./ Oleg Yushko

Vita

1974 born in Minsk, Belarus

1996 Graduated from the Belarus State University of Information, Science and
Radio Electronics, Minsk, Belarus.

1998 Completed a course in New Technologies in a Photographic and Digital art,
AMOS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

2008 Laureate at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK), Gent, Belgium.

Exhibitions

2014
"Mission O14", Ostrale, Dresden

2013
“Minsk: (Re) construction”, Gallery “«TSÉKH»”, Minsk, Belarus.

2012
“Sound of Silence: Art Against Dictatorship”, EFA Project Space, New York,
USA.
“PALACE COMPLEX”, Gomel Palace & Park Ensemble, Gomel, Belarus.
“SENSORIAL PANOPTIKUM”, Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Düsseldorf,
Germany.
“SENSORIAL PANOPTIKUM”, Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Düsseldorf,
Germany.
“ABIOGENESIS”, D-52. Space for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf, Germany

2011
“LICHT SPIEL ORTE”, ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany.
“Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
“The Journey to the East”, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.
“The Journey to the East”, Art Kyiv Contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine.
“Proximity”, Docks on the Seine, Paris, France.

2010
“Hoeherweg”, Dusseldorf, Germany. (Solo)
“Flat Character”, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium.
“Mediations Biennale Poznan 2010”, "Zamek" Culture Centre, Poznan, Poland.
“Asia – European Mediations”, SPACE projects, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
“Opening the Door? Belarusian Art Today”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2009
“Art Campus / Art Cologne 2009”, Cologne, Germany.
“CONTOURLIGHT” , Mechelen, Belgium.
“M'ARTIAN FIELDS - COLLABORATION”, Moscow, Russia.
“SUMU”, Turku, Finland. (Solo)

2008
“HISKcafé at Artbrussels”, Brussels Expo, Brussels, Belgium.
“HISK OPEN STUDIOS”, Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK), Gent, Belgium.
“La conquête du monde par l’ image”, M'ATUVU, Brussels, Belgium.

2007
“Asia – European Mediations”, The IF Museum “Inner Spaces”, Poznan, Poland.
“WELCOME”, Installation in the Handelsbeurs arts centre, Gent, Belgium.
“HISK OPEN STUDIOS”, Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK), Gent, Belgium.
“HISK at Artcinema OffOff”, Art Cinema OffOff, Gent, Belgium.
“Gery Christmas Show”, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
“Embedded”, Atelier Vor St. Martin, Cologne, Germany.

2006
“Mania of Cleanliness”, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia.
“Museum of Bruno”, Gallery Podzemka, Minsk, Belarus. (Solo)

2005
“Inner Spaces festival XIV: Kontakt-Kontekst”, Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland.

2003
“Experience of Borders”, Boswill residence, Aarau, Switzerland.

2000
“Annual Group Exhibition of Young Belarusian Artists”,
Republican Gallery of the Artists’ Union, Minsk, Belarus.

Current exhibition

Literature

Oleg Yushko’s practice attempts to reveal some of the more absurd phenomena from our social reality, to offer a critical but also humorous artistic reflection. His methodology is to ironically apply a historical, art-historical, scientific, cultural or technological allusion or metaphor to these phenomena. In this manner of working, he aims towards making a slight shift in our common perception of everyday life experiences.

Text by Lyudmila Voropay