Maxim Dondyuk (
Ukrainian: Максим Дондюк; born 1983)[1] is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, who combines photography, video, text, and archival material in his work. He explores issues of history, memory, conflicts, and their consequences.
Dondyuk was born in the
Ukrainian SSR. His projects include TB epidemic in Ukraine (2010–2012), a two-year work that investigates the problem of tuberculosis in Ukraine; Crimea Sich (2010–2013), a series of photographs and a short documentary film, which tells about a military upbringing of children in the secret camp in the Crimea Mountains; Between Life and Death (2017), a personal reflection on the aftermath of wars through the ruins and devastated landscapes; Culture of Confrontation (2013–2014), dedicated to the events of the Ukrainian Revolution 2013/14, which in 2019 resulted in the book of the same name; Untitled Project from Chornobyl (2016–ongoing), where Dondyuk works with found photographs in the restricted areas of the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
2015–2017: Culture of Confrontation as a part of
Prix Pictet Disorder finalists: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris;[31] CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium;[32] Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany;[33] International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland;[34] LUMA Westbau – Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland;[35] MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy;[36] The Old Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece;[37] Somerset House, London; Bank Gallery, Tokyo;[38] Dublin Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland; Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain;[39] Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA[40]
2020: Untitled Project from Chornobyl, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland[41]
2020: Dealing with Memory, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany[42]
2023: Between Life and Death, Le Carré d'Art, Chartres de Bretagne, France[43]
2023: War. Ukraine 2022, Le bleu du ciel, Lyon, France[45]
Screenings
Crimea Sich, American Independence Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013[46]
Culture of Confrontation video installation, The Church of Saint-Merri, Paris, 2015; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA, 2017; Ukraine 2022, PHOTO ELYSÉE, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023
Maxim Dondyuk (
Ukrainian: Максим Дондюк; born 1983)[1] is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, who combines photography, video, text, and archival material in his work. He explores issues of history, memory, conflicts, and their consequences.
Dondyuk was born in the
Ukrainian SSR. His projects include TB epidemic in Ukraine (2010–2012), a two-year work that investigates the problem of tuberculosis in Ukraine; Crimea Sich (2010–2013), a series of photographs and a short documentary film, which tells about a military upbringing of children in the secret camp in the Crimea Mountains; Between Life and Death (2017), a personal reflection on the aftermath of wars through the ruins and devastated landscapes; Culture of Confrontation (2013–2014), dedicated to the events of the Ukrainian Revolution 2013/14, which in 2019 resulted in the book of the same name; Untitled Project from Chornobyl (2016–ongoing), where Dondyuk works with found photographs in the restricted areas of the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
2015–2017: Culture of Confrontation as a part of
Prix Pictet Disorder finalists: Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris;[31] CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium;[32] Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany;[33] International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland;[34] LUMA Westbau – Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland;[35] MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy;[36] The Old Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece;[37] Somerset House, London; Bank Gallery, Tokyo;[38] Dublin Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland; Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain;[39] Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA[40]
2020: Untitled Project from Chornobyl, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland[41]
2020: Dealing with Memory, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany[42]
2023: Between Life and Death, Le Carré d'Art, Chartres de Bretagne, France[43]
2023: War. Ukraine 2022, Le bleu du ciel, Lyon, France[45]
Screenings
Crimea Sich, American Independence Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013[46]
Culture of Confrontation video installation, The Church of Saint-Merri, Paris, 2015; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA, 2017; Ukraine 2022, PHOTO ELYSÉE, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023