Kunstnere
SVIATCHENKO, SERGEI
Artworks     CV

Sergei Sviatchenko

Biography

1952 Sergei Sviatchenko born in Kharkov, Ukraine
1969–75 Graduated from Kharkov Academy of Art and Architecture
1983–86 Studied PhD at Kiev School of Architecture
From 1990 Lives and work in Denmark

Selected solo exhibitions
1986 Institute of Design, Kiev, Ukraine
1990 Gallery of Magazine Art of USSR, Moscow
1991 Galleri Ho, Viborg, Denmark
Gallery Thea Fisher-Reinhardt, W. Berlin
Galleri Nord, Randers, Denmark
1992 Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 The Wind, Gallery Nord, Denmark
FIAC (International Art Fair), Gallery Nord, Paris
1995 Works, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
1996 The Light, Viborg Stiftsmuseum, Denmark
1998 Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen
2000 Katarsis installation, video, photography, Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, Denmark
Mixedlandscape, installation, video, photography Nielsen & Holm-Møller Museet,
Holstebro,Denmark
Brænderigården, installation, video, photography, paintings, objects, Viborg, Denmark
2003 Express installation, photography, Galleri Ægidius, Randers, Denmark
2004 Twins installation, Stockholm Art Fair, Galerie Wolfsen
Less, digital collages, Iride Associazione, Perugia, Italia
The White Side of Dreams, Galleri Ægidius, Randers
2005 Galerie Gardy Wiechern, paintings, Hamburg, Germany
Darwin my friend,collage installation, Galleria Arturarte, Rome, Italy
2006 You are not the only one, installation, video, photography, Filosofgangen, Odense, Denmark
2006 Galleri NB, paintings, Viborg, Denmark
2007 Mind nature,Galleri NB, paintings, Roskilde, Denmark
2007 Outsideinside, Drake Public spaces, Toronto, Canada
Rather Gentle Stereotype, Spark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Happy With What You Have, Galleri Signe Vad,Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 For Brave Trees Only, Galleri NB, paintings, Viborg, Denmark
2008 You are not the only one, installation,collage, ROJO®artspace,Barcelona,Spain
2008 Mirror by Mirror,Homage to Andrey Tarkovsky, installation,video
photography,,Galleri Image,Aarhus,Denmark


Selected group exhibitions
1989 1st Soviet-American Exhibition, Kiev, Kharkov, Tbilisi
21 View, Ukrainian Artists, Munich, Germany,
1989 21 View, Ukrainian Artists, Odense Denmark
Three Generations of Ukrainian Paintings. 1960s-1980s,Denmark
Flash - New Ukrainian Art, Kiev
1995 Kunstrai Art Fair Kunsthandel Frans Jacob, Amsterdam, Holland
1996 Galerie Proteé, Paris, France
Art Cologne, Galerie Egelund, Cologne, Germany
1998 Artissima, Galerie Egelund, Turin, Italy
1999 Art Miami, Galerie Egelund, Miami, USA
2000 Art 2000, Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2004 APPERTIZERS, collages, Iride Associazione, Perugia, Italy
2005 PlAYFACE, collage installation, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy
DISPLAY, collage installation, Kforumvienna, Vienna, Austria
PLOTARTEUROPE, Museo laboratorio di arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006 TIME, videofilm, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
EMERGENCY ROOM, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark, Galerie Olaf Struber, Berlin
Varoom Magazine, Coningsby Gallery, London
VIDEOTEKA:MOBILE VIDEO ART ARCHIVE, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2007 LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, Drake Public spaces, Toronto, Canada
SMART FORTWO, Rojo magazine, Venice, CA USA
Awards
2001/ Ljubljana/ 2nd World Festival of Art on Paper
2004/The 13th Seoul Space International Print Biennial
2007/D&AD Yellow Pencil Award Winner 2007



Commisions / Represented/ Collections
Abildgaard Grafisk A/S – Arbejdsgiverforening – Carravell Group A/S
Cheminova A/S – Coopers & Lybrand – Gymnastikhøjskolen ved Viborg
Danisco A/S – Danisco (China) Co., Ltd – Dansk Industri – Danske Bank
DFDS – DSB – EFR Eksportkredit – EUC MIDT Grundfos A/S,The Poul Due Jensen Academy - Holstebro Central Hospital – Hygæa A/S – Højgaard & Vista A/S – Jysk Display A/S – Jyske Bank – K.F.K. A/S – Kommunedata – Kommunekredit – Kraftvarmeværket, Viborg – Kommunernes Landsforening – Kulturhus Bjerringbro – Landbrugs- og Fiskeriministeriet – Moe & Brødsgaard A/S – Nokia A/S – Nordea – Nowaco A/S – Nykredit A/S – Nørhaven A/S – PricewaterhouseCoopers – Th. Ostenfeld Patentbureau A/S –Rambøll A/S – Ricken A/S – Sabroe A/S – Scanvest Management Syst. A/S – Schulstad A/S – Schur International A/S – Sonofon A/S – Statsministeriet – System B8 A/S – Søværnets Materielkommando – Skjern Kirke - Tytex A/S – Temco A/S – Tryg-Baltica A/S – Viborg AMT – Viborg Busterminal – Viborg Seminariet

Selected Bibliography
1990 FireworksHonouringGeneral"S".DecorativeartintheUSSR#10/1990
(Text: Enver)
1991 Painting 1991. Published Galerie Nord, Randers,
(Text: Erik Johannesen)
1992 A Dynamic Colourist. Painting.
(Text: Palle Schmidt)
Belonging. Edition Schur, (Text: Paul Nielsen)
1993 3års malerier I Danmark. Published Galerie Nord & Galerie Egelund.
(Text: Jørgen Hansen)
Dansk Kunst 1993 (Text: Jørgen Hansen)
1994 When the light breaks through. Published Galerie Egelund
(Text: Torben Weirup)
1994 Interior landscapes. Revue Cimaise nr.234, Paris,
Sergei Sviatchenko,
(Text: Philippe Piguet)
The Name of the Place. Published Galerie C, Sergei Sviatchenko,
(Text: Lisbeth Tolstrup)
1995 Byens Magi. Published Art Sted, Sergei Sviatchenko,
(Text: Jesper Overgaard)
1996 Paintings 1993-1996. Published Galerie Egelund Sergei Sviatchenko,
(Text: Jørgen Hansen)
1998 Dansk Kunst, Sergei Sviatchenko, (Text: Lisbeth Tolstrup)
Front-Line. The Art of Ukraine in 20th Century. Kiev,1998
Works on paper 1989-1998. Sergei Sviatchenko,
(Text: Tom Jørgensen)
1999 The amalgam’s dialectics. Revue Cimaise nr. 266/267, Paris,
Sergei Sviatchenko,(Text: Giovanni Joppolo)
2003 Viktor Antonov, Georgy Nikich, Martine Arnault-Tran m.fl.:Sergei
Sviatchenko. MULTIMEDIA LIGHT ART STORIES.
Published Borgens Forlag, Denmark.
2006 Hans Henrik Jacobsen. Paintings & others 1991–2006,
Published Forlaget Hovedland, Denmark.
2006 Hans Henrik Jacobsen, Paintings & Others 1991–2006,
Published Forlaget Hovedland, Denmark
S.Sviathenko, Contemporary image-makers,
Varoom Magazine #1-2006 London
Kilimanjaro Magazine “When I was seventeen…” London
2007 Dazed&Confused, “Choose your own future” January issue
Playzebra magazine, Playzebra interviews by Anna Follo and Nello Russo, Torino, Italy
2007 Who I think I am, the 5th compendium of thisisamagazine, Italy
DAMn12, Art for Art’s Sake, Belgium
LE magazine, Meeting Sviatchenko, Russia
Rojo magazine, NAMI, Spain
Rojo magazine, FORTWO, special edition, Spain
WONDERLAND, To inspire, Denmark

Major large works
1996 145 square metre painting covering two walls at Nokia’s central building in Copenhagen.
Colour consultant at Viborg Central Power Station, also creating
large paintings and an external fountain for the building.
1997 Created large collage for the new Grundfos Auditorium
in Bjerringbro.
Two large paintings for the Danish Parliament.
1998 A large painting for the reception area in
Danisco’s new factory in China.
Designed fountain and acted as a colour consultant for 14
glass paintings for the new bus terminal in Viborg.
Created 603 x 220 cm painting for the entrance to
System B8’s new factory in Bjerringbro, also created
painting sections for the production hall.
Decoration of reception area at PricewaterhouseCoopers
central building in Copenhagen, 6 paintings, 200 x 200 cm.
1999 Created series of paintings for Nykredit, Viborg.
Colour consultant for the new Teacher Training
College in Viborg, decoration of one
wall with a large painting, 800 x 350 centimetres.
2000 Decoration of “Culture Column” in the new
Gudenåhus in Bjerringbro.
Created 13 watercolours of Viborg Cathedral for the
millennium calendar 2000.
Began work with the idea and sketches for
the artistic decoration for Skjern Church.
Development of the idea for a sequence of works:
Collage, paintings, colour schemes and
watercolours for EUC Midt, Viborg.
Borgen Publishers begin work upon a monography
Multimedia Light Art Stories.
2001 Created six lithographs and two paintings for
The Poul Due Jensen Academy, Grundfos in Bjerringbro.
Ornamentation of Schulstad’s new factory in Hostebro
with one painting and a series of watercolours.
Creation of paintings and colour schemes for
EUC Midt, Viborg, Denmark.
2002 Borgen publish the monograph Sviatchenko.
Began work on idea and sketches for ornamentation
to Jyske Bank’s new head office in Silkeborg.
Opening of own exhibition space Senko in Viborg.
Creation of a series of large watercolours,
decoration of two walls with collage for EUC Midt, Viborg.
Colour consultant for EUC Midt’s dormitory wing, Viborg.
Creation of the painting Comfort, trust, hope -
three sections in Skjern Church.
Colour consultant for the facade of the new football
stadium in Viborg, also sketches for the interior decoration.
2003 Creation of 150 square metre painting
Illumination of horizontal and vertical covering two walls
at Jyske Bank’s new head office in Silkeborg, Denmark.
2004 School of Business Randers, Painting 250 x 500 cm in the canteen.
Colours seperation for the facade of the new football stadium
in Viborg, 5 large C-prints 350 x 250 cm.
2005 Created painting 300 x 300 cm. for the reception at Bucks Forlag
in Randers, Denmark
Creation of series of larges paintings for Holstebro Central Hospital, Holstebro, Denmark
2006 Created wallcollages for new School of Business, Randers, Denmark and EUC Midt new
Innovation building.

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