Oleg Kharch

Oleg Kharch /Kharchenko (; born June 8, 1963, in Sumy) — is a Ukrainian visual and sound artist working in the figurative, new Ukrainian naive (Quasi- naive), post-conceptual direction.

His works ranges from street art projects, sound sculptures and video collage to traditional painting.Founder and member of the Open O’pen$ group of artists since 2020. Together with his wife (Olga Shuvalova), Oleg Kharch Group was established in 2016.

Education and personal life From 1980 to 1985 he was a student of the Faculty of Building Technology in Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk) Construction Engineering Institute, and during 1981–83 he attended the art studio of Stanislav Cherevko, Dnepropetrovsk.

1981 -83 studied in art studio of Stanislav Cherevko/ Dnipro (ex-Dnepropetrovsk)/ USSR. 1985 -87 junior sergeant, squad leader of armored vehicles Repair in the Soviet Army. Since December 2018 he has been a participant of "Hlebzawod".

Kharch is a resident of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Publications 2015 Ukraine: Short Stories about Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, Luciano Benetton, Italy

Selected exhibitions 2025 —Torrance Art Museum, TRYST International Art Fair, in the project "Wartime-Lifetime" by the Open O’pen$ group (Oleg Kharch, Olena Golub, Andriy Budnyk, Glib Viches, Volodymyr Kharchenko, Rene van Kempen). 2023 —Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art 2023: Awakenings| Kyiv, Ukraine; 2023 —Oleg Kharch: Evacuation a small excerpt from the gigantic warin spaceCAESUUR.Wij zijn De Stad Middelburg, the Netherlands 2023 —Man & Woman: Robbing Europe| Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia; 2023 —Snails Don’t Live Forever| OKNa. Porto, Portugal; (solo) 2023 —Tryst Alternative Art Fair 2023| TRYST Alternative Art Fair, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, United States; 2022- XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira| Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal; Ukraine: Short Stories Contemporary artists from Ukraine|MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome Italy; 22 Ukraine: Short Stories Contemporary artists from Ukraine 2021 -First Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art "30 Years of Freedom". Valery Korshunov (Ukraine), Yuri Lech Polanski(Spain), curators. Artarea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine; -" Wellcome Elon Musk!"| Kmytiv Museum of Fine Arts named Y. D. Bukhanchuk/ Kmytiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine; Curator- Solomia Savchuk. 2020: Corona! Shut down!| international festival network @ New on NewMediaFest2020!, (Germany), curator – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne "Cam Pandemic Art"| CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum/ Naples, Italy, curator-Antonio Manfredi "The Environment of Existence. Manifest 2020"| Kyiv City Art Gallery Lavra / Kyiv, Ukraine, curator - Yulia Nuzhina 2019: Wake up! – Climate change!| international festival network @ The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne (Germany), curator – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne 2019: Media Art Exhibition: Artefact: Chernobyl33/ River station/Kyiv, Ukraine 2019: Kyiv Art Week 2019| Art Fair "Hlebsawod"|23-26 May "Toronto - Kyiv" Complex 2019: The book of the artist. "Chronicles of the unpublished (hybrid) war. Or [Cotton Accounting], from Oleg Kharch"| Contemporary art center "Hlebzawod"/ Kyiv, Ukraine 2018: "Hlebzawod Art Prize 2018"| Contemporary art center "Hlebzawod"/ Kyiv, Ukraine Participate in "Creative Climate Awards 2018" ("CCAs2018"), of the Human Impacts Institute's at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, USA 2017: Participate in Art- Projekt– "Auto / Macht / Mobilität" /"Kunstpreis Worpswede", Einbeck, Germany "Gogolfest 2017 Oleg Kharch"/ Visual Art Programm Gogolfest, Visual art, Kiyv, Ukraine 2017 5th Odesa Biennial "Turbulence Area"/ Odesa 2017 Semi- project Oleg Kharch& Volodymir Kharchenko/ "khARTchenko- No CONJUNCTURE promenade" 2016 Project of Contemporary Art "Event Horizon", curators- A. Soloviev, A. Lozhkina, S. Savchuk, Mysteckyi Arsenal, Kiyv 2016 Parallelismes/ The (Instead Undo VIII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art "Pushing the boundaries, unite the world") / Uzbekistan 2016 Mashrou' Proletkult/ AUB Art Galleries/ Beirut, Lebanon. 2016 Freierfest / Odesa, Ukraine 2016 Goodбaй Хутiр Postмодерн / KZ Art Room/ Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Manifesto / IV Biennale Contemporary/ Odesa, Ukraine 2014 Snailices or snails attack / Art Kyiv Contemporary IX/ MyGallery / Kyiv, Ukraine. 2014 Ukrainian Pictorial Exhibition / The Museum of Arts of Cherkasy region, Ukraine. 2014 International Art Projects "fame not fallen heroes" & "Fame Maydan Heroes", V.Akhunov (Uzbekistan) & O.Kharch (Ukraine)/ Grushevskiy str. Second Barricade/ Maydan Nezalezhnosti/ Hreshchatyk str. by KSGA, Kyiv, Ukraine. 2013 Such earnings / Mala Gallery of Mystetsky Arsenal art center/ Kyiv, Ukraine. 1991 Exhibition Folk-Applied Art of Poltava region, The Poltava Museum of Local Lore, Ukraine; 1989 Exhibition of Bergen in Kingdom Norway; 1988 Exhibition, Museum of Local Lore Murmansk ex-USSR;

Art residencies: 2019- Media Art Residence Carbon/"Artefact: Chernobyl 33"/Kyiv, Ukraine; 2015/2013 Private artistic residency in Cap-d'Ail, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France;

Collections Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine Digital collection of the Princeton University Library, USA Manuscript collection of the Princeton University Library, USA Human Impacts Institute in New York, USA Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy Lysenko MyGallery Kyiv/Ukraine | London/UK Private collections