Chichkan Illyaandsasha

ILLYA CHICHKAN

Painter. He is also engaged in staged conceptual photography, installation, video, performance. One of the main representatives of the “Paris Commune” - the art group legendary for contemporary Ukrainian art (1988–1993), a member of the art movement “New Wave (1990s). The first solo exhibition took place in Kiev in 1993, since the late 1990s it has held one or two solo exhibitions a year, both in Ukraine and abroad. In Ukraine, he participated in such iconic projects as “Alchemical Capitulation” (1994, warship, Sevastopol), “Greenhouse Effect” (1997, J. Soros Center for Contemporary Art), “Farewell, Weapon” (2004, Artistic Arsenal), “ Reflection ”(2007, PinchukArtCentre),“ New Wave ”(2009, NHMU),“ Sexuality and Transcendence ”(2010, PinchukArtCentre), Dermo & zoloto (2010, Chocolate House). Works have been exhibited in leading galleries and museums in Europe, the USA and South America, as well as at numerous prestigious international forums and festivals of contemporary art. In 2009 he represented Ukraine at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Included in the top five of the most famous and expensive contemporary artists of Ukraine.

CV SASHA CHICHKAN
Chichkan Sasha 1988
Ukraine (kiev)
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Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

Shit & Gold, Chocolate House, Kiev, 2010
Household Surrealism, Ludmila Bereznitska & Partner Gallery, Kiev, 2009
Play, N’U ART, Kiev, 2008
Mind-Player, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, 2007
Moments of Monuments, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, 2006
PornoPops, L-Art Gallery, Kiev, 2006
Psyhodarvinizm, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, 2005
Monkey Or Man, L-Art Gallery, Kiev, 2005
Timeout, DAAD Gallery, 2005
PopsArt, L-Art Gallery, Kiev, 2004
Rabbits on Acid, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, 2004
Phingaly, L-Art Gallery, Kiev, 2004
Dog Love, Guelman Gallery, Kiev, 2003
P.V.O., Laznya Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland, 2002
Iliya Chichkan, Querini Stampalia, Venic, 2001
Acrobats and Rabbits, Regina Gallery, Moscow, 2001
Sleeping Princes, Gallery One Degree, Skopje, Macedonia, 2000
Sleeping Princes, School of Fine Arts, Mulhouse, France, 2000
New Painting, L-Art Gallery, Kiev, 2000
Mind the Bullocks, Artists Union at the House of Artists, Kiev, 2000
Chichkan Party, Ra Gallery, Kiev, 1996
Alter Idem, Center for Contemporary Arts Brama, Kiev, 1994


Group Exhibitions (Selection)

Venetian Biennial, 2009

Inventory, Ludmila Bereznitska & Partner Gallery, Kiev, 2009

Nobel Sculpture House, Stoch...