ARTISTS
Artists ─ Represented
Danila Tkachenko
Known for : 〈Escape〉〈Restricted Areas〉〈Lost Horizon〉
(b.1989) In 2014 he graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, department of documentary photography. In the same year he became the winner of the World Press Photo 2014 competition with the project Escape which he worked on for 3 years. In 2015 he finished the project Restricted Areas which has received a number of international awards including European Publishers Award For Photography, Burn Magazine grant, and included in the Dutch magazine Foam Talents. In 2016 completed series Lost Horizon, in 2017 published projects Motherland and Monuments which have caused a wide public response. In 2018 by the invitation of Qatar Museums Danila realized the series Oasis. In 2019 completed series Heroes and Acid, 2020 ¬– Mannequins and Planetarium, 2021 – Shoal and Drowned. Tkachenko’s photos were published in such magazines as BBC Culture, The Guardian, IMA Magazine, GUP Magazine, British Journal of Photography, National Geographic. After Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and a series of anti-war protests Danila left Russia.
Solo Exhibition
2024
‧Russiantearoom gallery and curating agency, Paris, France
‧Corporeality (curatorial project), Art-Icon, Paris, France
‧Activist , UP Gallery, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2023
‧Inversion (curatorial project), Monte Stella Memorial Park, Milan, Italy
‧Danila Tkachenko’s video works, Centrepoint Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2022
‧Somewhere / Nowhere, Galleria in Corte, Venezia, Italy
‧Russia: Danila Tkachenko’s Solo Exhibition, UP Gallery, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan
‧Fragments. Danila Tkachenko, Lumier Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020
‧Ghostlands, NK Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
‧Danila Tkachenko. Fotografische Projekte, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
‧Heroes, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
‧Danila Tkachenko, Russia, 1989, Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
‧Lost Horizon, Zamek” Culture Center, Poznan, Poland
2017
‧Motherland, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
‧Lost Horizon & Restricted Areas, UP Gallery, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
‧Ritual (with Davide Monteleone), Galeria del Cembalo, Rome, Italy
‧Lost Horizon, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‧The Big Unknown (2 artist show, with Mara Sanchez Renero), Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
‧Restricted Areas, Skopia Art Contemporain, Geneve, Switzerland
‧Restricted Areas, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
‧Restricted Areas, European Month of Photography, Berlin, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
‧Restricted Areas, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
‧Restricted Areas, Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France
‧Restricted Areas, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2015
‧Restricted Areas, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‧Storie Sovietiche (Three artist show ) Galleria del Cembalo, Rome, Italy
‧Escape, Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia
‧Escape, in the framework of Baltic Biennale “Photomania-2015”, Art Platform “Gateway”, Kaliningrad, Russia
2014
‧Escape, in the framework of 6th European Month of Photography, 25books, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition
2022
‧Civilization The Way We Live Now, Musei San Domenico Forlì, Bologna, Italy
2021
‧What do you imagine?, The Russian State Library for Young Adults, Moscow, Russia
‧Rethinking Landscape, in the framework of European month of photography, National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg
‧COS20MOS21, Park Zaryadye, Moscow, Russia
‧Civilization The Way We Live Now, Musée des Civilisations de
l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
‧It will Work if You Close Your Eyes, ART4, Moscow, Russia
2020
‧Athens Photo Festival, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
‧Time / Photographic Thickness, Topography of Art, Paris, France
‧Dealing with Memory, EEP Berlin & Ostlook Plattform, Hamburg, Germany
‧Staged Realities, EEP Berlin & Ostlook Plattform, Berlin, Germany
‧Just Before, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France
‧Festival la Gacilly, Baden, Germany
‧Urban Challenge, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
‧The Russian Fairy Tale, From Vasnetsov to the Present, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‧Restore, Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
‧Espejismo, Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
‧Belleze Interiori Festival, Coma, Italy
‧Black Coat Festival, Arena, Norilsk, Russia
‧Pros and cons, Hodynka, Moscow, Russia
‧Portraits Without People, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, USA
2019
‧Human Impact – Sicherheit und Gesellschaft, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
‧Special project “White Sun” in the framework of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
‧Osmoscosmos, Centre de la Photographie Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
‧Athens Photo Festival 2019, Athens, Greece
‧A drill, Winzavod, Moscow
‧Festival photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
‧KOLGA, The Folklore State Centre of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
‧Art in flight, Depictions of flying in art from the 16th to the 21st centuries, Hans Erni Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
‧Civilization The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China
2018
‧Qatar Contemporary: Art and Photography, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
‧Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‧QPN#22, Nantes, France
‧Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, the Center of Contemporary Photography “Le bleu du ciel”, Lyon, France
‧The space of Сonstitution, Meyerhold Center, Moscow, Russia
‧Nomadic Mountains, Schunk Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
‧(anti)thesis of architecture, CCA Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
‧Belgrade month of photography, Belgrade, Serbia
‧Fotografia Europea festival, Reggio Emillia, Italy
2017
‧International Young Artists Project, Daegu, South Korea
‧XII Krasnoyarsk Biennale: “Mir: the village and the world”, the Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre,
Krasnoyarsk
‧E/T, Skopia Art Contemporain, Geneve, Switzerland
‧International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
‧FotoFestival Naarden, Naarden, Netherlands
‧Bienale fotografica Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
‧Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Cardiff, UK
‧Proyecta 2017, Madrid, Spain
2016
‧New East Photo Prize, Rosphoto, Saint Petersburg, Russia
‧Dialogue: contemporary art from Russia, Kim Bo Sung Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
‧SI FEST, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
‧Russiantearoom gallery and curating agency, Paris, France
‧Power and Architecture, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
‧Riga Photography Biennial, National Museum of Art’s Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
‧On Disappearing And For Vanishing, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
‧Festival of Political Photography, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2015
‧Foam Talent 2015, l’Atelier Néerlandais, Paris
‧Delhi Photo Festival, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
‧IX Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
‧Gimme Shelter – forts and fictions in the Lowlands, Fort Nieuwersluis, Netherlands
‧The Curve, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA
‧Photoparade Uglich, Russia
‧The Powers That Be, Station Independent Projects, New York, USA
‧Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
‧The Anatomy of Forgiveness, Metropolitan Building, New York, USA
‧I Sought Solitude, South Square Centre, Bradford, UK
‧Lensculture Award exhibition at Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
2014
‧An Ocean of Possibilities, Museum TwentseWelle, Enschede, Netherlands
‧OFF_Festival, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
‧VIII exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees, Udarnik cinema, Moscow, Russia
‧Solitude, in the framework of 21st Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Natuurmuseum Fryslân, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
‧Twelve Thinking Photographers, a parallel event of Manifesta 10, First Cadets’ Corpus, St-Petersburg, Russia
2013
‧Die Brücke / Most festival, Slubice, Poland / Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
‧On the block, New Holland cultural center, St-Petersburg, Russia
2012
‧Young Russian photography 2012 2/2, Reality/Decoration, Center for Art and Music and Library V.V. Mayakovsky, St-Petersburg, Russia
‧Student Art PROM, ARTPLAY design center, Moscow, Russia
2011
‧Person on the move, Swissotel Krasnye Holmy, Moscow, Russia
‧Young photographer, Fotodepartament, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2010
‧Steps, Photo Center, Moscow, Russia
Reviews & Publications
Most Current (Please visit artist official website for full list)
2024
Ouest France(France, printed and online), January 2024
Radio Svoboda (Russia, online), January 2024
2023
Radio Svoboda(Russia, online), November 2023
Portal Novosti(Croatia, online), June 2023
Magzine(Italy, online), May 2023
Le Grand Continent(France, online), March 2023
Ouest France(France, printed and online), March 2023
2022
Svoboda(Russia, online), November 2022
Art Focus Now(Russia, online), November 2022
Vanity Fair(Italy, online), July 2022
Le Grand Continent(France, online), July 2022
Caption Magazine (Spain, online), July 2022
Svoboda(Russia, online), May 2022
Widewalls (Czechia, online), February 2022
Awards & Collections
2021
‧European Month of Photography Arendt Award 2021, Shortlist
2017
‧Kandinsky Prize, Finalist
2016
‧The New East Photo Prize, Shortlist
2015
‧Gabriele Basilico Prize in Architecture and Landscape Photography, Finalist
‧lacritique.org Award – Voies Off, Winner
‧Emerging Photographer Fund grant, Winner
‧Foam Talent, Winner
‧Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Finalist
‧PDN Photo Annual, Personal Сategory, Winner
‧European Publishers Award For Photography, Winner
‧CENTER Choice Awards Director’s Choice, Winner 1st place
‧LensCulture Exposure Awards, Winner 1st place Series
‧30 under 30, Magnum photos, Winner
‧Photobook Melbourne Image Award, Australia, Finalist
2014
‧Voies Off, France, Short list / Selections
‧PHOTOVISA, Russia, Photoseries, 2nd prize
‧Organ Vida, Croatia, Finalist
‧Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Germany, Newcomer shortlist
‧PDN Photo Annual, USA, Student Work, Winner
‧World Press Photo, Netherlands, Staged Portraits, 1st prize stories
‧30 Under 30, Magnum photos, Shortlist
2012
‧Silver camera, Russia, Faces, Special prize
‧Young man in the 21st century, Lithuania, Special prize
