Mykola Ridnyi

Mykola Ridnyi is an artist, filmmaker and essayist.
He was born 1985 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ridnyi graduated in 2008 from the National Academy of design and arts in Kharkiv. Since 2005, he has been a founding member of the art collective SOSka group. He lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Fellowships and residencies

2021 - Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen fellowship program. Innsbruck. AT
2019 - Junge Akademie scholarship, Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE | Villa Serpentara, residency program, Olevano Romano, IT
2017 -  IASPIS residency program. Stockholm. SE
2015 - Gaude Polonia, scholarship program of the Minister of culture of Poland | resident of the East of Art foundation. Krakow. PL
2014 - Künste und Medien Stipendium des Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD for short residencies. Berlin. DE
2010 – CEC ArtsLink fellowship. Santa Fe Art Institute. USA

Selected solo exhibitions

2021 – Excavations From the Future. Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv. UA
2019 – Wolf in a Sack. Arsenal City Gallery. Bialystok. PL
2018 – Facing the Wall.  Labirynt City Gallery. Lublin, PL
2016 - Under suspicion.  Edel Assanti. London, GB
2016  - Forecast for Yesterday.  Blockhaus DY10. Nantes. FR
2015 - Clenched Staring Eyes.  Art Agenda Nova. Krakow, PL
2014 – Shelter. Visual Culture Research Center. Kyiv, UA
2012 – Labor Circle. CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Project room. Warsaw, PL

Selected duo exhibitions

2021 – Horses’ Traces. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer. Bakhmut Museum of Local History. UA
2016  - Hang zum Konflikt. Together with Anna Witt. Kunstraum Munchen. DE

Selected group exhibitions

2021 - Transgressions of the Real. Kunstpavillion. Innsbruck, AT
2020 - The Hotel, the Sanatorium, the Pension and Their Refugee's Rooms - Kyiv Pavillion of the Tbilisi Architecture biennial. GEO / UA
2019 - After Leaving / Before Arriving. 12-th Kaunas Biennale. LT
2019 - Picture This. Selected Pasts, Subverted Facts. Budapest Gallery. HU
2019 - Never Again. Art Against War and Fascism in 20-th and 21-st Centuries. Warsaw Museum of Modern Art. PL
2019 - Tale of Novorossiya. Arsenal City Gallery. Poznan. PL
2018 - Restless Monuments.  Zilberman gallery. Istanbul. TR
2018 - Neighbors.  Warsaw Under Construction 10. Cepelia Pavillion. Warsaw. PL
2017 - The Image of War.  Bonniers konsthall. Stockholm. SE
2017 - If Seeing is Believing.  Fullersta Gard. Stockholm. SE
2017 - It Won’t Be Long, Comrades!  Framer Framed. Amsterdam. NL
2017 - Your Country Doesn't Exist.  Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Rijeka. HR
2016 - Photography Today: Distant Realities.  Pinakothek der Moderne. Munich. DE
2016 - Sentsov’s Camera.  GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig. DE
2016 - Universal Hospitality.  Into the City / Wiener Festwochen. Vienna. AT
2015 - Politics of Form.  GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig. DE
2015 - All the World's Futures.  Main exhibition of the 56-th Venice biennale for contemporary art. IT
2015 - Hope.  National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 56-th Venice biennale for contemporary art. IT
2015 - The School of Kyiv  – Kyiv biennial. The House of Clothes. Kyiv. UA
2015 - Phone Calls from the Cemetery and Other Stories.  Academy of the Arts of the World. Cologne. DE
2014 - Through Maidan and Beyond.  Architekturzentrum Wien. Vienna. AT
2014 - Sister Europe.  Kunstraum Lakeside. Klagenfurt. AT
2014 - The Ukrainians.  daad galerie, Berlin, DE
2013 - Global Activism.  ZKM - Centre for Art and Media. Karsruhe. DE
2013 - The Monument to a Monument.  National Pavillion of Ukraine at the 55-th Venice Biennial for Contemporary Art. IT
2013 - Ukrainian News.  CCA Ujazdowski Castle. Warsaw, PL
2012 - The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times…  Arsenale - 1^St Kyiv biennial for contemporary art. Kyiv
2011 - The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989. ZKM - Centre for art and media. Karlsruhe. DE (as a member of SOSka group)
2010 - Intercool 3.0. HMKV / Dortmunder U. Dortmund. DE (as a member of SOSka group)
2009 - Wakefield Meadows. Pavilion UniCredit. Bucharest. RO (as a member of SOSka group)
2008 - Grabbing at Straws.  Studio Guenzani. Milan. IT (as a member of SOSka group)
2007 - Communities. Young Ukrainian Art.  Gallery City Arsenal. Bialystok. PL

Temporary works in public space

2019 – Lost Baggage. Kaunas train station. Special commission of the 12-th Kaunas biennale. LT
2015 – In Pieces. Billboards in public space, Krakow, PL. Special commission of the ArtBoom festival.
2014 – Blind Spot. Housing front of Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin, DE. Produced with DAAD Artist-in-Berlin program
2013 – Wrong Connection. Lokietka square, Lublin, PL. Special commission of the Open City festival.
2012 – Zero. Memorial plaque. Housing front of Museum of Business and Philanthropy, Moscow, RU. Produced with V-A-C foundation.
2009 – The Authorities. Esplanada square, Perm, RU. Produced in a frame of the Public art program of the Museum for contemporary art PERMM.

Selected public collections

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Ludwig Museum Budapest
Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Art in Lodz
Arsenal City Gallery, Bialystok

Selected film festivals and screenings

2020 - 24-th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterhur - The Short Film Festival of Switzerland. SUI
2020 - 11-th Odessa International Film festival. UA
2020 - 49-th Molodist Kyiv International Film festival. UA
2019 - Transmediale. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin. DE
2019 – Creative Time Summit. The Cooper Union. New York, US
2018 - 35-th Kassel Documentary Film festival. DE