Spartak Khachanov was born in 1984 in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan (I am Armenian by nationality). In 2011 he began studying at the Kharkiv Art School, where he specialized in sculpture under the supervision of Valery Pirogov, who shaped the artist's outlook. In 2015 Khachanov studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. In 2018-1919 he studied at the Kiev Academy of Media Arts (KAMA). Khachanov was a member of the creative group of artists "Hleb Zavod" from 2018-2019.

Spartak Khachanov is a sculptor and contemporary artist who produces visually, politically and emotionally charged works in a variety of materials and genres. In his creative practice, Khachanov is interested in issues of political instability, war, emigration and nationalism, works in various media, including sculpture, installation, painting, graphics, photography, video, animation and sound.

I am a multimedia artist from Ukraine. I am a political refugee and artist in exile living and working in Helsinki. During my asylum-seeking period, I lived in the Vantaa refugee center for two years.

After an exhibition during my studies at the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Dec 2018 - Jan 2019, I was faced with growing threats to my art, life and well-being from far-right forces in Ukraine. Starting with threats from a professor at the Academy, nationalist groups, in particular the notorious group C14, threatened my life. Artists at Risk (AR) intervened, and brought me to Helsinki, where I was a MOBILE Resident at HIAP until January 2020.

I was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Because of the growing aggressive attitude of the local population towards the Armenian population in Azerbaijan, I had to leave for Armenia with my parents. When I was 7 years old, due to the deterioration of the economic situation and the beginning of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, I moved with my parents to Snizhne, Ukraine. Snizhne is located in the Donetsk Oblast, which has been in war since 2014. The themes of war and immigration have been close to me since my birth, and they still haunt me like my shadow. During my 38 years of life I was a refugee three times, and now I am a refugee for the fourth time.

Date of birth: 17 September 1984
Place of birth: UASR, Baku
Education: 2011-2015- Kharkiv Art College, specialty sculptor
2015-2019- National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, specialty sculptor
2018-2019- Kiev Academy of Media Arts, specialty contemporary artist.
Address: Lipstikkakuja 5 b 43, 01400, Vantaa, Finland
Phone: +358417412002
E-mail: spartakkhachanovwork@gmail.com
Web site: https://spartakkhachanovartist.com/

Selected Exhibitions:
2024: Group exhibitions "My Home Somewhere ", Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI,Vantaa, Finland
2023: Group exhibitions "Quantum Critic project 2023", Helsinki, Finland
2023: Solo exhibition "WINDOW EXHIBITION" AT GLOBE ART, Helsinki, Finland
2022: Exhibition "Cannibals, Kings and Gifts", CISTERNA DI PALAZZO ACQUAVIVA – ATRI, Pescara, Italy
2022: Participation in a magazine exhibition (Shy Plumber, Anti-War Journal of Art and Anti-Art), Helsinki, Finland, Berlin, Germany
2022: Participation in a magazine exhibition (NINABYRON For issue #6, the theme is 100 years of Antifascism, as in September 2022 Fascism was officially born in Italy), Rome, Italy
2021: Group online exhibition "nude affiliation & portraiture", Pepney Gallery, Cavan, Ireland
2020: Solo exhibition of Spartak Khachanov "Outside the Window", Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2020: Participant in the exhibition "Self-Quarantine creative", New York, USA
2019: HIAP Open Studios / Autumn 2019, Suomenlinna island, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Group exhibitions "AR PAVILION HELSINKI – MASS MEMORY MACHINES", Gallery Rankka, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Solo exhibition "Penis Parade", DELFI Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2019: Photo Project "Olympic Games Reloaded", Office of the Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Photo project "Olympic Games Reloaded ", Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2019: HIAP Open Studios / Summer 2019, Suomenlinna island, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Participant in the exhibition "Decommunia_tion", Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
2019: Participant in the festival "Art Fair", in the group of artists "HLEBZAVOD", Business center Toronto, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019: Participation in the exhibition "Bread Conversion", as a member of the art group "HLEBOZAVOD", Hlebzawod Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019: Group exhibition "Hlebzawod Art Prize", Hlebzawod Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018: Exhibition of students of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture "Mystetskyi Arsenal", Kyiv, Ukraine
2018: Participation in the exhibition "Infantilismus", as a member of the art group "HLEBOZAVOD", Hlebzawod Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017: Participant in the exhibition Triennale "Sculpture 2017", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017: Exhibitor at the Anatoliy Krivolap Prize, Kyiv Fortress, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015: Participant of the "One out of 1.5 Million" exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, Buzok Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2013: Group exhibition at the Union of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine

Art Festivals:
2024: Art festival "Estação Viva 2024", Porto, Portugal
2021: The International Winter Festival of Environmental Art "Mythogenesis", Vantaa, Finland, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2020: Media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33, media art festival MADATAC, Madrid, Spain
2019: Arts Festival "Sofia Art Week", Sofia, Bulgaria
2019: Festival of media and performing arts, Work Atelier Plastilin, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019: Participant in the festival "Art Fair", in the group of artists "HLEB ZAVOD", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017: Participant of the international art festival of the Carpathian region "CARPATHIAN SPACE-2017", Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Grants and competitions:
2023: Was selected for the project "Suomen tarinat",Finland
2022: Kone Foundation, Finland
2022: The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2022: FONDAZIONE ARIA, Pescara, Italy
2019: Artists at Risk (AR) Scholarship Perpetuum Mobile, Finland
2017: Participated in the art competition Anatoly Krivolap, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014: Participant of the international competition for the creation of the monument to the centenary of the Armenian genocide, the temple of "Surb Harutyun", the organizers of the Armenian community of Kharkiv, Ukraine

Resident programs:
2019: Resident member "MOBILE Resident at HIAP", Helsinki, Finland
2019: Resident member "Radar", Sofia, Bulgaria
2017: Resident member, 'Sculpture symposium', Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Realized projects in non-gallery:
2017: The first stage of the art project at the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018: The second stage of the art project at the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital, Kyiv, Ukraine

Talking artist:
2021: Conversation of the artist Spartak Khachanov, art residence HIAP, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Spartak Khachanov conversation about political propaganda and art, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Conversation of the artist Spartak Khachanov, Work Atelier Plastilin, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019: Conversation of the artist Spartak Khachanov in the bookstore "Arkady", Helsinki, Finland
2019: Artist Khachanov Spartak "Attacks, Destruction Censorship in Art Institutions in Kyiv","Decommunia_tion", Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz,
Berlin, Germany
2019: Artist Khachanov Spartak " Can an artist express his opinion in a belligerent country", Art Museum's HAM Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Publication and interviews:
21.07.2022 II Giornale dell'Arte
10.07.2022 segnonline
08.07.2022 Collezione da Tiffany
31.10.2019 e-flux
23.06.2019 The Guardian and Art Review Khachanov Spartak, interview with international editor, writer, and critic Oliver Bashiano
21.10.2019 The Washington Post, Interview by Will Englund
29.01.2019 TAZ, Interview by Bernhard Clasen
07.03.2019 HYPERALLERGIC
25.01.2019 BBC News, interview by Gleb Savchenko
20.02.2019 Rauhanpuolustajat
19.12.2019 The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
29.05.2019 Ute Kilter "When you go to Kyiv Art Week, and it turns out to beArt Fair..."
20.02.2019 KHHR
15.03.2019 Ute Kilter "The presentation of "HZ" in "WW" is dedicated"
17.11.2018 Ute Kilter "Art prize and nepotism from the Khlebozavod group"
03.06.2018 Ute Kilter "Infantilism in Kiev style"
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 240p 1hh
25.01.2019 Генітально – Вікна новини
25.01.2019 Автор «парада членов» покинул Украину из за угроз
25.01.2019 Anatolijsharij