Andrij Bojarov

Residence:

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Visual artist, independent curator, researcher and translator. Trained as an architect, from the early 1990s active as an artist in the field of conceptual photography and video-art, taking part in group and individual exhibitions in Tallinn, Lviv, Warsaw, Lodz, Poznań, Kyiv, Berlin, Amsterdam etc. He’s living and acting in-between Ukraine, Poland and Estonia.  

 

From the 2000s focused on exploring largely neglected local histories of avant-garde art in the Central-European context, expanding and blending artist and curatorial work with research practices. The results included, among others, exhibitions in Poland: Montages. Debora Vogel and New Legend of the City at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź – 2017 Experiment! Masters of Photography at the Beginning of 20th Century in Lviv and Their Polish and Ukrainian Continuators, Imaginarium / Forum Fotografii Galleries, Łódź – 2018 

 

Domowroty / Повернення / Homing. Włodzimierz Puchalski, International Cultural Center, Kraków – 2022  Margit, Jolanta and other women-artist from Lviv, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2024 .

 

Author of multiple articles in accompanying publications and catalogues of the exhibitions and research projects in Poland and Ukraine to which he contributed. Among them: Lviv. City, Architecture, Modernism. Museum of Architecture, Wrocław – 2016, Avant-garde and The State, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz – 2018, Grupa Krakowska / Cracow Group 1932-1937 National Muzeum, Wrocław, – 2018 / National Museum Cracow – 2019, Футуромарення / Futuromarennia exhb. project on Ukrainian Futurism, Art-Arsenal, Kyiv – 2021 / KUMU, Tallinn – 2023 etc.  

 

Andrij Bojarov is a translator and editor of updated Ukrainian edition of Piotr Łukaszewicz’s Union of artists „artes” /1929-1935/ and other stories of Lviv modernism, 2021 (Best Book Award at Lviv Book Forum), new polish edition of the book with his afterword published by Ossolineum, Wrocław in 2023.

 

fot. Mariusz Guzek