Chichkan Ilya

Chichkan Ilya
Ilya Chichkan plays epatage role and surprises by unbanal view at things, admiring "mutating" beauty. For him there is no difference between ugliness and beauty.
 

Born August 29, 1967 in Kiev, in a family of artists.

In the late 80s participated in the art group "Paris Commune" (Alexander Gnilitskiy, Maxim Mamsikov, Vasily Tsagolov, Valeria Trubina, Yuri Solomko, Ilya Isupov), under the name of the street where there was a squat of artists.

 Chychkan works participated in the Biennale in Sao Paulo, the European "Manifesto",  they were also presented in MoMA

Lives and works in Berlin and Kiev.

Personal exhibitions: 

2011 

«Monkeywood». Collection Gallery , Kiev. 

2001 

"Girls and rabbits." Gallery "Regina", Moscow. 

2000 

  "Novi painting." Gallery Lartey, Kiev. 

1996 

  «Chichkan Party». Galery RA, Kiev. 

1994 

«Alter Idem». Center for Contemporary Arts Brahma, Kiev. 

1993 

"Mutation of the gene." Gallery of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kiev.