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, Belgium, in 1969.
Lives and works in Kiew, Ukraine.
graduated from the Department of Newspaper Photography of Moscow State University, in absentia.
Solo shows
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, UK "LEGACY Series Warriors
Vienna Künstlerhaus series Warriors
Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK. series Warriors.
2010
The Side Gallery Newcastle, UK "LEGACY Series Warriors
Museum of Contemporary Art Perm series "Donbass"
"4on4. Ukrainian Contemporary Photography" House of Photography, Vilnius
Museum exhibitions
2019
60 prints from various series were purchased by MOKSOP Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
15 prints from the Passport series were purchased by the Ludwig Museum, Germany
2018
12 prints from the Passport series were purchased by the "Mystetskyi Arsenal" Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2 prints from the Donbass series were purchased by the "Märkisches Museum Witten", Germany
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, Belgium, in 1969.
Lives and works in Kiew, Ukraine.
graduated from the Department of Newspaper Photography of Moscow State University, in absentia.
Solo shows
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, UK "LEGACY Series Warriors
Vienna Künstlerhaus series Warriors
Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK. series Warriors.
2010
The Side Gallery Newcastle, UK "LEGACY Series Warriors
Museum of Contemporary Art Perm series "Donbass"
"4on4. Ukrainian Contemporary Photography" House of Photography, Vilnius
Museum exhibitions
2019
60 prints from various series were purchased by MOKSOP Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
15 prints from the Passport series were purchased by the Ludwig Museum, Germany
2018
12 prints from the Passport series were purchased by the "Mystetskyi Arsenal" Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2 prints from the Donbass series were purchased by the "Märkisches Museum Witten", Germany
