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Yasia Khomenko is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist and fashion designer. She studied at the Kyiv University of Technology and Design, graduated with a MA in Fashion Design in 2010. Yasia works with textile experiments in an artistic medium of social co-participation, investigating new forms of material and color compositions.
Khomenko is a pioneer of upcycling the Ukrainian fashion scene with her RCR Khomenko brand, creating collections out of the old wardrobe, curtains and tablecloths sourced from surrounding villages and all second hand that matched her ideas from 2011.
In 2019 she launched XOMEHKO (cyrillic spelling of Khomenko), in which her practice continuously functions as a space that questions cultivated "sustainability" through social dialogue and technological experimentation that lies beyond commerce profit. Based on this all objects that are made is a relative concept, and their aesthetics is a result of a spontaneous, creative impulse.
Since the full scale russian invasion in February 2022 Yasia Khomenko went more into social interaction art practice that combines the cultural and socio-economic questions of the war migration with the criticism of the structure of the fashion industry. The main idea is the development of the NEW PRODUCTION, where volumes are a relative concept and all products are made as a voluntary creative impulse.
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1988 - was born in Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 - graduated Kyiv National University of Technology & Design (MA design)
EXHIBITIONS
2024/25 - group exhibition “Structures of Reciprocity”, Jam Factory (Lviv, Ukraine)
2024 - participation in Anna Kakhiani's solo exhibition “Hug me with words, or maybe not” at the WG Kunst Gallery (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
2024 - presentation of the project “the versatile chair cover” as part of the 10th anniversary of the Fashion Revolution (Berlin, Germany)
2023 - solo exhibition “Dresden: the practice of social interaction” at the SKD Museum (Japanisches Palais), Dresden, Germany
2023 - participation in Anna Kakhiani's solo exhibition“Tomorrow’s light is falling on my wall”, PuntWG (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
2023 - solo exhibition “Berlin: the practice of social interaction” at A:D:Curatorial (Berlin, Germany)
2022/23 - solo exhibition “Lodz: the practice of social interaction” at the Central Museum of Textiles (Lodz, Poland)
2022 - regeneration of the former Russian House of Science and Culture, which was transferred to Ukrainian and Belarusian artists (Gdansk, Poland)
2022 - group exhibition “A:2402 / D:2022” at A:D:Curatorial (Berlin, Germany)
2022 - group exhibition during the MitOst Festival (Maribor, Slovenia)
2022 - group exhibition “What is depicted here?” at the Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)
2022 - group exhibition of residents “the Working Room” (Assortment Room, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
2020 - solo exhibition in Les Suites (Paris, France)
PROJECTS
2024 - The practice of social interaction (Lviv, Ukraine)
2024 - Sticker printing workshop “Participatory Merchandise” on the exhibition of Caspar David Friedrich (Albertinum, Dresden, Germany)
2024 - The practice of social interaction (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Zaandam, Den Haag, the Netherlands)
2024 - collaboration with Armcharity (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2023 - Sticker printing workshop “Participatory Merchandise” on the exhibition “Kaleidoscope of (hi)stories” (Albertinum, Dresden, Germany)
2023 - Sticker printing workshop “Participatory Merchandise” on the MOT exhibition (Lviv, Ukraine)
2023 - The practice of social interaction (Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany)
2023 - The practice of social interaction (Berlin, Germany)
2022 - “Flag of the Ukrainian Roma Community”, 2022 (workshop with the Ukrainian Roma community in Warsaw, Poland) 2022 - Sticker printing workshop “Participatory Merchandise” on the exhibition of Sascha Wiederhold (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany)
2022 - The practice of social interaction (the Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland)
2023 - The practice of social interaction (the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland)
2021 - collaboration with the Future Generation Art Prize (Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine)
2021 - collaboration with House of Europe (Dnipro, Ukraine)
2021-2024 - Sticker printing workshops for Ukrainian communities (Lodz/Poland, Warsaw/Poland/ Berlin/Germany/ Rotterdam/the Netherlands)
RESIDENCIES
2023 - summer residency at the SKD Museum (Japanisches Palais), Dresden, Germany
2022 - artistic residency at the Central Museum of Textiles (Lodz, Poland)
2022 - artistic residency at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland)
2022 - artistic residence “Working Room” (Assortment Room, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)