Mykola Ridnyi

*1985 / Ukraine

Works

Solo exhibitions

Loss of Vision

Foto Forum, Bolzano (IT)
20 Nov 2024 – 21 Dec 2024

Group

Ukrainian Dreamers: The Kharkiv School of Photography

Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Vilnius (LT)
23 Apr 2026 – 20 Sep 2026

with Sergey Bratkov, Igor Chekachkov, Viktor & Sergiy Kochetov, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Bella Logachova, Oleg Maliovany, Boris Mikhailov, Evgeny Pavlov, Evgeny Pavlov, Misha Pedan, Roman Pyatkovka …
Ghostland

Fotografia Europea 2026

Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia (IT)
30 Apr 2026 – 14 Jun 2026

with Indre Serpytyte, Zoé Aubry, Sara Bezovšek, Carolyn Drake, Alisa Martynova, Visvaldas Morkevicius, Vaste Programme
fluid lines and broken fittings

Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (DE)
23 May 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Andrea Buettner, Rabih Mroue, Hito Steyerl
Früchte des Zorns -Versuch einer Annäherung: Ukraine

Fruits of Wrath – Attempt at comprehension: Ukraine

Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (DE)
20 Jan 2023 – 19 Mar 2023

with Sergey Bratkov, Johanna Diehl, Boris Mikhailov, Hito Steyerl, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Ukraine: the road to freedom

Ukrainian photography from the 1970s to the present.

Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (NL)
10 Sep 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

with Lisa Bukreyeva, Alexander Chekmenev, Maxim Dondyuk, Kirill Golovchenko, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Sasha Kurmaz, Boris Mikhailov, Mikhail Palinchak, Oksana Parafeniuk, Evgeny Pavlov, Viacheslav Poliakov, Mila Teshaieva
To Watch the War

The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2022)

coalmine Fotogalerie, Winterthur (CH)
18 Sep 2022 – 18 Dec 2022

with Yuriy Hrystyna, Dana Kavelina, Oksana Kazmina, Myro Klochko & Anatoliy Tatarenko, Hito Steyerl, Oleksandr Surovtsov, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei
Ein Krieg in der Ferne. Prolog

Die umkämpfte Ukraine in Videokunst und Film

Neue Galerie Graz, Graz (AT)
1 Jul 2022 – 1 Aug 2022

with Pavel Braila, Zoya Laktionova
Artists for Ukraine

Solidaritätsaktion für die Ukraine

MuseumsQuartier Q21, Wien (AT)
3 Mar 2022 – 1 May 2022

with Anna Jermolaewa, Nikita Kadan, Yuri Leidermann, Hito Steyerl, Clemens von Wedemeyer
What Matters – Werkpräsentation

JUNGE AKADEMIE: Sound- und Videoinstallationen, Fotografien, Skulpturen, Gemälde und Performances von 29 Stipendiat*innen

Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
13 Mar 2022 – 10 Apr 2022

with Ferhat Bouda, Yvon Chabrowski, Olivier Foulon, Annette Frick, Simone Haug, Ruth Kaaserer, Sasha Kurmaz, Sophia Pompéry
The Forbidden Image

PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (UA)
28 Jun 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

with Sergey Bratkov, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov, Evgeny Pavlov, Sergiy Solonsky
12th edition of Kaunas Biennial

Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (LT)
7 Jun 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Bas Jan Ader, Jasmina Cibic, Johanna Diehl, Ieva Epnere, Aslan Goisum, Christian Jankowski, Taus Makhacheva, Adrian Melis, Arturas Morozovas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Robertas Narkus, Amalia Pica …
THE IMAGE OF WAR

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
20 Sep 2017 – 14 Jan 2018

with Indre Serpytyte, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mari Bastashevski, David Claerbout, Phil Collins, Iman Issa, Alfredo Jaar, Guelsuen Karamustafa, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Rabih Mroue, Trevor Paglen …
PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: distant realities

An exhibition series on fine-art photography in the digital age

Pinakothek der Moderne, München (DE)
30 Sep 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with Ilit Azoulay, Mishka Henner, Inga Kerber, Erin Shirreff
A Sense of History.

Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
19 Mar 2016 – 18 Dec 2016

with Halil Altindere, Maria Thereza Alves, Yael Bartana, Hartmut Bitomsky, Filipa Cesar, Clemens von Wedemeyer / Maya Schweizer, Christoph Draeger, Jimmie Durham, Dan Graham, Nate Harrison, Helmut Herbst / Friedrich Heubach, Rebecca Horn …
Sventsovs Camera

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
15 Jul 2016 – 6 Nov 2016

with Guenter Brus, Marcel Noack, Sandra Schubert, Mikhail Tolmachev, Artur Zmijewski, Miron Zownir

Events

Manifesta 16 Ruhr

Manifesta 16, Essen (DE)
21 Jun 2026 – 3 Oct 2026

with Halil Altindere, Miroslaw Balka, Aline Bouvy, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ayse Erkmen, Niklas Goldbach, Nicolas Grospierre, Mona Hatoum, Annika Kahrs, Sejla Kameric, Eva Kotatkova, Katarzyna Kozyra …
Open Air Cinema by Videoart at Midnight

Videoart at Midnight, Berlin (DE)
10 Sep 2025 – 14 Sep 2025

with Lucy Beech, Clement Cogitore, Azin Feizabadi, Dana Kavelina, Cyrill Lachauer, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Moritz Stumm & Stefan Neuberger, Simon Dybbroe Moeller, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz , James Richards, Marianna Simnett, Jordan Strafer …
Fotograf Festival #12

Fotograf 07 z.s., Praha (CZ)
8 Sep 2022 – 30 Oct 2022

with Ulf Aminde, Norman Behrendt, Anetta Mona Chisa, Jasmina Cibic, Jakob Ganslmeier, Tomas Kajanek, Susanne Keichel, Randa Maroufi, Ludwig Rauch, belit sag, Karolina Wojtas, Artur Zmijewski
transmediale 2019

What moves you?

transmediale, Berlin (DE)
31 Jan 2019 – 3 Feb 2019

with !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Emilija Škarnulyte, Filipa Cesar, Baruch Gottlieb, Louis Henderson, Adelita Husni-Bey, Liza Johnson, Stanya Kahn, Brigitta Kuster, Jana Mueller, Maha Maamoun, Bjoern Melhus …
Videoart at Midnight #148

Babylon Mitte, Berlin (DE)