Artist

Oleh Kharch was born in the city of Sumy in 1963. From 1980 to 1985 he studied at the Faculty of Construction Technology in Dnipro (then the Dnipropetrovsk Engineering and Construction Institute). 1981−83 studied at the art studio of Stanislav Cherevko in Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). In his naively surrealist works, he highlights a parallel reality that constantly gravitates towards the deconstruction of current historical events, both in the personal life of an average Ukrainian (him) and in the socio- political theater (conditional society). Thanks to the texts- images, he have the opportunity to narrow the field of the viewer’s imagination, thereby achieving the maximum sharpness in the ideological expression and bringing the concept to an almost grotesque (where comedy, sarcasm or irony is present) degree of the angle of view of the consumer of the fruits of my efforts. Thematically, it can be personal history, socio-political upheaval, historical mythology,human impact on the environment.

Chosen activities

2024- Transformation. History of Ukraine in the video art of the 1990s - 2000s.|
Skulpturen museum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany;
2024- Residence Sorry No rooms available.| Uzhgorod, Ukraine;
2023/24-Tryst Alternative Art Fair 2023/2024.| TRYST Alternative Art Fair. Torrance,
CA, USA;
Business Art Fair 2023.| Business Art Fair. Paris, France;
2023– Oleg Kharch: Evacuation a small excerpt from the gigantic war.| ruimteCAESUUR, Middelburg, Netherlands (Solo)
Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art 2023: Awakenings.| Kyiv History
Museum. Kyiv, Ukraine;
BIENAL MADATAC #12| Biennial MADATAC. Madrid, Spain;
2022 - PEACE LETTERS TO UKRAINE 7| Torrance Art Museum - TAM, LA, USA;

Ukraine: Short Stories Contemporary artists from Ukraine| MAXXI - Museo nazionale
delle arti del XXI secolo. Rome, Italy;
XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira.| Bienal de Arte de Cerveira. Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal;
2-nd Art Compensa – 2022.| Art Compensa. Vilnius, Lithuania;
2021 - Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art 2021.| Modern media gallery
ARTAREA. Kyiv, Ukraine;
Wellcome Elon Mask!| Kmytiv Art Museum.Kmytiv, Ukraine;
2020- New Media Fest 2020 - Program 7: Switching the Change/ NewMediaFest|

Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany;
2019- Kyiv Art Fair - 2019| Kyiv Art Week , Ukraine;
Media Art Residence Carbon| ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33/ Kyiv, Ukraine;
2018- Creative Climate Awards 2018| Human Impacts Institute. NY, USA;
2017- 5 Odessa Biennale- Turbulence| Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art;
2016 - Mashrou Proletcult.| AUB Art Galleries. Beirut, Lebanon;
2015- 4 Odessa Biennale 2015| Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art;
2014- ART-KYIV Contemporary 2014| Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture
Museum Complex. Kyiv, Ukraine;
2013- " Such EARNINGS"| Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum
Complex. Kyiv, Ukraine; (Solo)

Collections:
- Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA;
- Grynyov Art Foundation,Ukraine;
- ruimteCAESUUR, Middelburg, Netherlands;
- OKNa, Porto, Portugal;
- Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Ukraine;
- Human Impacts Institute’s (HII) in New York, USA;
- Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy;
- Lysenko Gallery, Ukraine|UK;
- Kmytiv Art Museum.Kmytiv, Ukraine;