Yehor Lemzyakoff

Once I was asked: “What is the truth?”.
I did not understand the question.

What is art?
Through our lives we, in one form or another, are trying to discover the meaning of our existence, to satisfy our curiosity and achieve satisfaction through such achievement.
It is one's inevitable limitations and inhibitions which frustrate such efforts but which also frequently drive people with artistic spirits to create outside their comfort zone and in some extreme cases leads even to their destruction.


I would like to see my art as an unrestricted journey of self-discovery and exploration in search of elusive answers to those and other questions which are often more difficult to understand than to answer.


I remember once, my emotional, and admittedly elaborative art expose about my paintings, was abruptly interrupted by a friend, and an artist, saying: “You should not explain the art. The true art speaks for itself”.
Forget prolonged explanations.
Art is an expression in itself.
Just as much as reality is just merely our perception.
Is it not?

2006-2011: Bachelor of Sociology, Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

2008-2009: Kyiv School of Photography, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011-2013: Master Degree in Public and Social Communications, National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020-2022: Academy of Photography, Kraków, Poland

Began studies at Institute of Creative Photography (ITF), Opava, Czech Republic in 2024

2012: Kyiv, Ukraine, Gogolfest, "Polymorphism" on the "Neo-folk project" platform, curated by Pavlo Gudimow
2013: Kyiv, Ukraine, Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture, "Family Colorful"
2016: Kyiv, Ukraine, Presidium of National Academy of Visual Art and Architecture, "RGB"
2020: Kyiv Photo Week, "Cinematographic Landscape"
2021: Kyiv, Ukraine, White Nights Festival, "The Rumble in the Jungle"
2021: Bielsko-Biała, Poland, Foto Art Festival n. Andrzeja Baturo, No Border Award, "Cinematographic Landscape"
2022: Toruń, Poland, Center of Contemporary Art, "Cinematographic Landscape"
2023: Milan, Italy, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, ImageNation, Iconic Photoshow
2024: Paris, France, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, ImageNation, Iconic Photoshow
2024: NoBorders Award, Traveling Open Air Exhibition in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia,
Hungary
Solo exhibitions:
2024: Krakow, Poland, Dym Gallery, "Portret do kawy"
2024: Krakow, Poland, Gallery Szara Kamiennica, Show Off Krakow Photo Month "Documentary
Fashion