Valeriy Basanets
(1941 Brody, Lviv region)
1963 – Graduated from Odessa Art College.
60s – One of the leaders of a group of young informal artists.
1970 – Acknowledged to the Union of Artists.
1971 – Winner of the exhibition “Young Artists of Ukraine” Moscow, USSR.
1989 – Grand Prix at the International Biennale “Impreza 89” in the nomination of painting. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine.
1991 – First Prize at the International Biennale “Impreza 91” in the nomination of graphic. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine.
1991 – Winner of the Ukrainian Art Biennale “Lviv 91. Revival.”
1992 – One of the founders of the creative association “Choven.”
1993 – Personal Jury Prize in the International Biennale “Impreza 93”. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine.
1993 – Member of the National Association of the Artists in Ukraine.
1998 – One of the founders of the creative association “Mamai”.
1999 – First Prize in the exhibition “Lviv Autumn Salon. High Castle”.
2008 – “Artist of the Year”. Odessa, Ukraine.
2009 – Honored Artist of Ukraine.
60s- One of the leaders of the Odessa nonconformist art.
Lives and works in Odessa .
Selected solo exhibitions:
2009 – Exhibition of paintings. NT-Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2004 – In the framework of the project “Odessa anomaly.” “Soviart” Gallery. Kiev, Ukraine.
2004 – Painting by Valeriy Basanets. “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
2002 – Valeriy Basanets. “Exhibition of the graphic works”. Ethnography Museum of Lviv. Lviv, Ukraine.
2000 – Valeriy Basanets: “painting, sculpture and graphics”. “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
1999 – Odessa Art Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
1980 – First solo exhibition. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, USSR.
Selected group exhibitions:
2013 – “Odessa nonfigurative 3”. Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2013 – “Odessa School. Traditions and Relevance.” Mystetskiy Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine.
2013 – “Odessa School. Traditions and Relevance.” Exhibition hall “Art Donbass”. Donetsk, Ukraine (catalog).
2013 – Apartment Exhibition “Bebel 19”. NT-Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2013 – Apartment Exhibition “Bebel 19”. The project IV Fine Art Ukraine. Mystetskiy Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine (catalog).
2012 – “Odessa nonfigurative.” The second exhibition. Exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Odessa, Ukraine.
2012 – “Self-Portrait”. From the collection of Alexander Dimitrenko. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2012 – Exhibition of the creative association “Mamai” for the 95th anniversary of the newspaper “Chornomorskі News”. Painting, drawing and sculpture. Odessa Literary Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
2011 – “Odessa nonfigurative.” Exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine.
2010 – Ukrainian Triennial “Painting 2010”. Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists, Kiev Ukraine.
2009 – “Odessa” in the framework of the project “Art Map of the Ukraine”. Museum of the Modern Art of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
2009 – Ukrainian exhibition for the “Artist `s Day in Ukraine”. Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists. Kiev, Ukraine.
2008 – “How young you were… Odessa nonconformist artists. 60s – 80s of the XX century in the collection of Felix Kohriht and Anatoly Dymchuk”. NT-Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2008 – Exhibition of works by artists from Odessa, which has been addressed to the 70th anniversary of the Odessa organization of the Union of Artists. Odessa-Kiev, Ukraine.
2008 – Exhibition of Odessa artists from the private collection of M.Knobel. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2007 – Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures of the creative association “Mamai”. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2006 – Ukrainian exhibition “Picturesque Ukraine”. Marine Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2005 – “The Odessa Group. Paintings and Graphic Works by Six Major Artists of the Odessa School”. “Chambers” Gallery, London, UK (catalog).
2005 – “Samples of experiences”. Exhibition of the Photography. Ethnography Museum of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine.
2005 – “Time to gain the Freedom”. Painting, drawing and sculpture. Exhibition hall of Odessa Union of Artists organization. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2004 – “Odessa School nowadays. Half of the century together.” Odessa Art Museum. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2004 – Group exhibition “Second April Salon”. Marine Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2003 – The Art of Odessa in the collection of Michael Knoebel. National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
2003 – “The Light of the South”. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2002 – “The Grate Paintings of the Great Masters”. “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
2002 – “Behind the Hidden Intent of the Theater…” “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
2002 – Exhibition of paintings of the creative association “Mamai”. Odessa Literary Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
2001 – “Meditation”. Marine Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
2000 – International Festival of Ghent: the project “Odessa artists”. Gent, Netherlands.
2000 – International Festival of Fine Art. Art project “Otrada”. Ukrainian House. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2000 – Post factym: “Otrada”. “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
2000 -“Before the Great Day”. The exhibition of the creative association “Mamai” Odessa Branch of the Greek Culture Foundation. Odessa, Ukraine.
2000 – “Bronze Age”. Exhibition of the small plastic. “White Moon” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
1999 – “Odessa collector”. From the collection of F.Kohrit. “Iris” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
1999 – Autumn Salon “High Castle”. Palace of Art. Lviv, Ukraine.
1999 – “Mamai”. Exhibition for the 4th World “Ukrainists” Congress. Odessa Art Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
1999 – “The April Salon”. Group exhibition of original graphics works of creative association “Mamai”. Marine Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
1999 – Exhibition of graphics of creative association “Mamai”. Palace of Art. Lviv, Ukraine.
1999 – Artists of the informal art way. Underground 60s-80s. From the collection of T.Basanets. “Most” Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine.
1998 – Odessa citizens in the collection of M.Knobelya. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
1998 – Ukrainian trienale “Painting -98”. Exhibition Hall of the National Union of the Artists. Kiev, Ukraine.
1998 – “Kum” – “Mamai”. Exhibition of creative associations. Palace of Art. Lviv, Ukraine.
1997 – “IV- B, The spirit of creativity lives according to the laws of freedom”. (V. Basanets, V. Marinyuk, B. Strel`nikov, V. Tsyupko). Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
1996 – “From Odessa artists to the World Congress of the Ukrainian pharmaceutical companies”. Odessa Medical Institute of Pirogov. Odessa, Ukraine.
1996 – “Artclub – 96”. The group “Choven”. Museum of Modern Art. Khmelnitsky, Ukraine.
1995 – Exhibition “Painting and Sculpture” in the frameworks of the international conference “V. Kandinsky in the artistic life of Odessa”. State University. Odessa, Ukraine.
1994 – Exhibition of the creative association “Choven”. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
1994 – “Odessa, 60s…” Odessa Art Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
1994 – Exhibition “Art of the Ukraine”. Hama, Germany.
1994 – “Painting and Sculpture” in the frameworks of the international conference “V. Kandinsky in the artistic life of Odessa”. State University, Odessa, Ukraine.
1994 – “The Roots of the Memory”. For the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian society “Prosvita” in Odessa. Odessa Literary Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
1993 – “Ukrainian modernity”. “Kiev” Gallery. Kiev, Ukraine.
1993 – III International Biennial “Impreza – 93”. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine (catalog).
1991 – “Ukrainian artists from Odessa”. Lviv, Khmelnitsk, Chernivtsi, Ternopil. Ukraine.
1991 – Ukrainian Art Biennale “Lviv 91 – Revival”. Lviv, Ukraine.
1991 – II International Biennale “Impreza -91”. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine.
1990-1991- “Ukrainian artists from Odessa”. Lviv – Chernivtsi – Khmelnitsky Ternopil, Ukraine.
1990 – Exhibition of the contemporary art in the context of the space of the national culture. Regional Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.
1990 – “Ukrainian Art of the XX century”. The National Art Museum. Kiev, Ukraine.
1990 – “Three Generations of the Ukrainian Painting”. “Soviart” Gallery. “Ukrainian malARTstvo” (60s – 80s). Kiev, Ukraine – Odense, Denmark (catalog).
1989 – First International Biennial “Impreza -89”. Ivano-Frankovsk, USSR.
1987 – First All-Union Exhibition of graphics. Exhibition Hall of the Ministry of the Culture of the USSR. Moscow, USSR.
1987 – First exhibition of Odessa muralist artists. Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Odessa Art Museum. Odessa, USSR.
1983 – “ ‘Working in Odessa’ in pictures by Odessa artists” Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union. Kiev, USSR.
1979 – Exhibition “Contemporary Artists of Ukraine”. Munich -London- Paris-New York (catalog).
1975-1977 – Informal apartment exhibitions. Odessa – Moscow – Leningrad. USSR.
1971 – Exhibition “Young Artists of Ukraine.” Exhibition Center. Moscow, USSR .
1967 – All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists. Central Exhibition Hall “Manezh”, Moscow, USSR.
1966 – Republican Youth Exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Kiev, USSR.
Selected Museim Collections:
“Zimmerli” Museum. New Jersey, USA.
Museum of the Music Academy of Japan. Osaka, Japan.
Exhibitions Division of the Ministry of Culture of Russia. Moscow.
National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
Museum of the Art Center “Soviart”. Kiev, Ukraine.
Museum of the Kyiv-Mohylanska Academy. Kiev, Ukraine.
Odessa Art Museum. Ukraine.
Odessa Literary Museum. Ukraine.
Odessa Museum of Modern Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
Ivano-Frankovsk Art Museum. Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine.
Khmelnitsky Art Museum. Ukraine.
Numerous private collections in Ukraine and abroad.