Serhii Korabelnikov | Kefe

Artist Statement

Köfe is the medieval Ottoman name for a city in Crimea, today known as Feodosia, located on the southeast coast of the Black Sea. Before the Ottomans conquered the coastal areas in Crimea, the Genoese Italians lived there.

Serhii Korabelnikov’s latest painting Kefe portrays an evening coastal view of the historical 14th-century wall and tower, which are the remains of a Genoese fortress in Feodosia. Korabelnikov’s sensitively perceives global changes in the modern world by looking at architectural and cultural monuments being destroyed to make space for modern replacements. Unlike previous regional artists who had the opportunity to portray their historical landscape, today, especially in Crimea, artists are faced with large fences built by officials who are only interested in expanding their land developments. Therefore, the artist tried to capture all possible remains of cultural heritage, now slowly being consumed by modernity, through pictorial echoes of a vanishing era.

Artist CV

Education

2014 – 2020
The National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Bachelor and Masters Degrees, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 – 2014
Simferopol College of Art named after M. Samokish

2007 – 2011
Yevpatorian School of Art named after Viktor Volkov

Group Exhibitions

2017 – 2019
Studio of hyper-realistic art by Dara Gallopini, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2019 
Auction, exhibition of young artists in Krakow, Poland.

2018 
Exhibition dedicated to the Day of Crimean Tatars Culture at the. Boryspil Airport, Kyiv.

Exhibition, a day dedicated to the culture of the Crimean Tatars in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2017
“Edge of Talent”, Kyiv, Ukraine, The House of Artists

2016
Exhibition of young Crimean artists in the city of Simferopol,  Crimea, Ukraine

Museum of Ukrainian Literature, Kyiv, Ukraine

Exhibition of portraits in the gallery “Artist”, Kiev, Ukraine

2015 
“Edge of Talent”, House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine

Contests/Prizes:

2018
Participation in the All-Ukrainian competition for painting “Silver Easel”

2018
Participation in the All-Ukrainian competition for painting “Silver Easel”, won the prize

2018
Competition named after Alexander Murashko at the Kyiv National Art Academy, first place and prize for the work “Portrait of the Crimean Tatar”

2013
Participation in the competition in the art school for the watercolour, urban landscape

Publications

Illustrations of the book by Muhammad Asad-, -“Road to Mecca”-, – Ukrainian edition, – 2019-

“Young Artists of Crimea,Vol.1”-, -2018-

“Young Artists of Crimea, Vol.2”-, -2020-