Ryabchenko Stepan

Stepan Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian media artist.

His work includes digital art, conceptual architecture, sculpture and lighting installations. His focus is on the boundary between the real and virtual worlds and the new nature of art. He is known for his monumental works and video installations, in which he creates a digital universe with his characters and mythology, as well as the visualization of non-existent images, such as computer viruses, electronic winds, virtual flowers and more.

Stepan Ryabchenko was born on October 17, 1987 in Odesa into a family of artists. His father, Vasyl Ryabchenko, is one of the key representatives of contemporary Ukrainian art and the New Ukrainian Wave; Serhiy Ryabchenko’s grandfather was a Soviet and Ukrainian graphic artist.

In 2011 he graduated from the Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture with a master’s degree in architecture.

At the end of 2015, he was included in the “30 to 30” rating according to Forbes magazine.

In 2020, Stepan Ryabchenko became the main curator of the creative association “Art Laboratory”. At the same time, he co-authored and curated a large-scale international exhibition in cyberspace, Strange Time, launched on May 7, 2020, during the quarantine of the COVID-19 epidemic. The project develops on the principle of a living organism, replenished by works of artists from around the world and expanding its digital boundaries.

In 2021, the artist was included in the list of the best digital artists from the British edition of Electric Artefacts.