Alekseenko Mykhailo
“After my grandmother’s death, there was a lot of crystal glass left. She collected and carefully stored it, as many ‘post-Soviet’ citizens did. In our family, we were prohibited from utilizing crystal glass. Grandma was saving it for a special occasion. That occasion, however, never happened. My grandmother passed away a long time ago, but her dream is still alive. The Soviet ideology of building a better life, the rapid-moving forward, pretentious greatness were reflected in the lives of ordinary people. And their fragile dream left a shadow – the sensation of variability and instability of all that exists.”
Mykhailo Alekseenko was born in 1989 in Kyiv.
Education
In 2013 he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA), an easel graphics workshop.
Creative path
Works with various media. In his artistic practice he pays great attention to the aesthetics of interaction, works with themes of myth and reality, studies the influences of the past in the post-Soviet space. He is a co-founder of the group “YOD” (2013) and the art squat “Hyatt” (2011). In 2016, he organized an independent art space “Apartment 14” in Troyeschina.
2021 – Winner of the first prize in the field of three-dimensional art M17 Sculpture Prize
Awards:
2017 Fly Grand Prix (Young Ukrainian artists)
2014 International Video Art Festival “NOW & AFTER ’14” (Special Prize)
2011 Competition of academic drawing in Kharkiv (III place)
Residences:
2017 “Above God”, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2016 Scholarship “Gaude Polonia” of the Minister of Culture of Poland, Warsaw
2013 KYIV AIR, the first Kyiv residence of young artists
Personal exhibitions:
2018 “Big party only for artists” Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Hollywood – Troyeschina”, Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 “Golden Flour Auction House” Air, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Hollywood – Troieschyna”, Air, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 “Crystal Dream”, Apartment 14, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 “Road Home” Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2015 “Infinite Project” Small Gallery of the Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 Freebiel Art Squat, Hyatt, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Selected group exhibitions:
2018 Videoformes Festival of Digital Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2018 PinchukArtCentre Award 2018, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Video Art Miden, Kalamata, Greece
2018 “Afterparty”, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
2017 FLIES. Young Ukrainian Artists, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Museum open for renovation” Lysychansk Museum of Local Lore, Ukraine.