Roman Minin
Photography — Fires of Maidan
Ukrainian artist Roman Minin was born in 1981 in Dimitrov, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Graduated from the Kharkov Art College and Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts. In 2013, was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize. His works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group projects in Ukraine and abroad. Organizer and participants of street art festivals. Painter, graphic artist, photographer, author of objects and installations, street artist. Lives and works in Kharkov, Ukraine.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2021
30x30. Contemporary Ukrainian art, National Center «Ukrainian House», Kyiv
Minin in Varengeville-sur-Mer, La Bergerie, Varengeville-sur-Mer, France
Second Nature, Green Theater, Odesa
2020
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
The Artifical Pain, Сontemporary Art Centre ZnakiCzasu, Toruń, Poland
Alchemy of Motivation, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kiev
2019
Alchemy of Motivation, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 - 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Donbas Paradise, Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv
Minin’g Charleroi, Le Bois du Cazier, Charleroi
Transmonument, Mhaata gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Roman Minin in Genk, C-mine, Genk, Belgium
Gold of nation, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Art United, Mandarin Maison, Kyiv
2018
Auguste Rodin. Premonition of the future. Cherkasy Museum of Fine Arts, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Minin in Genk. Thor Central Genk, Genk, Belgium
Art Mining. Permanent mission of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Human / Alien. Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
More than sculpture. Art Ukraine gallery, Kyiv
Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2017
Мистецька праця. ART WORK, Galeria Mieska, Wroclaw, Poland
Мистецька праця. ART WORK, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
MININ in BRUSSELS, Mhaata Gallery, Brussels
Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine
2016
Recipe for Utopia, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Raimuzei. ArtUkraine Gallery. Kyiv
Identity. Behind the curtain of uncertainty. National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Kylym. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Zenko Art Foundation, Tatariv, Ukraine
2015
Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna
The Museum Collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art. 1985–2015, From Private Collections. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Just art, ARTVERA'S ART GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland
New Perspectives: 8 Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute, New York, 2015
Decompression. Coming Up For Air, Eglise Saint-Merri Pastoral Centre, Paris, 2015
The Sackler Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2015
2014
I am a drop in the Ocean, MOCAK, Krakow
Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now. Saatchi Gallery, London (catalog)
TMZ, Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Through Maidan and Beyond, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna
Slovenia / ART scanning, YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine
I am a Drop in the Ocean, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
OURS, Freedom Square, IX ART-KYIV Contemporary, Modern Art Forum, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
New Ukrainian Dream, Forbes Ukraine art-project, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
OURS, Freedom Square, Yermilov Centre, Kharkov, Ukraine
Ukrainian Contemporary Artists and Panton Chair, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Cacus Pacis, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Transit Zone, PERMM, Perm, Russia
2013
Ukrainian Contemporary Artists, Saatchi gallery, London (catalogue)
The Plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Small Project Gallery, Tromsø, Norway
Exhibition of 20 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Industrial Eden, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv (catalog)
The Re-Aligned Art, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
RE-PUBLIC. Russian Art in the Streets, Urb Festival, Helsinki
Terrain Orientation, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
Ukrainian News, «Ujazdow Castle» Contemporary art centre, Warsaw
Great and Grand, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2012
The Plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Palazzo Cantagalli, Foligno, Italy
Source of Life, Sinergy Gallery, Rome
Myth. Ukrainian Baroque, National art museum, Kyiv
ART-ATTAK, Festival, Foligno, Italy
Last First of May Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine
Presence of Absence Cultural Center of Contemporary Art, Klaipeda, Lithuania
The Second Urals Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art,Yekaterinburg, Russia
Presence of Absence, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine
From Constructivism to Contemporary. Kharkiv XX - XXI, Ermilov-Center Construction, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2011
Not My Business, project Wall, Vinzavod, Moscow
Just so stories, in the international project Revolutionary Art, Tbilisi
China Pingyao Internatonal Photography festival, China
The plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Street art festival, Kharkov, Ukraine
International Portfolio Revue, Moscow
Collective dreams, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
2010
Dreams about War, Vova-Tanya Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
History of Beautiful Mania, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow
Miner's Folklore, Municipal Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine
Symbol of Faith, Museum of Russian art, Kyiv
Stoy! Kto idet?, International Young Art Biennale, Moscow
IF, PERMM, Perm, Russia.
Boomerang, project of the Perm Biennale of Graphics, PERMM Museum, Russia
Festival of park sculpture LOM, winner of the festival,Yekaterinburg, Russia
Festival of Media and Performances Balaklava Odyssey, Sevastopol, Ukraine
special project of the Ural Industrial Biennale - bulletin FOR ART, Yekaterinburg, Russia
I Love P, Artemy Lebedev's project, Perm, Russia
Hydroponics, Perm Art Gallery, Russia
The Great Game, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine
From Trypillia to Present Day, biennale of historical painting, Central House of Artists, Kyiv
2009
Miner's Folklore, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
Day with Fire, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow
Celestial Ore, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow
Street Art Festival, Kharkov, Ukraine
Gagarinfest, Kharkov, Ukraine
Art Kyiv, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Gogolfest, Kyiv
Huliai Pole art festival, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine
Merkulov Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2008
Your Miner, Building of city administration, Donetsk, Ukraine
Art-Manezh, Moscow
Jubilee All-Ukrainian Exhibition of 70th Anniversary of the Union of Artists of Ukraine in Kharkov, Ukraine
Street Art Festival, Kharkov, Ukraine
International Festival of Fiction, Concert Hall of the Kharkov Law Academy Kharkov, Ukraine
Bob Fest, Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Art Test, Maestro gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Artery, Contemporary Art Festival, Poltava, Ukraine
The Essence of Things, Vova-Tanya gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Mobile Loneliness, Festival NON STOP, Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Moloda Sztuka Charkowa, Salon Posnania gallery, Poznan, Poland
Буття.UA, Academy gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Gogolfest, Kyiv
Lend-art. Mogrica 2007, Sowiart Gallery, Kyiv
Kisses, Tadzio Gallery, Kyiv
Biennale of Historical Painting, Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk
2007
Your miner, Art Foxtrot Gallery, Kyiv
Day with Fire, Maestro Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
SMS-Art, Maestro Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
Around the Sun, Exhibition Hall of Fine Arts Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
Territory of Soul, Plast-ART gallery, Chernihiv, Ukraine
ХДАДМ-МЖ, Workshop by V. Gontarova, Ukraine
AVEC Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
27th Miniprint international of Cadaques 2007 Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
Kharkov through the eyes of the Martians, Maestro gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine
2006
Workshop of Vinnik brothers, Nova Vodolaha
1998
All-Ukrainian Exhibition of 60th Anniversary of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Kyiv
1997
Exhibition at the Concert Hall of the town of Dymytrov
1996
Regional exhibition of Donbass artists, at Donetsk Fine Arts Museum, Donetsk, Ukraine