Andrij
Bojarov

Andrij Bojarov is a visual artist, independent curator and researcher. Trained as an architect, he has been active as an artist since the late 1980s/early 1990s, initially working with large-scale painting. At that time he became a pioneer of Ukrainian video art and turned to conceptual photography. He participated in group and solo exhibitions in Tallinn, Lviv, Warsaw, Lodz, Poznań, Kyiv, Berlin, Amsterdam and others. The artist uses the strategy of appropriation and tries to open new areas of interpretation and perception for the viewer. He frames and duplicates images from the media reality surrounding him, both analog and digital, creating surprising juxtapositions and eliciting unexpected meanings from the images. He lives and works between Ukraine, Poland and Estonia. Since the 2000s, he has focused on researching the largely neglected local history of avant-garde art in the Central European context, expanding and blending his artistic and curatorial work with research practices. He is the author of numerous articles in accompanying publications and catalogs on exhibitions and research projects in Poland and Ukraine in which he participated. Among them: Lviv. City, Architecture, Modernism. (Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, 2016), Avant-Garde and the State (Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, 2018), Grupa Krakowska / Kraków Group 1932-1937 (National Muzeum, Wrocław, 2018 / National Museum Kraków, 2019), Футуромарення / Futuromarennia (exb. Project on Ukrainian Futurism, Art-Arsenal, Kyiv, 2021 / KUMU, Tallinn, 2023) and others.

Andrij Bojarov will be in Berlin in October/November 2023 as short term fellow of the special program “Encounters with Ukrainian Artists” and will participate in the event Peilung #6.