Kirill Golovchenko (born in Odessa, Ukraine) studied photography and communication design by Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He got several awards, including the Documentary Photography Award from the Wuestenrot Foundation, EPEA European Photo Exhibition Award 02, the Berthold-Roland-Photo-Art Award 2012. Further his photographic projects have been implemented in the Ukraine and in Eastern Europe supported by the the DAAD scholarship and the project funding VG Bild-Kunst. His photographs can be seen since 2003 in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including: Museum Folkwang, Essen; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Uferhallen Berlin, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Württembergischer Art Society Stuttgart, Art Society Ludwigshafen, Photo Espana Madrid, Photo Museum Braunschweig. »Kachalka« is the third book by Kirill Golovchenko, following »7km - Field of Wonders« (2009) and »Totalniy Futbol « (2012).
Education
since 2006 photo projects about Ukraine and Easteuropa
2007 Diploma »7km - Field of wonders« by Prof. Barbara Klemm and Dr. Kris Scholz
2002 - 2007 Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, communication design and photography, Honours Diploma
1999 - 2001 Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, academic discipline for foreign languages
Awards, Scholarships
2013
European Photo Exhibition Award
Abisag Tüllmann Prize
Dr. Berthold-Roland Photo Art Prize 2012
Dummy Award 2013, shortlisted
n-ost-Reportage Prize 2013, shortlisted
FotoVisura Grant 2013, honorable Mention
Marianne Brandt Award, shortlisted
Prix Pictet 2013, 7km - field of wonders, nomination
2012
Promotion of the publication from Rheinlan-Pfalz Art Foundation for photobook »Kachalka«
Prix Pictet 2012, »Kachalka«, nomination
Robert Bosch Fondation Scholarship for »the ball of impetus«
1.Prize for »The Ukrainian Breakthrough«, Organ Vida 4, Photography Festival
2011
Plat(t)form 11, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Sony World Photography Awards 2011, shortlisted
2010
DAAD Scholarship for Art, Ukraine
Prix Pictet 2012, nomination
National Geographic All Roads Photography Program, nomination
2009
VG Bild-Kunst Projekt Scholarship for »The Ukrainian Breakthrough«
Descubrimientos PHE09, Photo Espana, Madrid, Finalist
2008
DAAD Scholarship for Art, Ukraine
Promotion of the publication from Foundation Art Fund for photobook »7km - Field of Wonders«
Hasselblad Masters Competition 2008, finalist
Sony World Photography Awards 2008, shortlisted
Young Rheinland-Pfälzer Artists, Emy-Roeder-Price 2008, nomination
2007
Documentary Photography Award 2007/08, Wuestenrot Foundation
Books
2013
Bitter Honeydew, Kehrer Publisher, Heidelberg & Berlin
2012
Kachalka, Kehrer Publisher, Heidelberg & Berlin
Totalniy Futbol - Eine polnisch-ukrainsche Fußballreise, Edition Suhrkamp
Dryblujac przez granice. Polsko-ukrainskie Euro 2012, Gzarne
2011
emerge 011 – Junger Fotojournalismus und Dokumentarfotografie, Emerge
2010
Lab East, photographic positions of central and eastern Europe
2009
7km - Field of wonders, Snoeck publisher, Cologne, Germany
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Awards 07/08, Wüstenrot Foundation
2008
Reporters Without Borders, »Seams«- Photos for press freedom, catalog
2006
»Blanko«, Sign Communication for Arctic
COLLECTIONS
Museum Folkwang
Art Collections Rheinland-Pfalz
Private Collections
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2014
20 years of documentary photography prize, Museum Folkwang, Essen
epea, European Photo Exhibition Award / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg / The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Schweden / Paris, France / Lucca, Italy
Leica 10x10, Wetzlar
Ukraine Fremde Heimat, Kirill Golovchenko, Landesmuseum Mainz
2013
Kachalka. Muscle Beach, Barbarian Art Gallery, Paris Photo, Paris
Bitter Honeydew, MIA | Milan Image Art Fair; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Le Bal, Paris; 6th Fotobookfestival, Kassel
Photoville Fence, Kachalka. Muscle Beach, New York City und Boston
Ukraine Fremde Heimat, Kirill Golovchenko, Landesmuseum Mainz,
Bitter Honeydew, International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Bitter Honeydew, MIA | Milan Image Art Fair; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Le Bal, Paris; 6th Fotobookfestival, Kassel
2012
Oh, My Complex / Vom Unbehagen beim Anblick der Stadt, Württembergischen Kunstvereins Stuttgart
2011
PLAT(T)FORM 11, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Schweiz
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award 2007/08, Goethe-Institut Paris
LAB EAST - photographic positions of central and eastern Europe, V8 Galerie, Cologne
2010
7km – Field of wonders, Fotobuchtage, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award 2007/08, Photomuseum Braunschweig / Goethe Institut Washington / Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
7km – Field of wonders, Freelens Gallery, Hamburg
Laboratory East, Ewz.selection, Zurich
7km – Field of wonders, The Market, Dortmunder-U, Dortmund
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, LUMIX festival, Hannover
2009
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award 2007/08, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
The Ukrainian Breakthrough, PHE09 - Photo Espana, Madrid
2008
Young Rheinland-Pfälzer Artists, Emy-Roeder-Price 2008, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
Reporters Without Borders, »Seams«- Photos for press freedom, Uferhallen, Berlin
2007
Die Verdichtung der Wirklichkeit, DTDF Darmstadt International Festival of Photography
7km – Field of wonders, Designhaus Darmstadt
2006
Selbstsicht – der Schritt ins Bild, DTDF Darmstadt International Festival of Photography
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