Pavlo Kazmin

Born on 10 july 1997 in Chortkiv, Ukraine Work and live in Katowice, Poland 2015 – till now Academy of Fine Art in Katowice, Painting Department
I work with painting, installation, performance and video. The main topics of my work are contemporary geopolitical events, as well as world and Ukrainian history. I transform my own experiences into works of art, then I collide them with images of collective memory, world history, and contemporary social and political problems. In my practice, I often talk about war and conflict. I am interested in the world of victims and torturers, as well as in situations in which there is contact with the Other not only in the situation of conflict. The core focus of my work is a critique of xenophobe and chauvinism, which are so exaggerated during military conflicts. My understanding of art is based on a need to be sincere.

Academy of Fine Art in Katowice, Painting Department

2019, Collective exhibition 44. Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień. Gallery Bielska BWA 2019, „There is no love” at the Academy Salon, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2019, Art Review SURVIVAL exhibition of students of the Academy of Fine Arts
2019, Sweet Nausea / Collective exhibition – Gallery Szara, Gallery Próźnia
2019 Happening “Is there a Culture after Death?” The Silesia Museum
2018, Performance "E search of a million refugees from Ukraine, dissonance: Reality versus Simulacrum" Katowice
2018, Performative action "Beginning" 31 August Gliwice Radio station, Museum in Gliwice
2017 Figurama, Stary Browar (Słodownia +1) Poznań 2016, Collective exhibition lino-cut „People of Gum” Rondo Sztuki Katowice
2016, Collective students exhibition of Kazimierz Cieśik studio Rondo Sztuki Katowice
2015, Participation in the international project “Just Beneath the Skin: Investigation and Revelations”