Minin Roman

This Gogol has bored me 200x200 cm, canvas, acrylic, 2009
Date of Birth: 1981
Place of residence: Kharkiv

Roman Minin (June 10, 1981) is a contemporary Ukrainian monumental artist, graphic artist, photographer, and author of objects and installations.

Roman Minin was born in 1981 in Dimitrov (now Myrnograd), Donetsk region. He graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts in 2008 at the Department of Monumental Painting.

In 2009 he was awarded the medal “Talent and Vocation” of the World Alliance “Peacemaker”. Participant of international art projects and exhibitions, organizer of street art festivals. He founded the directions of SMS art and TRANSMONUMENTALISM.

He actively uses virtual and augmented reality in his creative activity. Co-director of the non-profit organization Art Embassy and the startup Transmonument. Creates an anthology of mining life.

Mining is the main characteristic of the Donetsk region, where Roman Minin was born. For the people of the region, it is not only an industry, but also a way of life. Minin took this as the main theme of his painting and stained glass, as a metaphor for a closed social system that forbids access. In the Donetsk Region Escape Plan, Minin created his own rescue scheme for the imprisonment.

Selected exhibitions

2019

Minin’g Charleroi, Le Bois du Cazier Museum, Charleroi

Transmonument, Mhaata gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Roman Minin in Genk, C-mine, Genk, Belgium

Gold of the Nation, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2018

Art mining. Permanent Representation of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

Minin in Genk. Thor Central Genk, Genk, Belgium

Own / Stranger. Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine

Permanent revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2017

Art work. ART WORK, Wroclaw, Poland

MININ in BRUSSELS, Mhaata Gallery, Belgium

Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts. Ukraine

2016

Carpet. Contemporary Ukrainian artists, p. Tatariv, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Zenko Foundation

2015

Transformation of the Modern, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria

Just art, ARTVERA’S ART GALLERY, Switzerland, Geneva

Transformatka, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv

2012

Escape plan from Donetsk region, Palazzo Cantagalli, Foligno, Italy

2011

Not my business, the project “Wall”, Winery, Moscow, Russia

Escape plan from Donetsk region “, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv

2010

Miner’s folklore, Sumy municipal gallery, Sumy

Dreams of war, Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkiv

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