Sashko Balabai

Film director amateur, photographer, artist, journalist, volunteer. Born in 1971 in Kharkiv.
I am 49 years old, I started drawing at the age of 49, I have been doing art since birth. First the art of walking and talking, then kindergarten, then the trepanation of the skull after a bad play in the playground, resuscitation, six months in neurosurgery, then school, five or six concussions. All this was wrapped up in life in the USSR: my father was a party member, a experienced communist, my mother hated the communism. Then the dream of studying the theater and entering the Kharkiv Polytechnic by order of the party and parents: "You will walk in a jacket and tie, like a normal person, and not thump around the corner, like those drunken artists and actors." Then my student years, work on building works (I am a self-taught painter-plasterer), Barabashovo market, where I worked as a salesman and loader. During breaks, film photography, then digital photography, then video, then marriage and two children. Again camera and camera, home video and a lots of family photos and videos. Then the beginning of the war with Russia in 2014, then the death of my father, the rude coroners who threw in a UAZ with an open board my father`s body, at the...

Kharkiv Politechnical University, 1997
Self educated artist (naive art, primitivism), film maker, photographer.

1) 2021 - prints exhibition, Zhytomir, Ukraine
2) 2021 - "Lesya Ukrainka. 150 names", Kyiv, Ukraine
3) 2021 - "Connect" project, Mykolaiv ART WEEK, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
4) 2021 - "Art as a Response to Mental Health 2021", finalist, Doncaster Art Fair, UK
5) 2021 - "Art Naif Festiwal", Katowice, Poland
6) 2021 - "Hryvnia ART" project, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
7) 2021 - "Hryvnia ART" project, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
8) 2021 - "INDEPENDENCE" exhibition, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
9) 2021 - "Hryvnia ART" project, Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
10) 2021 - "Hryvnia ART" project, Rodovyd Gallery, Kolomiya, Ukraine
11) 2021 - "Forest song. Reload of the dreams" exhibition, art gallery "Mazurek", Lviv, Ukraine
12) 2021 - "Forest song. Reload of the dreams" exhibition, art space at Lviv University Scientific Library , Lviv, Ukraine
13) 2021 Online group exhibition, ‘Awaiting Voices’, Toronto, Canada
14) The exhibition The DIGITALART4CLIMATE during the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP26, Glasgow, Scotland