Yuriy Yermolenko

Author of special, large-scale, monumental painting projects, set designer, production designer (music video), clip maker, photographer, founder of RapanStudio, author of the project "Facevinyl".

Born in 1973 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv. 1980-1992 Taras Shevchenko State Art Secondary School, Kyiv, Ukraine. 1992-1998 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA), Kyiv, Ukraine. 1998-2001 Postgraduate studies at NAOMA (Master of Painting). 2003 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of Poland "Goude Polonia", Krakow, Poland.

Projects: 2016 – 2017 – "In Search of Dark Energy", Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic; Imperial Residence "Hofburg", Vienna, Austria. 2014 – 2015 – “My Favorite Dolls” 2014 – “Brothers in Arms” 2013 – “Facevinyl” 2013 – “Ukrainian Psychedelic”, “Fort – Mission” festival; “HYPE” project, “Kosyy Kaponir” museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 - “Magical Garden”, creative lab 2013 - “Suitcases of Classics”, “Fort – Mission” festival; Project "HYPE", Museum "Kosyy Kaponir", Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 - "Let there always be a mother, let there always be me" Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 - "Conversion" 2012 - "Immigration to Cuba" Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 - "SIGNS of Cuba" 2011 - "Girls with whom I did not succeed..." Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 - "Metaphysical landscape of Zaporizhzhia", Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine 2010 - "Metaphysical landscape of Kaniv", "Knyazha Hora", Kaniv, Ukraine 2010 - "And Jazz for the Hedgehog", Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 - "Eternal Values", Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 - "Peruvian Toys", Gallery "TSEKH", Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 - “Death of Brands”, TSEH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 – “Pink”, TSEH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 – “Lolitas in the Arena”, Da Vinci Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 – “Silicone”, TSEH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 – “Paradise” 2006 – “Flea Market”, TSEH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 – “Alice new! ”, Bereznytsky Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 – “Entomology of Souls”, Land Art Festival “Spring Wind”, Wind Island, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 – “13. ICONOSTASIS”, gallery “L-art”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 – “Hunting”, museum of contemporary art “Soviart”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 – “Kaniv – RAPAN”, National Art Museum of Ukraine 2003 – “Baltic – Hel”, Hel Spit, Baltic Sea, Poland PROJECTS IN THE ART GROUP “TERRASY”: 2002 – “The Jumper That Disappears by Mistake”, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 – “Indigo - Purring Court”, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine 2000 – “New York City”, gallery “Irena”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2000 – “Spalakh”, gallery “L-art”, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999 – “So good!”, NAOMA museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 1998 – “Shout on the Plateaus”, gallery of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 – “Dancing on a Colored Rope”, “Tadzio” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 – “Worldview and Painting”, “Leader” Youth Center, Kyiv, Ukraine Collective exhibitions: 2013 – participation in Art-Moscow 2013 (Moscow) 2013 – ART-VILNIUS’13 (Vilnius) 2012 – Participation in Contemporary Istambul 2012 – Participation in Art-Moscow 2012 (Moscow) 2012 – Participation in ART-VILNIUS’12 (Vilnius) 2011 – Participation in Art-Moscow 2011 (Moscow) 2011 – Participation in ART-VILNIUS’11 (Vilnius) 2010 – Participation in ART-VILNIUS’10 (Vilnius) 2009 – Participation in the Autumn Salon 2009 (Paris) 2008 – “Self-absorption”, gallery of contemporary art “Tsek”, Kyiv, Ukraine AUTHOR’S FILM: 2003 - “13. ICONOSTASIS” 2003 - “Sleep with a Monkey” 2002 - “Kwok” 2000 - “Terra Indigo” 1999 - “Flash” 1999 - “So good!” 1999 - “Remembering the Orange Orchards” 1999 - “Kumamoto Terraces” 1999 - “Seventh Day” 1998 - “Crater Game” 1997 - “Shout on the Plateaus” 1994 - “Circles of Ruins” 1992 - “When Trains Were Stopped by Saturn” Currently engaged in exhibition activities. The works are in museums, galleries and private collections in Switzerland, Germany, the Principality of Monaco, Great Britain, Poland, Austria, the USA, Latvia, France, Russia and Ukraine.