Ivan Svitlychnyi

Ivan Svitlychnyi was born in 1988 in Kharkiv. He graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in indoor and monumental sculpture in 2012. He is a founder and curator of the TEC exhibition center in Kharkiv (2010), and a cofounder of Shuhliada exhibition space, a platform supporting independent art projects (2013). A member of Institution for Unstable Thoughts since 2015.
Svitlychnyi took part in the Venice Biennale under the aegis of the Parliament project (Ukrainian pavilion, 2017). He participated in the art and digital culture festival transmediale Vorspiel ’18. Multiple time Pinchuk Art Prize nominee.
Svitlychnyi won Kazimir Malevich Award in 2018.
His works can be seen at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, and in private collections.
Svitlychnyi lives and works in Kyiv.

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Two of the main principles of Ivan Svitlychnyi’s multidisciplinary works are notions of ‘idea’ and ‘form’. The artist studies ‘form’ not only as a unique notion, but also as a means of universal communication, an informative and a concise language. He freely navigates a wide specter of media, from academic materials, such as stone, metal and wood, to more technological ones, such as video, generative, programming, as well as various artistic practices, such as installation, performance, science art and audio sculpture. Svitlychnyi consistently studies art as one of the main instruments that forms social thinking.

He focuses on the most efficient way to solve specific artistic and intellectual problems. In his practice Ivan Svitlychnyi addresses viewer’s consciousness, as a singular space, within which these solutions are possible.

Submitted by Voloshyn Gallery