Malykh Oleksii

Top artist

Year of birth 1956

Place of birth Berlin, Germany

Place of living and work Kyiv

About myself and my artworks

Malykh has a house in the Carpathians. Once we celebrated the New Year there. Wolves were howling all around, and the snow was waist-deep. You felt like having been brought to the ancient times by a time-machine, and the “shadows of forgotten ancestors” were wandering around you. Perhaps, it was this place that shaped him as an artist.

He grew up in Kyiv, studied in Moscow, but when you look at what he does – molfar! He gathers various boards, twigs, and paints them with secret signs – molfar. Even when he uses decent canvas/oil, he still creates magic!

Once, art was born as magic. Malykh continues the tradition, covering the canvas with secret signs only he knows. And since he’s an “innate” colorist and has an animal sense of color, the result is splendid. I’ve seen his works in modern cottages over fireplaces – the cottages turned into fairy-tale castles at once.

Artist's paintings and sculptures

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EXHIBITIONS

2019

VIII All-Ukrainian Triennial of Painting (II Prize), Central House of Artists, Kyiv

And the biennial of levkas, CSM "White World", Kyiv

2018

"Letters from Babylon" (Alexey Malykh, Marina Afanasyeva), CSM "White World", Kyiv

"Letters from Babylon", personal exhibition, gallery "To Tu", Rzeszow, Poland

Carpathian Space International Art Festival, object in space, Ivano-Frankivsk

2017

"Remembering Mtskheta" (Alexey Malykh, Marina Afanasyeva), Sumy Municipal Gallery. Sumy

"Night of Museums in Sumy", an object in space. Sumy

"Signs of border". Plein air, participation in a group exhibition, Jawornik Polski, Poland

"The White World. Scythia. Plein air, participation in a group exhibition. CSM "White World", Kyiv

"IX" (Victor Ryzhikh, Alexey Malykh, Elena Ryzhikh), CSM "White World", Kiev

Participation in the intermuseum project "Milky Way", National Center of Folk Culture "Museum of Ivan Honchar", Kyiv

Participation in the Biennale of Abstract Art. Central House of Artists, Kyiv

"Exhibition of three" (Alexey Malykh, Valery Shkarupa, Leonid Bernat). Museum of Ukrainian Painting, Dnipro

2016

"Remembering Mtskheta" (Alexey Malykh, Marina Afanasyeva), CSM "White World", Kyiv

"Rover for Air", personal exhibition, gallery "Triptych ART", Kyiv

"Open Air", personal exhibition, Sky Art Gallery, Kyiv

2015

"Lviv Walls", personal exhibition, gallery "On Spasskaya", Mykolaiv

Lviv Walls, personal exhibition, Nasha Gallery, Sumy

"Beautiful Carpathians", personal exhibition, gallery "ART BLOCK", Energodar

Lviv Walls, personal exhibition, Triptych ART Gallery, Kyiv

"The movement of time." Levkas. Solo exhibition, gallery "Bilous Location"

Lviv Walls, personal exhibition, Triptych ART Gallery, Kyiv

"Genius of the Place" (Alexei Malykh, Alexander Vereshchak). The project in the "Art Arsenal".

2014

"The breath of the earth. Arche ”(co-author of the idea, curator and participant of the group project), Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv

Solo exhibition "Out of Nowhere, Nowhere, Nowhere…", ABC Gallery, Kyiv

"Hello, naive", group exhibition, museum. Vereshchagina, Nikolaev

2013

Personal exhibition "Trace", gallery "Triptych ART", Kyiv

Group exhibition (plein air), Cartel Gallery, Malaga, Spain

2012

Personal exhibition "Archemif", gallery "Triptych ART", Kyiv

2011

"Breath of the Earth", (co-author of the idea, curator and participant of the project), Center for Contemporary Art "M 17", Kyiv

"Territory of the Soul", Festival of Contemporary Art, Chernihiv

Personal exhibition, Primus Gallery, Lviv

Solo exhibition, Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

Personal exhibition "Well and Nude", gallery "RA", Kyiv

2010

Personal exhibition "L&M", office of "Asters", Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Levkas", gallery "Triptych", Kyiv

2009

Solo exhibition "The Last Day of Autumn", Municipal Gallery, Sumy

Solo exhibition "Second Day of October", Bottega Gallery, Kyiv

Summertime, RA Gallery, Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Molfar", Municipal Gallery, Energodar

2008

Personal exhibition "Mayan Light. Introversion ", Bottega Gallery, Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Beautiful Carpathians", gallery "Triptych", Kyiv

"Mano end hand." Joint project with Elger Raul Aragundi (Ecuador), RA Gallery, Kyiv

2007

Personal exhibition "Heaven and Earth", Gallery "RA", Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Mayan Light", "White Gallery", Kyiv

Musical and visual performance "After", Musical Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth, Kyiv

2006

Personal exhibition "Solarium". Triptych Gallery, Kyiv

"Modern painting. Fornication. Small ». Exhibition hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Zaporozhye

Personal exhibition "F major", gallery "LENIN", Zaporozhye

Personal exhibition "F major", gallery "RA", Kyiv

Solo exhibition "Postscriptum", exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv

2005

Group exhibition of Ukrainian artists at the Municipal Gallery of Salzburg, Austria

2004

Personal exhibition "Molfaria". Triptych Gallery, Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Earth and Water". Ra Gallery, Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Shaman and Venus". The program "Museum of Contemporary Art". Soviart Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv

2002

Exhibition "Between Heaven and Earth". Gallery "University", Kyiv

Exhibition of Four, Hoy y manana Gallery, Althea, Spain

Personal exhibition. Tuset Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Personal exhibition "Absence of presence". Tau Whale Gallery, Kyiv

2001

Creative symposium and personal exhibition, Limache, Chile

Solo exhibition "Space of Bamboo", Gallery "36", Kyiv

Painting Exhibition, Khlibna Exhibition Hall, Sofia Kyivska National Reserve, Kyiv

Second International Art Festival, Magdeburg, Germany

2000

Personal exhibition "Garden of Stones", Gallery "M", Kyiv

Personal exhibition "Sitlo, space, color". HUF - HAUS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Group exhibition "Contemporary Ukrainian Art", Bank "Austria", Vienna, Austria
Personal exhibition "Vienna Boduns", Tadzio Gallery, Kyiv

Exhibition "K + M", gallery "Creativity", Moscow

First International Art Festival, Magdeburg, Germany

"Noah's Ark" - a painting of Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century. National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

Collections and private collections
Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Art Gallery of Ukraine, Kyiv
Bank Aval, Kyiv

Volksbank, Neuenkirchen, Germany
"HUF - HAUS", Germany

Sparkasse Bank, Magdeburg, Germany

Private collection of Igor Dychenko, Kyiv

Kyiv Museum of Contemporary Art

Zaporizhia Art Museum

Sumy Art Museum

Museum of Ukrainian Painting, Dnipro