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Sasha Kurmaz 

b. 1986 Kiev, USSR.
Currently lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Education
2008 Design Department at the National Academy 
of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts. Kiev, Ukraine.

Personal exhibitions
2018 Chech gallery. Project: Afterparty, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. 
2017 Edmund Felson Gallery. Project: The Exhibitionist. Berlin, Germany.
2016 PinchukArtCentre. Project: The Marble Angels With Bows Were Shaking In Shadows 
Their Small Penises, Bending Their Bows And Carelessly Laughed At Death, Kiev, Ukraine.
2016 C/O Berlin. Project: Method, Berlin, Germany.
2016 Exp12. Project: I See the Things, Berlin, Germany.
2015 UV21 Gallery. Project Undreamed, Warsaw, Poland.
2015 Detenpyla gallery. Project: «Мій світ недостатньо реальний для Апокаліпсису», Lviv, Ukraine.
2015 Triangle gallery. Project: «Напрасная молодость», Moscow, Russia.
2014 Nova gallery. Project Zaraz Wracam, Krakow, Poland. 
2010 Viuro gallery. Project Talking Walls, Warsaw, Poland.

Group exhibitions
2018 Oxyd. Project: “Flip A Coin”. Winterthur, Switzerland.
2018 Mystetskyi Arsenal. Project: “REVOLUTIONIZE!”. Kiev, Ukraine.
2018 Bursa gallery. Project: “One Copy Book”. Kiev, Ukraine.
2018 PinchukArtCentre. Project: Chronicle of Current Events, Kiev, Ukraine.
2017 Galeria Arsenał. Project: Central by East Central, Białystok, Poland.
2017 Galerie Folia. Project: Tools of Resistance, Paris, France.
2017 Electromuseum. Project: Искусство и город: Граффити в эпоху интернета. Moscow, Russia.
2017 Aff Galerie. Project: Keep Your Eyes Peeled, Berlin, Germany.
2017 Czech Center. Project: Baby, I Like It Raw, NYC,US
2017 NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Project: Perfect Storm, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2017 Yermilov center. Project: Tyr shch uk yc zhzhi ph, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2016 Skovde Art Museum. Project: Between Revolution and War, Skövde, Sweden.
2016 Gallery Awangarda BWA Wrocław. Project Dependence Degree, Wrocław, Poland. 
2016 Galeria da Boavista. Project Aujourd’hui je dis oui, Lisbon, Portugal.
2016 Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK. Project Into the Dark, Vienna, Austria.
2016 Despacio. Project No One Belongs Here More Than You, San José, Costa Rica.
2015 Saatchi gallery. Project UK/raine, London, UK.
2015 Port Creative Hub. Project Traces of Memory, Kiev, Ukraine.
2014 Architekturzentrum. Project Through Maidan and Beyond, Vienna, Austria.
2014 l'Atelier Néerlandais. Project Foam Talent, Paris, France.
2014 IZOLYATSIA foundation. Project Zahoplennya, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 Yermilov center. Project After The Victory, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2014 Künstlerhaus. Project I Am Drop In The Ocean, Vienna, Austria.
2014 Periscope project space. Project Protest!, Salzburg, Austria.
2013 ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art. Project Global Activism, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2013 Grinberg Gallery. Project Ukraine: Expropriation, Moscow, Russia.
2013 16th LINE Gallery. Project Cooperation Territory, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
2013 Signal Gallery. Project BLOG RE-BLOG, NY, USA.
2013 CCA Ujazdowski Castle. Project Ukrainian News, Warsaw, Poland. 
2013 Bottega gallery. Project Environment For Living, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 Yermilov center. Project The System Of Coordinates, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2013 Design Cloud, LLC. Project Peculiar Poetics, Chicago, USA. 
2012 Gallery RA. Project Eternity ll, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 Santorini Biennale of Arts, Santorini, Greece.
2012 IZOLYATSIA foundation. Project Partly Cloudy, Donetsk, Ukraine.
2012 GOOD PRESS Gallery. Project FRUIT SALAD, Glasgow, Scotland.
2012 Lavra gallery. Project Love Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 MOPLA. Project NEW RESEARCH, Los Angeles, USA
2012 W139. Project Catch A Glimpse Of Me, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2012 Gallery Steinsland Berliner. Project Batholomew, Stockholm, Sweden.
2012 VCRC as NaUKMA, Project Ukrainian Body, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 Artitude Kunstverein. Project Bits + Pieces, Berlin, Germany.
2011 Paperworks gallery. Project The Frenzied Urge To Struggle, Moscow, Russia.
2011 Mystetskyi Arsenal Mala gallery. Project: “Newspeak”. Kiev, Ukraine.
2011 Gallery 12 Mail. Project BARTHOLOMEW, Paris, France.
2011 Bottega gallery. Project Environment For Living, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 Fluxx Gallery. Project Indian Summer, Des Moines, USA.
2011 Bruciecollections gallery. Project EXPLORATION OF THE SETTING, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011 Bottega gallery. Project Muhi 2011, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 Radio gallery. Project GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS, Milan, Italy.
2010 Bottega gallery. Project RECUSANSY , Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 Mystetskyi Arsenal. Project Conection , Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 M17 Art centr. Project THOSE WHO CAME IN 2000’S, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 Eglise Saint-André. Project Graffiti Paradise, Liege, Belgium.
2009 Bereznitska & Partner Gallery. Project Should The World Break In, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 Globus gallery.Project: KIEV DANDYS «С корабля на бал», Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2008 KyivFineArt gallery. Project Strange But Cool, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 Karas gallery. Project New Ukrainian Language, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006 Centre for contemporary art at NaUKMA. Project Graffiti in Focus, Kiev, Ukraine.

Festival
2018 Fotopub. Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
2018 Athens Photo Festival. Project The Infernal Machine. Athens, Greece.
2018 Edmund Felson Gallery. Gallery Weekend. Berlin, Germany.
2017 Festival of young Ukrainian artists, Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine.
2017 WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! Minsk, Belarus.
2017 BIG Biennale. Geneva, Switzerland.
2017 Bien Urbain. Besançon, France.
2016 Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Villa Noailles, France.
2016 Let’s Queer — Let’s Art. Aleksandr Dovzhenko National Center. Kiev, Ukraine.
2016 Lend|hauer: ‘The First Thing I Did This Summer’, Klagenfurt, Austria. 
2015 Kaunas photo festival. Kaunas, Lithuania.
2015 Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
2015 Les Nuits Photographiques, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin. Paris, France.
2015 Volkstheater Project Die Besten aus dem Osten. Vienna, Austria.
2014 Art Boom International Public Art Festival. Krakow, Poland.
2014 Katowice Street Art Festival. Katowice, Poland.
2013 International Contemporary Arts Festival Survival Kit. Riga, Latvia.
2013 FORMAT 13 International Photo Festival. Derby, UK.
2012 International Art Festival MAKARONKA. Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
2010 International Public Art Festival On The Ground. Liege, Belgium.

Residence

2018 Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2018 HIAP, Helsinki, Finland.
2018 Art Prospect, Yerevan, Armenia.
2017 Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria.
2017 EoFA, Geneva, Switzerland.
2015 KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria.
2014 ZARYA, Vladivostok, Russia.
2011 IZOLYATSIA foundation, Donetsk, Ukraine. 
2011 Artitude Kunstverein. Berlin, Germany.

Fellowships / Workshops
2016 Sound Development City Artist Expedition (Madrid—Casablanca). Spain, Morocco. 
2016 Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.
2016 Styria Artist in Residence (St.A.i.R.) Scholarship, Graz, Austria.
2015 CCA Smena. Project: «ЦEX уличного искусства», Kazan, Tatarstan.
2015 KIOSK AIR program. Project City On Sale, Chisinau, Moldova.
2014 Gaude Polonia Scholarship Programme, Krakow, Poland.
2014 Conference of Urban Initiatives Delai Sammit, Moscow, Russia.
2013 Exchange of Artists Project RutaRuna, Ukraine, Sweden. 
2013 Workshop Must Act, Minsk, Belarus.

Awards
2015 Winner of ARTE Creative Award, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2013 Finalist of Pinchuk Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 Finalist of Kazimir Malewitzsch Award, Kyiv, Ukraine

Publications
2018 Fotograf #31, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018 Widzi-mi-się. Warsaw, Poland.
2017 Bad to the bone #11, Paris, France.
2017 Jungsheft #22, Erftstadt, Germany. 
2017 Adbusters Magazine #134. Vancouver, Canadian.
2016 Method. Talents 38. C/O Berlin, Kehrer, Berlin, Germany. 
2016 Cookbook. A Reference Magazine #3, Madrid, Spain.
2016 UNLOCKED book, ATOPOS cvc, Athens, Greece.
2016 YET magazine #9, Lugano, Switzerland.
2016 Fisheye magazine #16, Paris, France.
2015 The MIT Press, Global Activism, Cambridge, MA/London, UK.
2015 Magenta #1. Nowa Anatomia, Warszawa, Poland 
2015 Prestel book: Desire. New Erotic Photography, München, Germany.
2015 Temps de Vacances #1, Madrid, Spain
2014 FOAM Magazine #39 Talent, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Krytyka Polityczna #5 Kyiv, Ukraine 
2013 Tissue Magazine #4, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Jpeople Magazine #17, Berlin, Germany.
2013 The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, Yale University, USA.
2013 Nudity Today, NY, USA.
2013 SEN/SEN book, Taipei, Taiwan.
2013 Vice #4, NY, USA.
2013 DE:BUG #03, Berlin, Germany.
2013 The Germans #3, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Unpublished #4, Milan, Italy.
2012 Shoppinghour magazine #9, London, UK.
2012 Bolo paper #2, Milan, Italy.
2012 ffw MAG #32, São Paulo, Brasil.
2012 Bloomberg Businessweek, Aug. – Sept., NY, USA.
2012 FRUIT SALAD, Glasgow, UK.
2012 0_100 # 9, Milan, Italy.
2012 Opak #11, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Vice #12, Paris, France.
2011 Suddeutche Zeitung Magazin #52, Munchen, Germany.
2011 BARTHOLOMEW by JSBJ, Paris, France.
2011 DISTURBER #1, Bologna, Italy.
2011 L’imparfaite magazine #3, Paris, France.
2011 Pig Mag #92, Milan, Italy.
2010 Rolling Stone #87, Milan, Italy.
2010 5,6 magazine #5, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 Concrete and me #2, Budapest, Hungary.


Art direction / Editing
2019–2012 5.6 magazine about photography. Kiev, Ukraine.
2017 Ukrainian Erotic Photography. Osnovy Publishing, Kiev, Ukraine.
2015 Poo-tee-weet? Osnovy Publishing, Kiev, Ukraine.