Sergiy Radkkevich (UA)

Sergiy Radkkevich (UA) born in 1987 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Graduated from Lviv National Academy of Arts, departament of monumental painting. His main interests are murals, street art, painting, drawing and installation. For more than 10 years has been engaged in street art. Winner of the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Art Centre in 2011. One of the organizers of the Black Circle Festival. Curator and founder  of the first artistic residence programme in Volyn region (Samijlychi  village) – “Granny Hall’. Radkevych’s urban interventions keep the balance between contemporary murals and graffiti. They shift the meaning of the space they occupy. Radkevych’s subjects originate from religious iconography; the author combines simplified religious symbols with geometrical forms to arrive at contemporary spiritual abstract form. He seeks out public and private spaces which have lost their function or have an undefined meaning, then transforms and revitalises them into spiritual signal spaces. (Bjorn Geldhof, Pinchyk Art Centre). He lives and works in Lviv.