The Forbidden Image
Crossing lines
The second chapter “Crossing lines” presents a curated view on the Kharkiv School of Photography, enabling an understanding of both context and time. Starting in the late ‘70s in a city of engineers, a band of young photographers got together and called themselves “Vremja” (time). The exhibition explores these Artists, who looked at the world that was crumbling around them, discovering a space for experiment in terms of content, technique and form. The exhibition concentrates on a precise selection of Artists from the first and second generations of the Kharkiv School following the curatorial idea of the Forbidden image.
Participating Artists: Andriy Avdeenko, Serhyi Bratkov, Victor & Serhiy Kochetovs, Pavlo Makov, Oleg Malyovany, Yevgeniy Pavlov, Misha Pedan, Roman Pyatkovka, Juri Rupin, Serhii Solonsky, Oleksandr Suprun and Alina Kleytman, Sasha Kurmaz, Serhii Melnychenko, Mykola Ridnyi.
This exhibition demonstrates consistent interest and significant investment of PinchukArtCentre’s Research Platform in the Kharkiv School of Photography, both as a historical phenomenon and as a school that continues to produce amazing Artists. “Crossing lines” is a show wherein for the first time the PinchukArtCentre brings together a select group of Artists it will continue to research and from whom it expects to see more detailed solo exhibitions in the years to come.
Curators – Björn Geldhof, Artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre; Martin Kiefer, in charge of Contemporary Art at the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Alicia Knock, curator, Contemporary and Research Department, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
A special thanks goes out to Suzanne Tarasiève for supporting the realization of the Boris Mikhailov exhibition.
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Serhiy Bratkov
Home Alone, 1995
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Juri Rupin
Bathhouse, 1972
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Pavlo Makov
Documenting inscriptions by Oleg Mitasov, 1999-2000
Digital print wallpaper
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From the Documentary Series
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Yevheniy Pavlov
From the Total Photography series, 1987-1992
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Oleksandr Suprun
From the Montage series, 1990 – 1997
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Roman Pyatkovka
Games of Naked, 1992
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Roman Pyatkovka
Vegetable Store, 1990
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