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Oleg Tistol

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Oleg Tistol

    born in 1960

Artist

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2024)

    Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine

Oleg Tistol gained his education at the Republican Art High School (Kyiv) and the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts). He is a co-founder and member of the art collectives "The Willful Border of National Post-Eclecticism" (with K.Reunov) and "Natsprom" (with M.Matsenko). Tistol is a painter, photographer, and creator of installations and sculptures. He has participated in international events such as the São Paulo Biennale (1994) and the Venice Biennale (2001). He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He lives and works in Kyiv.
Since the late 1980s, Tistol's work has consistently been at the heart of the contemporary cultural landscape, underscored by his frequent participation in international art events. His early large-scale paintings—"Reunion" (1988), "The Farewell of the Slav Woman" (1989), "Exercise with Maces" (1989), and "Zynovii-Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" (1989)—exemplify key features of the "New Ukrainian Wave": vivid expressiveness, creative freedom, and an emphasized excess that integrates post-avant-garde interpretations of historical plots, symbols, and motifs from national culture.
Recent notable exhibitions featuring Tistol’s work include: "This is Our Land: People Live Here" (2024, MFA, Kyiv); "Painting Beyond Borders: Revitalizing Art Life in Kyiv, 1985–1993" (2022, Coral Gables Museum, Florida, USA); "Painting Beyond Borders: Revitalizing Art Life in Kyiv, 1985–1993" (2021, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA); "Ukraine. Other Perspectives on Relations" (2021, International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland); "Artificial Pain" (2020, Center of Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu," Torun, Poland); "Imprint: Ukrainian Printed Graphics of the 20th-21st Centuries" (2020, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv); "Tribute to Viborg, 1018–2018" (2018, Viborg, Denmark); "Natsprom 1991–2018" (2018, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv); "Permanent Revolution: Ukrainian Art Today" (2018, Ludwig Museum, Budapest); "Transformation. Evidence" (2016, Kunst- und Filmbiennale, Worpswede, Germany); "Ukraine. Transformation of Modernity" (2015, Austrian Museum of Folk Art, Vienna); "Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now" (2014, Saatchi Gallery, London); "One of Us" (2014, Yermilov Center for Contemporary Art, Kharkiv).

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Location20 Bulvarno-Kudryavska street Kyiv city, 01054

Phone+38 044 486 33 69+38 044 486 2460

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