Oleksandr Maksymov
Performance, collage, theatre, land-art, photography, pixel-art
Born in Drohobych, Ukraine, 1982
Education & residence:
– Ivan Franko Pedagogical University, Department of Philosophy
– Artistic Residence at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, [Warsaw, Poland] [2012]
– Scholarship programme Gaude Polonia, 2013[Krakow][Teatr Mumerus]
– Cross-disciplinary workshop under the direction of Ewa Zarzycka (Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław), Drohobych, 2014
– School of performance during ‘Week of contemporary art’ in Lviv under the direction of Sandra Johnston/UK[2015], Denys Blacker/UK[2016], Bartolomé Ferrando/ES(IN THE SOUND WORK)[2018]
– Intensive curatorial course under the direction of Ianina Prudenko (independent curator and researcher from the media art industry; curator of the Ukrainian Open Archive of Media Art [Kyiv/UA]) [Iwano-Frankiwsk/UA][2017];
– Workshop «ArtAction» by Piotr Armianovski [Lutsk|UA][2018] [Theatre Festival “Wandering Hanger”]
– “What is curating?” Meeting with Pavlo Gudimov [Lviv|UA][2019] [URBAN library]
– Artistic Residence at the “La Cité des arts de la rue”,[i-Portunus] [Marseille, France] [2019]
Actor:
ALTER Theatre (Drohobych/UA), MUMERUS Theatre (Krakow/PL), PALTOMIMY project.
Theatre Workshops:
Theater of improvisation, Arkadiusz Zietek [Berlin] & Przemysław Buksiński [Lublin] (Lviv_2011),
Kamchàtka Companyia [Spain] (Krakow_2013),
Co-founder and curator of the artistic platform NGO “Dro.Art.” in Drohobych;
Co-founder & Music Manager: Radio Kotermak
Organizer: Jazz Bez Drohobych[2016,2017,2018,2019]
Curator: Art residence “Magical salt cities”(Drohobych)[2020]
Personal projects:
– «Our aim-conceptualism»[2017], Drohobych/UA, Alter Gallery[2017], Lublin/PL, Łucjan gallery
– „Nest” installation [2018], Drohobych/UA, Willa Bianki (Off-program of Bruno Schulz festival)
– “Animals & Humans”, Art Space “Vagabundo Underground Passage”, Ivano-Frankivsk [2020]
– “Animals & Humans”, museum “Drohobychyna”, Drohobych [2020]
– “Animals & Humans”, Alliance française, Lviv [2020]
– Performance in WEartMuseum, Odesa [2020]
– Pixel-art project “droresidents”, Drohobych [2020]
Сollective projects:
Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox. Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy, Lutsk|UA [2018]
Project “Auera Mediocritas” (Gleb Franko_Khmelnytskyi & Oleksandr Maksymov_Drohobych)(Curator Anna Potyomkina), Assortment Room Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk|UA [2018]
Project “The Shadow of Dream” cast upon Giardini della Biennale” (Curator Open Group)|La Biennale di Venezia[2019]
Project “¿sALON?” Collective exhibition, (Curator Roman Khrushch) Futura HUB, Lviv|UA [2019]
Collage Art-marathon #мифы_Параджанова Parajanov Art Laboratorium (Armenia) [2019]
Project “Collage stories”, collective exhibition, (Curator`s: Maria Nazarenko(Kyiv), Dmytro Stetsko(Drohobych), Design & Art gallery (Drohobych)[2021]
Participation in festivals:
– International festival of Bruno Schulz [Drohobych] [2012,2014,2016,2018,2020];
– Festival of contemporary art GogolFest [Kyiv] [2014];
– Printemps d’Europe [Lion, France] [2015];
– ULICA International Festival of Street Theatres [Krakow, Poland] [2013,2015];
– Days of performance art in Lviv [2015,2016];
– International Festival of Contemporary Music “Kontrasty” [Lviv] [2015];
– Ukrajins’kyj Zriz: Przeobrażenia III Triennale of Ukrainian Contemporary Art [Wroclaw, Poland] [2016];
– Festival of contemporary art „Dro.Art.Days” [Drohobych] [2016,2019];
– Festival of sacral art “Płaszcz Jura” (Saint Jura’s Church)[Drohobych] [2017];
– Festival of contemporary art „New Wave Exhibition” [Lviv] [2017];
– International Festival of Ephemeral Art “Contexts” [Sokolowsko, Poland] [2017,2018];
– Festival of contemporary art Dro.Art. [Drohobych/Nahuevychi] [2017,2018];
– Festival of contemporary art ZABIH [Lviv][2018];
– Theatre Festival “Wandering Hanger” [Lutsk|UA][2015,2018]