Nikolay Karabinovych
Nikolay Karabinovych continues his project SPHERE(S) Mile End / With Ukraine: Shifting Spheres and Returns, in which the artist participates in a collective exploration of the shared histories between Ukrainian communities, the diasporas of Quebec and Canada, and the challenges of coexistence in a changing world. By examining the dynamics of migration, displacement, and memory, this project highlights the cultural and social transformations they engender. Through video, performance, sound, and sculpture, Karabinovych explores the histories of Eastern Europe through the lens of personal narratives. Her work addresses questions of identity, belonging, and exclusion, often using music as a cultural prism.
This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Consulate General of France in Quebec City. In partnership with the Ukrainian National Federation of Quebec, Phi, I’MMIGRANT, and Fonderie Darling.
Biography
An artist from Odessa, Ukraine, Nikolay Karabinovych graduated from HISK in Ghent (2020), served as assistant curator for the 5th Odessa Biennale, and has won the PinchukArtCentre Prize three times (2018, 2020, 2022). His work has been widely exhibited internationally and featured in major biennials, including those in Kyiv, Kaunas, Venice (parallel program), and Steirischer Herbst.
Recent exhibitions
| 2026 | 65 Years of the Vukojebina Museum, solo exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT Sonic Acts, solo exhibition, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, NL Opalima Kupina: Liège episode. A Stop Pavilion: On the Soft Underbelly of Europe, solo exhibition, Art au centre, Liege, BE |
| 2025 | Off shore / Sénsa rìve, solo exhibition, ANSL, Venice, IT There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity, solo exhibition, M HKA, Antwerp, BE Borders are Nocturnal Animals, group exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT An Institution Is Not an Island, group exhibition, KASK, Ghent, BE Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning, group exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
| 2024 | Displacements and Torrents, group exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR Steirischerherbst’24, group exhibition, Neue Galerie Joanneumsviertel, Graz, AT A Time in Pieceses, group exhibition, Daadgalerie, Berlin, DE , group exhibition, International Cultural Center, Krakow, PL Limburg Biënnale, group exhibition, Marres, Maastricht, NL |
| 2023 | Karabinovych.jpg Recent works on paper, solo exhibition, M HKA, Antwerp, BE Fun tifen obgrund, solo exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR Pickle Bar presents, group exhibition, West Den Haag, NL As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories, group exhibition, HKW, Berlin, GDE 5th Kyiv Biennial, group exhibition, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT |
| 2022 | Estern Union, solo exhibition, Hunt Kastner gallery, Prague, CZ Why do you stand at the door?, solo exhibition, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, BE UNITED, group exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, UA Worth fighting for, group exhibition, Campus M, Cologne, DE Re-spirit/ Trans-spirit Collective Exhibition for SAW 2022, ReBonkers, Varna, BG |
| 2021 | The store of broken magic inoperable things, solo exhibition, (N.J.K.), Hoast, Vienna, AT Vukojebina, solo exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, UA Become never, solo exhibition, Noch, Odesa, UA Poetry and Perfomance: The Eastern European Perspective, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, UA Kyiv Biennial Allied, group exhibition, House of Cinema, Kyiv, UA |