Vitalii Shupliak (; born 23 February 1993 in Berezhany, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist who currently lives in Berlin.Семенік, О. Віталій Шупляк: «Для мене важливим є експеримент, гра з формою, спостереження» // Korydor. — 2020. — 14 квітня. Son of Oleh Shupliak, grandson of Nina Shupliak.
Biography Education: 2010 — Berezhany State Art School, 2013 — Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku (Poland),Віталій Шупляк // Лабораторія міждисциплінарних практик 2014 — Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ukraine), 2018 — Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan (Poland), 2019 — Braunschweig University of Art (Germany).
He was a participant in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program.
He mainly works with video, installation, and performance. Vitalii often focuses on the issues of identity, migration, broadly understood borders, and relations between reality and virtuality. In 2013-14 member of the group Carrousel, in 2014— 2017 Vitalii Shupliak initiated Pi Gallery and since 2019 develops Kruta Art Residency.
Shupliak is an author of 10Художник Виталий Шупляк — резидент фонда Изоляция // Ізоляція. — 2019. — 22 жовтня. solo exhibitions and participant of several group exhibitions and festivals worldwide.Протирая Брюки — выставка резидента фонда ИЗОЛЯЦИЯ Виталия Шупляка // Ізоляція, 7.11.2019.Vitalii Shupliak // Vita
Selected solo exhibitions: 2019 — Wearing out trousers, IZONE, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 — Message to heaven, Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany 2018 — ID, please Rodriguez Gallery, as part of the festival in Malta, Poznan, Poland 2018 — Rotational speed, einRaum, Braunschweig, Germany 2017 — Signals, Vozdvizhenka House of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine 2017 — Skraj/ność, OKO/UCHO Gallery, Poznań, Poland 2014 — Practical Action, Detenpyla Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Awards 2 Minutes shorts Award ex aequo at the 34th International Film Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) initial award 13 In out festival at the Lania Center for Contemporary Art (Gdańsk, Poland) main award of FilmFestSpezial in Kunstlerhaus (Hannover, Germany).
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External links Official website