Kirill Golovchenko
Photographer / Based in Germany
Kirill Golovchenko (born 1974 in Odessa, Ukraine) studied photography at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Germany and lives in Frankfurt and in Odessa. He is represented by Dymchuk Gallery in Kyiv and Focus agency, Hamburg. His works show secret and undiscovered insights from Eastern Europe. Golovchenko got several scholarships and awards, including Documentary Photography Award, European Publishers Award for Photography, European Photo Exhibition Award and Abisag Tuellmann Prize. His photographs have been exhibited internationally since 2003, including Museum Folkwang Essen, Deichtorhallen, House of Photography, Hamburg and Photo Museum Braunschweig. In 2014 Golovchenko published his next books: »Otpusk«, Journal, Stockholm and »Bitter Honeydew«, Blume, Kehrer, Dewi Lewis, Actes Sud, Peliti Associati, following »7km — Field of Wonders«, Snoeck (2009), »Totalniy Futbol«, suhrkamp (2012) and »Kachalka – muscle beach«, Kehrer (2012).
www.kirillgolovchenko.com
www.dymchuk.com
www.agentur-focus.de
Education
since 2008Â Â Â member of Photographer Agency FOCUS
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Diploma 7km - Field of wonders by Prof. Barbara Klemm and Dr. Kris Scholz
2002 - 2007 Â Â Â Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, photography and design, Honours Diploma
1999 - 2001 Â Â Â Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany,
      academic discipline for foreign languages
AWARDS, Scholarships
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â European Publishers Award for Photography
      Abisag Tí¼llmann Prize
      Leica 10x10
      Grant Kí¼nstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
      VG Bild-Kunst Projekt Scholarship
      Goethe Institut Kiew, residence
      Dummy Award 2014, shortlisted
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â European Photo Exhibition Award
      Dr.Berthold-Roland Photo Art Prize
      Dummy Award 2013, shortlisted
      n-ost-Reportage Prize 2013, shortlisted
      Marianne Brandt Award, shortlisted
      FotoVisura Grant 2013, honorable Mention
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Promotion of the publication from Rheinlan-Pfalz Art Foundation for photobook
      Kachalka – muscle Beach
      Robert Bosch Fondation Scholarship for Ball of impetus      Â
      1.Prize for The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Organ Vida 4, Photography Festival
2011 Â Â Â Â Â Â Plat(t)form 11, Fotomuseum Winterthur
      Sony World Photography Awards 2011, shortlisted     Â
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â DAAD Scholarship for Art, Ukraine
2009 Â Â Â Â Â Â VG Bild-Kunst Projekt Scholarship for Ukrainian Breakthrough
      Descubrimientos PHE09, Photo Espana, Madrid, Finalist
2008 Â Â Â Â Â Â DAAD Scholarship for Art, Ukraine
      Promotion of the publication from Art Fund for photobook 7km - Field of Wonders
      Hasselblad Masters Competition 2008, finalist
      Sony World Photography Awards 2008, shortlisted     Â
      Young Rheinland-Pfaelzer Artists, Emy-Roeder-Price 2008, nomination
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Documentary Photography Award, Wuestenrot Foundation
BOOKS
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Bitter Honeydew, Blume (Spain), Kehrer Verlag (Germany), Dewi Lewis Publishing
      (Great Britain), Actes Sud (France), Peliti Associati (Italy)     Â
      OTPUSK – out of the blue, Journal, Stockholm
      The new social, European Photo Exhibition Award
      Oh, My Complex, Hatje Cantz Verlag
      Was war uns was ist, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â The poetry of the functional, Villa Arte, Chemnitz
2012      KACHALKA – Muscle Beach, Kehrer, Berlin & Heidelberg
      Totalniy Futbol - Eine polnisch-ukrainsche FuíŸballreise, Edition Suhrkamp  Â
      Dryblujac przez granice. Polsko-ukrainskie Euro 2012, Gzarne
2011      emerge 011 – Junger Fotojournalismus und Dokumentarfotografie, Emerge  Â
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Lab East, photographic positions of central and eastern Europe
2009 Â Â Â Â Â Â 7km - Field of wonders, Snoeck publisher, Cologne, Germany
      The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Awards, Wí¼stenrot Foundation
2008       Reporters Without Borders, »Seams«- Photos for press freedom, catalog
2006 Â Â Â Â Â Â Blanko, Sign Communication for Arctic Paper
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2015 Â Â Â European Photo Exhibition Award, Deichtorhallen, House der Photography, Hamburg
   Auschwitz Parking, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
2014Â Â Â Was war ind was ist, Museum Folkwang, Essen
   European Photo Exhibition Award, The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Schweden /
   Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Lucca, Italy / Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
   Leica 10x10, Leica Museum, Wetzlar
   I am a drop in the ocean / Maidan / Art ukrainian revolution, Kí¼nstlerhaus, Wien
   Oh, My Complex / 7km / Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka Croatia
   nonsynchronism, Dymchuk Gallery, Kiew / NT Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
   Bitter Honeydew, Noordelicht Fotofestival
   LeadAwards 2014, Deichtorhallen, House der Photography, Hamburg
   Bitter Honeydew, Fotofestival Lotz, Poland
   Bitter Honeydew , Angkor Photofestival, Cambodia
   KOLGA Tbilisi Photofestival, Tbilisi, Georgia
   Abisag-Tí¼llmann-Preis 2013, Heussenstamm Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
   Internation Marianne Brandt Prize, Neue Schule fí¼r Fotografie, Berlin
   Ukraine Fremde Heimat, state representation Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin / national Museum Koblenz
2013Â Â Â Bitter Honeydew, MIA | Milan Image Art Fair / PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin /
   Le Bal, Paris / 6th Fotobookfestival, Kassel
   Bitter Honeydew, International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
   Kirill Golovchenko / Ukraine, Visa pour l‘image, Perpignan, Frankreich
   Kachalka. Muscle Beach, Photoville, New York City und Boston
   Ukraine Fremde Heimat, national Museum Mainz
   Marianne-Brandt-Prize, Industrie Museum Chemnitz, Chemnitz
2012 Â Â Â Oh, My Complex, Wí¼rttembergischen Kunstvereins Stuttgart
   Kirill Golovchenko / Ukraine, ewc Unterwerk Selnau, Zí¼rich
2011Â Â Â PLAT(T)FORM 11, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Schweiz
   The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award 2007/08, Goethe-Institut Paris
   LAB EAST - photographic positions of central and eastern Europe, V8 Galerie, Cologne
2010   7km – Field of wonders, Fotobuchtage, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
   The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award, Photomuseum Braunschweig,
   Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Goethe Institut Washington
   7km – Field of wonders, Freelens Gallery, Hamburg
   Laboratory East, Ewz.selection, Zurich
   7km – Field of wonders, The Market, Dortmunder-U, Dortmund
   The Ukrainian Breakthrough, LUMIX festival, Hannover
2009    The Ukrainian Breakthrough, Documentary Photography Award, Mathildenhí¶he Darmstadt
   The Ukrainian Breakthrough, PHE09 - Photo Espana, Madrid
   7km – Field of wonders, Galerie Strí¼mpfe, Mannheim
   7km – Field of wonders, Rathaus Mainz
   Echt-Zeit, FotoDoks, Kunstverein Bad Aibling
2008   Young Rheinland-Pfí¤lzer Artists, Emy-Roeder-Price 2008, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
   Reporters Without Borders, »Seams«- Photos for press freedom, Uferhallen, Berlin
   7km – Field of wonders, Photokina, Cologne
2007Â Â Â Die Verdichtung der Wirklichkeit, Darmstadt International Festival of Photography
   7km – Field of wonders, Designhaus Darmstadt
2006   Selbstsicht – der Schritt ins Bild, Darmstadt International Festival of Photography