Born 1952, Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR.
Since 1990 lives and works in Viborg, Denmark
Education
Graduated from Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture, 1969 -1975
PhD in Architecture, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, 1983-86
Selected solo exhibition from the past 15 years
2022
Emotional Rescue, cut out installation, Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
2021
Our House, collage, The Danish Embassy in Berlin, Germany
Better than the Moon, curated by Christian Kortegaard Madsen, Fredericia Art Association, Fredericia, Denmark
2019
Dream Machine, Homage to Interbau 57, Hansa center, Berlin
WE, collage, photography, paintings, cut outs, curated Stephan Marquardt, Galerie Didier Devillez, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Nature Matter, collage, photography, installation, curated by Fay Dawling, Silkeborg Art Centre, Denmark
End of Spring, Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017
You, Retrospective, curated by Helene Bay Nyborg, Kunsthal Viborg, Denmark
2016
Secretly, Collage and paintings, curated Elisabeth Hajek and Manfred Maenling, MQ, Vienna
2014
Close Up And Private, paintings, Galerie Seine 51, Paris
2013
For Light and Memory, collage, paintings, Gestalten Space, Berlin
2012
Mirror by Mirror, Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky, photocollage, installation, Ivanovo Art Museum, Ivanovo, Russia
Mirror by Mirror, Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky, photocollage, installation, Riga Film Museum, Riga, Latvia
2011
Sergey Nielsen paintings for Close Up And Private, Kaufmannshaus, Hamburg, Germany
Mirror by Mirror, photocollage, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
2009
The Shape of White, collage, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY, USA
2008
The Trip, collage installation, ROJO artspace, Barcelona, Spain
Architectural Landscape, paintings, Galerie Gardy Wiechern, Hamburg, Germany
Selected group exhibitions from the past 15 years
2021
Less Festival of Contemporary Collage – Less Education, Viborg, Denmark
2020
Less Festival of Contemporary Collage, Viborg, Denmark
2019
You Know My Name, Photo Kyiv Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018
International Weird Collage Show, Jealous Gallery, London
Meta-Matter, curated by Faye Dawling, Karst, Plymouth, UK
2016
Detached, Now and tomorrow, EIKON gallery at MQ, Vienna
2014
L'Extime, Galerie Seine 51, Paris
2013
Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Faceless, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2011
For Love Not Money, The 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Contemporary Collage, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
Contemporary Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
2010
21st International Poster and Graphic Design Festival, Chaumont, France
Capture the Fade, The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney;
2009
Cut, Platform Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Appetite for Construction, curated by Mia Nielsen, Drake Hotel public spaces, Toronto
2008
It’s Nice That/Original Format, The Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth, England
Ink 01, International Illustration Rally, Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, Bilbao, Spain
Rojo Out, Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid, Spain
The Visual Way of Life, Optica, International festival for video art, FNAC Callao, Madrid, Spain
Cosmological Embeddedness or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Gallery Higher Pictures, New York, USA
2007
Smart For Two, Rojo, Venice, California, USA
Selected awards in the past 15 years
2013
Film Mirror by Mirror. Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky. With Noriko Okaku (JP/UK) - 1st prize at the International competition of experimental short films at The Lucca International Film Festival, Toscana, Italy
2nd place in Fine Art: Collage category, International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Honorable Mention in Fine Art: Collage category for the winning entry “Lineless”, International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2010
Capture the Fade, Overall winner, Ampersand Magazine Photography Award, Sydney, Australia
2009
Honorable Mention in Fine Art: Collage category for the winning entry “Less”, International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2007
D&AD Yellow Pencil, London, England
Selected books and catalogues in the past 10 years
2021
Christian Kortegaard Madsen, Min ven Sergei Sviatchenko, Fredericia Kunstforening
2018
Jørn Jacobsen, Sergei Sviatchenko: I am collage, Lindhardt & Ringhof, Copenhagen
2014
Rick Poynor, Sergei Sviatchenko: Collages, Schlebrueger.editor, Vienna
2012
Silke Krohn (ed.), Everything Goes Right & Left if You Want It: The Art of Sergei Sviatchenko, Gestalten, Berlin
Selected articles in the past 15 years
2015
Thomas Edlinger, “Less plus less”, Eikon no.89, Austria
2014
Eunyoung Park, “Graphic Design to overpower the Space”, Design, no.430, April, South Korea
Antony Hudek, “Collaborations. Sergei Sviatchenko”, CCC Newspaper nr.1, Austria
2013
Peppe Orru, “A modern-day renaissance man: the multi-faceted work of Sergei Sviatchenko”, Collezioni Uomo, nr.83, Italy
P.J. Smith, “Sergei Sviatchenko” Acclaim, no. 29, Australia
Ayako Ueda, “Visual Language of Style. Sergei Sviatchenko”, Free&Easy, no.174, April, Japan
2011
Francis Cazal, “De l’art et du style”, Clark, no.50, September/October, Paris, France
Paul Burgess, “The Future is Junk”, Varoom no. 12, spring, UK
2009
Richard Brereton, “Sticks in the Mind”, Elephant, no.1, winter 2009-10, UK
Xi Sheng, ”Sergei Sviatchenko” 100%O2, no.001, China
2008
Peter Kelly, “Paper City: Sergei Sviatchenko”, Blueprint no. 272, November, London UK
2007
Anna Follo and Nello Russo, “Sergei Sviatchenko”, Playzebra, no.05, Italy
“Who I Think I Am”, thisisamagazine 5th compendium, Italy
Walter Bettens, “Art for Art’s Sake”, DAMn no. 12, July/August, Belgium
Anna Lengle, “Meeting Sviatchenko”, LE, no.235, August, Russia
“Nami”, Rojo, Spain; “Fortwo”, Rojo, special edition, Spain
2006
Adrian Shaughnessy, “Mapping the Terrain”, interview with Sviatchenko, Varoom no. 1, UK
Sergei Sviatchenko, “When I was Seventeen…” Kilimanjaro, no.6, UK
© Sergei Sviatchenko, 2022
© Sergei Sviatchenko, 2022