Vitalii Shupliak

Vitalii Shupliak (Ukrainian: Віталій Олегович Шупляк; born 23 February 1993 in Berezhany, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist who currently lives in Berlin. Son of Oleh Shupliak.

Biography

Education:

• 2010 — Berezhany State Art School,
• 2013 — Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku (Poland),
• 2014 — Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ukraine),
• 2018 — Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan (Poland),
• 2019 — Braunschweig University of Art (Germany).

He was a participant in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program.

He mainly works with video, installation, and performance. Vitalii often focuses on the issues of identity, migration, broadly understood borders, and relations between reality and virtuality. In 2013-14 member of the group Carrousel, in 2014— 2017 Vitalii Shupliak initiated Pi Gallery and since 2019 develops Kruta Art Residency.

Shupliak is an author of 10 solo exhibitions and participant of several group exhibitions and festivals worldwide.

Selected solo exhibitions:

• 2019 — Wearing out trousers, IZONE, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2019 — Message to heaven, Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany
• 2018 — ID, please Rodriguez Gallery, as part of the festival in Malta, Poznan, Poland
• 2018 — Rotational speed, einRaum, Braunschweig, Germany
• 2017 — Signals, Vozdvizhenka House of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2017 — Skraj/ność, OKO/UCHO Gallery, Poznań, Poland
• 2014 — Practical Action, Detenpyla Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

Awards

• 2 Minutes shorts Award ex aequo at the 34th International Film Festival (Stuttgart, Germany)
• initial award 13 In out festival at the Lania Center for Contemporary Art (Gdańsk, Poland)
• main award of FilmFestSpezial in Kunstlerhaus (Hannover, Germany).