DANYLO KOVACH

photo by Johannes Baudrexel

Danylo Kovach (b. 1992, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna since 2022. He studied at the A. Erdeli College of Arts (Painting Department) and the Lviv National Academy of Arts (Department of Sacred Monumental Art). In addition, he participated in the Week of Contemporary Art biennale in Lviv, which significantly contributed to his informal artistic development.

Kovach’s practice encompasses graphics, photography, installation, and performance. He has been a member of the artist group Carrousel and also works as a curator and coordinator of international projects. His works explore absurdist actions and performative gestures, often intersecting with decorative and applied arts, design, and utilitarian forms. A recurring element in his practice is the transformation of ordinary rubber mats into paintings and installations, creating a semiotic visual language that engages with themes of human rights, instability, division, memory, and distortion.

He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, residencies, and symposia, including the Museum of Modern Art, Valencia (Spain); Museum of Modern Art, Odesa (Ukraine); Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (Austria); Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce (Slovakia); Gaude Polonia, Wrocław (Poland); Berlin Art Week; and Vienna Art Week (2023), among others.

His works are held in public and private collections, including the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson, and the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine.

EDUCATION:

2018 "Lviv art week" of topical art workshop at Juergen Fritz. Lviv, Ukraine.

2014 Week of Contemporary Art in School performances Janusz Bałdyga and Przemysław Kwiek. Lviv, Ukraine.

2012-2018 Visual art: (LNAM) Lviv National Academy of Arts,3 years аrtistic treatment of wood and 3 years department of sacred art Lviv, Ukraine.

2009-2012 Adalbert Erdely College of Arts, Department of Painting. Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

Education: Uzhhorod children’s art school of Emma Levadska. Participant of "Maliy Louvre" 2005-2008 youth art association.

2002 Uzhgorod art school. (Teacher Emma Levadska) Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2025 "Per Visibilia ad invisibilia" Semmelwiseklinik

Klinik unter Palmen Sommerfest Vienna, Austria

2024 "Welcome" Spitalskirche Innsbruck Austria

2023 “EMPATIA” space: “ROOMING INN” Vienna, Austria.

2022 “LANDSCAPE” "Jan Arnold Gallery" Vienna, Austria.

2021 NO BORDERS ”Detenpyla” Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine.

2020 "Happy Birthday" The apartment owner exhibition Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

2020 “Welcome ”Art Center Dzyga”. Lviv, Ukraine.

2018 THE SHEPTYTSKY CENTER “intervention” Lviv, Ukraine.

2014“Sculpture” ”Detenpyla” Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine.

2011 “Dead Emotions” ”Detenpyla” Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine.

2011 "Sleep-It", museum of architecture Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

2008 "Sketch” at Art College. A. Erdeli. Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025 participant "Linolschnitt heute – XIII Grafikpreis der Stadt Bietigheim-Bissingen" Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

2025 participant Dadabánya Underground Művészeti Fesztivál 2025

Tatabanya, Hungaria

2024 "OPEN STUDIO Days" Dzvinya Podlyashetska and Danylo Kovach

space: “ROOMING INN” Vienna, Austria.

2024group exhibition “Liutyi/Лютий” Exhibit Eschenbachgasse 11

organized by Office Ukraine, Vienna Austria

2023group exhibition “Milk and Blood” Rakvere Gallery in Estonia

2023group exhibition “Get Together” integration fond ÖIF Vienna Austria

2023 (New dream foundation) “Frost Gallery” part 2 New York, USA.

2023 “Kryvyi Rih Mystetskyi” curator gallery 39.9 Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.

2023 "The Art of Resistance" Art Modern Institute Museum of Valencia.curator Valencia, Spain.

2023"Golden arben” Schloss Schönhausen curator Anna Petrova Berlin, Germany.

2022 Berlin Art Week "Be an angel eV | Benefit Art Show Berlin, Germany.

2022 "Art of Resistance" Sala d’Exposicions Municipal - Casino Lliberal, Algemesí, Valencian Community, Spain, Valencia.

2022 "not gallery" group exhibition Vienna, Austria.

2022 Museo Estatal del Tirol (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck) Austria.

2022 “The art of Resistance” Krakau, Poland.

2019 Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson "Только пока Славе не говори" Kherson, Ukraine.

2018 Port of Culture "Liminal edition" 12/04 Kyiv Ukraine

2018 “Tam gdzie teraz” gallery Labirynt curator Waldemar Tatarczuk Lublin, Poland.

2018 "Polylog" (Museum of Modern Art, Odessa) curator- Martin Hüttel. art group Aspei exhibition support program "Polylog" Odessa, Ukraine.

2015 Contemporary art project "INTEGRATION" in Lviv National Art Gallery. Curators: Khrystyna Beregovska, Vasyl Odrekhivsky Lviv, Ukraine.

2015 „Razem ze sztuka“ Gallery Brzuch Wroclaw, Poland.

2013 "temporary exhibition"part 1 is a long-term project curated by Petro Ryaska Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

2013 Lviv -Project 50 - Western Ukrainian contemporary art Lviv, Ukraine.

2013 ilko gallery- "Бедзір відомий невідомий" Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2013 Long-term project 'temporary exhibition part 2 curator Petro Ryaska Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

OTHER:

2023"VIENNA OPEN STUDIO" part of VIENNA ART WEEK Vienna, Austria.

2022 International project with Brazilian artist Julia Lando and Ukrainian artist Dzvinya Podlyashetska mural «Unfolding Windows» curated by Katya Taylor. Cultural agency Port Marseille, France.

2022 workshop curator: Anna Dubinchak Bratislava, Slovakia.

2021 Collaboration with Mikhail Koptev at the fashion show (body-art artist) Lviv, Ukraine.

2021 Collaboration with Mikhail Koptev at the fashion show Mikhail Koptev (body-art artist) Kyiv, Ukraine.

2020 Workshop “Implement the spontaneous,imaginary” program Tandem Ukraine and OpenPlace and Studio of Young Artists Association Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2019 Participation in the project "The Falling Shadow of "Dreams" on the Giardini Gardens." The National Pavilion of Ukraine as part of the 58th International Art Exhibition in Venice – La Biennale di Venezia, Italia.

2019 International Performans Association Zabih Festival Workshop with Jürgen Fritz Lviv, Ukraine.

2017 Finalist of the Nathan Altman Contemporary Visual Art Competition. Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

2016 Lviv month in Wroclaw Wroclaw, Poland.

2015 Art festival performance Interakcje Piotrków trybunalski, Poland.

2015 Voluntary and forced action curators project with Attila Hazlinsky «DIALOGIA» ART KYIV Contemporary X. Kyiv, Ukraine.

2014 Festival performance Poland – "Dramat Wolności" Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej VIII Torun, Poland.

2014 Festiwal performance “Koło Czasu” Torun, Poland.

2014 Curators project with Attila Hazlinsky "voluntary-compulsory action" gallery "Korydor" Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

2014 "Reflections" Gallary ."Kotydor" Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

2014 International Plein Air giARTino - ogród sztuki Toruń, Poland.

2014 International Plein Air sculpture symposium "Pro-PLASTYKA" Rzeszów, Poland.

2013 Art festival Fort.Missia land-art symposium Lviv, Ukraine.

2013 Franko-mission land art "artificial presence" Lviv, Ukraine.

2013 Art project "Social Pyramida" Lviv, Ukraine.

2013 Art project "Resuscitation" Lviv, Ukraine.

2009 Project participant of the arts "Ekle 2" Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2007 International plein air open-air exhibition - (Museum im.Y.Bokshaya) Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2006 "WARHOL FEST" Múzeum moderného umenia Andyho Warhola Medzilaborce, Slovakia.

2006 The creative association "Small Louvre" Rahiv (Zakarpattya) Ukraine.

RESIDENCIES:

2022 “Montleart” privat fundator Alexander Ertler Vienna, Austria.

2022 Artist at Risk curator Bridgette Egger (Rietz) Tirol, Austria.

2021RUDA project 39.9gallery ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih,Ukraine.

2019 Participant of the residence “Nástupište 1-12” Topolcany, Slovakia.

2020 "Frontera Frustrata: Unspoken Identities" House of Europe.curator Waldemar Tatarczuk,Galeria Labirynt, Taras Polataiko, Bunker.The project is implemented with the support of the Goethe-Institut Ukraine and House of Europe program. Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

2020 “DreamDoc” project completed during Alexandra Lerman’s time with the Cultural Capital Introspection program at the Sorry no Rooms Available residency DreamDoc: Uzhhorod, Ukraine

2019 ''Корови орють'' curator Petro Ryaska Zakarpattya, Ukraine.

2018 Gaude Polonia, curated by Paweł Jarodzki. Wroclaw, Poland.

2017 KAIR. Kosice, Slovakia.

2017 The Transcarpathian Regional Library "Border of East and West through the eyes of the local people" curator Zhenya Kuleba and Alewtyna Kachidse Uzhhgorod, Ukraine.

2010 "Art without Borders" Snina, Slovakia.

"CARROUSEL" group exhibitions:

(Danylo Kovach, Ivan Oleksiak, Vasyl Savchenko, Vitaliy Shupliak)

2014"Vector" (CROSS ART project, "PRIMUS" Gallery, Lviv), UA.

2014"Truth" (Savchenko, Shupliak, "Dzyga" Gallery, Lviv), UA.

2014 "Exercises" ("Zhovkva Castle" museum), UA.

2013"Lviv manhole" (UniCredit Bank, Lviv), UA.

2013"Reanimation" (Student House LNAA, Lviv), UA.

2013"Temporary exhibition" ("Corridor" Gallery, Uzhhgorod), UA.

Participant of regional, national and international competitions:

2005Winner of the second Ukrainian Junior painting . llya Repin Kharkiv, Ukraine.

2005winner of the first stage of the international competition for youth - "Silver Bell" (nominated painting) Creative trip to - (Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Heppenheim, Munich ...) Germany.

2005winner of the regional competition "Me and future Transcarpathia" Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2004laureat first degree International Children - Youth Fine Arts contest Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

SELECTED PRESS:

https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/q21/programm/danya-kovach-open-studio

https://grund1535.com/art-ist-danylo-kovach/

https://www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/blog-artistsforukraine/

https://i-pa.org/keyword/zabih-festival/page/4/

https://komplex-kulturmagazin.com/2022/05/26/kompost-14-d-podlyashetska-d-kovach/

https://www.meinbezirk.at/kirchdorf/c-lokales/wir-wollten-den-krieg-nicht_a5206540

https://www.spsg.de/aktuelles/ausstellung/goldnarben

https://esel.at/termin/114963/la-trahison-des-images

https://www.artistshelp-ukraine.at/