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Bratkov, Serhiy
1960 Kharkiv (Ukraine), lives in Moscow (Russia)

venue: Koldo Mitxelena

Serhiy Bratkov is a photographer who was active in The Fast Reaction Group, an urban interventionist collective prominent in Ukraine during the mid-1990s (together with Boris Mikhailov, Serhiy Solonsky and Victoria Mikhailova). His work arrives out of a consciousness of his own time gauged against the political, social and economic contingencies of the “just past.” Bratkov seeks out young subjects who find themselves listless within a liminal space inscribed by the temporal gap between Ukraine´s Soviet period and its subsequent reincarnation as an evolving market economy and political anomaly. In Koldo Mitxelena, the artist remixes images that approach the child as a subject beyond common juvenile clichés. Bratkov’s children come from a generation “in between” that still hold a residual infantile consciousness of the immediately prior while prematurely entering an adolescence located in an antithetical elsewhere. These kids, forever parentless and invulnerable, are consumed by an alienating experience of youth that is still often reduced to exchange value by the increasing international demand for adoption and abundant sex trafficking.
curriculum:

Education
Polytechnical Academy, Kharkiv, Department of industrial electronics, 1983.

Repin Art College, Kharkiv, 1978.

Selected individual exhibitions
Steelworkers. Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium), 2003.

Kids. Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, 2003.

Souvenirs. Scena Gallery, Moscow, 2003.

Faust and Margherita. Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 2003.

My Moscow. Regina Gallery, Moscow, 2002.

www.girls.ru. LipanjePuntin Gallery, Trieste (Italy), 2002.

Djeti-Kinder-Kids. Kunstverein, Rosenheim (Germany), 2002.

Fayur-Soyuz. Regina Gallery, Moscow, 2001.

Sailors. Regina Gallery, Moscow, 2000.

Kids. Regina Gallery, Moscow, 2000.

The Daily Journal of Chicatilo. Galerie in der BrotFabrik, Berlin, 1997.

The Medical Cabinet of Prof. Dmitriy Pirogov, Kharkiv Medical Association, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1996.

There is no Paradise. Up/Down Gallery, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1996.

Frozen Landscape: Photo-Action. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1995.

In the Haystacks. Galerie in der
BrotFabrik, Berlin, 1995.

Forum Stadtpark, Graz (Austria), 1992.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (Israel), 1990.

Selected group exhibitions
Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000.

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2003.

Dreams and Conflicts. Biennale di Venezia, Tondo/Russian Pavilion , Venice (Italy), 2003.

Neue Ansatze/Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Moskau. Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (Germany), 2003.

Werkelijkheidshorizonten, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (Belgium), 2003.

Sans Consentement. CAN, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2002.

Shock&Show. Group 78, Trieste (Italy), 2002.

Photobiennale2002. Manezh, Moscow, 2002.

Biennial of São Paulo (Brasil), 2002.

Brand. Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 2002.

Winter Exhibitions: Tiong Ang, Serhiy Bratkov, David Claerbout, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez. Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA), 2001.

Inverse Perspectives. Edvik Cultural Centre, Sollentuna (Sweden), 2001.

Contemporary Photographers of the Ukraine. Contemporary Art Centre, Thessaloniki (Greece), 2000.

Two Sides. Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 2000.

Olaf Breuning & Serhiy Bratkov. Cosoi Caponir Museum-Fortress. Kyiv, 2000.

Contemporary Photographers of the Ukraine. Festival Est-Ouest, Die (France), 1999.

3rd Triennale of Photography. Graz (Austria), 1999.

Face Value. Ukrainian Stock Exchange, Kyiv, 1999.

Regards sur l’Ukraine. Passage du Retz, Paris, 1999.

Contemporary Photographers of the Ukraine. École d’art de Mulhouse (France), 1999.

Carte-Blanche à Boris Mikhailov. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 1999.

Photographers from Kharkiv. Gallery Kohlenof, Nuremberg (Germany), 1999.

The Future is Now. Ukrainian Art of 90s. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 1999.

Dressed in White. The Art Gallery at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey (USA), 1998.

Accommodation. Gallery U Iezuitov, Poznan (Poland), 1998.

Public Interest. Gallery of the Artists Union, House of Artists, Kyiv, 1998.

Humanature. Nortalie (Sweden), 1998.

Intermedia. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1998.

A Day in the Life, Crimean Project-I. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1998.

Symptomatic Anonymity. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1997.

Photo Syntheses. Gallery of the Artists Union, House of Artists, Kyiv, 1997.

Intrigue-Provocation. M. Zilinkas Art Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania), 1997.

Sugar Plum Visions. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1997.

Commodity Fetishism. Ukrainian House Cultural Center, Kyiv, 1997.

The Family Album. Mohyla Academy Gallery, Kyiv, 1997.

Bred in the Bone. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, 1995.

Multiple Exposures: Chichkan and Bratkov. Mason Gross Visual Arts School. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA), 1995.

The Art of Photography from Ukraine. Mason Gross Visual Arts School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA), 1995.

Black and White. Brama Center for Contemporary Arts, Kyiv, 1995.

Barbaros. Artists Union Gallery, House of Artists, Kyiv, 1995.

Mouth of Medusa. Center for Contemporary Arts Brama, Kyiv, 1995.

Free Zone. Art Museum, Odessa (Ukraine), 1994.

Alchemic Surrender. Battleship Slavutych, Sevastopol, Crimea (Ukraine), 1994.

Project for Europe. Turbine Hall, Copenhagen, 1994.

Behind the Fence. Ukrainian Museum of Fine Art, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1994.

Neoexpressionist Photography: Bratkov, Mikhailov, Solonskiy. Ukrainian Museum of Fine Art, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1994.

Photography from Kharkiv. Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg (Germany), 1993.

Trans-Kontakt. Kharkiv. New York. New York (USA), 1993, with Boris Mikhailov.

The Art of Contemporary Photography from Russia, Belorussia. Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1993.

Expanse of the Cultural Revolution. Ukrainian House Cultural Center, Kyiv, 1994.

Ukrainian Photography Contemporary. Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati (USA), 1992.

Fifth Exhibition of Litera A. House of Artists, Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1992.

Group Show. Gallery Zabo, Nuremberg (Germany), 1992.

Artists from Ukraine. DRK-Forum, Kiel, 1992
150 Years of Photography. Manege, Moscow, 1989.

Will We All Eat One Another and Package It? Gallery Up/Down, Kharkiv
(Ukraine), 1991.

Republican Exhibition of Young Artists. House of Artists, Kyiv, 1988.

All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists. Manege, Moscow, 1988.

Art Contacts.Riga, 1988.

New Soviet Photography. Helsinki, 1988.
 
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