SOLO SHOWS AND PROJECTS
2025Proxies, Szuper Gallery, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami, US
2018Ilko Gallery, Uzhhorod
2015Szupernova, Vozdvyzhenka Arts House, Kyiv, (Catalogue)
2012Ballet Granite, Slow Cooling Rocks, PERMM, Contemporary Art Museum of Perm, Russia
2011Performance of Ballet The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2010BALLET, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK
2008The Extras, A Staged Performance for Canadian Prairie, Regina, Canada
2007Work/Arbeit/Rabota, Artists Studio, London
Szuper Gallery, Les Complices, Zurich
2006The Extras, Szuper Gallery, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2005Nightshifts, Western Front, Vancouver
The Extras, Live Art Biennial, Vancouver
Rehearsing the Extras, Performance, Forum Box, Helsinki
2004homeland security - something always follows something else, Para/Site Art space, Hong Kong
2002gallery fiction, KünstlerHaus, Bremen
QUIVID, Technisches Rathaus München, Munich
2001-05LIFTARCHIV, KVR, München, www.liftarchiv.de
2001Circus artists under the big top: clueless - and other business strategies, Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
mobile parasitic architecture, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
Szuper Gallery, Künstlerhaus, Bremen
2000Venice, Installation, openings days the Tate Modern, a part of South London Gallery program, London
1999Daytrading is the New Rock ‘n Roll, ICA, London
Creativity versus Commerce, Audio-Performance, ICA, London
199830 Underwood Street Gallery, London
Galerie Brighi presente Szuper Gallery, Galerie Szuper, Paris
Contemporary Art, Szuper Gallery, München
Szuper, Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Police, Galerie 03 Würzburg, Pudelclub Hamburg and Shedhalle Zurich
1997Schwerelose Radikale, Blank Gallery, Kiev
1996Clausen, Hilt, Kerestej zeigen Larry Clark, Galerie Szuper, Munich
1995Radikaler Chic, Galerie Szuper, München
Schwerelose Radikale, Galerie Szuper, Munich
"Swerelose Radikale", Blank Gallery , Kiev
1991Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Me Me Me, Pioneer Center, Uzhgorod, UA
Jean Claude David Galerie, Grenoble
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2026Glimmering Connections. Ukrainian Painting at the Turn of the 1990s and Today, Curator: Oleksandr Soloviov. Co-curator: Ihor Oksametnyi.
The exhibition includes works that illuminate the context and key figures of the art scene of the 1990s, including Illya Chichkan, Vasyl Tsagolov, Oleksandr Rojtburd, Andrii Sahaidakovskyi, Oleksander Hnylytskyj, Oleg Holosiy, Valeria Trubina, Dmytro Kavsan, Maxim Mamsikov, Leonid Vartyvanov, Igor Gusev, Simon Stamatov, Volodymyr Yershykhin, Pavlo Kerestey, Oleksandr Klymenko, Sergiy Panych, Vasiliy Ryabchenko, Yuriy Solomko, and Myroslav Yahoda.
Alongside them are works by contemporary artists: Kateryna Lysovenko, Nikita Kadan, Kateryna Aliinyk, Lesia Khomenko, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Olga Stein, Anton Saienko, Yuriy Bolsa, Ivan Grabko, Ksenia Hnylytska, Ola Yeriemieieva, Lucy Ivanova, Katya Kopeikina, Olena Kurzel, Yuri Leiderman, Krystyna Melnyk, Roman Mykhailov, Marharyta Polovinko, Vlada Ralko, Karina Synytsia, and Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh).
Mystetskyj Arsenal, Kyiv, UA
Milvus Research Center (MARC). "Radio Walk", Joint residency with Teta Tsybuljnyk, Yaroslav Futymsky and Harry Krajevets
"Scattered Communities", second round implemented by Asortymentna Kimnata and Insha Osvita with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Goethe-Institut, UA
2025Proxies, Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Kerestey, Szuper Gallery at Voloshyn Gallery, Miami
Milvus Research Center (MARC). Joint residency with Susanne Clausen
Mostly Mined Out, curated by Nastia Khlestova and Maksym Khodak, with Yehor Antsyhin, Lia Dostlieva & Andrii Dostliev, Diana Fedoriaka, Vira Hanzha, Lucy Ivanova, Pavlo Kerestey, Alina Kleytman, Anastasiia Leliuk, Kateryna Lysovenko, Oleh Perkowsky, Stanislava Pinchuk, Vova Vorotniov
<ROTOR> contemporary Art Centre, Graz, A
2024"Scattered Communities", first round, implemented by Asortymentna Kimnata and Insha Osvita with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Goethe-Institut, UA
"Szilvasi Circles", group exhibition, National Culture House with Contemporary art Museum, Kyiv, UA
Sentience, curated by Lilia Kudelia, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami, USA
"The monumental depictions of nettles by Pavlo Kerestey paintings appeal to the brain’s alert system. What may be understood as a trigger or threat at first sight can be easily tamed through the careful analysis of the mechanisms of nervous system response and the untangling of mythology. The insight of an animal’s growl and the intelligence of the plant’s stinging hair redirect attention to the idea of resources being guarded. Indeed, we should think about the value of a growl in canine communication as prevention from conflict escalation. Similarly, the needles of the stinging nettle that painfully inject histamines under human’s skin do so only at the moment of contact. More than anything, the depiction of this charismatic plant in Kerestey’s paintings reminds the viewer of inspiring stories about trickster characters in Eastern and Western mythology - saints, ascetics and fairy-tale heroes (like the 12 wild swans) - who survived by taming the dangerous plant. Much like writer Aaron Hill describes it: “Tender-handed, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains. Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains…" Lilia Kudelia
Optical Prostheses, part of Danylo Halkin exhibition at the Maison de la Culture Amiens, FR
"Echoing gesture of preservation carried out by Danylo Halkin, the video work Cleaning FMK (2008) by Pavlo Kerestey shows this artist, born in Ukraine in 1962 and involved during the socialist era in the creation of stained glass windows, taking care of a monumental ensemble of stained glass windows located at the plywood furniture factory in Uzhhorod. The camera is facing the work of which we only see part and where we can distinguish a series of words translating socialist values: "peace", "work", "liberty", "equality", "fraternity". The artist climbs the ladder and begins to slowly clean the glass surface and the metal structure. Although many artists in socialist Ukraine were involved in the production of ideological works, the video shifts the focus from the grand narratives of the past to the destiny and finesse of an object and destiny of an artist in particular. Hence, after having lived outside Ukraine, Kerestey returns there and decides to realize and document a micro gesture of care towards an object, carrying the memory of the past and whose disappearance would lead to erosion individual and collective memories."
2023"Українська правда" в партнерстві з Voloshyn Gallery, благодійний аукціон робіт сучасних українських митців і мисткинь. Kyiv, UA
Milvus Research Center (MARC). Joint residency with Yaroslav Futymskyi. The residency is part of the Kindling project organised by Alex Fisher together with MARC, Baltic Art Center, Sorry No Rooms Available, and soma.majsternja, with the support of Swedish Institute.
Z.K.M. Karlsruhe, DE , Antiwarcoalition.art, 15 video works by artists and 24 slogans written by artists on the issue of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The main aim of this action through slogans is to provoke emotional reactions and contribute to dissatisfaction and frustration with Russian aggression and the inertia and indecision of Western politics, but also to express our support for the Ukrainian people. The selection of the artworks from the antiwarcoalition.art platform aims at reminding about the ongoing violence, occupation and violation of human rights just in the “remote neighbourhood”. The works united in the screening attempt to stress on the fact that each of us (all around the world) in one way or another is affected by this war — physically, economically, psychologically. This is a shared tragedy as well as the shared responsibility that enables genocide in the 21st century. Bergamot (BY), Bouillon Group (GE), Anna Chkolnikova (BY), Rezzan Gümgüm (TR), Yurii Ivantsyk (UA), Zhanna Kadyrova (UA),Alevtina Kakhidze (UA),Maksym Khodak (UA), Toni Meštrović (HR), Vlada Ralko (UA), Red Forest (DE), Anna Scherbyna (UA), Olia Sosnovskaya & a.z.h. (BY), Nastia Teor (UA), Clemens von Wedemeyer (DE), Oksana Chepelyk (UA), Katarzyna Wojtczak (PL), Igor Sevcuk (BA/NL), Group Bouillon (GE), Johan Widén (SE) , Lena Davidovich (BY), Zhanna Gladko (BY), Bedia Güven (TR) , Myriam Thyes (DE), Daria Maiier (UA) and äsc3ea (UA), Nadya Sayapina (BY), Alisa Sizykh (UA), Helmut Schweizer (DE), Pavlo Kerestey (DE), Andrei Dureika (BY), AnimaeNoctis (IT), Lesia Pcholka (BY), Antonina Stebur (BY), Aleksander Komarov (BY/DE), Maxim Tyminko (BY/DE), Nikita Kadan (UA), Sergey Shabohin (BY)
Anniversary of Caring, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
RECORDS OF RESISTANCE, UNTERHAUS, Oberhausen, DE
LES FACETTES DE LA LIBERTÉ, from the Collection of Borys and Tetiana Hrynyov, Centre Culturel d'Ukraine en France, Paris
2022Fountainhead Arts Residency, Miami, US
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES, KunstZeugHaus, Switzerland
𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 / КОАЛІЦІЯ / 𝐊𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐣𝐚 / КААЛІЦЫЯ, DOMIE, POZNAN PL
Ukraine Relief Fundraiser #standwithukraine, Fredric Snitzer Gallery together with Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Miami, USA
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES, KunstZeugHaus, Switzerland
2021Contemporary Art Collection, National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Radio Vaduz, Radio-Activity, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
Histories, 1990 -, National Museum Kyiv Gallery, Kyiv, from the Grynyov Collection, Kharkiv
Art Work, State Art Gallery, Wroclaw (catalogue)
2016Artist's Work, Mystecjkyj, Arsenal, Kyiv
Liquid Trust, G.R.A.D. Gallery, London
Liquid Trust performance, Instititute of Contemporary Arts, London
2015SZUPERNOVA, 32Vozodvishenka Arts House, Kyiv, (catalogue)
LIQUID TRUST Video with live music performance, Western Front, Vancouver
Szuper Gallery and Curtain Razors with Michele Sereda, Ben Brown and China Cloud Ensemble and Voice Over Mind Choir. Book launch and artist talk.
Ballet features Szuper Gallery's recent performance and installation projects at the Kunstmuseum Thun, MacKenzie Art Gallery Regina, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading as well as Szuper Gallery‘s collaboration with Michele Sereda and Curtain Razors. It contains video and installation stills, performance scripts, a series of paintings by Pavlo Kerestey and essays by Timothy Long, Dorothee Richter and Lars Gertenbach and Susanne Clausen. Edited by Susanne Clausen and designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio.
2013Terrain Orientation, Ukrainian National Museum, Kyiv
New Ukrainian Figurative, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Curated by Olexander Soloviov, ART KYIV Contemporary
BALLET, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
2010POINT OF ADDRESS, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich
ЯКЩО/ЕСЛИ/IF, Ukrainian Art in Transition, Histories, Ukrainian paintings from the collection of Marat Guelman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
2004Farewell Arms, Arsenal, Kyiv
2002Abstraction in Russian Art, The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, (catalogue)
2001Art against Geography. The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, (catalogue)
2000Art Against Geography, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, (cataloque)
1993Post Anaesthesia, Grassi Museum, Dresden, (catalogue)
1992Dialogue with Kiev, Villa Stuck, Munich
Still, Ukrainian Artists' Union Gallery, Kyiv
1991Art Expo, International Art Fair, Budapest, (catalogue)
Ukrainian MalARTstvo, Kiev, Odense, Copenhagen, (catalogue)
Art Myth. 2nd Moscow International Art Fair, Manege, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, (catalogue)
19907+7, Joint Venture, Odense and Kyiv, Denmark and Ukraine, (catalogue)
Babilon, Marat Guelman Collection, Moscow
Art Myth, 1st Moscow International Art Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow , (catalogue)
Young Art from Ukraine, House of Soviet Science and Culture, Budapest
1989Republican Exhibition of Young Artist, House of Artist, Kyiv
Youth of the Country, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
Sedniv 89, Central Exhibition Hall, Kyiv
19881st Soviet-American Exhibition, Soviart, Kyiv, (catalogue)
Exhibition of Young Artists of the socialist countries, Central Exhibition Hall, Manege, Moscow
Exhibition of works of young artists, Central Exhibition Hall, Manege, Moscow
1st All Union Painting Exhibition-Competition, Central House of Artists, Moscow
All Ukrainian Painting Exhibition-Competition, Central House of Artists, Kyiv,
Sedniv 88, Central Exhibition Hall, Kyiv
1987Youth of the Country, Central Exhibition Hall, Kyiv