Denys Shantar
Lives and works in Antwerp and Zurich
Hee works for To Be Antwerp as a curator in performing arts
2021 Scenography KASKA, Antwerp (BE)
2020 - 2021 MA Costume Design Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASKA), Antwerp (BE)
2016 - 2019 BA in Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich (CH)
1997 born in Ukraine
Exhibitions
Upcoming
2022
Annual Festival of Alternative Art/ ACCEA Yerevan (AM)
Demolution/ K.L.8 Brussels (BE)
KUNSTpause/ Chollerhalle Zug (CH)
Group exhibition
2022
Currents #9/ Z33 House for Contemporary Art Hasselt (BE)
2021
To Be Antwerp/ Selected by A Living Gallery (BE)
Friends of To Be/ Life is Art Gallery (BE)
House Without a Roof/ Footnote Center for Image and Text Belgrade (RS)
Show up Show-Off/ Onboards Biennale Antwerp (BE)
ENCORE!/ Selection from the Masters Expo 21 Antwerp (BE)
MA Degree show/ Royal Academy Antwerp (BE)
Historie, Heesters & Meesters/ Academy open air (BE)
Jaman öner/ VR exhibition (KZ)
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2020
INSIEME/online exhibition (IT)
Watch and save me/ MultiMadeira Residency Funchal (PT)
2019
KUNSTpause/ governmental building Zug (CH)
House of hard knocks/ NOASS Riga (LV)
BA Degreeshow/ ZHdK Zürich (CH)
KUNSTpause/ Chollerhalle Zug (CH)
2018
QWAS/ ZHdK Zurich and Central Exhibition Space Almaty (CH and KZ)
KUNSTpause/ lakeside promenade Zug (CH)
A MIRROR HAS MORE THAN TWO SIDES/ ARTBAT FEST Almaty (KZ)
The Clouds Are Fake/ SKLAD Suchum, Abkhazia
Portraits of.../ Photobastei Zurich (CH)
youngART/ ZeughausKultur Brig (CH)
2017
QWAS/ ZHdK Zurich and Kino Arman Almaty (CH and KZ)
Resonanz/ ChemicalMoonBaby Zurich (CH)
Oberliht/ Zpatiu Chisinau (MD)
Talks/readings/performance
2020
Performance "Saint Funding/ in the city of Funchal (PT)
Artist Talk and Reading/ MultiMadeira residency Funchal (PT)
2019
Artist Talk/ Auf der Suche, Helmhaus Zurich (CH)
Performance „Salome II“/ with Marianne Iten Thürig, Chollerhalle Zug (CH)
2018
Reading the poem „Even if you unfollow me on Instagram“/ LiteraturTelefon (CH)
Artist Talk/ project with PD. DR. Tatiana Samorowki and
Universität Zürich JES (Junior Euler Society) (CH)
2016
Broadcast „Mitsprache“/ group project with Alexander Tuchacek, Radio Lora (CH)
Residency
2021
FLACC/ Genk (BE)
Footnote Center for Image and Text / Belgrade (RS)
2020
MultiMadeira/ Funchal (PT)
Awards and nominations
2021
Royal Academy Department Prize in Costume Design/ Antwerp (BE)
2020 - 2021
Fritz-Gerber-Foundation Scholarship/ Zurich (CH)
2020
ZHdK-AVINA Student Project Fund/ Zurich (CH)
2019 - 2020
Studio Grant Migros Herden/ Zurich (CH)
2017
vfg Young Talent Award*shortlisted/ Zurich (CH)
Summer School
2019
Summer School as School/ Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina (RKS)
2017
Summer School of Art/ ZHdK and Oberliht (CH and MD)
Curation
2022 -
Life Is Art Gallery/ Antwerp (BE)
2021 -
International performance program/ To Be Antwerp (BE)
Interviews and Publications
2022
New Masters Interview /Subbacultcha Belgium (coming soon)
Diary fragment/ Mister Motley (NL)
Press Mother(Land)
2021 (Sculpture project)