tyminko(at)gmail.com

1972

Chernihiv, Ukraine

 

Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL

 

Education

2000-05

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany by Prof. David Larcher, Prof. Anthony Moore, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski

1999

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, guest student at Gerhard Merz class

1987-91

Glebov Art College Minsk, Belarus

 

2020

Co-founder and editor of Cultprotest.me, а platform for visual resistance to dictatorship in Belarus.

2017

Co-founder of pxFlux, a platform for the exhibition, promotion, distribution and collection of time based, digital art.

2005

Co-founder of an art group Revision (Your Favorites)

2004

Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Prize NRW, the Art Foundation NRW / Promotional Award

1997

Co-founder of an art group Bolek & Lolek

Lectures and workshops at NYU Berlin, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, European Humanities University Vilnius, National Center of Contemporary Arts Minsk, Art Center "Ў" Minsk.

 

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Weltkunstzimmer, Dusseldorf, DE, Charity Projekt EU UA (co-curated antiwarcoalition space)

2024

Free Belarus Museum, Warsaw, PL, Ales Pushkin AFTERLIFE

 

Theatermuseum, Düsseldorf, DE, PAVETRA / LUFT - Multimediale Performance

 

Karlsruher Schloss, Karlsruhe, DE, Schlosslichtspiele. Sense Of Safety On The Antiwar Day (+ co-curated)

 

YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, UA, and 28 other locations, Sense Of Safety. expanded exhibition (co-curated)

 

FramerFramed, Amsterdam, NL, Stream Art Day. A Hybrid event with THE VOID, UKRAiNATV & YermilovCentre (co-curated, presented)

 

ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE, Sense Of Safety @ ZKM. Expanded exhibition. (co-curated, video installation and works adaptation)

 

Amerikahaus, München, DE, Music For Belarus @ Minskxminga Video projection

2023

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, US, Pattern, the Grid, and Other Systems

 

Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, UA, The International Coalition of cultural workers in solidarity with Ukraine (co-curated)

 

Weltkunstzimmer, Dusseldorf, DE, 𝖭̶𝖨̶𝖢̶𝖧̶𝖳̶ Unser Krieg (co-curated)

 

Maenad Collective, New York, US, Sovereignty Reimagined (co-curated)

 

Messe Karlsruhe, Halle 1, Karlsruhe, DE, antiwarcoalition.art @ Art Karlsruhe (curated antiwarcoalition space)

 

BEELD & GELUID, Hilversum, NL, Are You Here With Us? (co-curated)

 

The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL, Music For Belarus concert. Multichannel video projection

2022

Stationsplein, Enschede, NL, antiwarcoalition.art Screening On Actifist Saturday @Gogbot Festival (co-curated, presented)

 

Documenta Halle, Kassel, DE, Documenta 15. antiwarcoalition.art One Day Exhibition: Non-Human Agents During The War (co-curated)

 

ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE, antiwarcoalition.art @ ZKM One Week Screening (co-curated)

 

DOMIE, Poznan, PL, 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 / Коаліцыя / 𝐊𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐣𝐚 / Кааліцыя (curated antiwarcoalition space)

 

Kino Rinia, Prishtina, XK, Manifesta 14, To Appear Is To Matter. 2-day programme with the antiwarcoalition (co-curated screening program)

 

Goethe-Institut, Rome, IT, ECF The European Pavilion in Rome. antiwarcoalition. Patriarchy And War (co-curated antiwarcoalition space)

2021

The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL, Screams of the Silenced

 

Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk, Amsterdam, NL, Video projection for benefit concert Music For Belarus

 

Krakowskie Przedmieście 6 (glass display case), Lublin, PL, Open City. War Art

 

Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, UKR, EVERY DAY. ART. SOLIDARITY. RESISTANCE (+ co-curator)

2020

Y gallery (Ў), Minsk, BY, Touching Distance

 

PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL, Not LESS-MATERIAL in frame of A Matter of (In)digestions festival

 

Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL, BELARUS // ART OF RESISTANCE (+ co-curator)

 

ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL, 2020

2019

Platform Art-Zavod, Kyiv, UKR, Be careful with this ax, Eugene

2018

Contemporary Art Gallery Ў, Minsk, BY, ZBOR In Progress

2017

The Window, Laboratoire d'expérimentations artistiques en milieu urbain, Paris, FR, 939PIX

Re:Voir, The Film Gallery, Paris, FR

Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, PL, White-Red-White

 

Koszyki Hall, Warsaw, PL, Camouflage

 

WRO17 Media Art Biennale, Renoma Department Store, Wroclaw, PL, OS (Systemic Operations)

 

Georgian National Museum Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, GE, Space of Diffusion

2016

Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE, Ein Lichtarchiv aus der Zukunft. Illumination im Körnerpark

Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland, Overcoming Chaos

Foundation IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kiev, Ukraine, 'Zbor. Belarusian Art Movement'

2015

Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland, Zbor. Constructing Archive

 

NCCA, Kaliningrad, Russia, Space of Diffusion

2014

Goethe-Institut/CCA, Minsk, Belarus, Projector an opera-lecture

 

CCA, Minsk, Belarus, Suma Sumarum

 

Gallery Ў, Minsk, Belarus, Pixeltrance or Expressionistic Minimalism on a Subpixel Level performance

2013

De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 939 Picture Elements.

 

M4gastatelier , Amsterdam, Netherlands, screening.

 

Punt WG, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Total Recall

2012

Amstel 41 project space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, -o-l-o-g-y

 

Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace & Park Ensemble. Gomel, Belarus, Palace Complex

 

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA, 'Sound Of Silence: Art During Dictatorship'

 

Plant Horizont, Minsk, Belarus, Zero Radius, Art Ontology Of The 00S

2011

Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, Opening The Door? Belarusian Art Today

 

Zeemanshuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Betweenheavenandhighwater

2010

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, Opening The Door? Belarusian Art Today

 

Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland, Erased Walls

 

Museum Hof Van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium, "Who's Afraid Of The Museum?"

 

Gallery Leonhard Ruethmueller Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland, The Wall Is Alive

2009

MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, The Simple Art Of Parody

 

Gallery Leonhard Ruethmueller Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland, Your Favorites

 

Center of Arts Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine, A Spires Embers

2008

Gallery Podzemka, Minsk, Belarus, Good-By

 

Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland, Belarusian Perspectives

 

Temporary Art Space Für Fortgeschrittene, Berlin, Germany, Good-By

 

Han Ji Yun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China, RCS

 

Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Your Favorites

2007

Bereznitsky Gallery & Gallery Boccara, New York, USA

 

Altstadtherbst Kulturfestival, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Bereznitsky Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine

 

Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Revision II

2006

Museum of Applied Art, Cologne, Germany, Beguiling Orpheus live opera performance

2005-06

gallery HALLE 6, Düsseldorf, Germany, Co-Operative Experience

2005

BBK Kunst-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, 'Revision Fünf weißrussische Künstler und Russische Avantgarde'

2004

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, The Cosmic Egg parallel programme for the exhibition Die Thraker

 

17th European Media Art Festival Gotoandstop, DGB-Haus, Osnabrueck, Germany

2003

Facade video projections GigaCenter, Rudolfplatz, Köln, Germany, 5zu1

2002

Volksgarten Orangerie, Cologne, Germany, Orfeo Ed Euridice (v.2.0) live opera/video performance

2001

Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY, USA, Beyond The Sentence

1999

Spektakulum, Dusseldorf, Germany, Echo Viruses & Lilian Maria concert - video projection

1998

Academy of Art, Munchen, Germany, Echo Viruses concert - video installation

1997

gallery "Sixth Line", Minsk, Belarus, Todesschaft

1995

Belarussian Union of Friendship and Cultural Connections with Foreign Countries, Minsk, Belarus, The House Of People's Friendship

1994

Republican Gallery of Artists Union, Minsk, Belarus, Liebschaft

 

Festivals

2020

A Matter of (In)digestions Art Festival, Amsterdam, NL.

2017

Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux, Paris, France (jury member)

Virtualities And Realities, RIXC Art Science Festival (2nd Open Fields conference), Riga, Latvia

WRO 2017 Media Art Biennale, Draft Systems, Wroclav, Poland

2003

The 1st Transchina Video Art Festival, Beijing, Dalian, Shenyang, Haerbin, Shijiazhuang and Guangzhou, China

Art in General's 5th Annual Video MarathonNew York, USA

2002

Video Zone, the 1st International Video Art Biennial in IsraelTel Aviv, Israel

Hafenlichtspiele: European Media Art TourUeckerplatz, Düsseldorf-Medienhafen, Germany

The First Rotterdam V.H.S. FestivalHet Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2001

WRO 01 Media Art Biennale, Wroclav, Poland

 

transmediale.01 international media art festival ("new media art in Belarus" presentation) Berlin, Germany

2000

Social Mutiny, a social and cultural evening with video, music and live art Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Projections, an international video-art and experimental film festival Minsk, Belarus

1999

17th World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997

Ostranenie 97 The International Electronic Media ForumDessau, Germany

 

WRO 97 Media Art Biennale, Wroclav, Poland

 

Selected Publications

2017

Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux. Catalogue, Paris, France

2015

pARTisan, almanac of Belarusian contemporary art №27, 'Projector. Opera-lecture in 3 parts on evaporation of visual arts, on virus survival strategies and on musical notation', Minsk, Belarus

2012

pARTisan, almanac of Belarusian contemporary art №21, APOLLO AND DIONYSUS AT SUNSET special edition, Minsk, Belarus

 

MASTACTVA (THE ART), 6'2012, Spatial Metamorphosis of the Horizont, ISSN 0208-2551, Minsk, Belarus

 

pARTisan, almanac of Belarusian contemporary art №19, p.32,33, Minsk, Belarus

2011

CONTEMPORARY BELARUSIAN ART – ANEW, a book by Krzysztof Stanisławski, ISBN 978-83-62962-03-7, Opolgraf SA, Opole, Poland

 

VIER INTERVIEWS, Sergei Kiriushtshenko, Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Minsk, Belarus

2010

OPENING THE DOOR? catalogue, ISBN 978-9986-957-48-5, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania

 

MEDIATIONS BIENNALE ERASED WALLS catalogue, ISBN 978-83-931052-7-4, Poznan, Poland

2009

MASTACTVA (THE ART) magazine, 9'2009, Larisa Mikhnevich, PAVETRA I ZIAMLI UZHO NIAMA (TIME AND SPACE ARE NOT ORIGINAL), ISSN 0208-2551, Minsk, Belarus