Illya Chichkan

Illya Chichkan
Moments/Monuments

Illya Chichkan (* 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine). He lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Kiev, Ukraine. He is a representative of the "New Wave", painter, author of intallations, photo and video-projects.

Works and Reception

Illya Chichkan combined radicalism, shock-effect, and conceptualism, which exist only in visual-arts, and salon, glamour features typical for commercial advertising photo-sessions. The Ukrainian New Wave is a considerable group of artists, associated with this phenomenon. Their works were created in the 1990´s. Though the beginning of this new movement was born under "perestroika", when the USSR still existed.

Solo Exhibitions

2007: Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Mind-Player
2006: Bereznitsky-Gallery[[1]], Berlin, Moments and Monuments
2006: L-Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, PornoPops
2005: Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Psychodarwinism
2005: L-Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, Monkey or Man
2004: L-Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, Popsart
2004: Remont-Gallery, Belgrade,Rabbits on Acid
2001: Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, Illya Chichkan
2000: Gallery One Degree, Skopje, Macedonia, Sleeping Princes
1996: Ra Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, Chichkan Party
1994: Centre for Contemporary Arts Brama, Kiev, Ukraine, Alter Idem

Group Exhibitions

2006: Nobel Sculpture House, Stockholm, Sweden
2006: Kunst Halle Wien, Vienne, Austria, Post Orange
2006: London, UK, Defenders
2005: Bithanie Künstlerhaus, Berlin, Germany, South Wing
2005: Art Moscow, Russia. Playboyshow
2004: Manifesta 5., SanSebastian, Spain
2004: Photographic Biennal, Turin, Italy

External Links

Literature

Perscha Kollektija Exhibition Catalogue, Kiev, 2003
From Red to Yellow to Blue", Ludmila Bereznitsky, Kiev, 2004