Oleksii Apollonov

Born in 1962, Kyiv.
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 1986. Since 2012, Apollonov has been a founding member of the Blue October creative team. He has regularly exhibited solo in Kyiv since 1997 and participated in group exhibitions in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, France, Georgia, Switzerland, Greece, and Bulgaria. His works have found their way to the collections of the National Museum “Kyiv Painting Gallery”, the Art Museum of Zaporizhia and the Art Museum of Kherson, Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). Living and working in Kyiv.

Personal exhibitions (selected)

2023 Embrace, Ducat Gallery, Kyiv

2022 Karpaty plus, Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv

2020 Zir. Olena Pryduvalova & Oleksii Apollonov. “Khlibnya” Gallery, St.Sophia of Kyiv National Conservation Area, Kyiv

2019 Enfant Terrible. Chocolate House Art Center, Kyiv

2018 Memento photo, “Kalita Art Club” Gallery, Kyiv

2018 merilyn-monroe, brigitte-bardot, “Kalita Art Club” Gallery, Kyiv

2017 Signs, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv

2016 Biopole, “Kalita Art Club” Gallery, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv

2015 Portrait in the interior, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Solo exhibition in the USA Embassy, Kyiv

2014 Open air paintings of different ages, “Triptih-Art” Gallery, Kyiv
The Black and White Series, painting, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
2013 The Artist’s Notepad, graphic, Karas Gallery, Kyiv

2011 Heroes, Karas Gallery, Kyiv

2010 Artist and Model, Karas Gallery, Kyiv

2009 Infanta, Karas Gallery, Kyiv

Group exhibitions (selected)

2024 The Samarkand Epic, “Kyiv Picture Gallery” National Museum, Kyiv

2023 Premonition of Victory, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

2022 Fortress. Artistic Walls of Kyiv, Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora, Kyiv

2019 Cultural Complexity, “Saphira & Ventura” Gallery, New York
Framing Reality. “Saphira and Ventura” Gallery, New York

2017 March, “Maister” Gallery, Kyiv

2016 November, “Maister” Gallery, Kyiv
Brothers. Dedication to Alfons and Mieczyslaw Kulakowski, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv
Crimean Album. Autonomus, Crimean House, Kyiv
Anno Domini – 2015, “Dzyga” Gallery, Lviv

2015 Grunwald-Art. International project. Poland, Ukraine, “Khlibnya” Gallery, St. Sophia of Kyiv National Conservation Area, Kyiv

2014 De Rerum Natura. Exhibition of the group “Blue October”, “KalitaArtClub” Gallery, Kyiv
Ukrainian Landscape, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Tylos ekspresija (The expression of the Silence), Kaunas, Lithuania
The Whole Truth about Crimea. “Khlibnya” Gallery, St.Sophia of Kyiv National Conservation Area, Kyiv
The Artist as a Model. Exhibition of the group “Blue October”, “KalitaArtClub” Gallery, Kyiv

2013 Hospital, “Kyiv Picture Gallery” National Museum, Kyiv
Under the sky of Olsztyn, “KalitaArtClub” Gallery, Kyiv
Under the sky of Olsztyn, “Sowa” ZPAP Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland

2008 Kyiv Apocrypha, Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Paris

Public collections
National Museum “Kyiv Painting Gallery”
Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU)
Zaporіzhzhya Art Museum
Kherson Art Museum
Karas Gallery, Kyiv
“Triptih” Gallery, Kyiv
“RA” Gallery, Kyiv
“KalitaArtClub” Gallery, Kyiv