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.