LESIA KHOMENKO
The artist was born in Kyiv in 1980
Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Co-founder of curatorial Union HUDRADA, a self-educational community based on interdisciplinary cooperation. Since 2004 member of R.E.P. group
EDUCATION
1998–2004 National Academy of Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine 1991–1998 State Art Secondary School, Kyiv, Ukraine
AWARDS AND SPECIAL PRIZES
2009, 2011, 2013 nominated for Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012, 2016 nominated for Kazimir-Malewitzsch-Award, Kyiv, Ukraine
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Desired plane, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine
2020 Several stories and objects, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
2018 Lesia Khomenko and her school, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
2018 “Perspektyvna”, PinchuckArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Return to the Academy”, KMBS, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 “Revision”, Port creative hub, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 “Stup”, Closer art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 “Mixed Feelings”, Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 “Personal Vocation”, Mystetskyi Arsenal gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 “Rainbow Perspectives”, Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 “Wonderland”, Ukrainskyy dim (ex-museum of Lenin), Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 “Eyewitness”, Collection gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 “To good and evil!”, Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 “Polar Bear Swimmers”, Mystetskyi Arsenal gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2022 Imagine Ukraine, Bozar and European Parliament, Brussels 2022 This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, Misericordia Di Venezia 2022 Forward Ground, Fridman gallery NYC
2022 The Memory on Her Face, Pop-up exhibition Miami
2021 Transcending boundaries, Tiro al Blanco, Guadalajara, Mexico
2021 5 YEARS AGO, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2020-2021 «Remember Yesterday» PinchuckArtCentre, Kyiv 2018 “New Ear”, Fridman gallery, New York, USA
2017 “Festivities Are Cancelled! The Kyiv International” – Kyiv Biennial
2017 “UFO” at metro Lybidska (Ukrainian Instituteof Scientific, Technical and Economic Information), Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 “Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia”, MNAC, Bucharest,
Romania 2016 “Amor”, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil2016 “Guilt”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 “Meanwhile, what about socialism?” (project with R.E.P. group), Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle,United Kingdom
2016 “Into the darkness” (project with R.E.P. group), VozdvizhenkaArtsHouse, Kyiv and WUK, Vienna, Austria
2015 “Demonstrations minds. Disagreements in contemporary art”, Museum of contemporary art Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2015 “The school of Kyiv”, House of clothes, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 “Love on the edge”, Mystetskyi Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2014 “Referendum on withdrawal from the human race”, Closer art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 “R.E.P.: 10 years. On method”, Labirint Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2014 “Through Maidan and Beyond”, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria
2014 “Postcards from Maidan”, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2014 “Women Commentators Festival”, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
2014 “The Ukrainians”, Daad gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013 “Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 “Good Girls”, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania
2013 “The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice2013” (project with R.E.P. group) Parallel program of the Venice Biennale,Venice, Italy
2013 “Ukrainan News”, CSW Zamek Ujazdowsky, Warsaw, Poland
2012 “Practice”, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Future Generations Art Prize” (projects with R.E.P. group), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Paintings only. The New Ukrainian Figurative”, Special project of Kyiv art Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Best times, worst times”, main project of Kyiv Biennale Arsenale 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 “Landscape Shielded by the Picture”, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Feminist Offense”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 “Life in the forest” (project with R.E.P. group), Arsenal gallery, Bialostok, Poland
2011 “Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize” PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 “A complicated relation, part 2” (project with R.E.P. group), Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden 2011 “Making and Art” (project with R.E.P. group), Stadtgalerie schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
2011 “Public Folklore” (project with R.E.P. group), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2011 “Impossible community” (project with R.E.P. group), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia 2011 “Labor Show”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 “Independent”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 “Minimal Diferences” (project with R.E.P. group), White Box gallery, New-York, USA
2010 “If”, Museum of contemporary art, Perm, Russia
2010 “Eurorenovation in Europe” (project with R.E.P. group), Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
2010 “Great surprise” (project with R.E.P. group), National Art museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 “Let’s Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity” (project with R.E.P. group), KUMU, Tallin, Estonia
2009 “Gender Check”, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2009 “Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize” PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 “No More Reality. Crowd and performance” (project with R.E.P. group), Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 “Land of Human Rights: Being Responsible for Resources” (project with R.E.P. group),< rotor > Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
2008 “Retrospective” (project with R.E.P. group), LIA, Leipzig, Germany
2008 “Patriotism. Art as a present” (project with R.E.P. group), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 “Alphabetical order” (project with R.E.P. group), Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation,
Stockholm, Sweden
2008 “Transformations of History or Parallel Histories” (project with R.E.P. group), Gyumry biennial, Gyumry,
Armenia2008 “Another city. Another life” (project with R.E.P. group), Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2008 “New Ukrainian Painting”, White Box Gallery, New York, USA
2008 “No more reality” (project with R.E.P. group), De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Holland
2008 “Pro ”, “Qui vive?” (project with R.E.P. group) Biennale of young artists, National centre of contemporary arts, Moscow, Russia
2008 “Transit”, curatorial project of R.E.P. group, Ya gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 “Common Space”, curatorial project of R.E.P. group supported by Eidos foundation, public environment, Kyiv,Ukraine
2008 “New Ukrainian Language”, curatorial project of R.E.P. group, Karas gallery, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2008 “Checkpoint” (project with R.E.P. group), F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, Poland
2007 “The Art World” (project with R.E.P. group), Feinkost gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 “Artissima 2007” (project with R.E.P. group), Turin, Italy
2007 “Communities: ukrainian young artists”, curatorial project of R.E.P. group, Arsenal gallery, Bialostok, Poland 2007 “Consequences and Proposals” (project with R.E.P. group), Biennale of young artists, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 “Contemporary art Norwich” (project with R.E.P. group), Norwich, England
2007 “Ukrainian pavilion. Berlin” (project with R.E.P. group), Bereznitsky gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 “Patriotism” (project with R.E.P. group), Capsula gallery, Rome, Italy
2007 “Ginnungagap/Pavilion of Belief” (project with R.E.P. group) Presentation of “Im Regierungsviertel” gallery in time of 52 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2007 “A poem about an inland sea” (project with R.E.P. group) in collaboration with Mark Titchner, Ukrainian pavilion on52 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2007 “Critically in between” (project with R.E.P. group), Special project of Art-Athina fair, Athens, Greece
2007 “Progressive nostalgia” (project with R.E.P. group), Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2007 “From Kosovo to Kaliningrad” (project with R.E.P. group), Third Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague,Czech Republic
2007 “Return of memory” (project with R.E.P. group), KUMU museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 “Communities project”, curatorial project of R.E.P. group, Visual Culture Research Center at National University ofKyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 “Petroliana. Oil patriotism” (project with R.E.P. group), Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, MoscowMuseum for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2007 “Generations.UsA”, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 “Report Project”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 “Faculty of Invisibility”, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2006 “Teams Colours” (project with R.E.P. group), F.A.I.T. gallery, Krakow, Poland
2006 “Postorange” (project with R.E.P. group), Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2006 “Terytoria” (project with R.E.P. group) Centrum Kultury, Lublin, Poland
2006 “You?!” (project with R.E.P. group), ZEH gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 “Private with Public”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 “Non()sense”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 “Shargorod Arttown”, Shargorod, Ukraine
2006 “Intervention” (project with R.E.P. group), Center for Contemporary Art Zamek Uyazdovsky, Warsaw, Poland 2006 “Hot Ukraine/ Cool Ukraine” (project with R.E.P. group), Art Center on Neglynnaya, Moskow, Russia
2005 “ZOO”, RA gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 “Intervention” (project with R.E.P. group), Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 “Control”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 “Open Laboratory of R.E.P. group”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 “Ukrainian Hermitage”, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 “Oliv’e”, RA gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 “Warm&Cold impulses in L-Art Gallery”, L-Art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 “R.E.P.” (project with R.E.P. group), Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
RESIDENCIES
2022 Emergency Residency Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2022 Working Room, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Curated and participated)
2021 Summer Academy, Salzburg
2008 LIA (Leipzig International Art), Leipzig, Germany 2005–2007 Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
PinchuckArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine Art Collection Telecom, Germany, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
PUBLICATIONS
NY Times / In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely
Miami Gerald
NPR / With the war, a Ukrainian art show gains new meaning
NBC Miami / Miami Pop-Up Art Exhibit on Ukraine Happened by Pure Chance
LeFigaro / À Kiev, des artistes réfugiés dans une galerie d'art, redevenue un abri anti-bombe El Economista/Galería ucraniana que se convirtió en refugio presenta obra en Material
The Guardian 59th Venice Biennale review – the women’s biennale