Ivan Bazak

Biography

1980

Born in Kolomyia, Ukraine
Lives in Kiev and Cologne

1994-97

National Art School Kiev

1999

Soros Grants from the Centre for Contemporary Art, Kiev; in Kiev, Ukraine

2000

Sculpture symposium, Shades of forgotten ancestors, Kolomyja, Ukraine, 3rd Prize

2002

Master class, Prof. Magdalena Jetelova, St. Petersburg

1997- 2003

National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev

2001-06

Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf,class of Prof. Karl Kneidl

2015

Nestroy Theatre Prize for "Best Production Design" for 'Johnny Breitwiesser' (Schauspielhaus Wien, director: Alexander Charim), Austria

2022

Founded the artist collective Prykarpattian Theater

Selected Solo exhibitions

2015

Stillleben, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2012

Tracing Paper, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2011

2 Geschichten - 3 Welten (2 Stories - 3 Worlds), Binz39 Foundation (with Lada Nakonechna)

2009

Charim Galerie, Vienna, Germany (solo)
Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany (mit Bert de Beul)

2008

Where is my home? Where are you at home?, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kiev, Ukraine
Häuser, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Ivan Bazak. From...to, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland

2007

Wo ist Zuhause? No. 2 / Where is home? No. 2, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Karpathentheater, Artothek, Cologne, Germany

2006

Petrus Neue Häuser/ Petrus' new houses, Kewenig Galerie hosted by Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, Germany
Huzulen und Tiroler, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Ivan Bazak. Huzulen und Tiroler, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2005

Kunstverein Engen, with Joachim Schweikart, Germany

2004

Studio Achtneuntel, Berlin, Germany
Kewenig Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Centre for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

2003

Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

On The Periphery of War – Kiyv Biennial 2023, Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

2022

Preparing Passages - Before and After The Independence Day Exhibition, Charim Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna, Austria

2015

MNAC, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest,

2014

Just Add Water!, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011

MUba, Tourcoing
Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes

2010

Am Anfang war ich am Ende / Au début j’étais au bout, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach
Rückblicke, Polish Institute, Berlin, Germany
Wandlungen-Metamorphosen, Transfer France – NRW 2008-2010, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr
Lodz Biennale, International Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland

2009

Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
KarpatenBiennale, Kurator: Ivan Bazak, Cologne and Javoriv, Ukraine
Future Was Yesterday", Self-Organized Artistik Practices from Ukraine, Gallery SC + Gallery PM/HDLU, Zagreb
F.R.I.K. Film Festival meets Karpaten Biennale, Art Point Gallery, Vienna, Kultur Kontakt Austria

2008

Balarusian Perspectives, Galeria Arsenal, young art from the Ukraine, Bialystok, Poland
Family Affairs, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany

2007

Communities Project, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine

2006

Spivaks Generation, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Das letzte Wort der Kunst, Heinrich Heine und Robert Schumann zum 150.Todesjahr, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany

2005-2006

Napoli Presente: posizioni e prospettive dell'arte contemporanea, Palazzo Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy

2005

Munch Revisited, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Märkisches Stipendium für Bildende Kunst, Municipal gallery Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany

2003

Incontri Dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Académie de France Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy

2002

Globalization: The annihilation of being different?, NRW-Forum for Arts and Economy, Dusseldorf, Germany

2001

September 11, Artists Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

2000

Our people & our countryside, Hamilton/ Mississauga, Canada

1999

Resultate, French Cultural Centre, Vienna

1998

Ukrainian Young Artists, Art Center Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine