Yan MARTSINKIEVITCH
1956, Ukraine/Sweden
Also known as: Jan Martin
Yan Martsinkievitch born 1956 into a Polish-Ukrainian family in Cherkassy, Ukraine.
Education 1972-77 Higher School of Fine Arts, Painting and teaching department, Nishny Novgorod, Russia.
Universiti College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), 2000,2003, silkscreen, Stockholm,Sweden.
Yan Martsinkievitch is one of today's up-to-date artists looking back and taking cultural heritage and showing it in the light of the present day. His main sources are icons, Eastern European Modernism and the rich folk art from the East. He is proud of being able to show his roots and simultaneously presents his art as an escape from reality. The dynamic, exuberant painting is a reaction against the colourless, hopeless atmosphere in his country.
There is a rich language of symbols in the art of Martsinkievitch. Much that can perhaps be overlooked by someone not sharing his background and traditions. It is inspired by the icon-art of folk origin and can be both religious and profane. But we circle predominantly in the postmodern sphere. His compositions are built of facets creating on the surface a rythmic and expressive play that recalls Kandinsky's exuberant colours, plain geometrical and stereometrical language of shapes...
Edukation:
High School of Fine Arts, painting and teaching department, Nishni Novgorod, Russia 1972-77
Universiti College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), silkscreen, Stockholm,Sweden 2000, 2003
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Wladislaw Hasior Museum Zakopane Poland 1993
Barva Art Centre Kiev Ukraine 1993
Chessels Gallery Edinburgh Skotland 1993
British Council Edinburgh Skotland 1993
Polish Institut Stockholm Sweden 1995, 2005
Gallery Angeln Lund Sweden 1995, 2000, 2010
Caisas International Centre Helsinki Finland 1996
Polish Institut Kopenhamn Denmark 1997
Boras Art Hall Boras Sweden 1998
Vasby Art Hall Stockholm Sweden 1998
Ekebyhovs Slotts Gallery Ekero Sweden 1998
Art Centre Replica Stockholm Sweden 1998,2000,2002, (2012)
Barotti Gallery Klaipeda Litauen 2000
Art Centre Scenario Stockholm Sweden 2008
and as invited artist at:
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh Skotland 1993
Art Fair Ukraine Hause Kiev Ukraine 1994,1995
International Art Fair Istambul Turkey 1995
International Art Fair Stockholm Sweden 1995,1996,1997,1999, 2007
Selekted group exhibitions:
Teachers of Art Central Exhibition Hall Kiev Ukraine 1987
Young Art Central Exhibition Hall Kiev Ukraine 1989
Scenik Ukraine Poltava Art Museum Ukraine 1990
Ecologi Art Central Exhibition Hall Kiev Ukraine 1990
Spring 91 Art Central Exhibition Hall Kiev Ukraine 1991
Impreza 91 International Biennale
Ivano-Frankivsk Art Museum Ukraine 1991
Sednev 92 Hall of Ukrainian Artist's Assosiation
Kiev Ukraine 1992
Ukraine Contemporary Art Tatra Museum Zakopane Poland 1992
Ukraine Contemporary Art National Galleries (BWA)
Nowy Sancz, Zamosc, Pila, Bydgoszcz Poland 1993
Gallery Yam Helmsted Germany 1993
West-East National Gallery (BWA) Nowy Sancz Poland 1994
Springsalon Liljevalch Konsthall (Liljevalch Art Hall) Stockholm Sweden 1997
Brunnsviks Auktion Stockholm Sweden 1997
International Art Polish Institut Stockholm Sweden 1997
Polish Cultural Foudation Stockholm Sweden 1997
Springsalon Vasby Art Hall Stockholm Sweden 1998
Six artists from Kungsholmen, Room in between,
Replica Art Centre Stockholm Sweden 1998
Kungsholmens artists Elektrolux Stockholm Sweden 1999
Replica Art Centre Stockholm Sweden 2000, 2002
Silkscreen Universiti College of Arts, Crafts and Design
Stockholm Sweden 2001
Castle of Ryn Poland 2001
Gallery Mittelevropa Stockholm Sweden 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Gallery Abante Stockholm Sweden 2009, 2010, 2011
Art publications:
"Ukrainian Culture" Magazine Kiev Ukraine 1990
"Ukrainian Modern Art" Catalogue Warsaw Poland 1992
Royal Scottish Academy Catalogue Edinburgh Scotland 1993
"The Scotsman" Edinburgh Scotland 1993
Kiev News, Kiev, Ukraine 1995, 1996
"Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Lund Sweden 1995
"Arbetet" Yan Martsinkievitch – Eastern European Post-Modernism" Lund Sweden 1995
Art Fair's catalogue Kiev Ukraine 1994, 1995
International Art Fair Catalogue Istambul Turkey 1995
Berlinske tidinge, Kopenhamn, Danmark 1997
Svenska Dagbladet Stockholm Sweden 1998
Boras Tidnind Stockholm Sweden 1998
Sudsvenskan Stockholm Sweden 2000
Skanska Dagbladet Stockholm Sweden 2000