Ivan Svitlychnyi

Ukrainian artist, author of objects and installations. Explores areas of new media art and artistic actions involving sound in his artistic practice, combining art and science. Graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Designing and Arts in 2012. Winner of the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (2018) and finalist of the State of the ART(ist) programme of the Ars Electronica Festival (2022). His works were shown at the 57^th Venice Biennale (2017), Transmediale Vorspiel 2018 in Berlin, Digital Cultures Festival 2019 in Warsaw, and Ars Electronica Festival 2022 in Linz. Active in developing the new media art community in Ukraine. Formed the Shukhliada Exposition Environment (a platform for projects by independent artists and curators) in 2013, having joined forces with artists Lera Polianskova and Max Robotov. In 2018, the collective established the Photinus Group with intent to develop new media in Ukraine, and the Photinus School educational platform operating from the artists’ studio. Lives and works in Kyiv.