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MICHAEL MURPHENKO
 
Kostyantyn Doroshenko

Born in Kyiv on 29 October, 1972

A historian,  critic,  curator of contemporary art, director of the curatorial group Khazaria, Director for Development of the Telekritika project.
www.telekritika.kiev.ua

Education: Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Faculty of History.

The author of more than 300 articles and reviews on modern culture and art printed in the mass media of Ukraine, Russia, and Australia.  The Curator of a chain of art projects, among them: “Purification” (Kyiv, National Artist's House, 2004), “Polemic compositions” (Ostrog, National University “Ostrog Academy”, 2001), “Crucified Buddha” (Kyiv, Museum of Cultural Heritage, 2001). The author of the book project “Papa and Ukraine” (about the relations of Pope John Paul II with Ukraine, Kyiv, 2006), the curator of multimedia projects, including the presentation of the first Ukrainian translation of the book “Symbolic exchange and death” (Kyiv, 2003) written by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.

A member of the World League “Mind Without Drugs” (since 2005, Bishkek).

ARTICLES:

Legalization of Tenderness
He who lives Art



Artist Statement

 
Projects:
 
Serenity 2008
Open 2007
Heartworm New York 2007
Hilism 2007
Angels 2006
The Other 2006
Purification 2005

Do You Remember Love? 2004

Talking In Black 2003
Magic Places 2001
Real Evolution 2000
Early Work 1995 - 1999
 

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