BIO
Collaborating at the edge of visual art and cinema since 2013, Kyiv-based artists and filmmakers, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk graduated as cinematographers from the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Focusing on the role of the extra, their works engage with imperialist mythologies. They were awarded the main award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020) and VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021). Their short film Explosion Near the Museum won the National Competition at the 15th Wiz-Art LIFF. The duo also participated in the Future Generation Art Prize 2021, in group exhibitions at Baltic Triennial 14, Gothenburg Biennial 2023, Kyiv Biennial, Haus der Kunst, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Albertinum and others. Their video works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Fondazione In Between Art Film Rome, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Frac Bretagne.
Yarema and Roman are members of the Prykarpattian Theater, an art group that recently established the project Theater of Hopes and Expectations which was presented at the Ukrainian Pavillion during Venice Biennale Architettura 2023.
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Solo exhibitions:
2023 It Already Happened, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Youth Of The World, MacKenzie Art Gallery - Shumiatcher Theatre, Regina, Canada
2022 So They Won’t Say We Don’t Remember, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
2021 New City of Friends, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Live Stream, Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2019 Blue Blue Sky (in collaboration with Vova Vorotniov and Ivan Honchar Museum), Bursa Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions:
2024 Between Bridges - Kyiv Perennial, Berlin, Germany
2023 The Productive City – A Laboratory between Vienna, Kyiv, and Kharkiv, Kyiv Biennial, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2023 Where Are We Now, After All Those Endlessly Repeated Words? Kyiv Biennial, Sorry No Rooms Available, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2023 On The Periphery Of The War, Kyiv Biennial, Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2023 The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast, Kyiv Biennial, Dovzhenko Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 How River Roars, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
2023 How Are You? Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Flooding, Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2023 Culture - Power - Commerce, Post/Socialist Palaces, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
2023 forms of the surrounding futures, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2023 Open House. Open House Days – Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Germany
2023 To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
2023 Kaleidoskop der Geschichte(n). Ukrainische Kunst 1912-2023, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
2022 Ukraine: The Path to Freedom, Noorderlicht, Nederlands
2022 Worth Fighting For, Cologne, Germany
2022 When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 6 ½ Weeks: Asortymentna Kimnata, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2022 “A Letter from the Front", Haus der Kunst, (Munich, Germany), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Torino, Italy)
2022 Pas Sommeil – Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
2022 Visions of Ukraine, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2022 Working Room – A. D. Curatorial, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine; Berlin, Germany
2022 Imagine Ukraine - M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Allied. Kyiv Biennial - House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Thinking Beyond – Moving Images for a Post-Pandemic World exhibition (14th Lo Schermo dell’Arte – Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival), Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, Italy
2021 Future Generation Art Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine; Venice, Italy
2021 A Radically Different Society. Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, United States
2021 An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2021 Last Flowers of XX century: Generation Y. YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
2021 Can't Get You Out of My Head. An exhibition by HMKV in Dortmund clubs, Germany
2021 Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Der Katalysator. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today. Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Gemany
2021 PinchukArtCentre 'Remember Yesterday' Group exhibition by Ukrainian artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 International Biennale of Urban Art OUT OF STH, 'THREE’S A CROWD', BWA Wrocław, Poland
2020 Baltic Triennial 14: Intro | The Maze and The Lighthouse, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 PinchukArtCentre, “20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 An intervention to Nikita Kadan’s “The Beautiful Colonizer” exhibition, TRANSIT Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium
2019 OK Center for Contemporary Art "OK Klubinstitut Open" Linz, Austria
2019 MUHi. Young Ukrainian Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Semperdepot, “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now”, Vienna, Austria
2019 Frei_raum Q21 / MQ – MuseumsQuartier “Dance of Urgency”, Vienna, Austria
2018 IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives, “What is important”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Brave! Factory Festival: Visual Programme, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 PinchukArtCentre, “20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Bursa Gallery, Kyiv Biennial “Dance, Dance, Dance”, Ukraine
2017 XX?’s Gallery “One Day Project” Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Art Courtyard, “Venice Afterparty” Kyiv, Ukraine
Screenings and festivals:
2023 Night Shift, KANAL — Centre Pompidou, K1, Brussels, Belgium
2022 post-MoMA C-MAP – Screening Program: Notes from the Ground
2022 FID Marseille - A Ukrainian youth (2014 – 2022), France
2021 Golden Dzyga Award, Best Documentary (Nominee), Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Parallèle International Festival of emerging practices | 11th edition, Marseille, France
2020 Ukrainian Film Critics Award "Kinokolo" – Nominee Best Documentary, Discovery of the Year
2020 Molodist IFF, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 Kharkiv MeetDocs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2020 Apricot Short Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 e-flux Video & Film | War and Cinema: Week #6
2020 Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Official Selection, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Intro Film Festival (KyivMusicFilm x Cxema), Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Macao, Saturnalia Festival, Milan, Italy
2019 Festival Internacional de Cine Silente - Official Selection, Puebla City, México
2019 Uppsala International Short Film Festival: Ukraine - Stay Real, Uppsala, Sweden
2019 POOL – INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival, Berlin, Germany
2019 Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2018 Molodist IFF, National Short Film Competition - Official Selection, Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards:
2023 15th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art National Competition Best Film - Explosions Near the Museum
2023 Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival 4:3 Jury Prize - Explosions Near The Museum
2021 VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Florence, Italy
2020 Kharkiv MeetDocs (New Jerusalem - Special Mention Award), Kharkiv, Ukraine
2020 Main Prize, PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Grand Prix, MUHi. Young Ukrainian Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 The winner of the Adriana and Dolores Ehlers Recognition for the best documentary short film at Festival Internacional de Cine Silente, Puebla City, México
2018 Second Special Prize, PinchukArtCentre Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
Films and video:
2024 Additional Scenes, 17 min
2023 Dedicated to the Youth of the World III, 9 min
2023 Explosions Near The Museum, 14 min
2023 View of the Temporarily Occupied Left Bank of the Kherson Region, 4 min
2022 The Wanderer, LED-screens, 5-channel video installation, 9 min
2021 How It's Made, 35 min
2021 So They Won’t Say We Don’t Remember, 24 min
2020 Live Stream, 17 min
2020 New Jerusalem, feature documentary, 77 min
2019 Dedicated to the Youth of the World II, 9 min
2018 In Memory of Lost Love, 30 min
2018 To Whom Have You Abandoned Us Our Father, 9 min
2017 State Institution, 8 min
2017 Kyiv's Youth Leaving a Grocery Store, 3 min
2016 Dedicated To The Youth Of The World (p. 1, with yulia yefimtchuk+), 3 min
Collections:
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Fondazione In Between Art Film
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Frac Bretagne
Publications and articles:
Kyiv Biennial 2023: Passage Across Three Cities (Svatlana Libet)
Imagining utopias at the Kyiv Biennial (Euridice Arratia) Artbasel.com
The Place of 'Russian Romanticism' and Ukrainian Art: A Conversation with Roman Khimey and Yarema Malashchuk
Explosions Near The Museum – Royal Museums of Art and History
Denaturalizacja kolonialnego widzenia. „Questioning the Visible” i „So They Won’t Say We Don’t Remember” w Galerii Arsenał w Białymstoku by Marcin Stachowicz
‘New City of Friends’: Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Himey
Sacred Copies. Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Himey’s New Jerusalem
Vogue UA. Interview (Ukrainian)
Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Himey on image and faith, “New Jerusalem” and pseudo-documentary (Ukrainian)
Curated projects and events:
2024 Making Spaces: On Reenacting and Continuing, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2023 On the Periphery of the War, Kyiv Biennial, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Curated by Alona Karavai, Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk, Anton Usanov)
2022 When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre (Curated by Bart De Baere, Björn Geldhof, Ksenia Malykh, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei)
2018 'Poetry in Film- and Video-materials' curated program with six screenings and discussions at PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Residencies:
2023 Kyiv to LA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2022 Working room, Babyn/Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2021 VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Florence, Italy
2021 Zazemlennya residency, Soledar, Ukraine
2019 MuseumsQuartier. Q21 Artists-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria