In 1922 He Was a Cofounder of the Technical Art Institute in Kharkiv

Mykola Ridnyi in Kharkiv, 2017. Photo (c) Daniil Revkovskyi.

Mykola Ridnyi was born 1985 in Kharkiv. He lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.

He graduated in 2008 from the National Academy of blueprint and arts in Kharkiv, where he got his MA caste in sculpture studies.

Ridnyi combines unlike artistic activities: he is an artist and filmmaker, curator and writer of essays on art and politics. Since 2005, he has been a founding member of the SOSka group, an art commonage based in Kharkiv. The same twelvemonth he cofounded the SOSka gallery-lab, an artist-run-space in an abandoned house in a center of Kharkiv. Under Ridnyi's lead, t he gallery-lab was instrumental in the developing the artistic scene in the region before information technology was closed in 2012. He curated a number of international exhibitions in Ukraine, among them "After the Victory" ( CCA Yermilov middle, Kharkiv, 2014), "New History" (Kharkiv museum of art, 2009) and others. Since 2017 Ridnyi is co-editor of Prostory - online magazine about visual fine art, literature and society. In 2019 he curated Armed and Dangerous - multimedia platform bringing together video artists and experimental film directors in Ukraine.

Ridnyi works across media ranging from early collective actions in public space to the amalgam of site-specific installations and sculpture, photography and moving image which constitute the current focus of his do. In recent films he experiments with nonlinear montage, collage of documentary and fiction. His manner of reflection social and political reality draws on the contrast between fragility and resilience of individual stories and collective histories.

His works are in the permanent public collections of Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Museum of Mod Fine art in Warsaw, Arsenal City Gallery in Bialystok, V-A-C foundation in Moscow and others.

Fellowships, residencies, awards

2021 - K ünstlerhaus Büchsenhausen fellowship program. Innsbruck. AT

2019 - Junge Akademie scholarship, Akademie der M ü nste Berlin, DE | Villa Serpentara, residency plan,  Olevano Romano, Information technology

2018, 2016, 2014 - nominated for the Malevitch Award. Kyiv. UA

2017, 2016 -  IASPIS residency program. Stockholm. SE

2015 - nominated for the International Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award. Vienna. AT

2015 - Gaude Polonia, scholarship plan of the Government minister of culture of Poland | resident of the East of Art foundation. Krakow. PL

2015, 2013, 2011 - nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize. UA

2014 - Künste und Medien Stipendium des Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD for short residencies . Berlin. DE

2012 - Truth is Concrete marathon-camp. Steirischer Herbst festival. Graz. AT

2011 – Sommerakademie Centrum Paul Klee.  Bern. CH

2010 – CEC ArtsLink, residency program. Santa Atomic number 26 Fine art Institute. Us

2008 - KulturKontaktAustria,residency program . Vienna. AT (SOSka grouping)

Selected solo exhibitions

2021 "Excavations from the Future". Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv. UA

2019 "Wolf in a Sack". Arsenal City Gallery. Bialystok. PL

2018 "Facing the Wall". Labirynt City Gallery. Lublin. PL

2016"Forecast for Yesterday". Blockhaus DY10. Nantes. FR

2016"Hang zum Konflikt" (together with Anna Witt). Kunstraum Munchen. DE

2016 "Nether Suspicion". Edel Assanti. London. GB

2014 "Shelter". Visual Civilization Research Center. Kyiv. UA

2012"Labor Circle". CCA Ujazdowski Castle , Project Room. Warsaw. PL

Selected group exhibitions and movie festivals

2020

"The Hotel, the Sanatorium, the Pension and Their Refugee'due south Rooms"  - Kyiv Pavillion of the Tbilisi Compages biennial. GEO / UA

24-thursday Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterhur  - The Short Film Festival of Switzerland. SUI

11-thOdessa International Film festival . UA

49-th Molodist Kyiv International Film festival. UA

2019

"Subsequently Leaving / Before Arriving". 12-th Kaunas Biennale. LT

"Picture This. Selected Pasts, Subverted Facts" . Budapest Gallery. HU

"Never Once more. Art Confronting War and Fascism in 20-thursday and 21-st Centuries" . Warsaw Museum of Modern Art. PL

"Tale of Novorossiya" . Armory City Gallery. Poznan. PL

"The Forbidden Paradigm / Crossing Lines" . PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. UA

Alter Media / Transmediale .Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin. DE

"VUFKU. Lost & Institute". Museum of Cinema / Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre. Kyiv. UA

"Armed and Dangerous". Izolyatsia Platform for Culture Initiatives, Kyiv / Yermilov Center, Kharkiv. UA

2018

"Restless Monuments". Zilberman Gallery. Istanbul. TR

"Neighbors. Warsaw Under Structure x". Cepelia Pavillion. Warsaw. PL

35th Kassel Documentary Film festival. DE

27th DokumentArt Picture festival. Neubrandenburg. DE

2017

"The Paradigm of War". Bonniers Konsthall. Stockholm. SE

"If Seeing is Believing". Fullersta Gard. Stockholm. SE

"It Won't Be Long At present, Comrades!". Framer Framed. Amsterdam. NL

"Attention! Edge". Laribynt City Gallery. Lublin / Armory Metropolis Gallery. Bialystok. PL

"Borderline Conditions". MERES Multifunctional Space. Nicosia. CY

"Your State Doesn't Exist". Museum of Modern and C ontemporary A rt. Rijeka. 60 minutes

"Postponed Futures". GRAD Gallery. London. GB

DocudaysUA, International Human being Rights Documentary Moving picture Festival. Kyiv. UA

8-thOdessa International Film festival . UA

2016

"Photography Today: Afar Realities". Pinakotek der Moderne. Munich. DE

"Sentsovs Photographic camera". GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Fine art Leipzig. DE

"Universal Hospitality". Into the Urban center / Wiener Festwochen. Vienna. AT

"Our National Torso". Taras Shevchenko National Museum. Kyiv. UA

"Guilt". PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. UA

"Your Country Doesn't Exist". Fine art Radionica Lazareti, Galerija Otok. Dubrovnik / Multimedia Culture Center, Carve up. 60 minutes

"The School of The Devil". Section Vienna of "The School of Kyiv" - Kyiv Biennale. Sandleitenhof, Vienna. AT.

"A Sence of History". The Video Art Drove of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Nordstern Video Art Middle. Gelsenkirchen, DE

"School of Prosperity". A Class of the Schoolhouse of Kyiv / Kyiv Biennial. MUSA Museum. Vienna, AT

2015

"All the Earth's Futures". Chief project of the56th Venice Biennale for Contemporary Art. IT

"Promise". National Pavillion of Ukraine at the 56th Venice Biennale for Gimmicky Art. Information technology

"Politics of Form" . GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig. DE

"Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations".  "Private Nationalism Budapest" / A joint exhibition of the Budapest Gallery and Kiscell Museum. HU

"Beginnings" . Gallery Vartai. Vilnius. LT (SOSka group)

"Phone calls from the cemetary and other stories".  Academy of the Arts of the World. Cologne, DE

"The School of Kyiv - Kyiv biennale" . The Firm of Clothes. Kyiv, UA

"Our National Trunk". Arsenal Urban center Gallery. Bialystok, PL

"Becoming by Recalling". Passagen Konsthall. Linkoping. SE

"Gimme Shelter - Forts and Fictions in The Lowlands". KunstFort Asperen, Fort Nieuwersluis, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen. NL

"Least the Two Seas Meet". Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. PL

"Grammar of Liberty / Five Lessons". Museum for Contemporary Art Garage. Moscow, RU

"Balagan! Contemporary Fine art from The Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places". Momentum / Nordwind Festival. Berlin. DE

2014

"Through Maidan and Beyond". Architekturzentrum Wien. Vienna. AT

"Lockout". Visual Civilization Enquiry Center. Kyiv. UA

"Freedom on The Barricades?". Växjö Konsthall. Växjö. SE

"Sis Europe" . Kunstraum Lakeside. Klagenfurt. AT

"Deprivation" . Arsenal City Gallery. Bialystok. PL

"Ten 1000 Wiles and a Hundred M Tricks". Meeting Points 7 Festival, Institute for African Studies, Moscow, RU

"The Ukrainians". DAAD Galerie, Berlin, DE

"Shadow of a Doubtfulness". Museum for Gimmicky Art Garage. Moscow, RU

2013

"Global Activism". ZKM - Centre for Fine art and Media. Karsruhe. DE

"The Monument to A Monument". National Pavillion of Ukraine at the 55th Venice biennial for Gimmicky Art. Information technology

"In the Heart of The Country". Museum of Modern Art. Warsaw. PL

"Ukrainian News". CCA Ujazdowski Castle. Warsaw, PL

"Re-Aligned Art". Tromso Kunstforening. Tromso. NO

"Uni-Ja / Uni-On". Open up City Festival. Lublin, PL

2012

"Shelter". Kunstverein Das Weisse Haus. Vienna, AT

"Angry Birds". Museum of Modern Fine art. Warsaw. PL (SOSka group)

"The Imitation Calculations Presidium" . Museum of Concern and Philanthropy. Moscow. RU

"Ukrainian Trunk". Visual Culture Research Centre. Kyiv. UA

"Disputed Territory". Khroshitsky Art Museum. Sevastopol, AR Crimea. UA

2011

"The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989". ZKM - Center for Fine art and Media. Karlsruhe. DE (SOSka group)

"A Complicated Relation, Function II". Kalmar Konstmuseum. Kalmar. SE

"Incommunicable Community". Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow. RU (SOSka group)

"An Elusive Object of Art". Dana Charkasi Gallery . Vienna. AT (SOSka group)

2010

" If. Ukrainian Art in Transition". Museum of Gimmicky Fine art. Perm. RU

"Intercool 3.0". HMKV / Dortmunder U. Dortmund. DE (SOSka group)

"Courtroom Experiment". Visual Civilization Research Middle. Kyiv. UA

2009

"Conquered Urban center". Regina Gallery. Moscow. RU

"Wakefield Meadows". Pavilion UniCredit. Bucharest. RO (SOSka group)

«The Future Was Yesterday». Gallery SC. Zagreb. Hr (SOSka grouping)

"Rebellion Mausoleum". Stella Fine art Foundation. Moscow. RU

2008

"New Print Politics: Mail-Soviet Politics and Contemporary Art". Ukrainian Institute of Modern Fine art. Chicago. U.s.

«Grabbing at Straws». Studio Guenzani. Milan. IT (SOSka group)

2007

"The Art World". Feinkost Gallery. Berlin. DE (SOSka grouping)

"Communities. Young Ukrainian art". Arsenal Metropolis gallery. Byalostok. PL

2006

"Generations U&A". PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv. UA

«Team Colors». F.A.I.T. Gallery. Krakow. PL

Lectures, seminars, public talks

2019 - "The Image of Violence and its Affect on Society". Creative Time X Acme. New York City. Usa

2018 - "Maidan - an Unfinished Revolution" Congress. Evangelische Akademie. Tutzing. DE

2016 - "House of Cards and What to Do About it. Art Institutions Today". Symposium, organized by WHW. Multimedia Institute. Zagreb. Hour

2015 - Osteuropa Institut, Complimentary University. Berlin. DE

2014 - "Values and Change" congress.Akademie der Künste. Berlin. DE

2014 - Plant for Contemporary Art. Sofia. BG

2013 - Draftmen's Cogress. Initiated by Pawel Althamer. National Art Museum. Kyiv. UA

2012 - "Truth is Concrete" marathon-camp. Steirischer Herbst festival. Graz. AT

2011 – Аcademy of Fine Arts. Vienna. AT

2010 – Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Moscow. RU

2010 - Santa Fe Art Constitute. New Mexico, US

Selected books and catalogs

2019 - "Mykola Ridnyi. Wolf in a Sack", exhibition catalogue. Linguistic communication: Polish, English language. 54 pages. ISBN 9788366262027. Arsenal City Gallery, Bialystok

2018 - "Mykola Ridnyi. Facing the Wall", exhibition catalogue. Language: Polish, English language, Ukrainian.  152 pages. ISBN 9788364588846. Labirynt City Gallery, Lublin

2014 - "Blind Spot. Mykola Ridnyi & Serhiy Zhadan". Language: High german, English language, Ukrainian, Russian. 47 pages. ISBN 9783893571291. Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD

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