukraine;
  • Human Impacts Institute’s (HII) in New York, USA;
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy;
  • MyGallery Kyiv/Ukraine | London/UK;
  • Private collections;
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References
  1. "Imago Mundi". imagomundiart.com. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  2. Romantic, Olga. "MASHROU'A PROLETKULT від OLEG KHARCH GROUP". Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  3. ukraineartnews. "События : Українське мистецтво побуватиме на міжнародній виставці у Лівані". ukraineartnews.com. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. ""Улиткиада, или Атака улиток" художника Олега Харченко | «Наш Киев» - новости Киева, афиша Киева, погода Киева". Интернет-журнал «Наш Киев». Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  5. "The IX ART-KYIV Contemporary 2014 – Arsenal". artarsenal.in.ua. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  6. "2014 International Art Projects "fame not fallen heroes"". estherartnewsletter. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
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