Nikolay Karabinovych

Nikolay Karabinovych (born 1988, Odesa, Ukraine) lives and works between Antwerpen, Belgium and Kyiv, Ukraine. Graduated from the National University Mechnikov, Department of Philosophy, Odesa. In 2020, he graduated from HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent. In 2017, Karabinovych was an assistant curator of the 5th Odesa Biennale. In 2020 and 2018, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize. The artist works in a variety of media, including video, sound, text, and performance.

Nikolay Karabinovych touches on complex personal and collective histories in his work. He tries to make these visible, to commemorate them and to search for contemporary translations of these stories.