Yury Kharchenko

Yury Kharchenko (Russian Юрий Харченко, born 1986 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian German artist. He lives and works in Berlin.

Life
Raised in Moscow and West Germany, he took private art lessons by Ukrainian artist and Russian-language poet Vilen Barskyi. From 2004-2008, he studied at the famous Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by Markus Lüpertz and Siegfried Anzinger and graduated with master of fine arts and Diploma. From 2011-2012, he was in a PhD programme at the University of Potsdam, and did a research about the art philosophy in postmodern times influenced by Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas.

Yury Kharchenko currently lives in Berlin.

His works are part of museum collections like Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, NS Documentation Center Cologne, State Collection Düsseldorf, Kunst aus NRW Aachen, Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabrück, Kunstmuseum Walter, and the Wemhöner Collection.

Exhibitions (selection)
2024

Hällisch – Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall (solo)

2022

Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll (solo)

(Kunstverein Niebüll e.V.)

Kunstverein Krefeld (solo)

2021

Miqua Jewish Museum Cologne at Wallraf – Richartz – Museum, Cologne

Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik, Rita Kersting (Museum Ludwig Cologne), Kay Heymer (Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf)

Moderator: Dr. Michael Köhler

2020

Messe in St. Agnes, Johann König Galerie Berlin (group)

Berlinische Galerie (group)

Hamburger Kunsthalle (group)

Kunstmuseum Bonn (group)

“HEART” in collaboration with UNO

with i.a. Jenny Holzer, Thomas Klipper, Anselm Kiefer, Katharina Grosse, Rose Wylie, Antje Majewski, Douglas Gordon, Joseph Kosuth, Candida Höfer, Norbert Bisky, Henning Strassburger, Nevin Aladag, Abraham David Christian, Assaf Gruber, Reinhard Mucha, Monika Bonvicini, Anish Kapoor

Biennale Ansbach (group)

with Jonas Burgert, Justine Otto, Nicola Samori, Martin Kobe..

2019

Michael Horbach Stiftung, Köln (group)

“Avanti” with Leiko Ikemura, Frauke Dannert, Katharina Jahnke, Philipp Schwalb..

St. Joseph Münster (solo)

Franz Hitze Haus, Münster (solo)

Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt am Main (group)

with Jonathan Meese, Justine Otto, Philipp Grözinger

Lachenmann Art, Konstanz (solo)

2018:

Kunstmuseum Bochum

“Bild Macht Religion”

with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Berlinde de Bruyckere, David Lachapelle, Hermann Nitsch, Nam June Paik, Sigalit Landau

FELIX – NUSSBAUM – HAUS, Osnabrück (solo)

NS Dokumentationszentrum, Cologne (solo)

Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen

with Thea Djordjadze, Anna K. E., Yury Kharchenko, Frauke Dannert, Seb Koberstädt, Gereon Krebber, Eli Cortiñas, Florian Meisenberg

Kunstverein Sundern

Galerie Noah, Augsburg

Kunstmuseum Walter im Glaspalast

2017

Ketterer, Berlin

with Thomas Zipp, Anton Henning, Walter Stöhrer, Thomas Hartmann, Eugen Schönebeck, Bernd Koberling, K.H. Hödicke, Takeshi Makishima, Gama, Miriam Vlaming, Yury Kharchenko

Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

New presentation of Museums art collection, selection as master piece of the month, curated by Kay Heymer

Podium discussion with Kay Heymer at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

“Luther and Avantgarde”, in the Old Prison Wittenberg

with Ai Weiwei, Erwin Wurm, Jonathan Meese, Isa Genzken, Olafur Eliasson, Stephan Balkenhol, Christian Jankowski, Jürgen Klauke, Günther Uecker, Tal R, Gregor Schneider, Gilbert & George, Yury Kharchenko

Sotheby’ s Auction, Wien

with Mischa Kuball, Michael van Ofen, Axel Geis, Kristine Roepstorff, Sophie von Hellermann, Ricarda Roggan

Alte Synagoge Essen (solo), curated by Kay Heymer


 * 2016
 * Jewish Museum of Westphalia (solo)
 * Nordheimer Scheune | Helmut A. Müller, Nordheim (solo)


 * 2015
 * Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf
 * Christie' s at K 21, Düsseldorf
 * Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam
 * Bonnefanten, Roermond
 * Ober Gallery, USA
 * Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne


 * 2014
 * Clara Maria Sels Gallery with Ilya Kabakov, Panamarenko, Duane Michals, Francesca Woodman
 * Kunstverein Dillingen with Thomas Huber
 * Ober Gallery with Jasper Johns, AR Penck, Donald Baechler


 * 2013
 * Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
 * Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam
 * Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam
 * FRISCH, Halle am Wasser, Berlin
 * Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA
 * Gene Shapiro Auctions New York, USA
 * Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf


 * 2012
 * Chaplini Gallery, Köln
 * Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem
 * Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
 * Ben Uri Gallery, London
 * Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen Sammlung Aachen
 * Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf


 * 2011
 * Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf


 * 2010
 * Förderkoje, Art Cologne mit Michal Budny, Anja Schwörer, Michael Wutz, Zenita Komad, Eli Cortinas, Rebecca Wilton, Vera Lossau


 * 2009
 * Otto Schweins Gallery, Cologne
 * Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
 * Russian Salon, Project of Art Cologne at Excelsior Hotel Ernst with Vadim Zakharov, Anna Parkina, Leonid Sokhranski


 * 2008
 * Kunstmuseum Walter
 * Galerie Noah


 * 2007
 * Tris Vonna-Michell / Yury Kharchenko
 * European Kunsthalle Project
 * Galerie Otto Schweins, Köln
 * Shuebbe Projects, Düsseldorf


 * 2006
 * Christie's in Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Publications

 * Worlds Within. Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-851-0.
 * Journey to Jerusalem. Kerber Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-795-7.
 * Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2013
 * Extra Verlag, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-938370-49-0.
 * Olaf Salié (Hrsg.): Rising Young Artists to keep an Eye on. Daab, Köln 2011, ISBN 978-3-942597-03-6.
 * Boesner GmbH (Hrsg.) "Kunstwelten", Boesner, Witten, 2011, BestellNr.: 9783928003001
 * Leonardo Art award, Kunstmuseum Walter, Augsburg, 2008
 * Extra Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938370-28-5.