Sergey MELNITCHENKO
Born in 1991 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Started photography in 2009.
In 2018 – founder of school of conceptual and art photography MYPH.
In recent years, took part in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions, fairs and festivals around the world.
Winner of Ukrainian and international awards including “Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer” in 2017 (Berlin),
“Photographer of the Year” in 2012, 2013 and 2016 (Kyiv, Ukraine), “Golden Camera” in 2012 (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Shortlisted for Krakow Photomonth in 2013 and Pinchuk Art Center Prize in 2015, among others.
Nominated for the “Foam Paul Huf Award” in 2020.
From 2022 part of the “Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung” foundation (Münich, Germany).
Part of “FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY” platform in 2022.
Participant of international artfairs, e.g. Paris Photo, Volta Basel, Photo L.A. Los Angeles, Photo Basel, Unseen Amsterdam etc.
Works in private and public collections in USA, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland etc.
Please scroll down for entire list of exhibitions and awards.
Young and free?
Fields generously strewn with plastic garbage that are scattered from the landfill after a hurricane, a smog that covered the whole country from fires in the Chernobyl forests. Young and free? – This is a question for the whole generation, for the generation of millennials, which, under existing conditions, is on the forefront and should take responsibility. Now there is a decisive transition from the point of uncertainty to the formation of a long-term vector. You can fall into the trap, take as a basis the ideals created by the predecessors and again crash. Or make a choice, while maintaining your right to freedom of opportunity.
Personal Exhibitions
2022 • “Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity” with Mitya Fenechkin – “Asortymentna kimnata” gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 2022 • “Young and free? / Metaheroes” – Esther Okada Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2021 • “Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity” – Vasli Souza Gallery, Oslo, Norway 2020 • “Young and free”, Leica 6×7 Gallery, curator Adam Mazur – Warsaw, Poland 2019 • “From Dusk Till Dawn”, f22 foto space – Hong Kong 2019 • “Schwarzenegger is my idol”, Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2019 • Leica Gallery London – London, UK 2018 • “Behind the scenes”, European Month of Photography, Galéria Michalský dvor – Bratislava, Slovakia 2018 • “Only Now Only Never”, FACE Foundation – Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • “Loneliness online”, SomoS Art Gallery – Berlin, Germany 2018 • Sztuka w dialogu, “Loneliness online and Polaroids from China”, Piekno Panie Gallery – Lublin, Poland 2018 • “Behind The Scenes”, Claude Samuel Gallery – Paris, France 2017 • “PLAYDAY”, Face Foundation/Mironova Gallery – Kyiv, Ukraine 2017 • “Paris Photo 2017″, ”Behind The Scenes”/Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 2017 • ”Behind The Scenes” – Mykolayiv, Ukraine 2017 • ”Behind The Scenes”, Trzecie Oko Gallery – Krakow, Poland 2015 • “Les Amours Imaginaries” Landskrona Fotofestival – Landskrona, Sweden 2014 • “Military Commissariat”, Estudio Ñ – Valdivia, Chile 2014 • “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol” In Frames Of “Off_Festival Bratislava 2014” – 2014 • Art-Book Presentation In Frames Of Private Residency Program “The Muzychi Expanded History Project” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 • “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol”, Fiebre Galería – Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014 • “Les Amours Imaginaries” Odessa Museum Of Modern Art “Arteria”– Odessa 2014 • “Les Amours Imaginaries”, Closer – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol” – Showoff Section Of Krakow Photomonth Festival 2013 • “Schwarzenegger Is My Idol” – Lviv, Ukraine 2012 • “Nails” – Krivoy Rog, Ukraine Awards and Residences 2022 • Selection to “Futures Photography” platform, nominated by ISSP 2022 • 16 works selected to be a part of “Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung” foundation collection – Munich, Germany 2022 • Shortlist of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2022 – Tbilisi, Georgia 2020 • Residency at 6. Festiwal Fotografii “W Ramach Sopotu”, curator Adam Mazur – Sopot, Poland 2020 • Nomination on Foam Paul Huf Award – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019 • Klaipeda Photography Residency Program – Klaipeda, Lithuania 2019 • Shortlist of Second Biennale of Young Art – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2018 • Shortlist of Batumi Photodays – Batumi, Georgia 2018 • Shortlist of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2018 – Tbilisi, Georgia 2018 • Featured in the NEW VISIONS – Cortona On The Move 2018 – Cortona, Italy 2018 • One of 20 winners and jurors’ pick of DEBUTS 2018, the book and travelling exhibition – Warsaw, Poland 2018 • Shortlist of main exhibition “Off Limits” in frames of Odesa Photo Days Festival – Odesa, Ukraine 2017 • Winner Of “Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2017” – Berlin, Germany 2017 • 1st Place In The National Awards “Photographer Of The Year 2016”, Street Professional Category – Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 • “Dostoevsky List” The Most Actual Contemporary Photographers From Russia And Ukraine – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 • Short-List Of Pinchuk Art Centre Prize – Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 • Honorable Mention At “Photo Annual Awards 2015” – Teplice, Czech 2014 • Shortlist of “Off_Festival Bratislava 2014” – Bratislava, Slovakia 2014 • Private Residency Program “The Muzychi Expanded History Project” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 • Finalist Of Educational Program For Artists And Festival Of Youth Projects “Non Stop Media VII” – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2014 • II Place In Contest “Photographer Of The Year 2013” In Nomination “Fine Art” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • Shortlisted For “Media Art Festival” – Krasnoyarsk, Russia 2013 • Nomination For The Fifth Cycle Of The Prix Pictet, Consumption – London, UK 2013 • Featured Artist Of London Analogue Festival – London, UK 2013 • Shortlist Of Krakow Photomonth Festival – Krakow, Poland 2013 • International Contest “Golden Camera 2012” – 1st Place In Nomination “Conceptual Photography”, Amateur – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • Winner Of Contest “Photographer Of The Year 2012” In Nomination “Series Of The Year (Fine Art)” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 • Finalist Of 3rd Portfolio Review – Kyiv, Ukraine |
Group Exhibitions / Fairs / Projections / Festivals
2022 • IN BETWEEN, triple show, Galerie KUNSTKOMPLEX, Wuppertal, Germany 2022 • UNSEEN AMSTERDAM Photography Fair with “Vasli Souza” Gallery (Oslo, Norway) – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2022 • UKRAINIAN VOICES OF ART – Ukrainian Art in frames of Berlin Art Week – Berlin, Germany 2022 • Beyond Code and Time, Pavilion 0/4 – Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy 2022 • «Ukrainian revival», The Monegasque National Committee of the International Association of Plastic Arts at UNESCO – Monaco 2022 • ”Body as Propaganda“, the Negpos Photographic Art Center – Nimes, France 2022 • «Umso stärker schlägt mein Herz”, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen – Kreuzlingen, Switzerland 2022 • Photo Basel fair with ISSP Gallery (Riga) – Basel, Switzerland 2022 • NFT charity auction – Zürich, Switzerland 2022 • International Art Fair “Art Compensa” – Vilnius, Lithuania 2022 • “Focus Ukraine”, Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg – Augsburg, Germany 2022 • “Schwarzenegger is my idol”, Maison de la Photographie – Lille, France 2022 • Oil Blood Liberty, Kunsthalle Hannover – Hannover, Germany 2022 • KOLGA AWARD – Georgia, Tbilisi 2022 • Holding the line, Creative Resistance from Ukraine – SomoS art gallery, Berlin 2022 • War Amulet – Vilnius, Luthuania 2022 • “Affordable Art Fair” with Galerie Prints – London, UK 2022 • No War – Galerie N° 15, Cochem, Germany 2022 • Photography4Peace – Klaipeda, Lithuania 2021 • Maison Claude Samuel – Paris, France 2021 • „Zefyras/Zephyr”, Klaipėda Cultural Communication Center (KCCC) – Klaipeda, Lithuania 2021 • Expo 2020 – Dubai, UAE 2021 • “VOLTA art fair 16” with Tuasho Gallery – Basel, Switzerland 2021 • “Unseen” fair photobook section – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2021 • “Photo London” with Galerie Prints – London, UK 2021 • “NoTaboo” – Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2021 • “Sensitivity” – Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2021 • “Affordable Art Fair” with Galerie Prints – London, UK 2021 • “Locktown” – Open ArtGallery, Milan, Italy 2021 • “DEPTH. DREAM. UNIVERSE” – Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2021 • Part of “Phroom Platform”at “Odessa Photo Days Festival” – Odessa, Ukraine 2021 • Lusted Men at PhotoSaintGermain – Paris, France 2020 • “Military Commissariat” in frames of “Time to collect” exhibition, Museum of modern art – Odessa, Ukraine 2020 • “Behind the scenes” – 40 years of Leica Oskar Barnack Award – Leitz Park, Wetzlar, Germany 2020 • “Young and free?” at Kyiv Art Week fair online edition with Mironova Gallery – Kyiv, Ukraine 2020 • “Zapping the Archive”, project screenings by PHROOM magazine in frames of Getxophoto Festival – Getxo, Spain 2020 • “Young and free?” at Photo Basel fair Berlin edition with Mironova Gallery – Berlin, Germany 2020 • “Young and free” at 6. Festiwal Fotografii “W Ramach Sopotu”, curator Adam Mazur – Sopot, Poland 2020 • “PHOTO LA, Virtual Collect + Connect” fair (Boris Mikhailov, Roger Ballen, Sergey Melnitchenko), Mironova Gallery – Los Angeles, USA 2020 • Riga Photomonth – Riga, Latvia 2020 • “Artificial Pain”, CENTRUM SZTUKI WSPÓŁCZESNEJ_W TORUNIU – Torun, Poland 2020 • “Chamber of: “, Lou Carter Gallery – Paris, France 2019 • LOVE, LUST & FURY / Contemporary Ukrainian Photography, KLAIPEDA CULTURE COMMUNICATION CENTER (KCCC) – Klaipeda, Lithuania 2019 • “Through the Lens: Unbending Life”, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) – Chicago, USA 2019 • “The body of propaganda”, Latvian Museum of Photography – Riga, Latvia 2019 • UPHA IN DA OFFICE, Starlight media – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • face2face exhibition of Sergey Melnitchenko & MYPH collective – Mykolayiv, Ukraine 2019 • Daring youth – mostra fotografica, Open Art Week, Museo civico di Palazzo della Penna – Perugia, Italy 2019 • Photo Kyiv Fair, presented by Mironova Gallery – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • Let us in: together – Paris, France 2019 • “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now”, Semperdepot – Vienna, Austria 2019 • Second Biennale of Young Art – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2019 • “Memory Inversion” Mironova Gallery – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • “The Forbidden Image”, a solo exhibition by Boris Mikhailov & Kharkiv School of Photography and the continuation of its attitude and thinking with emerging artists, Pinchuk Art Centre – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • UPHA: Made in Ukraine, AKT + BOOKSHA – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • VOLTA Art Fair, “Her” series – Basel, Switzerland 2019 • “DEBUTS episode 4” in frames of Krakow Photomonth – Krakow, Poland 2019 • “From Red to Blue and Yellow” auction, Bereznitsky Art Foundation – Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 • Armenia Art Fair “Her” series – Yerevan, Armenia 2019 • TAF “Tbilisi Art Fair” Photo Kyiv Booth, “Her” series – Tbilisi, Georgia 2019 • Political as personal. Personal as public. – Mykolayiv, Ukraine 2018 • “Who’s here?” at PHOTO IS:RAEL – Tel Aviv, Israel 2018 • “Discovery Art Fair” – Frankfurt, Germany 2018 • “Photo Kyiv vol.2” Photography Art Fair – Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • Night of Photo Projections in Tsekh Gallery – Vilnius, Lithuania 2018 • “So sweet Ukraine” projection at Suwon Photo Festival – Suwon, South Korea 2018 • “DEBUTS episode 3” in frames of Vintag Photo Festival – Bydgoszcz, Poland 2018 • “Off Limits pt.3” in frames of Odesa Photo Days Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • Maribor photography festival – Maribor, Slovenia 2018 • “DEBUTS episode 2” in frames of Sopot Photography Festival – Sopot, Poland 2018 • “So sweet Ukraine” projection at International Photography Symposium. NIDA2018 – Nida, Lithuania 2018 • Batumi Photo Days – Batumi, Georgia 2018 • “Transeúntes” by Fiftydots Gallery, Voies Off 2018 in frames of Les Rencontres de la photographie – Arles, France 2018 • “Off Limits pt.2” in frames of Odesa Photo Days Festival – Chernivtsy, Ukraine 2018 • Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 winners exhibition, Galerie Łdk, in frames of Fotofestiwal Lodz – Lodz, Poland 2018 • “DEBUTS episode 1” exhibition and the book “DEBUTS” premiere in frames of Fotofestiwal Lodz – Lodz, Poland 2018 • Millerntor Gallery #8 – Hamburg, Germany 2018 • VOLTA14 art fair in frames of Art Basel – Basel, Switzerland 2018 • Fototeca Siracusana Estate Fotografia 2^ Edizione in frames of Med Photo Fest – Syracuse, Italy 2018 • Alghero Street Photography Awards Festival – Alghero, Italy 2018 • Kyiv Art Week, Artsvit Gallery, “Passengers” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • Kyiv Art Week, Mironova Gallery, “Behind the scenes” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2018 – Tbilisi, Georgia 2018 • “Travel, Discovery, Aesthetics and Photography” in frames of INTERNATIONAL İZMİR PHOTO DAYS – Izmir, Turkey 2018 • “Off Limits” in frames of Odesa Photo Days Festival – Odesa, Ukraine 2018 • “Sensitive Surface 2.0”, Vasli Souza Fotogaleri – Malmö, Sweden 2018 • Exhibition Of “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017” Winners And Finalists, Leica Gallery In Leitz Park – Wetzlar, Germany 2017 • Photolux Festival/The Exhibition Of The Two Winning Projects And All The Finalists Of Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 – Lucca, Tuscany, Italy 2017 • Little Odessa Gallery – Paris, France 2017 • “Photographie Contemporaine D’ukraine”, Centre Culturel D’ukraine En France – Paris, France 2017 • “Photo Kyiv” Photography Art Fair – Kyiv, Ukraine 2017 • Photography On A Postcard Private View – London, UK 2017 • Leica Oskar Barnack Award Winners And Finalists – Berlin, Germany 2017 • Projection “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017” Voies Off Festival/Les Rencontres Internacionales De La Photographie – Arles, France 2017 • The Smell Of Dust III – São Paulo, Brazil 2016 • Freierfest – Odessa, Ukraine 2016 • The Smell Of Dust Iii During Les Rencontres Internacionales De La Photographie – Arles, France 2016 • Pasa Página, Days Of The Artist´S Book – Chisinau, Moldova 2016 • Fresh Paint Art Fair In Collaboration With Artbit – Tel Aviv, Israel 2015 • “Mama, I’ve Just Killed A Man” – Berlin, Germany 2015 • Finalists Of Pinchuk Art Centre Prize – Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 • “Game Into Reality” In Frames Of Gogolfest – Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 • “Love And War In Ukraine” In Frames Of Spine – International Photobook Festival – Stockholm, Sweden 2015 • Slideluck Show – Oakland, California, USA 2015 • Winners Of “Photo Annual Awards 2015” – Teplice, Czech 2015 • “Hybrid Reality” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 • Feira Morta V – Lisbon, Portugal 2015 • «Ukrainian Photography: In Progress» In Frames Of “Odessa//Batumi Photo Days 2015” – Odessa, Ukraine 2015 • “Зато Любов” – Kherson, Ukraine 2015 • “Подія” With Andrii Konontsev – Zlin, Czech 2015 • “Part 4” With Roman Pyatkovka – Zaporozhye, Ukraine 2014 • “Inner Ukraine” In Frames Of “Terra Futura Xiii” Festival – Kherson, Ukraine 2014 • “Personal/Political” In Frames Of “Art-Kyiv Contemporary Ix” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 • “Terror Of Small Differences” – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2014 • “Ukrainian Zigafolk” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 • London Analogue Festival – London, UK 2014 • “Guilt” In Frames Of “Non Stop Media Vii” – Kharkiv, Ukraine 2014 • The Aesthetic Of Man – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014 • Upha “Аfteryesterday” – Odessa, Ukraine 2014 • “Resistant” In Frames Of Parallel Program Of 4th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art – Moscow, Russia 2014 • “Don’t Even Dream!” In Frames Of Parallel Program Of 4th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art – Moscow, Russia 2014 • Der Greif – “A Process” – Ausburg, Germany 2014 • “Evolution” – Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 • “Ukrainian Women Complex” – Odessa, Ukraine 2014 • “Photographer Of The Year 2013” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • “Posterjunkies” Official Launching Event – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013 • London Analogue Festival – London, UK 2013 • Ii International Fotokinofestival – Sebastopol, Ukraine 2013 • With “Look” Group – Chernigiv, Ukraine 2013 • “The Urge To Archiving” In Frames Of Vizii Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • “Golden Camera 2012” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • “Photographer Of The Year 2012” – Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 • “Monthly Payment / Idols” – Moscow, Russia 2012 • First International Festival Of Arts – Odessa, Ukraine 2012 • First International Fotokinofestival – Sebastopol, Ukraine 2012 • Upha “Cult Of The Body” – London, UK |