About Valeo

Valeo was born in 1990 in Kherson. He is Ukrainian independent artist and participant of all-round exhibitions, festivals and residences. He currently lives in Kyiv and works in various areas of contemporary art: performance, murals, street art, painting and drawing.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2019 Know yourself, Kherson Art Museum, Ukraine
  • 2018 Red face, gallery NUAU Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2017 A hole in the head, Museum Contemporary Art of Odesa, Ukraine
  • 2015 Duhovischa, 19699, PIER-2 art-center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Group exhibitions

  • 2023 Garden, museum Jonkopings, Sweden
  • 2022 Trigger, tARTu pood, Tartu, Estonia
  • 2019 Bohemia, art space SC, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2017 Art-Factory, art place Factory, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2016 Polina Raiko's dreams, Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 2016 Our People, art gallery Unlimited Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2014 Books Arsenal, art center Arsenale, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2014 Ukrainian language, Museum of Sacred Treasure, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2014 Civil Mysticism, Institute of Contemporary Art of Ukraine, Kyiv
  • 2014 Mifogenez, gallery Art-Chic, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
  • 2014 Energy, art-space Art Picnic, Kyiv, Ukraine

Residences

  • 2015 International art residence in PIER2 art-center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

National and international festivals

  • 2021 Ainvl, eco-art festival, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
  • 2021 Gogol train, fifteenth festival of contemporary art GogolFest, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2019 South Point, street-art festival, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
  • 2017 Ark, tenth festival of contemporary art "GogolFest" Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2015 Atazhukin garden, eco-festival, Nalchik, republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
  • 2015 Jiuru Street Art Factory, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 2014 Tripilske Colo, eco-festival, Rzhischiv, Ukraine
  • 2014 Terra Futura, contemporary art festival, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2014 Chezz graffiti, Firefest. Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2013 Keramo Graffiti-Fest Opishnya, Poltava region
  • 2013 Kazantip, Crimea, Popovka, Ukraine
  • 2013 Yalta Graffiti Summer Jam. Yalta, Ukraine
  • 2013 Gogol-fest the seventh festival of contemporary art, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2013 Tagtool Workshop, media drawings on the wall, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
  • 2013 Respublica, Kamyanets Podilsky, Ukraine
  • 2012 Mifogenez, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
  • 2011 Kharkov street-art fest, Ukraine
  • 2011 Reservation, street art festival Sumy, Ukraine

Exhibitions within Art group VacciNation

  • 2015 Trudnolyubimye, gallery Yellow Giants, Odesa, Ukraine
  • 2014 Mikrozaklya, Museum of Dreams, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2012 VacciNation, gallery In Spaska 45, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Performance art

  • 2020 Suffocation, Gogol Fest, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2019 5 grn, Regional Art Museum Oleksiy Shovkunenko, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2018 Doomed child, gallery PUAU, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2017 Unauthorized flagellation, Museum Contemporary Art of Odesa
  • 2015 Where are my eyes? art center PIER-2, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 2015 A sip of the New, gallery Yellow giants, Odesa, Ukraine
  • 2014 Red Square, NonStop media, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 2014 Aggression towards nature, Aggression EANE, Kyiv, Ukraine

Workshops & lectures

  • 2020 Positive ego, lecture on the creative path, gallery Freedom, Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2020 Aesthetics of destruction, lecture on eight performances, art-festival Mycelium Kherson, Ukraine
  • 2015 Independent art, art-group VacciNation lecture to students, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
  • 2015 ThinkAndTalk, Lecture art group VacciNation, in HUB organization, Odesa, Ukraine
  • 2013 Book Arsenal, workshop collage, Art Arsenal Kyiv, Ukraine