Graduted from the National Design and Art academy of Kharkiv, Victor Sydorenko represented Ukraine at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and was the chief curator of 54th and 55th Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2013.
Study
1974-1979
Kharkiv Institute of Applied Arts, Ukraine
1985-1988
Post Graduate of Creative Studio of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Ukraine
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine Ismayil Art Gallery, Ukraine
National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kharkiv Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Zaporizhya Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Mikolayiv Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Pochayiv Museum of Regional Studies, Ukraine
Krasnograd Museum of Regional Studies, Ukraine
Stakhanov Museum of History and Fine Arts, Ukraine
President’s Palace, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Private collections
Solo exhibition (selected)
2009
Depersonalization, Plaza Athénée, Paris, France
Levitation, National Art Museum of Ukraine
New Ark, Collection Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008
Authentification, Taiss Gallery, Paris, France
2006
Authentification, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004
Millstones of Time, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2003
Millstones of Time, 50th Venice Biennale
2002
Soviart gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2000-2001
Aral cycle, Maysternya gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999
Lillie, France
1998
Pendleton Art Centre, Cincinnati, USA
1997
Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1996
State Fine Arts Museum of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata
1995
Picture Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
1993
National Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992
Fine Arts Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
1989
The Aral Sea, Artist House, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Collective exhibition (selected)
2009
Myth Creators, International Art Festival, National Art Center
2008
Yearning for the Immensity, Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine Depersonalization, Public Space, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2007-2008
Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007
Traversée Video, X International Video Festival, Toulouse, France
2006
Eastern Neighbors, International Art Festival, Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht, Netherlands
2005
Now, International Art Festival in Magdeburg, Germany.
2004
Farewell to Arms, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
ARTIADE, Olympics of Visual Art, Athens, Greece
Faster than History, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2003
Eurographic, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Blood: Lines and Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver,
2002
Art of nations (1992-2002), Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, Art of Ukraine, Beijing, China
2000
All-Ukraine Christmas Exhibition, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
1998
Salon of Central and Eastern Europe, Paris, France
1998
International Art Festival, National Art Center “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv
1995
Kyiv Arts Fair, Ukraine
1993
Konsumentart-93, Nuremberg, Germany
1992
Exhibition of works of Ukrainian Artists, Berlin, Germany
Art of Ukraine, Yale University, USA
1987
Postgraduates Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR, Museum of Russian Fine Arts, Kyiv
1984
My contemporary, Soviet-Union – Czech-Slovakia, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1983
All-Soviet Union exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
1979-1997
All-Ukrainian exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
