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Spartak Khachanov is a multimedia artist, political refugee, and artist in exile currently residing and working in Helsinki. During his asylum-seeking period, he lived for two years in the Vantaa, Finland refugee center. His artistic practice explores themes of political instability, war, migration, and nationalism, employing a diverse range of mediums including sculpture, installation, painting, graphics, photography, land art, video, animation, and sound.
Following an exhibition during his studies at the Kyiv Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture from December 2018 to January 2019, he faced escalating threats to his art, life, and well-being from far-right forces in Ukraine. These threats began with a professor at the Academy and extended to nationalist groups, notably the notorious C14, which endangered his safety. Artists at Risk (AR) intervened, relocating him to Helsinki, where he served as a MOBILE Resident at HIAP until January 2020.
Throughout his 40 years, Khachanov has been displaced three times and is now a fourth-time refugee.
Consequently, themes of war and migration have been integral to his life since birth, continuing to influence him deeply.
He has been practicing art for 12 years. His/Her first professional exhibition took place at the Union of Artists’ venue in Kyiv in 2013.
Date of birth: 17 September 1984
Place of birth: UASR, Baku
Education: 2011-2015 Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kharkiv Art College, Ukraine
2015-2019 Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Academy of Fine Arts andArchitecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018-2019- Contemporary artist, Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, Ukraine
Address: Lipstikkakuja 5 b 43, 01400, Vantaa, Finland
Phone: +358413105196
E-mail: spartakkhachanovwork@gmail.com
Web site: https://spartakkhachanovartist.com/
Solo exhibition:
2026: Exhibition “Planet Penisland”, HAA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2026: Exhibition “ Impersonal”, Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2025: Exhibition “ Impersonal”, Nyky aika Photo Center, Tampere, Finland
2023: Exhibition "WINDOW EXHIBITION" AT GLOBE ART, Helsinki, Finland
2020: Exhibition "Outside the Window", Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2019: Exhibition "Penis Parade", DELFI Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
Selected Exhibitions:
2025: Exhibition “ Migrart: Unrolling the border”, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2024: Group exhibitions "My Home Somewhere ", Art Museum ARTSI, Vantaa, Finland
2023: Group exhibitions "Quantum Critic project 2023", Myymälä2 pop up gallery, 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: 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: 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: Participation in the exhibition "Bread Conversion", as a member of the art group "HLEBO ZAVOD",
Hlebzawod Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019: Group exhibition "Hlebzavod 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 "HLEBZAVOD", Hlebzawod Gallery, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2017: Participant in the exhibition Triennale "Sculpture 2017", Union of Artists, 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, competitions, scholarships:
2025: The Kone Foundation
2023: Was selected for the project "Suomen tarinat"
2022: Kone Foundation
2022: The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2022: FONDAZIONE ARIA, Pescara, Italy
2019: Artists at Risk (AR) Scholarship Perpetuum Mobile
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
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
Participation in discussion events:
2024: Suomen tarina, Discussion event "Historians without borders", Helsinki, Finland
2024: GAP ART SUMMIT '24/Panel discussion on Global Perspectives on Censorship, Helsinki, Finland
Booklets and magazines featuring my artworks:
2023:Quantum Critic 2023 book
2022: Shy Plumber Anti-War Journal Of Art And Anti-Art
2022: The magazine NINABYRON for issue #6
2022: STILLS OF PEACE 2022 Another dialogue between cultures: Italy and Armenia
2021: MITHOGENESIS'021
2019: OPEN STUDIOS AUTUMN 2019,
Publication and interviews:
16.10.2026: LA GAZZETTA DI GORIZIA
16.10.2026: FriuliSera
01.03.2024 HS
27.02.2024 Selkomadia
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
