Yuri Kosin


Yuri Kosin was a Ukrainian photographer, lecturer, curator of exhibitions, and traveler. Kosin was a member of the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine, tutor and curator at the Independent Academy of the Photographic Arts of Ukraine, organizer and curator of the "Eksar" photo gallery, Ukraine. He was also a member of the "Kulturforum" association and the artistic studio "Kulturwerkstatt Trier", Germany.
Kosin was a permanent member of the Ukrainian TV programme "Svoimy ochyma" dedicated to travel and tourism. He was named one of the experts in photography criticism in Ukraine in expert poll conducted in 2011 and was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
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Biography

Kosin was born on 26 September 1948 in Kompaniivka, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. In 1974 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. For some time he worked as an engineer, but later he became fond of art and photography. In 1988 he graduated from Kiev Institute of Journalism. In 1977 he was co-curator of
avant-garde association «Rukh» and underground exhibition, in which were artists: Mikola Trehub, Vudon Baklitsky, Alexander Kostetsky, Olena Golub, Nicholas Zalevsky and others. Later Kosin organized a lot of exhibitions, mostly photography, both his personally and for groups.
Kosin later lived in Irpin. His daughter Vera Kosina is a photographer too. She lives and works in Poland. Yuri Kosin died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 74.

Achievements in photography

Since 1987 Yuri Kosin has participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia, the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lithuania and France. Many of his works are included in private collections in Switzerland, the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. There are also some of Kosin's pictures placed in The Photography Fund in Moscow, the Latvian Museum of Photography in Riga, Lancaster University, the National Historical Museum of Ukraine. For over 20 years Yuri Kosin has been engaged in organizing photo exhibitions of Ukrainian artists.
In the 1980s, Yuri Kosin created his own artistic method which was subsequently named the "transgression". From 1980 to 1990, "transgression" was achieved by a partial physical and chemical destruction of the emulsion.

Personal exhibitions

  • 1988 – "Interconnection", exhibition hall of the association of artists of Ukraine, Kiev, Soviet Union
  • 1990 – "Infected Zone", Budinok Pismennika, Kiev, Soviet Union
  • 1991 – "The world we lost", "Kinocentr", Moscow, Soviet Union
  • 1992 – "Chernobyl", International art gallery, Minneapolis, USA
  • 1994 – Performance "Building model of contemporary mind" Irpin, Ukraine
  • 1995 – "Transgression", Creative academy "Bezalel", Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1996 – "Transgression", French cultural center, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 1997 – Performance "Creative advertisement", Irpin, Ukraine
  • 1998 – "Chernobyl", Ministry of Environment, Mainz, Germany
  • 2000 – "Endless photography", gallery "RA", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2001 – "Contemporary art", "Art Club 44", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2002 – Gallery "Dim Mikoli", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2003 – Action "Cry in the Water", Irpin, Ukraine
  • 2004 – Action "Cry in the Sky", Irpin, Ukraine
  • 2005 – "Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine", gallery "RA-photo", "Fotobienale" month of photography in Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2006 – "Chernobyl–20", Harvard University, Washington, New-York, USA
  • 2010 – "Reality of the “phenomenon"”, gallery of the Lithuanian Photographers’ Union, Vilnius, Lithuania
Participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia and France.

Group exhibitions

  • 1988 – "The Hot Trace". The Palace of Youth. Moscow, Soviet Union.
  • 1991 – Exhibition of the Ukrainian Artists' Union. Culture Centre. Kiev, Ukraine.
  • 1994 – "Three Perspectives". Town Hall. Menden, Germany.
  • 1995 – "Cherkassy-95". Exhibition Hall of Ukrainian Artists' Union. Cherkasy, Ukraine.
  • 1996 – "Ukrpressphoto-96". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine.
  • 1997 – "Blitz Exhibition". The Artsyz Gallery". Kiev, Ukraine.
  • 2003 – "Defining Dictionary", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2006 – "Once upon a time Chernobyl", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Curator work

  • 1997 – "Lege Artist", photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1998 – "Paradzhanov", photography by A. Vladimirov, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 1999 – "Deliberate reality", photography by O. Polisyuk, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2002 – "Through this air the God is looking at me", photography by Ivan Zhdanov, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2003 – "Position", gallery "Lavra", Fotobienale – 2003 "Month of photography in Kiev", Kiev, Ukraine

Competitions

  • First all-union slide-festival "Kharkiv-90" – First prize
  • National contest of documentary pictures "Ukrpressphoto-94" – First prize
  • National contest of documentary pictures "Ukrpressphoto-94" – First, third and special prizes
  • "Photographer of the year", annals "Academia" – first prize
  • Blitz-contest photo festival "Artsyz-97”

Collections