Pavlo Makov, Fountain and funnel, 2021

color intaglio, acrylic, paper, 34 х 27 cm

One of the graphic works created during the final period of work on the Aqua Alta Depletion Fountain project for the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022.

BIOGRAM:
Pavlo Makov was born in 1958 in St. Petersburg. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Education
1974-79 Crimean School of Art (Simferopol, Ukraine).
1977-78 Academy of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Russia)
1979-84 Kharkiv Institute of Art and Industry, Faculty of Graphic Arts (Ukraine)

Membership
1988 Union of Artists of Ukraine
1990 Fionia Graphic Studio (Odense, Denmark)
1994 Royal Society of Painter-Graphers (London)
2007 Corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
Laureate 2018, Ukrainian National Taras Shevchenko Award
2021 Member of the Academy, National Academy of Art of Ukraine


Major museums and public collections
National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv)
State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow)
Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
National Gallery of Art (Washington)
Library of Congress (Washington)
Center for Contemporary Art and Culture (Osaka, Japan)
Museum of Fine Arts (Cremona, Italy)
Zimmerli Museum (USA) and others

Recent activities 2017 - 2022

Guest lecturer and master classes
International charity foundation IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives (Kyiv)
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Fionia Graphic Studio (Odense, Denmark)
Dukat Gallery (Kyiv)

Individual exhibitions
"Mappa Mundi," Korsak Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Lutsk, Ukraine)
"Abandoned," The Naked Room gallery (Kyiv).
"Swallow and fig tree" exhibition, Ja Gallery (Lviv, Ukraine)
"Swallow and fig tree" exhibition, Ya Gallery (Kyiv)
"Notebook with a Missing Sheet," Come In Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
"Paradiso Perduto," City Gallery (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
"Notebook with a Missing Page," IZOLYATSIA International Charitable Foundation. Platform for cultural initiatives (Kyiv)
"Fountain," Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum (Lviv, Ukraine)
"Plans 2017," Dukat Gallery (Kyiv).

Selected group exhibitions and symposia
DECAYING LANDSCAPES. Landscape and Poetics in Ukrainian Art, Museum of Art and History (Brussels)
Death of Marat, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels)
Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta. 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy).
DECAYING LANDSCAPES. Landscape and poetics in contemporary Ukrainian art, Silkeborg Bad Art Center (Silkeborg, Denmark).
"Remember Yesterday," PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv).
ON PAPER IV, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Calasetta, Casa Falconieri (Calasetta, Sardinia, Italy).
"Anticipation," Second Biennale of Young Art, parallel program, Botanical Garden (Kharkov, Ukraine).
Danube Dialogues 2019, Viminacium Archaeological Park (Stari Kostolac, Serbia)
"Path of Aeneas," Yermilov Center (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
"Libro d'Artista," Cartavetra Gallery (Firenze, Italy)
"Journal," Scientific Library of Ivan Franko National University (Lviv, Ukraine)
"KhA City," National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv).