Biography
Danila Tkachenko is a visual artist working with documentary photography. The main theme of his work is the identity. In the debut project “Transitional Age" he is interested in the transformation of a teenager’s identity – a child becomes an adult. In his following project "Escape" the focus shifts to the opposition of the individual and society. Danila researches the experience of hermits – people who live through decades alone with nature –and tries to find the answer for the critical questions: whether the individual freed from social environment becomes closer to his “true” self; and what happens to personality when it loses its "social mask." His recent project "Restricted Areas" is reflecting on the identity of a civilisation and its relations with technological advances. Deserted places that were once sites of national importance, buildings and machinery which are now relics of the past are photographed in a vacuum white space of eternal winter.
Education
2011-2014 Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, department of documentary photography (supervisor Valeriy Nistratov). Moscow, Russia
2013 Workshop with Davide Monteleone. Moscow, Russia
2012 Workshop "How to turn your project into a great photobook" (Hannes Wanderer, Peperoni Books). Moscow, Russia
2012 Workshop “From history in pictures to multimedia presentation” (Bas Vroege, Paradox photography). Moscow, Russia
2009-2010 School of photojournalism "News". Moscow, Russia
Prizes
2017 Kandinsky Prize (Finalist)
2016 The New East Photo Prize (shortlist)
2015 lacritique.org Award - Voies Off (Winner)
Emerging Photographer Fund grant (Winner)
Foam Talent (Winner)
Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Finalist)
PDN Photo Annual (Personal Сategory, Winner)
European Publishers Award For Photography (Winner)
CENTER Choice Awards (Director's Choice, Winner 1st place)
LensCulture Exposure Awards (Winner 1st place Series)
30 under 30, Magnum photos (Winner)
Photobook Melbourne Image Award, Australia (Finalist)
2014 Voies Off, France (Short list / Selections)
PHOTOVISA, Russia (Photoseries, 2nd prize)
Organ Vida, Croatia (Finalist)
Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Germany (Newcomer shortlist)
PDN Photo Annual, USA (Student Work, Winner)
World Press Photo, Netherlands (Staged Portraits, 1st prize stories)
30 Under 30, Magnum photos (Shortlist)
2012 Silver camera, Russia (Faces, Special prize)
Young man in the 21st century, Lithuania (Special prize)
Represented by Liza Fetissova Gallery (ex-Russiantearoom gallery) since 2015.
exhibitions
Solo shows
2020 Danila Tkachenko. Fotografische Projekte. Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 Heroes, Triangle Gallery, Moscou, Russia
2018 Lost Horizon, "Zamek" Culture Center, Poznan, Poland
Danila Tkachenko, Russia, 1989, Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Motherland, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Lost Horizon & Restricted Areas, UP Gallery, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Ritual, Galeria del Cembalo, Rome, Italy
Lost Horizon, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Big Unknown, Almanaque Gallery, Mexico, Mexico
2016 Restricted Areas, Skopia Art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Restricted Areas, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Restricted Areas, in the framework of European Month of Photography, Berlin. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany (15 September - 29 October)
Escape. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
Restricted Areas, in the framework of RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2016. Chapelle Saint-Martin du Méjan, Arles, France
Restricted Areas, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2015 Restricted Areas. Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Storie Sovietiche (3 artist show). Galleria del Cembalo, Rome, Italy
Escape, Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia
Escape, in the framework of Baltic Biennale "Photomania-2015", Art Platform "Gateway", Kaliningrad, Russia
2014 Escape, in the framework of 6th European Month of Photography. 25 books, Berlin, Germany
Selected group shows
2019 "Human Impact – Sicherheit und Gesellschaft", Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Special project "White Sun" in the framework of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
"Osmoscosmos", Centre de la Photographie Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Athens Photo Festival 2019, Athens, Greece
"A drill", Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Festival photo La Gacilly, La Gacilly, France
"KOLGA", The Folklore State Centre of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
"Art in flight. Depictions of flying in art from the 16th to the 21st centuries", Hans Erni Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
"Civilization The Way We Live Now", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China
2018 "Qatar Contemporary: Art and Photography", Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Civilization: The Way We Live Now", National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
QPN#22, Nantes, France
Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, the Center of Contemporary Photography "Le bleu du ciel", Lyon, France
"The space of Сonstitution", Meyerhold Center, Moscow, Russia
"Nomadic Mountains", Schunk Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
"(anti)thesis of architecture", CCA Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
Belgrade month of photography, Belgrade, Serbia
Fotografia Europea festival, Reggio Emillia, Italy
2017 International Young Artists Project, Daegu, South Korea
XII Krasnoyarsk Bieannale: ''Mir: the village and the world'', the Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk
E/T, Skopia Art contemporain, Geneve, Switzerland
International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
FotoFestival Naarden, Naarden, Netherlands
Bienale fotografica Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Cardiff, UK
"Proyecta 2017", Madrid, Spain
2016 New East Photo Prize, Rosphoto, Saint Petersburg, Russia
"Dialogue: contemporary art from Russia", Kim Bo Sung Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
SI FEST, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Russiantearoom gallery and curating agency, Paris, France
"Power and Architecture", Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
Riga Photography Biennale, National Museum of Art's Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
"On Disappearing And For Vanishing", Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
Festival of Political Photography, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Foam Talent 2015, l’Atelier Néerlandais, Paris, France
Delhi Photo Festival, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
IX Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
“Gimme Shelter - forts and fictions in the Lowlands”, Fort Nieuwersluis, Netherlands
"The Curve", Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA
Photoparade Uglich, Russia
“The Powers That Be”, Station Independent Projects, New York, USA
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athènes, Greece
"Escape". Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia
"The Anatomy of Forgiveness", Metropolitan Building, New York, USA
"Escape", in the framework of Baltic Biennale "Photomania-2015", Art Platform "Gateway", Kaliningrad, Russia
“I Sought Solitude”, South Square Centre, Bradford, UK
Lensculture Award exhibition at Photo London. Somerset House, London, UK
2014 "An Ocean of Possibilities". Museum TwentseWelle, Enschede, Netherlands
“OFF_Festival”. Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
Solo exhibition “Danila Tkachenko. Escape”, in the framework of 6th European Month of Photography. 25books, Berlin, Germany
VIII exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees. Udarnik cinema, Moscow, Russia
“Solitude”, in the framework of 21st Noorderlicht International Photo Festival. Natuurmuseum Fryslân, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
"Twelve Thinking Photographers", parallel event of Manifesta 10. First Cadets’ Corpus, St-Petersbourg, Russia
2013 "Die Brücke / Most" festival. Slubice, Poland / Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
"On the block". New Holland cultural center, St-Petersbourg, Russia
2012 “Young Russian photography 2012 2/2. Reality/Decoration”. Center for Art and Music and Library V.V. Mayakovsky, St-Petersbourg, Russia
"Student Art PROM". ARTPLAY design center, Moscow, Russia
2011 "Person on the move". Swissotel Krasnye Holmy, Moscow, Russia
"Young photography", Fotodepartament, St-Petersbourg, Russia
2010 "Steps". Photo Center, Moscow, Russia
Publications
CNN (UK), Fubiz, Vostok (Corea), Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Wilderness (Germany), Fotocult (Italy), Esquire (Russia), Calvert Journal (UK), GQ (France), LIFE magazine (China), Wired (Japan), Popular Mechanics, BBC In pictures (UK), Wired Photo, The Idea List (Germany), Telegraph Magazine (UK), Kommersant newspaper (Russia), NZZ foto-tableau (Switzerland), The National Geographic, Wired Italia , Wired UK, New Scientist (UK), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), The National Geographic (international)// BBC Culture (UK) // The Guardian online (UK) // GUP Magazine (Netherlands) // IMA Magazine (Japan) // Lenscratch // Bird In Flight (Russia) // De Morgen (Belgium) // The Washington Post // Fotografia Magazine // British Journal of Photography // Camera Austria 127 // CNN Photo Blog (USA) // SPIEGEL ONLINE (Germany), // Hatje Cantz fotoblog (Germany) // Photonews Blogbuch (Germany) // Vrij Nederland (Netherlands) // LensCulture // La Mula (Peru) // Oitzarisme (Romania), // Darwin Magazine (UK) // Photographer.ru (Russia) // Phases Photography Magazine // The Village (Russia)
