Roman Minin artist, sculptor, media artist, curator, teacher mininproject@gmail.com
Roman Minin is one of the most popular artists in Ukraine.
His work is authentic, filled with colors and expression of Eastern Ukraine. The artist from the Coal Mining region devoted his creative energy to the development of contemporary industrial art. He combines the knowledge of classical and folk monumental art with modern technologies. Roman Minin is an artist who is ready to work in teams on complex architectural projects, as a rare specialist in public monumental art and multi-figure compositions in interiors and exteriors. In his studios in Ukraine, together with like-minded people, he conducted various creative experiments to test modern polymer materials in decorative art. They mastered working with programmed machines, 3D printing and other modern tools. The result of these experiments were various sculptures, bas-reliefs, stained glass windows and works of digital art. Some large-scale projects remain at the level of an idea. The author is actively looking for architects to collaborate on projects that will be considered a work of architectural art and will become new sights of the city.
Roman Minin proved himself as a child prodigy, when he was 14 years old he became famous, he was known in the Donetsk region as the youngest surrealist artist. He continued his bright creative path in the second largest city of Kharkiv (Ukraine). This city was considered the intellectual capital of Ukraine and it was considered very prestigious to get a higher education at the Kharkov Art Academy. Roman received a good education from excellent professors of monumental art, who were practitioners and practiced the creation of murals together with their students. During his student years, Roman became the organizer of the first street art festivals in Kharkov and made his first large-scale solo exhibitions.
From 2008 to 2022, Roman Minin lives and works in Kharkiv, participating in various international street art festivals. In 2015, the Ukrainian magazine Forbes recognized him as the most promising artist in the country. Thanks to the support of collectors, Roman creates a MININ ART HUB in Kharkiv to develop various modern art trends and popularize digital tools for creativity among the younger generation. Organizes BATTLES of ARTISTS in programs for sculpting in virtual reality helmets and other educational programs.
In 2022, due to the war in Ukraine, Roman Minin went to live in Charleroi, Belgium, as a refugee. This mining region is filled with the history of the coal industry and the industrial past, which reminds the artist of his native land and inspires the author to continue to develop relevant industrial art and other creative experiments.
Roman Minin’s work is diverse: poems, songs, unique paintings in the author’s technique, photographs, abstract paintings, digital installations and stained glass, projects of modern monumental art, wall paintings, sculptures and educational projects.
He has been working on the concept of augmented reality since 1999. The first artist in Ukraine to install an augmented reality monument in 2017. Creator of SMS ART in 2004. Since 2020, she has been organizing artist competitions in art creation computer in virtual reality headsets. In the city of Kharkov for educational purposes creates a center and an organization of artists’ embassy.
The creative path leads him to the creation of an international symbol of mining and of a whole “transmonumentalism” subculture.
Awards
2021 Winner of the First State Prize of Monumental Art «Repin Prize» For a new direction in contemporary art «transmonumentalism»
2021 The winner of the painting competition from the Odessa Art Museum, Ukraine
2013 nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize.
2009 Medal “Talent and Vocation” from the International Cultural Foundation “Peacemaker”
Curated Projects
2020-2022 Minin Art Hub, Kharkiv
2011 Head of Public Art Programs in new microdistricts of Moscow
2007-2011 Organizer of Street Art Festivals in Kharkiv
Teaching experience
2020 – 2022 Kharkiv Minin Art Hub. Course: VR-AR Experience
2017 Science Art Program Mentor. Kharkiv
2013 Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design, Ukraine. Guest lecturer. Course: Visual Thinking in Street Art
2012 Head of children’s Art programs of public art in Donetsk. With Foundation Insulation
Education
2011 Private Public Art Courses from Svyat Murunov, Moscow
2010 Private courses in artistic photography by Irina Chmyreva, Moscow
2002-2004 Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design, Ukraine (KSADA) M.A. in Monumental
1998-2002 Kharkiv State College of Art, Ukraine Teacher of Art Education
Exhibits
2021
30×30. Contemporary Ukrainian art. National Center «Ukrainian House», Kyiv
Minin in Varengeville-sur-Mer, La Bergerie, Varengeville-sur-Mer, France Second Nature, Green Theater, Odesa
2020
Ukraine Today, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
The Artifical Pain, Contemporary Art Centre ZnakiCzasu, Toruń, Poland Alchemy of Motivation, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kiev
2019
Alchemy of Motivation, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv Contemporary Ukranian Art of 1985 – 2015 from Private Collection, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
Donbas Paradise, Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv
Minin’g Charleroi, Le Bois du Cazier, Charleroi
Transmonument, Mhaata gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Roman Minin in Genk, C-mine, Genk, Belgium
Gold of nation, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Art United, Mandarin Maison, Kyiv
2018
Auguste Rodin. Premonition of the future. Cherkasy Museum of Fine
Arts, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Minin in Genk. Thor Central Genk, Genk, Belgium
Art Mining. Permanent mission of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Human/Alien. Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
More than sculpture. Art Ukraine gallery, Kyiv
Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2017
Мистецька праця. ART WORK. Wroclaw, Poland
Мистецька праця. ART WORK. Kyiv, Ukraine
MININ in BRUSSELS. Belgique
Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists. Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
Show Promise. Lviv Palace of Arts. Ukraine
Reymuzey. ArtUkraine Gallery. Kyiv.
2016
Recipe for Utopia, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine Identity. Behind the curtain of uncertainty. National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kyiv, M. Hrushevsky, 6
Kylym Contemporary Ukrainian Artist, Zenko Foundation art-space, Tatariv (Ivano-Frankivsk region), Ukraine
Art16. Art Fair London. Zenko Gallery. Ukraine
2015
Wien, Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne, 20-29 november, 2015
The Museum Collection. Ukrainian Contemporary Art. 1985-2015, From Private Collections. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
Just art, ARTVERA’S ART GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland Koelner Liste-Contemporary Art Fair 2015, Dymchuk gallery Scope, New York, BARBARIAN-ART GALLERY
New Perspectives: 8 Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute, New York
Decompression. Coming Up For Air, Eglise Saint-Merri Pastoral Centre, Paris
The Sackler Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2014
SCOPE Art Fair Miami Beach HudPromo Art Gallery Miami, USA TMZ, Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. Through Maidan and Beyond, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna, Austria. Presentiment: Ukrainian Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London. Slovenia / ART scanning, Yermilov Centre, Kharkov, Ukraine. New Ukrainian Dream, Forbes Ukraine art-project, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv. Cacus Pacis, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. I am a Drop in the Ocean, Kiinstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Transit Zone, PERMM, Perm, Russia. OURS, Freedom Square, Yermilov Centre, Kharkov, Ukraine. I am a drop in the Ocean, MOCAK, Krakow SCOPE, New York, BARBARIAN-ART GALLERY
2013
The Plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Small Project Gallery, Tromso, Norway. Exhibition of 20 nominees fo r the PinchukArtCentre Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Saatchi Gallery, London. The Re-Aligned Art, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway. RE-PUBLIC. Russian Art in the Streets, Urb Festival, Helsinki, Finland.
Terrain Orientation, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (catalogue) Ukrainian News, «Ujazdow Castle» Contemporary art centre, Warsaw, Poland. Great and Grand, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012
The Plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Palazzo Cantagalli, Foligno, Italy. Source of Life, Sinergy Gallery, Rome, Italy. Construction, YermilovCentre, Kharkov, Ukraine. Myth. Ukrainian Baroque, National art museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011
The plan of Escape from Donetsk Region, Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. Street art festival, Kharkov, Ukraine. International Portfolio Revue, Moscow, Russia. Collective dreams, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010
Dreams about War, Vovatanya Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. History of Beautiful Mania, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Miner’ s Folklore, Municipal Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine. Symbol of Faith, Museum of Russian art, Kyiv, Ukraine. Stoy! Kto idet?, International Young Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia. IF, PERMM, Perm, Russia.
2009
Miner’s Folklore, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine. In Day with Fire, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2008
Your Miner, Building of city administration, Donetsk, Ukraine.
2007
Your miner, Art Foxtrot Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. In Day with Fire, Maestro Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. SMS-Art, Maestro Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine