- Source: Serhii Melnychenko
Serhii Melnychenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Мельниченко, born 26 October 1991, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian photographer, dancer, master of sports of the international class in ballroom dances (2005). Founder of the school of conceptual and art photography MYPH (2018). Member of the creative association Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (2012).
In 2017, he became the first Ukrainian to receive the German Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer.
Biography
Since his teenage years, he has been dancing, performing abroad, in particular in China.
In 2014, graduated from the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding with a specialization — computer systems engineer.
With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he began volunteering.
Creativity
Started photography in 2009.
In 2012, he rethought his own approach to artistic practice after communicating with Roman Piatkovka, a representative of the Kharkiv School of Photography.
Author of the series Schwarzenegger is my idol (2012, 2020; book of the same name published), Polaroids from China (2015), From Dusk till Dawn (2015—2017, 2018; a book of the same name was published), Passengers (2017), Young and Free (2017—2021), Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity (2019—2021) and others.
Photos are published in The Independent Photographer, Fisheye Magazine.
Works are presented in private and public collections in the US, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland etc.
Awards
2013 – Winner Of Contest Photographer Of The Year 2012 In Nomination Series Of The Year (Fine Art) – Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 – International Contest Golden Camera 2012 – 1st Place In Nomination Conceptual Photography, Amateur – Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 – Shortlist Of Krakow Photomonth Festival – Krakow, Poland
2015 – Short-List Of Pinchuk Art Centre Prize – Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – 1st Place In The National Awards Photographer Of The Year 2016, Street Professional Category – Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – Winner Of Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2017 – Berlin, Germany
2020 – Nomination on Foam Paul Huf Award – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 – Becoming a part of Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung foundation collection – Münich, Germany
2022 – FUTURES talent, nominated by ISSP (Riga, Latvia) – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 – Nomination on Foam Paul Huf Award – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibitions
= Personal exhibitions
=2012 – Nails – Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
2013 – Schwarzenegger Is My Idol – Lviv, Ukraine
2013 – Schwarzenegger Is My Idol – Showoff Section Of Krakow Photomonth Festival – Krakow, Poland
2014 – Les Amours Imaginaries, Closer – Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – Les Amours Imaginaries Odesa Museum Of Modern Art Arteria– Odesa, Ukraine
2014 – Schwarzenegger Is My Idol, Fiebre Galería – Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – Art-Book Presentation In Frames Of Private Residency Program The Muzychi Expanded History Project – Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – Schwarzenegger Is My Idol In Frames Of Off_Festival Bratislava 2014 – Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 – Military Commissariat, Estudio Ñ – Valdivia, Chile
2015 – Les Amours Imaginaries In Frames Of Landskrona Fotofestival – Landskrona, Sweden
2017 – Behind The Scenes, Trzecie Oko Gallery – Krakow, Poland
2017 – Behind The Scenes – Mykolaiv, Ukraine
2017 – Paris Photo 2017″, Behind The Scenes/Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 – Paris, France
2017 – PLAYDAY, Face Foundation/Mironova Gallery – Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 – Behind The Scenes, Claude Samuel Gallery – Paris, France
2018 – Sztuka w dialogu, Loneliness online and Polaroids from China, Piekno Panie Gallery – Lublin, Poland
2018 – Loneliness online, SomoS Art Gallery – Berlin, Germany
2018 – Only Now Only Never, FACE Foundation – Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 – Behind the scenes, European Month of Photography, Galéria Michalský dvor – Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 – Leica Gallery London – London, UK
2019 – Schwarzenegger is my idol, Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography – Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 – From Dusk Till Dawn, f22 foto space – Hong Kong
2020 – Young and free, Leica 6×7 Gallery, curator Adam Mazur – Warsaw, Poland
2021 – Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity – Vasli Souza Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2022 – Young and free? / Metaheroes – Esther Okada Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 – Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity, The Great Finding. Step One – Subject. With Mitya Fenechkin – Asortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
References
External links
Official website
Works by Serhii Melnychenko on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Український фотограф-любитель виграв одну з найпрестижніших фотопремій світу on YouTube, ТСН, 2.2.2018.
photo basel/berlin in conversation with artist Sergey Melnitchenko on YouTube, photo basel, 29.9.2020.