Oleksandr Burlaka (born in 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2005. Artistic practice includes photography, research, installation, and often examines architecture and its transformation in Ukraine.
He was a member of the Melnychuk-Burlaka Group (2007-2011), the Grupa Predmetiv (2011-2016) and a co-founder and member of the curatorial and activist interdisciplinary group Khudrada. The photo books Balcony Chic (2019) and Orthodox Chic (2020) were published by Osnovy Publishing House.
Solo exhibitions:
Wartime Monuments, 45 000 l: Volume for Engaged Architecture, Brno 2022
Better, Worse, Even Worse, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, 2016 (Melnychuk-Burlaka group);
Island, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, 2014 (Melnychuk-Burlaka group);
Responsible for Circulation, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, 2012 (Oleksandr Burlaka, Anastasia Ryabova and Maxim Spivakov);
City Porn, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, 2011 (Gruppa Predmetiv group).
Selected group exhibitions:
Structures of Reciprocity, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, 2024
Venice Biennale 2024, Net Making, Pavillion Ukraine
The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within, AdK Berlin 2024
Kyiv Biennale 2023
Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice
HOME, Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2023
Серце Землі, МА, Київ, 2022
Worth Fighting for, Cologne 2022
Murder to Accept, Berlin billboards, 2022 (together with Marcin Polak (PL)
ARS Electronica State of the ART(ist), Linz 2022
When Faith Moves Mountains PAC, Kyiv 2022
Imagine Ukraine, European Parliament, Brussels 2022
«Ukraina. Wzajemne spojrzenia /Україна. Інші погляди на взаємини», 2021 MCK Krakow
SĄSIEDZI/СУСІДИ, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warsaw, 2018;
Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, 2018;
Histories About Histories, Labirynt, Lublin, 2017;
Between Revolution and War, Skovde Art Museum, 2016;
Donetsk Olympics’84, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, 2016;
Exhibition of the shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2015, Kyiv;
Phone Calls from the Cemetery and Other Stories. Akademie der Künste der Welt.
Cologne, 2015;
Exhibition of the 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, PAC, Kyiv;
Bergen Assembly. Bergen 2013;
Ukrainian news, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. Warsaw, 2013;
Homestories II, Arttransponder. Berlin, 2009.
