Julia Po
Julia Po (Julia Polunina-But till 2020, 1985, Simferopol) — Ukrainian artist, photographer. Got engaged in photography in 2011. Studied at the Cultural photographic centre “PhotoCult” in the srudio of Oleksandr Liapin. Apart from that, finished Roman Pyatkovka’s course of conceptual photography and the course in history of photography by Viktoriа Myronenko. In 2014 published her “Barricade” book, after which receive the Grand-Prix of “Photographer of the Year-2104” (Ukraine) for the similarly-titled project. Member of Ukrainian Photographic Alternative association (UPHA). Works and resides in Kyiv.
2012 — “Цезура” (“L∞K” collective exhibition), ГогольFEST, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 — “L∞K” collective exhibition, Museum “Kyiv Fortress”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 — “Затишшя Дракона” ( “L∞K” collective exhibiton), home photoexhibiton, Chernihiv, Ukraine.
2013 — “Місто майбутнього”, as a part of“Візії” festival, Museum “Kyiv Fortress”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 — “Украина: Экспроприация”, “Гринберг” gallery, Moscow, Russia (curator — Vasylisa Nezabarom)
2013 — London Analogue Festival, London, Great Britain
2013 — a group exhibition of the International Cinema Festival, House of Moscow, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
2013 — A group exhibition of the finalists of the Sevastopol International Photofestival, Sevastopol Centre of Culture and Art, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
2014 — “INFOCUS Photo Books”, Center for Creative Photography of Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2014 — “UPHA в Одессе: Послевчера” (UPHA — Ukrainian Photographic Alternative exhibition), Odesa, Ukraine
2014 — “Вина”, as a part of Non Stop Media VІІ festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 — “Наше общее личное” (exhibition of “L∞K” collective), as a part of Minsk Photography Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2014 — Tbilisi Book Days, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 — ГогольFEST, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 — “IX ART-KYIV Contemporary” fair, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 — “Decompression”, St. Merry church, Paris, France
2015 — “Love and War in Ukraine”, Panoptikon Fotografins hus, Stockholm, Sweden (curator — Misha Pedan)
2015 — “Контрольно-слідова смуга”, “ГогольFEST”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 — “Майбутнє Майдану”, “Воля” space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Maksym Demskyi and Daria Koltsova)
2015 — “Межі можливого”, Culture Festival “Ukraińska Wiosna”, Poznan, Poland
2015 — “Проекти в процесі: до і після”, Municipall Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine (curator — Anastasia Garrek)
2015 — “ТРЕК 22”, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland.
2015 — «Фотограф року» contest, Centre for Contemporary Art «М-17», Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 — International Photofestival “Одеса-Батумі”, Batumi, Georgia
2015 —“ГогольFEST”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 — “Photobookshow Kyiv”, “Я галерея”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 — “Photobookshow Lithuania”, KCCC Exhibition Hall, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2016 — “Reconstruction of Memory”, Culture Festival “Ukraińska Wiosna”, Poznan, Poland
2016 — “Апропріація”, Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator — Roman Pyatkovka)
2016 — “Реконструкція пам’яті”, IZONE, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 — “Реконструкція пам’яті”, Ukraiński Dom, Warsaw, Poland (curators — Liia Dostlieva Andrii Dostliev)
2016 — “Фобії”, Pavlovka Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 — International Photofestival “Одеса-Батумі”, Batumi, Georgia
2016 — International Photofestival “Одеса-Батумі”, Odesa, Ukraine.
2017 — “Cosmos”, as a part of “Les Rencontres de la photographie”, Arles, France
2017 — “Reconstruction of Memory”, Centre for Contemporary Art “DOX”, Prague, Czech Republic (curators — Liia Dostlieva Andrii Dostliev)
2018 — “27/7”, art space АКТ, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 — “Exposure”, АКТ art space, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 — “Ukrainian photobooks on Xprint”, Pixhouse Festival, Poznan, Poland.
2018 — “Швидкорозчинний час”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 — “Я SINоптик”, АКТ art space, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 — “UPHA Made in Ukraine”, AKT art space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Victoria Bavykina, Maksim Horbatskiy, Yarolsav Solop, art director — Misha Buksha)
2019 — “UPHA in da office” Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Victoria Bavykina, Maksim Horbatskiy, Yarolsav Solop, Misha Buksha)
2019 — “Падаюча тінь ‘Мірії’ над садами Джардіні”, as a part of 58th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Pavilion of Ukraine, Arsenale, Venice, Italy (curator — Open group)
2020 — “Sztuczny ból. Współczesna sztuka Ukrainy”, Centre of contemporary art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun, Poland (curators — Krzysztof Białowicz, Nataliia Ivanova)
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