Pavlo Makov

Pavlo Makov is, without a doubt, one of the greatest Ukrainian artists of our time. However, the restless nature of his artistic practice rescues him from a recognizable and established image of a "classic".

Pavlo Makov was born in 1958 in St. Petersburg. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and the Samokish Crimean Art School, and graduated from the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute at the Faculty of Graphics. He lives and works in Kharkiv.

Makov's works are housed in the National Art Museum (Kyiv), the Center for Contemporary Art (Osaka), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the National Gallery (Washington) and the Library of Congress (Washington). He is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in London, the Funen Graphic Workshop in Denmark and the Artist's Union of Ukraine.

Makov's works have been repeatedly exhibited at auctions and major national and international exhibitions. He is a laureate of the Silver Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2009) and the Shevchenko Prize (2018).

In 2022, his work Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta curated by Maria Lanko, Lizaveta Herman and Borys Filonenko will represent the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 59th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. The project for the pavilion in Venice will become a culmination of the "fountain of exhaustion" image development that has been proceeding since the '90s. In Venice, the work will be for the first time embodied as a full-fledged kinetic object—a working fountain.

Website of Pavlo Makov

(From the website of the Ukrainian Pavilion.
© Photo: Valentyn Kuzan, courtesy of National Pavilion of Ukraine)

National Pavilion of Ukraine
59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

23 April - 27 November 2022

Artist: Pavlo Makov

Curators: Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys Filonenko

Commissioner: Kateryna Chuyeva, Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine

Venue: Arsenale - Sale d'Armi