Oleksandr Lyapin

Oleksandr Lyapin

Autobiography

I was born near a swamp in a village, 11 years after war finished.
There was a field by my house. Strawbaries. The watcher tried to shoot me.
I was two years old.
That was the time I was inspired by photography.
Father gave me a camera «Smena 2» with charged film, cuz i was unableto do it (charging film into the camera).
And i went to shoot the watcher. Since then I'm photographing.
I dreamed about doing passport photographs. But this dream did not come true.
My granny told me that I have to go to the museum. And she lead me to the museum.
I was scared cuz I had to go by the underground.
The museum guide was lying and I told him that I can do this better by myself. It was 1961. Scine then i talk about art.
That guide got fired.
I was not taken to Komsomol, cuz I played drums too loud.

Selected Exhibitions

2012

Neofolk project, Ya Gallery art center's project within GOGOLFEST 2012, curated by Pavlo Gudimov

Catalog of the author's works
18.04.2018 – 07.05.2018
Exhibition Kyiv Ya Gallery Art Centre
04.10.2025 – 28.12.2025
Exhibition Kyiv Horyva 49B
16.05.2025 – 20.07.2025
Exhibition Kyiv/ Horyva 49B Ya Gallery Kyiv
15.05.2025 – 31.08.2025
17.10.2024 – 15.12.2024
Exhibition Kyiv Khoryva 49B
20.09.2024 – 12.01.2025
Exhibition Lviv Shota Rustaveli 8
18.07.2024 – 13.10.2024
Exhibition Lviv, Zelena 20 Ya Gallery Penthouse
06.06.2024 – 11.08.2024
Exhibition Kyiv Horyva 49 B
25.04.2024 – 14.07.2024
Exhibition Lviv, Zelena 20, 4th floor Ya Gallery Penthouse
06.02.2024 – 24.03.2024
Exhibition Lviv Cathedral Square 9
01.12.2023 – 04.02.2024
Exhibition Lviv Cathedral Square 9
30.11.2023 – 11.02.2024
Exhibition Lviv Ya Gallery
12.09.2023 – 04.11.2023
Exhibition Lviv Sensoteka, Ulas Samchuk Street, 22
20.09.2023 – 11.10.2023
18.08.2023 – 18.08.2024
Exhibition Lviv Stryiskyi park