Oleksiy Koval: Black White Rainbow

2024.12.21-2025.03.16
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Oleksiy Koval

Artist

Oleksiy Koval studied painting at the National Art School of T.G. Shevchenko and the National Academy of Art and Architecture in Kyiv from 1990. He came to Munich in 1999 and received his diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2005. After rigorous Soviet-style art studies in Ukraine, he encountered the diversity and freedom of art which allowed him to develop his own unique language. In 2010-2012, Koval founded the artist groups RHYTHM SECTION and THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE. Oleksiy Koval is represented in group and solo exhibitions and public collections worldwide, including Amsterdam, Athens, Istanbul, London, Odessa, Berlin, Munich, Barcelona and Wuhan. Since 2012, Koval has held various lectureships at various academies in Germany and abroad: he has given lectures and workshops in Singapore, Wuhan, Kyiv, Zurich, Hertfordshire, Tehran and Tbilisi, among other places.

Dr. Selima Niggl

Curator

Selima Niggl is an art historian and completed her phd in Zurich on the life and work of the painter Uwe Lausen. In 2017, she became a founding member of the van de Loo Foundation, having worked for Otto van de Loo and then for the van de Loo Gallery since 2006. In her freelance curatorial and publishing work, she focuses on the artistic positions from the environment of the Situationist International (1959–1976) and on the specific genealogy of Munich artists' groups, taking the SPUR group (1957–1965) as a starting point. She has curated exhibitions for, among others, the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., the Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. She has published standard works on the painters Pinot Gallizio, Uwe Lausen and Hans Platschek, as well as on the groups WIR (1959–1965) and GEFLECHT (1966–1968).