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Illya Chychkan

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Biography
August 29, 1967

Born in Kyiv in a family of artists

1980s

Without completing formal art education, he studied painting in the studio of his grandfather, an artist

1987

Beginning participation in group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad

1988 - 1993
Participant of the squat on Paris Commune street.
1990s

Member of the artistic movement «New Wave»

1993

The first solo exhibition "Gene Mutation" took place in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists.

1994

The second solo exhibition «Alter Idem» at the Bramа Center for Contemporary Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine.

mid 1990s - 2000

Work in the advertising business

1996

Participation in the International Biennale in São Paulo.

1997

Contemporary Art Biennale in Johannesburg

2001 - 2003

Residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2003

Participation in the Prague Biennale

2004

Biennale in Belgrade

2004

European Manifesta Biennial

2008

The artwork "It" was sold at the Phillips de Pury auction for a record amount of $70,000.

2009

Representing Ukraine at the 53rd International Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art

Exhibitions
1987
Всесоюзна виставка «Молодість країни»
1991
Міжнародний фестиваль сучасного мистецтва
1991.11.12
Художники Паризької комуни
1992
Нові роботи художників Києва
1992.03.06
Штиль
1992.05.06
Косий Капонір
1992.06.10
Летó
1993
Mazepa
1993
Gene mutation
1993.08.13
Ангели над Україною
1994.05.26
Простір культурної революції
1994.07.20
Алхімічна капітуляція
1994
Вільна зона
1994
Alter Idem
1995
Множинні експозиції
1995
Аналіз крові
1995
Чорно-біле
1995.02.23
Рот медузи
1995.03.29
Барбарос
1995.11.06
Вирощене у кістці
1996.01.10
Hermetic forest
1996.06.26
Looks with jam
1996
Ukrainian presentation, International Biennale in São Paulo
1996
International Art Festival
1996
Товарний фетишизм, спеціальна експозиція в рамках Міжнародного Арт-фестивалю
1996
До сімейного альбому
1996
Chichkan Party
1997
Purple and green
1997.01.30
Парниковий афект
1997.03.[?]
Фото…синтез
1997.07
Симптоматична анонімність
1998
ІнтерМедіа
1998
Accommodation / Місце мешкання
1998
Month of Photo
1998.06.05
Міжнародний фестиваль відеоарту та коротких фільмів Dreamcatcher
1998.11.07
Кримський проект ІІ
1999
Glances at Ukraine
1999
New Europe
1999
Carte blanche
1999
Modern photographers of Ukraine
1999
Пінакотека. Спеціальний проект «Нова фігуративність»
1999.04.30
…und ab die Post 1999!, 3-й фестиваль молодого експериментального мистецтва
1999.06.18
Майбутнє настало. Українське мистецтво 90-х
1999.09.09
The future has arrived. Ukrainian art of the 1990s
1999.11.23
Public Art
2000.05.01
Photobiennale 2000
2000
Sleeping princes of Ukraine
2000
1+1
2000
Нові спрямування
2000
Sleeping Princes of Ukraine
2000
New painting, 2000
2000
Дві сторони
2001.03.20
Girls and rabbits
2001
Noble is only the understanding of one's own ignorance
2001
Animal Farm
2001
Girls and rabbits
2001
Iskusstvo 2000. Нове мистецтво з Москви, Санкт-Петербурга та Києва
2001
Illya Chychkan
2001
Art versus Geography
2001.12.12
Jokingly
2001.12.15
Brand "Ukrainian"
2002.10.23
Blue clay
2002.11.22
Girls, nymphs, girls
2002
P.V.O.
2002.04.29
Photobiennale 2002
2003
Extra-Schengen
2003
Ukrainian Lolitas
2003
Start
2003
Puppies
2003
Month of Photography in Kyiv. Photo Biennale 2003
2003.06.26
And the Prague Biennale
2003.09.23
Donumenta. Festival of Ukrainian Art
2003.11.28
They are watching us…
2003.11.22
Перша колекція
2003
Documenta
2003
10th Photography Biennale
2004
Black eyes
2004
Доба романтизму
2004
L.S.D. Rabbits
2004
Pops Art
2004.06.11
Manifesta 5
2005
Timeout
2005
Totalitarian Darwinism
2005
South Wing
2005
Monkey or Man
2005.05.21
Перевірка реальності
2005.11.23
Psychodarwinism
2006
PornoPops
2006
Moments/Monuments
2006
Defenders
2006.04.05.
Ukrainians
2006.09.14
KISSKI
2006.10.10
Postoranjart
2007.03.02
Mind-Player
2007.05.31
On Geekdom: artists of the post-Soviet space within the framework of the Art-Athens festival
2007.06.16
Bloomsday ’07
2007.10.06
Reflection
2007.10.11
Sex. Boxing. Jazz
2007
Mind Games
2008.04.11
Нове українське мистецтво
2008.07.10
Bloomsday ’08
2008.10.31
Арт-Київ — 2008
2008
Mind Games
2009.01.06
Steppes of Dreamers. Ukrainian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale
2009.04.25
Domestic Surrealism
2009.06.25
Bloomsday ’09. Ідеальний вік
2009.07.08
Artists are drawing. A4, ballpoint pen at the "Art-Vilnius 2009" fair
2009.09.18
Українська Нова хвиля. Мистецтво другої половини 1980-х — початку 1990-х років
2009.10.31
Рудий ліс
2009
Over The Wall
2010.06.05.
Skin and gold
2010.06.09
Abstract Vision Test
2010.09.10
Star Wars
2010
Якщо / Если / If. Українське мистецтво на зламі
2010
Chiefdom
2011.08.23
20 years of presence
2011
Back entrance to the museum, a special project by Illia Chichkan and PSYFOX within ART-KYEV contemporary
2011.03.11
Painting of the 1960s–2000s. From the MSM “Soviart” collection
2011.05.17
Monkeywood
2011.08.23
Незалежні
2011.12.07
RAS-UA: Exhibition «Back Entrance to the Museum»
2012.05.24
Double Game, ARSENALE 2012 Special Project
2012.06.02
Contemporary Ukrainian artists, within the framework of the parallel program ARSENALE 2012
2013.11.16
Where there is a will, there is a chance
2014.04.29
The Show Within The Show
2014.09.17
Передаукціонна виставка АД «Золотое сечение» «POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART», 2014 р.
2014.09.27
Presentation of the "Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art"
2015.04.23
Presentation of the "Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art"
2015.05.30
On the Edge. Ukrainian Art 1985–2004
2015.09.22
ART-KYIV Contemporary 2015. The tenth annual forum of art projects. Special project "Museum Collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art 1985–2015 from private collections"
2016.04.01
[Re][Con]struction
2016.05.21
Transformation
2016.10.21
Parkomuna. Place. Community. Phenomenon
2016.10.22
Spirit of the Time
2017.04.27
Exhibition of Achievements of Ukrainian Media Art
2018.03.01
FLASHBACK. Ukrainian media art of the 1990s.
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