16 Facts About Sergei Sviatchenko

Sergei Sviatchenko was born on 1952 and is a Danish-Ukrainian architect, artist, photographer and curator.

Sergei Sviatchenko is a representative of the Ukrainian New Wave, that arose in Ukraine up through the 1980s.

In 1975 Sergei Sviatchenko completed his architectural studies at the Kharkov National University of Construction and Architecture.

Sergei Sviatchenko is especially oriented towards architecture's modern expressions, including Constructivism and the contemporary European Bauhaus movement.

From his teacher, Professor Viktor Antonov, Sergei Sviatchenko was introduced to the film director Andrei Tarkovsky, and particularly his film Mirror from 1975 has left a thematic footprint in Sergei Sviatchenko's more recent collage art.

From 1975 to 1983, Sergei Sviatchenko worked as an architect for a number of architectural firms in Kharkov.

In 1986 Sergei Sviatchenko was invited to work as art editor for the youth magazine "Ranok" in Kiev.

Sergei Sviatchenko was one of the participants in this perestroika-created movement in Kyiv.

Sergei Sviatchenko is a member of the Billedkunstnernes Forbund and the National Union of Architects of Ukraine.

Sergei Sviatchenko's collages comprise a kind of fusion of the recognizable and the unconscious, specific and symbolic, the detailed and the spontaneous.

The method in Sergei Sviatchenko's collages is often based on a vertical-horizontal structure which can likewise be found in many of his paintings and photographs.

Sergei Sviatchenko's compositions are often created with a minimum of elements such as fragments of human figures, buildings or recognizable.

In collaboration with the Japanese artist Noriko OKAKU, Sergei Sviatchenko created the short film "Mirror to Mirror" which is dedicated to the film "Mirror".

The style mostly associated with Sergei Sviatchenko is especially characterized by an abstract expressionism with markings of landscape motifs applied with a significant palette and often with an atmosphere of contemplative repose pointing to the artist's preoccupation with the catharsis-theme.

Sergei Sviatchenko's paintings have recently become more expressive and wild and thus more spontaneous like the collages.

In 2010, Sergei Sviatchenko using the pseudonym Sergey Nielsen created an image version of Close Up And Private, in 2011 a collage version "Less CUAP".