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Biography & CV
Spartak Khachanov was born in 1984 in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. 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. Also the theme of identity - of who I am and where I come from - can be seen in my work.
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 "Hom" Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Helsinki, Finland
2023 "Quantum Critic project 2023", Helsinki, Finland
2023 "WINDOW EXHIBITION" AT GLOBE ART, Helsinki, Finland
2022 Exhibition "Cannibals, Kings and Gifts", curated by Eva Comuzzi. CISTERNA DI PALAZZO
ACQUAVIVA – ATRI, Pescara, Italy
2022 Participation in the magazine (Shy Plumber, Anti-War Journal of
Art and Anti-Art), Helsinki, Finland, Berlin, Germany
https://shyplumber.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/shy-plumber-issue-iii-final-1.pdf
2022 Participation in the magazine (NINABYRON For issue #6, the theme is 100 years of Antifascism, as in September 2022 Fascism was officially born in Italy), Rome, Italy
https://lottadiclassico.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/nb6.pdf
fbclid=IwAR2DojKqRK2czFpcQiJ82yz9GqyCOfhNMeANaUCDPfTQV7j1lOr8kfvgKN4
2021 The International Winter Festival of Environmental Art "Mythogenesis" has been held since 2006 on the territory of the ancient Scythian settlement (Nemyriv Raion,Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine).
Vantaa, Finland, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2021 Group online exhibition "nude affiliation & portraiture", "Pepney Gallery", Cavan, Ireland
2020 Media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33, media art festival MADATAC, Madrid,Spain
2020 Solo exhibition of Spartak Khachanov "Outside the Window",Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Ramiro Camelo
2020 Participant in the exhibition "Self-Quarantine creative", New York, USA
Self-Quarantine creative Challenge: Experiment, Creative Armenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQiUxxoEEc&feature=emb_logo
2019 HIAP Open Studios / Autumn 2019, Helsinki, Finland, curator of the autumn season Marina Valle Noronha
2019 AR-Pavilion Helsinki, Gallery Rankka, Helsinki, Finland curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
2019 Solo exhibition "Penis Parade", "DELFI", Malmö, Sweden
2019 Photo Project "Olympic Games Reloaded", Office of the Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Photo project "Olympic Games Reloaded " Myymälä2", Helsinki, Finland
2019 HIAP Open Studios / Summer 2019, Helsinki, Finland, curator of the summer season Saara Karhunen
2019 Exhibition "Great, but Late", "Sofia Art Week 2019", Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Voin Voinov
2019 Festival of media and performing arts "Work Atelier Plastilin", Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Martin Noev
2019 Participant in the exhibition "Decommunia_tion", "Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz", Berlin, Germany, curated by Matias Jud
2019 Participant in the festival "Art Fair", in the group of artists "HLEB ZAVOD", Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Exhibition of students of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture "Mystetskyi Arsenal", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Participant in the exhibition Triennale "Sculpture 2017", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Exhibitor at the Anatoliy Krivolap Prize, Kyiv Fortress, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Participant of the international art festival of the Carpathian region "CARPATHIAN SPACE-2017", Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2015 Participant of the "One out of 1.5 Million" exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, "Buzok" Gallery, Kharkiv, 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
Grants and competitions:
2023 Was selected for the project "Suomen tarinat"
2022-2023 Kone Foundation, Finland
2021-2022 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2022 FONDAZIONE ARIA, Pescara, Italy
2017 Participated in the art competition Anatoly Krivolap
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 Project "Estrangement", Psychiatric Clinic named after Pavlov, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Project "The ark", Psychiatric Clinic named after Pavlov, Kyiv, Ukraine
Talking artist:
2019 Spartak Khachanov conversation about political propaganda and art, gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Conversation of the artist Spartak Khachanov "Work Atelier Plastilin", Sofia, Bulgaria, mediator Martin Noev
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, moderator by Evgenia Belorusets.
2019 Artist Khachanov Spartak "Сan an artist express his opinion in a belligerent country", Art Museum's "HAM Hall", Helsinki, Finland, moderators Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen, the directors of Artists at Risk (AR)
Publication and interviews:
10.07.2022 segnonline
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
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Anatolijsharij
Spartak Khachanov was born in 1984 in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. 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. Also the theme of identity - of who I am and where I come from - can be seen in my work.
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 "Hom" Vantaa Art Museum ARTSI, Helsinki, Finland
2023 "Quantum Critic project 2023", Helsinki, Finland
2023 "WINDOW EXHIBITION" AT GLOBE ART, Helsinki, Finland
2022 Exhibition "Cannibals, Kings and Gifts", curated by Eva Comuzzi. CISTERNA DI PALAZZO
ACQUAVIVA – ATRI, Pescara, Italy
2022 Participation in the magazine (Shy Plumber, Anti-War Journal of
Art and Anti-Art), Helsinki, Finland, Berlin, Germany
https://shyplumber.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/shy-plumber-issue-iii-final-1.pdf
2022 Participation in the magazine (NINABYRON For issue #6, the theme is 100 years of Antifascism, as in September 2022 Fascism was officially born in Italy), Rome, Italy
https://lottadiclassico.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/nb6.pdf
fbclid=IwAR2DojKqRK2czFpcQiJ82yz9GqyCOfhNMeANaUCDPfTQV7j1lOr8kfvgKN4
2021 The International Winter Festival of Environmental Art "Mythogenesis" has been held since 2006 on the territory of the ancient Scythian settlement (Nemyriv Raion,Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine).
Vantaa, Finland, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2021 Group online exhibition "nude affiliation & portraiture", "Pepney Gallery", Cavan, Ireland
2020 Media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33, media art festival MADATAC, Madrid,Spain
2020 Solo exhibition of Spartak Khachanov "Outside the Window",Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Ramiro Camelo
2020 Participant in the exhibition "Self-Quarantine creative", New York, USA
Self-Quarantine creative Challenge: Experiment, Creative Armenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQiUxxoEEc&feature=emb_logo
2019 HIAP Open Studios / Autumn 2019, Helsinki, Finland, curator of the autumn season Marina Valle Noronha
2019 AR-Pavilion Helsinki, Gallery Rankka, Helsinki, Finland curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
2019 Solo exhibition "Penis Parade", "DELFI", Malmö, Sweden
2019 Photo Project "Olympic Games Reloaded", Office of the Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Photo project "Olympic Games Reloaded " Myymälä2", Helsinki, Finland
2019 HIAP Open Studios / Summer 2019, Helsinki, Finland, curator of the summer season Saara Karhunen
2019 Exhibition "Great, but Late", "Sofia Art Week 2019", Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Voin Voinov
2019 Festival of media and performing arts "Work Atelier Plastilin", Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Martin Noev
2019 Participant in the exhibition "Decommunia_tion", "Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz", Berlin, Germany, curated by Matias Jud
2019 Participant in the festival "Art Fair", in the group of artists "HLEB ZAVOD", Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Exhibition of students of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture "Mystetskyi Arsenal", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Participant in the exhibition Triennale "Sculpture 2017", Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Exhibitor at the Anatoliy Krivolap Prize, Kyiv Fortress, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Participant of the international art festival of the Carpathian region "CARPATHIAN SPACE-2017", Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2015 Participant of the "One out of 1.5 Million" exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, "Buzok" Gallery, Kharkiv, 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
Grants and competitions:
2023 Was selected for the project "Suomen tarinat"
2022-2023 Kone Foundation, Finland
2021-2022 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2022 FONDAZIONE ARIA, Pescara, Italy
2017 Participated in the art competition Anatoly Krivolap
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 Project "Estrangement", Psychiatric Clinic named after Pavlov, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Project "The ark", Psychiatric Clinic named after Pavlov, Kyiv, Ukraine
Talking artist:
2019 Spartak Khachanov conversation about political propaganda and art, gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Conversation of the artist Spartak Khachanov "Work Atelier Plastilin", Sofia, Bulgaria, mediator Martin Noev
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, moderator by Evgenia Belorusets.
2019 Artist Khachanov Spartak "Сan an artist express his opinion in a belligerent country", Art Museum's "HAM Hall", Helsinki, Finland, moderators Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen, the directors of Artists at Risk (AR)
Publication and interviews:
10.07.2022 segnonline
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
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Hromadske
25.01.2019 Anatolijsharij
