Mykola Babak

Mykola Babak (Ukrainian: Микола Бабак, 10 June 1954) is a Ukrainian artist,[1] writer, publisher, and art collector; lives and works in Cherkasy.

Mykola Babak
Born
Mykola Babak

(1954-06-10) 10 June 1954
Cherkasy Oblast (Ukraine)
NationalityUkrainian
Known forart, painting, writing, art collecting, publishing
Movementtransavantgarde, hyperreality, neo-expressionism, assemblage
AwardsShevchenko National Prize

Merited Artist of Ukraine

People's Artist of Ukraine
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Biography

Mykola Babak was born in Voronyntsi, Cherkasy Oblast. In 1971 he finished Melnyky Secondary School. From 1972 till 1972 he served in the Soviet Army. After demobilization he worked as a designer at Cherkasy "Azot" Company and at Cherkasy Combine of art-advertisement. From 1979 till 1985 together with group of Russian artists he managed monumental projects (paintings, mosaics, stained-glass windows) in the far-east of Russia. In 1986 Mykola Babak came back to Ukraine.

Babak is the member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine (from 1990), Merited Artist of Ukraine (2004), Shevchenko National Prize Laureate (2010), People's Artist of Ukraine (2016). His works are at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, Ministry of Culture and Mass-Communication of Russian Federation. Babak lives and works in Cherkasy.

Art
Mykola Babak's "Your children, Ukraine", national Ukrainian project at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005)

Babak's artistic works are made in the techniques of hyperreality, neo-expressionism, transavantgarde, assemblage.[2] The artist adheres to the stylistic principles of post-avantgarde. He is known for his national project "Your children, Ukraine" at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Since 2014 Mykola Babak has been working with Evgene Matveev under the name Art-tandem Babak & Matveev.[3]

Selected exhibitions

2017 «The Multidimensional Context of Art Beyond Post-Soviet Borders», Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art Gallery, New-York[4]

2016 “The Ukrainian Rural Photo (from Mykola Babak’s private collection)”, The National Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv

2015 “The Central Dnipro River Region Folk Icon of the 18th – 20th c.(from Mykola Babak’s private collection)”, Art Museum, Cherkasy

2013 “IV Fine Art Ukraine”, Art-Arsenal, Kyiv

2006 Personal exhibition “Celestial Chronicle”, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv[5]

2005 National Project “Your Children, Ukraine” at the 51st Venice Biennale[6]

2005 Project “Your Children, Ukraine”, Diploma and 1-st Prize, The Gallery of the National Ukrainian Artist Trade Union, Kyiv

2004 “Ukrainian Rural Photo (from Mykola Babak’s private collection)” V International Photobiennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow[7]

2003 “The Ukrainian Retrospective”, I Kyiv Photobiennale, Art Foundation Gallery, Kyiv

2002 “The Ukrainian World of Painting”, Beijing

2000 “Collection of Axiomatic”, The Gallery of the National Ukrainian Artist Trade Union, Kyiv

1999 Personal Exhibition “Telluris”, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

1993 “People with People”, Poland

Collecting

In 1990 Babak began to collect Ukrainian folk art. He has collections of folk icons of the 18th - 20th centuries,[8] folk naïve paintings, folk photos and household items of the Central Upper Dnieper River Region. The collection of folk icons is considered to be the most outstanding while it represents the iconography of Taras Shevchenko's land where the basis of the Ukrainian nation, language and culture was formed.

References
  1. ВВС about Mykola Babak's project "Your children, Ukraine" at Venice Biennale
  2. MYKOLA BABAK's ART
  3. Art-tandem Babak & Matveev
  4. «The Multidimensional Context of Art Beyond Post-Soviet Borders» Group Exhibition, New-York
  5. 27.01.2006 – 19.02.2006. Mykola Babak. “Celestial Chronicle” . Photoinstalation
  6. Mykola Babak's National Project “Your Children, Ukraine” at the 51st Venice Biennale
  7. THE UKRAINIAN VILLAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, The collection of Nikolai Babak, Cherkassi
  8. 500 FOLK ICONS FROM MYKOLA BABAK's COLLECTION
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