Ilya Skubak

Born 1999 in Okhtyrka, Sumy region, Ukraine.
Ilya Skubak is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, found materials, performance, and moving
image. Traveling between countries, he creates site-responsive installations from materials collected in the
cities where he works. His practice focuses on urban reality shaped by conflict and war, while also exploring
primal forms of expression and cargo-cult–like gestures of reconstruction, where meaning emerges through
material action and necessity.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores materials, forms, and ideas through experimentation and by
pushing beyond traditional artistic practice. I engage with both ancient and
contemporary visual languages, focusing on how materials carry history and
change over time. I often use industrial or everyday objects that have outlived their
original function. These materials reflect cycles of use, disposal, and
transformation, forming a broader narrative about human consumption and waste.
I am interested in the paradox of the gallery space, where objects may be
temporarily elevated before returning to processes of decay and abandonment. For
me, waste is not simply refuse but a vessel of memory — an artifact marked by
time and past use. Whethe...

2023–2024 — School of Design and Art, Saint-Étienne, France

2026
• Solo exhibition “YPODOMI’ ,UNSEEN Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2025
• Solo exhibition “Don’t Throw Stones at My Vegetable Garden”, BABEL, Israel, Tel Aviv
• Solo exhibition "Stratum", The Charoen Aart Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2023
• Wunderkinder — Joint exhibition with Kadi Malek, Rockfeller Center for Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany
• Cargo — Solo exhibition, Maudi Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022
• Untitled Exhibition — Former paint and brick factory, Lviv, Ukraine
• Sticker Book Presentation — Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2021
• Metal-receiver — Solo exhibition, Art House Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• Shina (Tire) — Group exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art “M’ARS”, Moscow, Russia
• Izlom — Solo exhibition, Fit Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Metal Inside Out — Performance exhibition, Eight Club, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020
• Untitled Exhibition — Independent rented space, Kharkiv, Ukraine