Stepan Ryabchenko (born 1987 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian new generation artist, one of the leading figures in digital and new media art. He participates in international projects and Biennales. The focus of his work is on the interaction between the new media and classic visual art tradition, the boundary between the real and the virtual world, and the new nature of art.Stepan Ryabchenko came to the contemporary art through the architecture. In his bold and vibrant projects the artist “plays”with the space, transforming it, designs new environment. Means of making digital images are at the same time tools of creation of a virtual world and a subject of reflections on “virtualization” of the existing reality. In his various installations, sculptures and pictures Stepan Ryabchenko tells a large-scale and ambitious story of the virtual reality with its ideas, heroes and mythology.

2011 – Graduated from Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Architecture - Art Institute.

2010 – Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

2010 – The winner of the First All-Ukrainian Triennial of abstract art ART-ACT.

2011 – Nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize.

2012 – Laureate of the international competition of contemporary sculpture Kyiv Sculpture Project.

Lives and works in Odessa, Ukraine.

Selected exhibitions:

2015

New Perspectives: 8 Contemporary Artists from Ukraine / Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA

3rd Danube Biennale / Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia

IV Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art / Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine

Enfant Terrible. Conceptual Art of Odessa / National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Cosmoscow / Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia

Dialogia/ Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014

Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now / Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Long Path to Freedom / Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA

Cosmoscow / Manege, Moscow, Russia

Octants / Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Probability Theory/Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

The Ukrainian Landscape / Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

New Ukrainian Dream/ Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Art Vilnius’ 2014 / Lithuanian Exhibition Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Ukraine. Archetype of Freedom / Novomatic Forum, Vienna, Austria

2013

Contemporary Ukrainian Artists / Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Terrain Orientation / National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

The Odessa School. Tradition and Currency / Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Great and Grand / Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Sculpture about Sculpture / YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine

Industrial Eden / Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012

Arsenale 2012 / International biennale of contemporary art, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

The Myth. Ukrainian Baroque / National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv Sculpture Project / M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine

Social Euphoria / Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

2011

PinchukArtCentre Prize / PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

Independent / Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

Space Odyssey / Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2010

TOP-10 Contemporary Artists of Odessa / HudPromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

Those, who came at the start of 2000 / M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

Art-Act / First All-Ukrainian Triennial of Abstract Art / Chernovtsy, Ukraine

Star Wars / Contemporary Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine

Abstract art of Odessa / Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine

2009

Restart / Marine Art – Terminal, Odessa, Ukraine

Kunstart / Festival of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

2008

Odessa Contemporary Art / Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine

Collections:

Art Arsenal, Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Voronov Art Foundation, Firtash Foundation, Arts Trend Company, Stedley Art Foundation, Luciano Benetton Collection, Lars Malmberg Collection, private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, United Kingdom, Israel, Denmark, Cyprus, Switzerland, Italy.