Andrii Rachynskyi
Andrii Rachynskyi (b. 1990, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian artist and photographer working across photography, graphics, installation, video, and archival practices. A graduate of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Graphic Design), he has collaborated with Daniil Revkovskyi since 2012. Together, they have received the Allegro Prize (2022) and the Public Choice Award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020). In 2024, Rachynskyi represented Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Let the Dream Follow the Night, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Mickey Mouse's Steppe, Odesa National Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine
2024 Civilians. Invasion, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Mickey Mouse's Steppe, Annenstrasse53 Gallery, Graz, Austria
2023 Mickey Mouse's Steppe, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2021 Tailings Dam. Engineer, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Tailings Dam, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Premonition of Disaster, Detenpyla, Lviv, Ukraine
2019 War of Inscriptions, Off/Format, Brno, Czech Republic
2019 Finally We Are Here, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
2018 Soot, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
2017 Troy VK, Flat #14, Troieshchyna, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 The War of Inscriptions, Small Arsenal Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Red Director and Blue Prosecutor, The Black Captain Bar, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Direct Contact, Arch at Velyka Zhytomyrska 30-a, Kyiv, Ukraine
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Civilians. Invasion, Ukrainian Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2024 Clanking, Hammering, Dispute and Gurgling, From Ukraine. Dare to Dream, Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale, PinchukArtCentre, Venice, Italy
2024 Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour, University of Salford, United Kingdom
2024 Ukrainian Dreamers, Kommunale Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 Biruchiy Borowiec 023, Ukrainian House, Warsaw, Poland
2023 Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us, Jam Factory, Lviv, Ukraine
2023 Ukraine! Unmuted, Galeria Biała, Lublin, Poland
2023 Kyiv Biennial: Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2023 Human, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
2023 Tailing Dam. Engineer, Ukrainian Dreamers: Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2023 Kharkiv School of Photography: 50 Years of Artistic Photography in Ukraine, Maxi Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
2023 Thickets, Groves, Woods and Bushes, Apartment Exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2023 The Cross Line, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2023 Biruchiy Borowiec 433–447, Nadwiślańskie Museum, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
2023 The Artist as Prophet, Gallery Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
2023 Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s–Now, Magnum Photos, 227 W 29th Street, New York, USA
2023 Clamour, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Chain Reaction, Film Program, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2023 To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023), BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2023 Global Spotlight: Video Art from Ukraine, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, USA
2023 The Sky Is Open: Voices from Ukraine, Online Archive
2023 Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2023 Temptation of Modernity, Manifesta 15, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, Bildraum Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2023 How Are You?, Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 On Loss, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
2023 Home, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2023 Foto Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2023 Mickey Mouse's Steppe. Archives, From 1914 till Ukraine, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2023 The Sky Is Open: Voices from Ukraine, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2023 Ukraine Month in Europe, Zemstve House Cultural Center, Chișinău, Moldova
2022 Ukraine! Unmuted, Kaunas Central Post Office, Lithuania
2022 Allegro Prize, Poland (Main Award)
2022 BIVAF – Busan International Video Art Festival, Busan, South Korea
2022 Mickey Mouse’s Steppe: The Seekers, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 On the Continuity of War, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria
2022 To Watch the War, Coalmine, Winterthur, Switzerland
2022 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2022 I Have No Words – There Is No Title, Rathausgalerie, Munich, Germany
2022 Imagine Ukraine, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Letter from the Front, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2022 Chain Reaction, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
2022 Film of Emergency, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Peace is War, Various Locations
2022 An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2022 Other Parts in the Next Quarter, The Naked Room, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Home and Abroad, Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
2022 Ukrainian Youth (2014–2022), 33rd International Film Festival Marseille, France
2022 Visions of Ukraine, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2021 Sensitivity, Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Biruchiy Contemporary Art Project, Sharhorod, Ukraine
2021 Author in the Game, Ermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2021 Soot, Springs.video
2021 Artificial Pain, Ermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2021 Verhne Synovidne. View from the Tunnel, Detenpyla, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 Brudershaft, Various Locations, Ukraine
2020 Mischievous, PinchukArtCentre Prize Exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Soot, e-flux Artist Cinemas, New York, USA
2020 Artificial Pain, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland
2019 Soot, Etc. Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Darkness, Ermilov Centre, Il Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 Soot, Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art, Kmytiv, Ukraine
2019 Just Don’t Tell Slava, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kherson, Ukraine
2019 Soot, Exploding Cinema, London, United Kingdom
2019 Upturn, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
2018 Dnipropetrovsk Region, Creating Ruin, Online Exhibition, United Kingdom
2018 MTTU, Reading International, United Kingdom
2018 KTM-5, PinchukArtCentre Prize Exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Overhaul, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2017 Sources of Light, Museum of Local Lore, Lysychansk, Ukraine
2016 Direct Contact, Shishaki Fest, Shishaki, Ukraine
2015 Self-Destructing New Buildings, Squat Autonomy, Kharkiv, Ukraine
