Alexander Chekmenev

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​Alexander started his career as a photographer in a small photo studio in his home town. On the free of work time he photographed people on the streets and homes, who were effected the most by economical crisis after Soviet Union collapse. HIs work give an intimate and unique insider view on transition of coal mining region in 90-s in Eastern Ukraine.  He moved to Kiev in 1997, where he works as photojournalist.
His work has been published in New York Times Lens Blog, Time Magazine and Time Light Box, New Yorker Photo Booth, MSNBC, Quartz, The Guardian, Vice Magazine, Liberation. 2014 - Grand Prix "Photographer of the Year of Ukraine 2013".

Biography

Born in Lugansk, Ukraine, in 1969
Lives and works in Kiew, Ukraine

graduated from the Department of Newspaper Photography of Moscow State University, in absentia.


​Solo shows

2020
„Forgotten Land“, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Lithuania

2017
Folia Gallery, Paris, France, series "Passport"

2016
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA, series "Donbass", "Passport"

2015
"Palffy Palace", Bratislava, Slovakia, series "Donbass"

2014
"Clara Maria Sels", Duesseldorf, Germany, series "Mad World"

2012
"Clara Maria Sels" gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany, series "Donbass"​

2007
"Yagalereya", Kyiv, series "Black and White"

2001
Zamek", Poznan, Poland, series: "Passport", "Lilies", "Blind", "Easter", "Portraits", "Miners"

2000
Poprad, Slovakia, series: "Passport" and "Lilies"


Group shows

2019
La Maison de l’Image, Grenoble, France, series "Deleted"
“Transit”, State Litarature Museum, Odesa, Ukraine
Suwon, South Corea, "Suwon Photo", series "Euromaidan"

2018
Kyiv, Ukraine, PinchukArtCentre, A Space of One's Own series "Winners"
"Passport", Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Image Singulieres, Sete, France, series "Passport"

2017
Kyiv, Ukraine, PinchukArtCentre, series "Passport"

2016
Suwon, South Corea, "Suwon Photo", series "War in Donbass"

2014
The Side Gallery Newcastle, United Kingdom, "LEGACY Series Warriors" 
Vienna Künstlerhaus, series Warriors 
Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom, series Warriors

2010
3rd Festival of documentary photographs", Poznan, Warsaw, Poland, series "Donbass"
Museum of Contemporary Art Perm, series "Donbass"

2008
3rd Festival of documentary photographs", Poznan, Warsaw, Poland, series "Donbass"
4on4. Ukrainian Contemporary Photography" House of Photography, Vilnius, Lithuania


Public and private collections

MOKSOP Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Mystetskyi Arsenal Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany