Valentyn Odnoviun. Ukrainian living in Vilnius, Lithuania.
During the last few years research has been mostly linked with historical or socially engaged events and problems through the “abstract”-looking image, working with the imagination of the viewer to create more concrete communication with the help of interpretation and conceptual thinking.
Photographs in latest projects call into question the relation between what we see and what we perceive in advance of the act of recognition. These photographs as patterns and traces emphasize the borders not only of human perception, but the border where the consequences of human action meet reason.
Currently, working on PhD dissertation: "Intersections among Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and Czechoslovak Art Photographers from 1960s to early 1990s"
Member of the Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers since 2018
“Artist Creator“ status granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
EDUCATION
2019- till present - Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, PhD in Theory and History of Arts (Lithuania)
2016-2019 - Vilnius Academy of Arts, MA in Theory and History of Arts (Lithuania)
2017-2018 - Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Visual Arts (Germany)
2015-2016 - Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Visual Arts (Poland)
2014-2016 - Vilnius Academy of Arts, MA in Photography and Media Arts (Lithuania)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021.03 - till present - "Visual Artefacts," European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.03 - till present - "Year's Project, II Year," European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.03 - til present - "Year's project, III Year," European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021.02 - 2021.06 - "Image and Its Potential," Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.09 - 2021.02 - "Photography of the Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the XX Century," Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
AWARDS
2021.08 - Shortlist - Kranj Foto Fest, Kranj, Slovenia
2021.03 - Nominee - FOAM Paul Huf Award, The Netherlands. Nomination by Adam Mazur, Poland
2019.09 - Winner - Photolux Award, Lucca, Italy. Nomination by Lydia Dorner, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2018.12 - Laureate - Award by the Lithuanian Art Photographers Association, Lithuania
2018.11 - Winner - Panasonic Reader's Choice Award. Bird in Flight Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018.10 - Nominee - Photography Grant, London, Great Britain
2018.06 - 1st place - Krakow Photomonth Portfolio Review, Krakow, Poland
2018.06 - Public Choice Award - “MyEstonia?” Competition, Tallinn, Estonia
2018.05 - Shortlist - Kolga Photo Award 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.04 - Laureate - DEBUTS 2018, Warsaw, Poland
2018.04 - Nominee - Riga Photography Biennial Awards 2018, Riga, Latvia
2018.03 - Shortlist - Galerie Fotografic Open Call 2018-19, Prague, Czech Republic
2018.02 - Honorary Mention - PIC Förderpreis SELECTED 2018, Neuss, Germany
2017.12 - 1st place - World Biennial of Student Photography, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017.11 - Nominee - Warsaw Photo Days Grand Prix, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Nominee - Different Worlds 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.10 - Nominee - Photography Grant, London, Great Britain
2017.09 - GRAND PRIX Award - INTERPHOTO Grand Prix 2017, Bialystok, Poland
2017.05 - Nominee - Walter Koschatzky Art Award 2017, Vienna, Austria
2016.12 - 1st place - Debiutas award for Emerging Art Photographers, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.10 - Shortlist - Baltic Young Artist Award 2016, Riga, Latvia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Upcoming 2021.12 - “Investigation 2016-2020,” KKKC Gallery, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2021.08 - “Sirveillance,” Kranj Foto Fest, Kranj, Slovenia
2020.10 - “PW44,” Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019.09 - “Horizons,” INTERPHOTO 2019 Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2019.09 - “Architecture of Evidence,” Fotografie Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2019.04 - “Surveillance,” SRO Art Gallery of TTU, Lubbock, Texas, USA
2019.02 - “In the Dark,” Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2018.05 - “The Process,” Flandernbunker Museum, Kiel, Germany
2017.12 - “Surveillance,” Cesis New Castle Exhibition Hall, Cesis, Latvia
2017.09 - “Surveillance,” gallery for art photography Stikliu, 4, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.09 - “Traces of Memory,” Art gallery Akademija, Vilnius, Lithuania
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2021.06 - Panoptikon, Långholmen Prison, Stockholm, Sweden
2021.04 - Ästhetik der Überwachung, Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden, Germany
2020.09 - Lost Time, Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020.09 - 6th Edition of the Photography Festival W Ramach Sopotu, curated by Adam Mazur, Sopot, Poland
2020.08 - Heterotopia, Experimental Visual Practices from Lithuania, EEP Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019.10 - Museum of Now, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019.09 - Unseen Photography Fair, by Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019.09 - Second Biennial of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.06 - Dub Toasted Time, Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019.05 - Final exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Krakow Photo Fringe 2019, Cracow, Poland
2019.02 - NUIT de la PHOTO, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2018.10 - MONUMENTA. The Intelligence of Many, Leipzig, Germany
2018.10 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, “Vintage Photo Festival,” Bydgoszcz, Poland
2018.09 - Chronometers, Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2018.09 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, Festival “W Ramach Sopotu,” Sopot, Poland
2018.07 - Tam Gdzie Teraz, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2018.06 - MyEstonia?, ArtVilnius'18 Contemporary Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018.06 - Exhibition of the DEBUTS 2018 laureates, “Fotofestiwal,” Lodz, Poland
2018.06 - The Vivid Unknown, - “Refugee Week Berlin,” Germany
2018.05 - Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.05 - Different Worlds, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017.11 - World Biennial of Student Photography, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Vojvodina, Serbia
2017.11 - Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Different Worlds, Young Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.09 - INTERPHOTO 2017 Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2017.06 - Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand
2017.05 - Walter Koschatzky Kunstpreis. Finalists exhibition at the HOFSTALLUNGEN, by Rotary Club Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2017.05 - Kaunas Gallery Weekend 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016.12 - Debiutas 2016, photo gallery Prospekto, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.06 - Meno Celės, Art gallery Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
GRANTS
2021.05 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.10 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.06 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018.12 - Artist Scholarship - Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018.02 - Artist Scholarship Gaude Polonia - National Centre for Culture, Warsaw, Poland
2014.09 - Scholarship - Education Exchanges Support Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
2021.06.16-17 - Participation at the International Scientific Conference: Ideas and Materials: Cultural Hybridity of the Baltic and Other Regions, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
RESIDENCIES
2020.09 - W Ramach Sopotu Photography Residency, Sopot, Poland
2020.08 - ISSP Riga Residency, Riga, Latvia
2018.11 - Docking Station, Photography Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 - 2017 - RUCKA Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia
PUBLIC PERFORMING
[Upcoming] 2021.09.30-10.01 - Presentation of the paper Correlation Between the Image and Its Reason at the International Symposium: A System Among Others? Power, Balance, Self-reflection on and with the Photographic Image. Organized by Landskrona Foto, Hasselblad Foundation and Lund University, Landskrona, Sweden
2020.09.11 - Artist Talk - Nida Photography Symposium 2020, Nida, Lithuania
2020.08.20 - “Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression” book presentation, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2020.08.18-21 - Moderator, Speaker - Kharkiv Photo Forum, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2020.08.13 - Artist Talk - ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019.12.14 - Artist Talk - Seminar “Art and Holocaust,” Kaunas, Lithuania
2019.11.17 - Open Lecture - Kaunas Art Book Fair, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019.10.31 - Open Lecture - Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.10.26 - Open Lecture - Seminar “Path of Egons Spuris,” Ogre, Latvia
2019.03 - Artist Talk - Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2018.05 - Artist Talk - Pix.House Photography Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2018.05 - Artist Talk - Department of Photography, University of Arts, Poznan, Poland
2017.11 - Artist Talk - Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
2017.11 - Artist Talk - Nida Photography Symposium 2017, 40th Anniversary, Nida, Lithuania
2017.03 - Open Lecture Post-Documentary - National Academy of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine
PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS
2020.12 - Literatūra ir menas magazine, 3715/21 "Fotografija sovietmečiu: Lietuva-Charkovas" Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.11 - 7md art newspaper, article: “MOLPIK. Lietuvos fotografijos mėnuo Kijeve” Nr. 41 (1362), Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.09 - Artist Book "PW44," self-published, handmade, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.04 - Author’s book: “Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression,” publishers: artprint.lt, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, ISBN 978-609-95181-9-0, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.01 - 7md art newspaper, article: “Ukrainiečių įniršis Klaipėdoje” Nr. 2 (1323), Vilnius, Lithuania
CATALOGS/MAGAZINES
2020.09 - Nuožmi taika: žlugusių režimų fotografija dokumentiniame kine, book by Natalija Arlauskaitė, Vilnius University Press, p37; 130-133, ISBN 978-609-07-0421-9, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.08 - Kharkiv Photo Forum 2020 catalog, p122-125, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020.06 - Literatūra ir menas magazine, 3706/12 Aistė Grajaustkaitė, interview, “Valentyn Odnoviun: „Didžiausią įtaką darė Lukys, Flusseris, Pollockas ir kriminalistikos ekspertai,“” Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.06 - 7md art newspaper, “Surveillance. A Typology of Oppression” book review, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Apie Valentyno Odnoviuno knygą „Stebėjimas. Priežasties tipologija,”” Nr. 24 (1345), Vilnius, Lithuania
2020.03 - Outlaws and Spies, book by Conor McCarthy, Edinburgh University Press, cover photo, ISBN 978-14-744559-3-0, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019.11 - European Photography, magazine, No106, p72, ISBN 9-770172-702002, Berlin, Germany
2019.11 - Opera national de Paris, catalog for the 2019-2020 season, p53, Paris, France
2019.11 - Photolux 2019, “New Worlds,” magazine, p136-137; 156-157, Lucca, Italy
2019.10 - Museum of Now catalog, p46-49, ISBN 9-783000-640001 Berlin, Germany
2019.10 - Second Biennial of Young Art catalog, p70-73, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019.09 - INTERPHOTO 2019 catalog, ISBN 978-83-934184-2-8 Bialystok, Poland
2019.02 - NUIT de la PHOTO catalog, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2018.11 - OSMOS Magazine, No16, November 2018, p54-59, New York, USA
2018.11 - HANT Magazine, November 2018, Erfurt, Germany
2018.09 - MONUMENTA. Intelligence of Many catalog, p32-33, September 2018, Leipzig, Germany
2018.06 - DEBUTS 2018 photo book, Project: “Surveillance,” Publisher: “Blow Up Press,” Warsaw, Poland
2018.05 - Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2018 photo book, p 294-295, ISBN 978-9941-27-9164, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018.03 - DOC! Magazine, No8 (43), March 19, 2018, Warsaw, Poland
2017.12 - Fotografija magazine, No2 (34), p16-17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.12 - Lithuanian Photography'17 – Part II, Lithuanian Art Photographers Association Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.11 - Different Worlds, fifth edition catalog, p26-27, Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017.05 - Literatūra ir Menas, magazine No23 (3619), Back cover, p3, 20, 22, 31
2017.05 - 7md art newspaper, article “Prievaros observatorija,“ Nr. 20 (1214), Vilnius, Lithuania
2017.05 - Walter Koschatzky Art Award 2017 catalog, p39-41 Vienna, Austria
2016.12 - Debiutas 2016 catalog, Publisher: Lithuanian Art Photographers Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016.06 - Meno Celės catalogue, p66-67, Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing, Vilnius, Lithuania
ONLINE ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS (selected)
2021.04 - Museum of Now, MON Studio Sessions. Interview by Jan Gustav Fiedler, Vienna/Vilnius 2021, link: https://www.museum-of-now.com/studio-sessions-valentyn-odnoviun
2020.10.01 - Bird in Flight, "Сліди війни: Зрешечені стіни у проєкті Валентина Однов'юна" by Володимир Коношевич and Олена Ковальчук, link: https://birdinflight.com/uk/nathnenya/project-uk/20201001-sledy-vojny.html
2020.09.04 - Contemporary LYNX, Vera Zborovska, interview "INSIDE VIEW In conversation with Valentyn Odnoviun" link: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/inside-view-in-conversation-with-valentyn-odnoviun
2020.08 - EEP Berlin Gallery, Katažyna Jankovska, reflection, "Surveillance,"
link: https://eepberlin.org/blogs/news/surveillance-by-valentyn-odnoviun
2020.06.26 - Literatūra ir menas, Aistė Grajauskaitė, interview, “Valentyn Odnoviun: „Didžiausią įtaką darė Lukys, Flusseris, Pollockas ir kriminalistikos ekspertai,“” link: https://literaturairmenas.lt/daile/valentyn-odnoviun-didziausia-itaka-dare-lukys-flusseris-pollockas-ir-kriminalistikos-ekspertai
2019.03.06 - Wired Magazine, Laura Mallonee, article, “Think These Are Planets? They're Something Far More Sinister,” link: https://www.wired.com/story/surveillance-photo-gallery/
2019.02.28 - FK Magazine, Arnis Balčus - interview, “Seeking scars of the past. Interview with Valentyn Odnoviun,” link: https://fkmagazine.lv/2019/02/28/seeking-scars-of-the-past-interview-with-valentyn-odnoviun/
2019.01.22 - Lensculture.com, Jim Casper, article, “A typology of abstract images leads to a visual meditation about surveillance, control and state security,”
link: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/valentyn-odnoviun-surveillance
2017.05.19 - 7md.lt, Agnė Narušytė, article, “Prievartos observatorija,”
link: https://www.7md.lt/daile/2017-05-19/Prievartos-observatorija