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+++ This exhibition ran from 27 October to 26 November 2023. +++

Karabinovych has made a substantial an ongoing series of collages and works on paper. Balancing poetics, politics, absurdity and satirical humour, the collages are both delicate and prosaic. Particularly active in making the collages since 2020, including through the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the collages cover such themes as war, reportage, history, religion and the natural world, with his use of handwritten text bringing a certain wit and criticality to the compositions. This presentation at Muhka presented a key selection of these works on paper for the first time in his new home of Antwerp.

Karabinovych’s work has been shown extensively at public institutions including: Muhka, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; HKW, Berlin; Belgium Jewish Museum, Brussels; W139, Amsterdam; Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv; amongst many others. He has also participated in the Kaunas Biennale (2023) the Kyiv Biennale (2021 and 2023) and in the parallel programme of 59th Venice Biennale. In 2020, he graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. Karabinovych was an assistant curator of the 5th Odessa Biennale in 2017, and in 2020, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize.