Minin Roman

Born in 1981 in Dymytriv, Donetsk region.

From 1998 to 2002 he studied at the Kharkiv Art School.

In 2002-2008 he studied at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Department of Monumental Painting.

In 2015, he took part in the X ART-KYIV Contemporary at the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv. At that time, the head of the centre was Natalia Zabolotna.

Roman Minin’s works were included in powerful group projects: the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013 (Kyiv), “Predictions. Ukrainian Art Now” at Saatchi Gallery (London, 2014), “I am a Drop in the Ocean. The Art of the Ukrainian Revolution” at the Museum of Modern Art in Krakow (2014), “Just Art” at Artvera’s Gallery (Geneva, 2015), “Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty” at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2016), “Artistic Labour. ART WORK” at Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, 2017) and Dworcowa Gallery (Wroclaw, 2017), etc. Minin’s objects are successfully exhibited at prestigious international auctions Sotheby’s and Phillips.

Romani Minin is one of the most well-known young Ukrainian artists among both gallerists and collectors. Thanks to the artist’s openness, desire to tell a story, to create a new myth of his native land, Minin’s works quickly became recognisable. Using various media – panels, stained-glass windows, installations, sculpture, street art – the artist never tires of fuelling interest in his work.

Somewhere in between the icon, ritual sculpture and pop art are the artist’s creative pursuits. Minin consciously replicates his works, flirts with commercialism, and then abandons T-shirts or sneakers in favour of monumental works in which the miner’s theme acquires an unexpected romanticisation, an idealisation built on despair and escape from reality.

Currently, the works of several series of the artist are exhibited at Art Ukraine Gallery.