My name is Dima Tolkachov.  

I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. I primarily work with photography as material for building conceptual typologies. I also apply digital graphic techniques, objects, and videos to my practices.

I think art can’t question the status quo. But it can cast light on issues that need to be questioned. Artwork is a physical trigger, a bait to catch someone’s attention and make them reflect upon unobvious or unpleasant things.

Through my work, I try to pose thought-provoking questions on issues like interactions of human-made objects with the environment or a sense of uncertainty in the modern world.

Since February 24, 2022, I have primarily been searching for visual metaphors that can give insight into how the consequences of the war affect my and Ukrainian society’s perception of reality.

Born in 1989. Studied at Kyiv National Linguistic University and School of Visual Communication in Kyiv. 

︎ dimatlkchv@gmail.com
︎ @dima_tolkachov 

Group shows:

2015
– Practice of Modifications // The Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
– Trust Zone at Odessa / Batumi Photo Days // Batumi

2016
– Sensitivity by Czułość // The Central House of Artists, Kyiv

2018
– Outarky by Czułośćh // Warsaw Gallery Weekend
– Ukraina Strong // Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

2019
– Architecture. Community. Time // Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
 
2022
– Moya Ridna // Toronto, Seattle, Lisbon
– Reclaim Award // Cologne
– Amputated Spring // Ya Gallery, Kyiv
– Sensing Places / Placing Senses // ODP Galerie, Leipzig
– Na Głos / Вголос / Out Loud // Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
– Kyiv Emerging // Kommunale Galerie Berlin

2023
– What we can lose, what we can save // Odesa, TEO Theatre Space
– Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940s – Now // ChaShaMa, NYC
– Greifbar // Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
– Contra Spem Spero. The Stories from Ukraine // Rome, Odesa Photo Days Festival
– Ryšiai Festivalis // Vilnius
– HOW ARE YOU? // Pałac Potockich // Krakow Photomonth 2023
– [individual variability] // беззвучно до глухоти // The Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv

Team shows:

2023

IS/NOT // with Volt Agapeyev // Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv

IMMINENTLY // with Volt Agapeyev // Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

Publications:

5.6 Magazine (Kyiv)
Bird in Flight (Kyiv)
EEP Vol. 1 (Berlin)
HOPE by Nighted (USA)
Information Front feat. Financial Times Weekend (UK)
Solomiya Vol.2 (Kyiv - Berlin)
DTF Vol.4 (Kyiv)