Stepan Ryabchenko
Stepan Ryabchenko was born 1987 in Odessa. Contemporary Ukrainian artist, one of the leading figures in digital and new media art. The focus of his work is on the interaction between the new media and classic visual art tradition, the boundary between the real and the virtual world, and the new nature of art. He participates in international projects and Biennales. Nominated for the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize (2011). Laureate of the International competition of contemporary sculpture Kyiv Sculpture Project (2012). Lives and works in Odessa, Ukraine.
2011 – Graduated from the Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture with a master's degree in Architecture.
2010 – Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
2010 – The winner of the First All-Ukrainian Triennial of abstract art ART-ACT.
2011 – Nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize.
2012 – Laureate of the international competition of contemporary sculpture Kyiv Sculpture Project.
2015 – Among 30 successful Ukrainians under 30, according to Forbes list.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2022
“UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES" – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2020
Strange Time, online, www.strangetime.art
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Alchemy of Motivation, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2019
Alchemy of Motivation, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 - 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Media dependence. Ukranian version, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
2018
The Judgment Day, TEDxKyiv, ACCO International, Kiev
Digital Nature. Kyiv International Economic Forum: Creating the Future in a High-Tech World, Kyiv
Instant time. Mystetskyi arsenal, Kyiv
Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
I am the Mouth. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
10 years. Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2017
Sounds of Silence, Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
Cold Faith, Invogue Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
Petlyuk. Ryabchenko. Sai. Art Tsum, Kyiv
Polprawda - Half-truth. Krolikarnia, Warsaw
Salon des Refusés. Museum of the Navy, Odessa, Ukraine
Sounds of Silence. Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
Мистецька праця. ART WORK, Galeria Mieska, Wroclaw, Poland
Мистецька праця. ART WORK, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
2016
Recipe for Utopia , Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Kylym. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Art Palace, Lvov, Ukraine
Honey Plant, Invogue Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
Litoralis, Drukarnya Art Centre, Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine
Clouded Lands, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Kylym. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Zenko Art Foundation, Tatariv, Ukraine
2015
New Perspectives: 8 Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
3rd Danube Biennale, Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava
IV Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
Enfant Terrible. Conceptual Art of Odessa, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
Dialogia, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
2014
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
Long Path to Freedom, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
Cosmoscow, Manege, Moscow
Octants, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Probability Theory, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
The Ukrainian Landscape, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
New Ukrainian Dream, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Art Vilnius’ 2014, Lithuanian Exhibition Centre, Vilnius
Ukraine. Archetype of Freedom, Novomatic Forum, Vienna
2013
Ukrainian Contemporary Artists, Saatchi gallery, London
Terrain Orientation, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
The Odessa School. Tradition and Currency, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Great and Grand, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Sculpture about Sculpture, YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine
Industrial Eden, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2012
Arsenale 2012, International biennale of contemporary art, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
The Myth. Ukrainian Baroque, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Kyiv Sculpture Project, M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv
Social Euphoria, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2011
PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Independent, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
Space Odyssey, Art Arsenal, Kyiv
2010
TOP-10 Contemporary Artists of Odessa, HudPromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
Those, who came at the start of 2000, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv
Art-Act, First All-Ukrainian Triennial of Abstract Art, Chernovtsy, Ukraine
Star Wars, Contemporary Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine
Abstract art of Odessa, Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2009
Restart, Marine Art – Terminal, Odessa, Ukraine
Kunstart, Festival of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2008
Odessa Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
Collections:
Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum, Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Lars Malmberg Collection, Luciano Benetton Collection, Voronov Art Foundation, Firtash Foundation, Arts Trend Company, Stedley Art Foundation, Zenko Foundation, private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, United Kingdom, Israel, Denmark, Cyprus, Switzerland, Italy, Slovakia.