DANIIL GALKIN

Dates of residency: March till April 2018
Born: 1985
Nationality: Ukranian
Lives and works: DniproPetrovsk, Ukraine
Education: 
2008 Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College
2007 Dnipropetrovsk Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Selected shows:
2020  Blood Brother Bibs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow                                   
2019  Tourniquet, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen                                            
2018  Glasshouse Conditions, c/o Schocke, Hamburg                                               
2017  Handrails, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev

THE ARTIST
Daniil Galkin (b. 1985 in Dnipropetrovsk, USSR – lives and works in Dnipro, Ukraine) belongs to the young generation of Ukrainian artists shaping the understanding of the role and importance of contemporary art in Ukraine and abroad. In his art he investigates life of an individual within the system entailing all-round control and oppression. Galkin has participated in personal and group exhibitions held in Gangwon International Biennale 2018 (Gangneung, South Korea), Silent Barn Gallery (New York), Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Saatchi Gallery (London), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Artspace TLV (Tel Aviv), Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum (Bratislava), CzechCentre (Prague), National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev) and on other locations.

THE RESIDENCY

Title: Soft Spot (Fontanelle)
Following Galkin's ongoing research he presents a reconstruction of the "egg”, one of Beirut's iconic structures left disfigured after the civil war. Upon discovering the origins of the Beirut City Center and associating it aesthetically and figuratively with an amputated limb, the artist reconstructs the monument in a sculptural form. The accompanying 'limbs' toppling over one another demonstrate the fleeting collective memory of those affected by war.