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Piotr Armianovski (Donetsk, 1985) is a Ukrainian artist, performer and director. In his works Armianovski explores the themes of memory, the loss, social and symbolic constructs of everyday life. Piotr works with video, performance art and virtual reality.
Lives in Kyiv.
Selected group exhibitions and festivals
Festival of digital art "Novembre Numérique", Kyiv, 2021
Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art, Kyiv, 2021
Ballad of Escape, Bucharest, 2021
Radically Different Society, New York, 2021
Parade-fest, Kharkiv, 2021
Point and landscape. People’s museum of Avdiivka, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, 2021
Cultural Shutdown, Social distancing & Empty Spaces, Pasinger Fabrik, München, 2020
This Summer, Czapski Art Foundation, Poznan, 2020
Somewhere Now, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, 2020
Triennial of modern art “Ukrainian Cross-Section” (Ukrainskyi Zriz), Lviv, 2019
MUHi 2019, Kyiv, 2019
The Frontline. The Ukrainian Art, Mexico, 2019
II Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, 2019
La Biennale di Venezia, 2019
The International Book Arsenal Festival, Kyiv, 2019
Hybrid Madrid Art Fair, 2019
Ukraine: Learning from a good neighbour 1918-2018, München, 2018
Cottbus Film Festival, 2017, 2018
Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Budapest, 2018
Docudays, Kyiv, 2014, 2018, 2019
Desant UA! First showcase of Ukrainian theatres, Warsaw, 2017
Young Ukrainian Artists, Arsenal, Kyiv, 2017
SWAB Barcelona, 2017
Festival of film and urbanism "86", Slavutych, 2015-2018
WIPAW, Warsaw, 2016
In the Dark, Vienne, Kyiv, 2016
Olympiad-84 in Donetsk, Kyiv, 2016
Festival Pierre-Feuille-Ciseaux, Paris, 2015
Kyiv Biennial 2015: The School of Kyiv
Execution, Da-Sein Gallery, Donetsk, 2013
March cats, Uzhgorod, 2012
Week of actual play, Kyiv, 2012 - 2016
Artist is present, CCC Garage, Moscow, 2011
Gogolfest, Kyiv, 2008 - 2010, 2017
Awards
Special prize, MUHi, 2019
Main Award, II Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, 2019
Main Award in Non-Fiction Films, Open Night, Kyiv, 2018
Special Mention and Andriy Matrosov Award, Docudays UA, Kyiv, 2018
Second Prize, Biennale "Young Ukrainian Artists", Arsenal, Kyiv, 2017
Lectures, workshops
Best of VR, KAMA, Kyiv, 2021
Digital storytelling, Gallery Lviv National Academy of Art, 2021
Workshop of audiowalks, Theatre festival "Cat Gavatovich", Lviv, 2021
Performative actions workshop, Vilna Khata, Kramatorsk, 2020
VR and 360° video laboratory, Youth cinema camp "Fil", 2020
Laboratory of documentary films, International children festival "Ptakh", 2019
Interactive video workshop, German-Ukrainian Meetings, Nyzhne Selyshsche, 2019
Documentary filmmaking workshop in frame of residency A-I-R Zmina, Starobilsk, 2018
Video workshop, MEET UP!, Kyiv, 2018
Laboratory of audiotours, Indie Media Camp, Kyiv, 2017, 2018
Masterclass of documentary filmmaking, 86 Workshop for teenagers, Slavutych, 2017
Lecture "Poesis in documentary films", Izolyatsia, Kyiv, 2016
Artist talk "Art and provocation", Kilometre of Sculpture, Estonia, 2015
Performances
Looking into a landscape, Lviv, 2019
Donetsk: Red and Black, SWAP Barcelona, 2017
Morning exercises, Warsaw Performance Art Weekend, 2016
Deminiuer, pierre_feuille_ciseaux, Paris, 2015
Kalari Payat, Kyiv, 2014
Time/Food. Ukrainian lunch, Moscow, 2013
Bodies in the urban spaces by Willi Dorner, participant, Moscow, 2013
Execution, Donetsk, 2013
Disable, Kyiv, 2012
3D perfromances: Space, Time, Ukrainian Body, Donetsk, 2012
Dobra sa pesnicama, Moscow, 2011
Reperformances of Marina Abramovic, Moscow Garage Contemporary Centre, 2011
View from the Top, H4B fest, Kyiv, 2011
How long could you scream? Kyiv, 2011
Shave me, Kyiv, 2011
Zen Buddhism calendar, Kyiv, 2011
Illegal performance, Kyiv, 2010
Road to Lavra, Kyiv, 2010
Films
Pan Tadeusz, documentary, 23', Poznań, 2020
Black Cleaning, documentary, 13', Kyiv, 2019
People's museum of Avdiivka, documentary, 6', Avdiivka, 2018
Mustard in the gardens, documentary, 37', Novotroytske, 2018
Me and Mariupol, documentary, 10', Mariupol, 2017
Miners' Stories, documentary, 42', Donetsk - Lviv regions, 2016
Election that didn't happen, documentary, 14', Donetsk, 2017
Volodia a hero of revolution, documentary, 52'/13', Donetsk - Kyiv, 2014 - 2015
On the east, documentary, 8', Kramatorsk, 2015
Meat Factory, documentary, 32', Donetsk, 2013
Theatre
Ten spacer, creative producer, Poznań, 2020
The Song, director, Kyiv, 2019
Audiowalk "Kybyntsi. How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", coauthor with Dima Levitskiy, Kybyntsi, 2018
Audiowalk "Cartography of Kyiv Modernism", coauthor with Dima Levitskiy, Kyiv, 2018
Audiowalk "Starobilsk. Before the premiere", coauthor with Dima Levitskiy, Starobilsk, 2018
On the edge, director, Kyiv, 2017
Restaurant Ukraine, researcher, Kyiv, 2017
Laboratory "Out of the fears", trainer, Zaporizhzhia, 2017
Audiotour "Maidan. Walk", coauthor with Dima Levitskiy, Kyiv, 2017
Audiotour "The Matter of Mendel Beilis", coauthor with Dima Levitskiy, Kyiv, 2017
Laboratory "Maps of fears", participant, Lviv, Kharkiv, 2016
Rosarium, codirector, Kyiv, 2016
Word and Voice theatre centre, participant, Lviv, 2013
Directors-Dramaturgs Laboratory, participant, Lviv, 2013
Theatre-studio "Oxumoron", actor, Kyiv, 2008 - 2010
Theatre-studio "Zhuki", actor, Donetsk, 2003-2007
Texts
Special Operation, 2021
If I had a gun, I would..., Kyiv, 2021
Love and happiness, Kyiv, 2016
Krasny Pakhar, Donets - Kyiv, 2012-2014
My body, Lviv, 2013
Supermarket, Donetsk, 2013
Gay or not a gay, Moscow, 2012