Born in 1991 in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Lives and works in NYC, United States
mnottoday@gmail.com
Studied Microelectronics at Ukrainian Engineer and Pedagogics Academy (2013)
Studied Arts and politics at «Chto Delat» School for Engaged Art (2016)
Studied International solidarity at St. Petersburg Open School for Human Rights (2018)
Studied Contemporary materialisms at School of Materialist Research, Arizona State University (2023)
Research interests: strategies of representation; the problematics of documentary and found material; artistic approaches and manual labor in data processing and collection; the evidence potential of digital materials; dead-ends and turns of logics of sustainable states; biopolitics; images of survival strategies; abstraction; sound constructions and experiences.
Member of UKS (Young Artists’ Society), NBK (Association of Norwegian Visual Artists)
Some group exhibitions:
2023
Tentative Transmits
, Garaget, Malmö
The Sweetness of Living
, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad
Barents Spektakel
, Old Fire Station, Kirkenes
, Garaget, Malmö
The Sweetness of Living
, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad
Barents Spektakel
, Old Fire Station, Kirkenes
2022
2021
The Wrong Side And What's Inside, Third place, Saint Petersburg
2020
Shortlisted20, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv*
2019
The Shadow of Dream cast upon Giardini della Biennale, 58-the Venice Biennale, Ukrainian pavilion, Venice
2018
Out-takes, Agile Gallery, Saint Petersburg
Suoja, Sörnäinen bomb shelter, Helsinki
Sprzeciw, MULTImedia gallery, Kraków
Suoja, Sörnäinen bomb shelter, Helsinki
Sprzeciw, MULTImedia gallery, Kraków
2017
Go Away Until Healthy, Autonomia Cultural squat, Kharkiv
4th International Festival of Activist Documentary Films Delaifilm, Bread factory #9, Moscow
4th International Festival of Activist Documentary Films Delaifilm, Bread factory #9, Moscow
2016
Poor Dialectics Festival, Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
Wall-eye, Andrei Belyi Center, Saint Petersburg
Wall-eye, Andrei Belyi Center, Saint Petersburg
Selected solo / duo exhibitions:
2021
Double Breathing, 3120gallery, Saint Petersburg
2018
In Deep Water, Detenpyla gallery, Lviv
This Is Way Over the Line, Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
This Is Way Over the Line, Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
Residencies/Fellowships:
2021
Rhizome residency, Russia
First Summer School of Sculpture, Russia
Nikel Polar Day, Russia
Republican Rehabilitation Program, Russia
First Summer School of Sculpture, Russia
Nikel Polar Day, Russia
Republican Rehabilitation Program, Russia
2020
BAR International, Norway
Apexart Fellowship: NYC, United States
Apexart Fellowship: NYC, United States
2019
ÖRES, Finland
The Autumn School of Curating, Romania
Camp As One Residency, Russia
The Autumn School of Curating, Romania
Camp As One Residency, Russia
2018
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
Collaborations:
2022
2021
Installation «Invisible touch» for a special project of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Tobolsk
Zhertvoprinosheniya: concert with sirens, Lastochka House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
Zhertvoprinosheniya: concert with sirens, Lastochka House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
2019
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
Selected publications:
2021
by the Black lake, publication, Polutona
2019
EUROPOE, poetry anthology, Kingston University Press
2017
Practice of Verbal Equivalents Theory: the Loss, artist book
2015
Rhizome, artist book
* Management of this institution fired 30 mediators accurate before opening of the exhibition, with a background of creation the labour union by mediators for defending their rights and improving working conditions. Self-nomination was withdrawn.