Nikolay Karabinovych

Nikolay Karabinovych lives and works between Antwerp, Amsterdam and Kyiv. The artist engages with a variety of media, including video, sound, text, and performance. In 2020 and 2018, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Special Prize. In 2021 he graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. In 2017, Karabinovych was an assistant curator of the 5th Odessa Biennale. His work has been shown at M HKA (Antwerp, BE), PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, UA), Jewish Museum of Belgium (BE), Museum of Modern Art, Odesa (UA). In his artistic practice, Karabinovych addresses complex social (hi)stories, particularly those from the expanses of Eastern Europe combining them with personal family narratives. In his work, which questions notions of identity, belonging and exclusion, the artist often refers to music, which plays an important role in his practice. He revisits epochal songs, genres and personalities and uses their ability to illuminate a different era in a different climate or socio-political arena.