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Lypovka Viktor

Year of birth 1956
Place of birth Chernihiv region
Place of living and work Kyiv
BIOGRAPHY
Artist's Information

Victor Lipovka is the author of more than 15 monumental monuments and landscape compositions in Ukraine and abroad. His works are in 26 museums around the world, as well as in private collections in Ukraine, Sweden, Russia, France, USA, Switzerland, and the UAE. Works in the field of easel and monumental sculpture. He prefers sculptural materials such as bronze, granite and marble.

Education

1971–1974 - Republican Art High School, Department of Sculpture, Kyiv

1974–1980 – Kyiv State Art Institute, Faculty of Sculpture. Teachers: I. V. Makogon, V. A. Chepelik, V. V. Sukhenko, V. V. Shvetsov, V. Z. Borodai.

1981-1985 - postgraduate student of the creative workshops of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

Achievements and awards

1978 - participation in art exhibitions.

1983 - National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

1983 - participation in international and All-Ukrainian art exhibitions, symposia, conferences, auctions.

1985 - awarded with an honorary diploma of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

1999 - awarded the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine".

2005 - awarded with the Diploma of the National Rating "Brand of the Year 2005".

2017 - awarded the medal "For sacrifice and love for Ukraine".

2017 - awarded the title "People's Artist of Ukraine".

2018 - awarded the award of the Kyiv organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine "Mytets" named after M. V. Lysenko.

Collections
  • National Art Museum of Ukraine.
  • Art funds of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
  • Funds of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
  • National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery".
  • National Complex "Expocenter of Ukraine", Ukrainian House, Kyiv.
  • State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
  • State art funds of Russia.
  • Foundations of the Union of Artists of Russia.
  • Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Russia, Moscow.
  • Funds of the USSR Academy of Arts, Moscow.
  • Funds of the Berlin Academy of Arts.
  • Lviv Museum of Atheism.
  • Yagotyn Historical Museum.
  • Izmail Art Gallery.
  • Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi historical and cultural reserve.
  • Ostroh historical and cultural reserve.
  • M. Trublaini Memorial Museum, Vinnytsia.
  • State Museum of Books and Book Printing, Kyiv.
  • Cherkasy Art Museum.
  • Stakhaniv History and Art Museum.
  • Chernihiv Art Museum.
  • Khmelnytskyi Art Museum.
  • Luhansk Art Museum.
  • National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. Memorial complex, Kyiv.
  • Sculpture Museum in the International Sculpture Park, Changchun, China.
  • Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago, USA.

Private collections in Ukraine, Sweden, France, USA, Switzerland, UAE.

EXHIBITIONS

MONUMENTAL MONUMENTS AND GARDEN AND PARK COMPOSITIONS:

2020 – restoration of Yuri Ruban’s sculptures “Bison” and “Lions” for the updated entrance to the Kyiv Zoo together with A. Ruban

2018 – Memorial plaques to V. I. Vernadsky and M. V. Zubets for the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (NAAS), Kyiv

2017 – Monument to Lesya Ukrainka (co-authored with A. Ruban), h-2.7m, bronze, Telavi, Georgia

2017 – Monument to A. Teliga (co-authored with A. Ruban), h-5.4m, bronze, granite, Kyiv

2014 – Monument to A. A. Shalimov (co-authored with A. Ruban), h-2.4 m, granite, Kyiv

2012 – Monument to N.V. Gogol, h-2.5m, bronze, granite, Shanghai, China

2009 – Monument to N.V. Gogol, h-2.7m, bronze, granite, town. Shyshaki, Poltava region

2000 – Monument to T. G. Shevchenko, h-4.5m, bronze, granite, Minsk

1996 – Sculptural composition “Grace”, h-2.5m, bronze, granite, Kyiv

1996 – Landscape composition “Boy”, h-1.6m, bronze, Kyiv

1995 – Monumental sculptural composition “Bull”, h-2.5m, bronze, Istanbul, Turkey

1993 – Sculptural composition “Balance”, h-1.2m, bronze, Lund, Sweden

1993 – Monument “Ursprung” (co-authored with A. Ruban), h-3m, Trelleborg, Sweden

1991 – Relief “National motives” (co-authored with A. Ruban), 9 x 3 m, plaster, p. Mytnitsa, Kyiv region

1991 – Monument to “Falled Soldiers in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”, h-3.5m, copper, p. Repki, Chernihiv region

1989 – Park composition “Bull”, h-1.2m, granite, bronze, Nikolaev

1987 – Park composition “Boy with a squirrel”, h-1.6m, bronze, Polyana village, Transcarpathian region

1985 – Monument “Peace”, h-3.7m, copper, granite, Gorodyansky district, Khmelnytskyi region

1984 – Monument "Victory", h-4m, copper, granite, p. Sirai, Chernihiv region