User:Olexandr Soloviov



Olexandr Soloviov was born in 1952, in Volgograd. He is one of the leading art-critics as well as one of the best local experts in contemporary art.

He is a permanent curator at Mystetskyi Arsenal. He has behind him an international reputation, and acclaim for organising some of the most exciting and innovative exhibitions in Europe in recent years.

From 1999 he has been a Permanent Contributor to Flash Art magazine in Milan, and since 2001 has been a Senior Associate at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv. From 2004 to 2010 he was Curator of the PinchukArtCentre, at The Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv. In 2010 he moved over to become Deputy Head and Chief Curator of Mystetski Arsenal.

Some of the major projects he has curated include:

•	20th Century Ukrainian Painting, National Arts Museum, Kyiv 1990

•	Cultural Revolution Space, Arts Palace “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv 1994.

•	Greenhouse Affect, Centre of Contemporary Art of Soros Gallery, Kyiv Moghyla Academy, 1997.

•	Contemporary Ukrainian Photography, Art Gallery, Bratislava 1998

•	Accommodation, “At Jesuits” Gallery, Poznan 1998

•	When the Screens Thin Down, Passage de Retz, Paris 1999

•	First Collection, Artists’ Central House, Kyiv 2003.

•	Time Grinders, Ukrainian presentation at the Venetian Biennale – 50th, 2003.

•	Farewell to Arms, Arsenal, Kyiv 2004

•	Reality Testing, Arts Palace “Ukranian House”, Kyiv 2005 •	New Space, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv 2006

•	Testing Station, Sculpture House, Stockholm 2006

•	GENERATIONS. UsA, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv 2007

•	Space Odyssey, Mystetskyi Arsenal, April 2011

•	Independent, Mystetskyi Arsenal, August 2011