Sasha Kurmaz

★ 2010–2024

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The Temple of the Transfiguration

— The temple consists of a booth that was originally used on Soviet military trucks GAZ-63 and an Orthodox cupola. This object is an attempt to reconstruct one of the...

Sculpture

— This series of photos was shot between spring 2022 and spring 2023. All the photos were taken in Kyiv through a sniper rifle scope. The project included 50...

Photography

Russian Literature and Genocide

— This installation includes selected books by classical Russian writers such as Lermontov, Karazin, Pushkin, Turgenev, and others who glorified the Russian Empire,...

Photography Sculpture

Alarming Symphony

— “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other angels!” — The Revelation of St. John The Divin...

Sound

State of Emergency

— The film was built as a collage of found and personal documentary footage, uniting various episodes of social and political life in Ukraine after the start of...

Video

Living With the Fear of Being Harmed by Other Humans

— "..we don’t hate violence. We hate and fear the wrong kind of violence, violence in the wrong context. Because violence in the right context is different." — Rob...

Print

Sequential Fist Formation

— A series of photographs in which the process of turning a hand into a fist is documented frame by frame. Kyiv, Ukraine 2021.

Photography

Unknown Incidents

— A series of interventions in the public space that remind traces of fights, accidents, or murders. Helsinki, Finland 2018.

Photography Intervention

The Pain of Others

— The Pain of Others «Under the hypnotic grimaces of official pacification, a war is being waged. A war that can no longer be called simply economic, social, or ...

Intervention Sculpture

— A wooden bridge was installed over a wall on the border between Lunik IX and Lunik VIII neighborhood in Košice. This wall is also known as the anti-Roma ...

Intervention Sculpture

— In this work, I wanted to create an action in which no one from the audience around knew whether it was a performance or reality because the action took place...

Situation Video

— A series of objects made of bronze and steel. The shape of the objects mimics improvised fist-load weapons used in hand-to-hand combat. Also known as knuckles,...

Sculpture

— In this long-term project, photography has become a kind of intimate diary. This is a way of interacting with space around and at the same time a tool for studying...

Photography

— 12 Months This series is organized as a physical object, a collage, and includes 12 separate pieces. Each piece has two layers: The first layer (the lower...

Photography

I Sleep For A Revolution

— During a mass protest action in Kyiv, in addition to the occupied square, several administrative buildings were taken by activists. One of these buildings was the...

Video

Political Colours

— "Colour expresses something in itself. One can't do without it; one must make use of it." — V.Van Gogh "Each political group consciousness has its own c...

Photography

— The sound of the fire alarm is turned on in the exhibition space. This annoying sound raises the question of whether it is a work of art or a real call to...

Intervention Video

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf

— Literally, this folk proverb can be translated as: If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf Since this is a popular proverb, that is, the authorship...

Intervention

— The book consists of original D.I.Y. messages on the cardboard asking for financial aid from homeless people on the streets of Kyiv. The messages were acquired in...

Book

Tools of Resistance

— This series consists of objects that activists used in the confrontation with the police on the wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Kyiv, during the...

Photography

— This series was made through the holes from explosions of shells from pro-Russian insurgents in the city of Sloviansk. The fighting in this town marked the first...

Photography

— The Red Line was a political and artistic statement by the activist group Right to the City in response to the right-wing intervention at Hostynnyi. The title of...

Intervention

— In 2014, after the outbreak of war in eastern Ukraine, a large number of people were forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in other regions of Ukraine. This...

Video Interaction Situation

— The idea of the project was to create an autonomous, multifunctional space in the center of Ivano-Frankivsk for the presentation of various art events and art pro...

Intervention Sculpture

A Game From My Childhood

— This work is a reconstruction of one of the children's games from my childhood. Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 2018.

Sculpture Intervention

— The idea of the intervention is to plant a garden of dioecious plants in a public space in Kharkiv city as a gesture of solidarity with the local LGBTQ+ community....

Intervention

Traveller’s Encyclopedia

— The book is a compilation of rubbish and various objects found on the streets of Yerevan. Yerevan, Armenia 2018. 27 × 32 × 5 cm 16 pages

Book

— Documentation of some selected interventions and actions in the public space, which I do spontaneously or planned in different cities and countries, day by...

Intervention Video Sculpture Photography

— The Banner Book is an artist's book that consists of pieces of advertising banners that I collected on the streets of Kyiv. In contrast to the traditional...

Photography Intervention Book

— This video collage unites different fragments of science fiction movies in which world disasters are used as a plot element, such as natural disasters, accidents,...

Video

Spray on the Wall

— A series of various street messages that I left on the walls of different cities at different times. Spray on the wall. Kyiv, Ukraine 2010. 16:35 /...

Intervention

— Documentation of some selected graffiti paintings in public spaces that were created in various cities and countries between...

Intervention

Weapon of the Proletariat

— I swapped the original cobblestone from the central square in Yerevan (Republic Square), with original cobblestone from the central square in Kyiv (Maidan...

Intervention

— A series of screenshots of documentary footage of football hooligan fights taken by mobile phone. The destructive power that is documented in these images is...

Photography Video

Study of Public Attention

— I was walking through Stadtpark in Graz, and met a lot of sculptures of famous Austrian cultural figures. I decided to swap two busts and observe the reaction of...

Intervention

— The photos of beggars are printed on a plastic credit card. These are real credit cards tied to my bank account. Feel free to drop some money into my account if...

Photography

Flowers from Mauthausen

— The wild flowers collected from the territory of the former barracks at the concentration camp Mauthausen near Linz. Mauthausen, Austria 2017. ...

Photography

— These all actions were done at different times, but they have one common goal. All of them are aimed at finding alternative ways of representation and dissemination...

Situation Video Intervention Photography

Life Without The Sun

— This project was created in cooperation with homeless people from the streets of Kyiv. Throughout the year, I invited participants to take photographs of their...

Photography Interaction

Poster Campaign

— A series of interventions into the pre-election poster campaign of various political forces on the eve of the election to the Ukrainian Parliament. The posters were...

Intervention

— A documentation of the process of buying marijuana from one of the illegal migrants from Chechnya in Stadtpark. Graz, Austria 2016.

Photography Situation

— The Young-Girl walking. The Young-Girl is the ideal collaborator. The Young-Girl knows the value of things. The Young-Girl wants to educate you. Theory of the...

Situation Video

A Man On The Way

— A man carries a coffin on his back in the streets of San Juan. The duration of the full video is 5 minutes. San Juan, Puerto Rico 2019. A special thanks to...

Situation Video

Blindfolded Walk

— When I arrived in Minsk the first time, I asked my friends to do the walking tour for me blindfolded. During the walk, I was taking pictures with my film camera of...

Photography Situation

— Uncontrolled dominance of outdoor advertising is a typical feature of cities in post-Soviet countries. Licensing of the next advertising billboard or space is a...

Video Intervention Situation

Conditions For Possible Solidarity

— An important element of any institution is it is collective. The price of an employee’s activity is his/her salary, which expresses the value of labor, the value a...

Situation

Skin Fade Disconnected Slick Back

— The five international artists met in Slovenia during the Fotopab festival in Novo Mesto to make the same haircut as a collective gesture and contribution to the...

Situation

The Marble Angels With Bows Were Shaking In Shadows Their Small Penises, Bending Their Bows And Carelessly Laughed At Death

— The project draws upon a joint work of Sasha Kurmaz and artist's collective Masoch Fund. The project failed due to legal issues. It turned out that the show works...

Video Photography

— The concept of the work was to create an abstract picture in a public space based on a sociological survey. The purpose of this project is to determine the...

Intervention

— «In fact, that is the meaning of the ruble; the ruble is in itself nothing other than a little piece of laziness.» Laziness—The Real Truth about Mankind, 1921 — ...

Situation Video

Ukraine: A Space of Possibilities

— At some point, I realized that I can take photos much better than Molotov cocktails. So, I began to document what was happening around me, some kind of personal...

Photography

— In the photographs, a certain part is covered with a special thermochemical paint, which becomes transparent when the temperature changes. Thus, the viewer is...

Video Photography

— This project explores the representation of landscape through the performative action. I wanted to convey the image of the landscape through the passage through...

Intervention Graphics Video

— "There is no truth. There is only perception". —Gustave Flaubert The purpose of this series of works is to evoke the same deep spectrum of emotions that the v...

Photography

— An abandoned Japanese restaurant stood in the center of Kyiv for a long time. So I decided to use the opportunity and place two of my photos on the windows of this...

Intervention Photography

Action / Contraction

— Untitled I changed the original floor pattern of the exhibition space and added a few new details. These changes were not listed as artwork. Therefore, the...

Intervention Sculpture