Glib Viches

Vysheslavsky was Biennale curator «Month of Photography in Kiev» (2003), co-curator of the exhibition «10 years the Ukrainian Modern Art Research Institute». He also was the chief editor of the «Gallery» magazine (2007–2010). He is the author of monographs and articles publications in specialized magazines, in particular, «Une culture dissimulée» in «La regle du jeu», 2015, No. 57. He is the co-author of the theoretical book «Terminology of Modern Art», where he analyzes the contemporary art diversity and development, based on the examples of more than 400 authors.

He currently works at the Ukrainian Modern Art Research Institute as a research (from 2003). He combines scientific work with artistic one, as artist participates in art exhibitions of contemporary art. The following signatures are found on his works: Glib Viches, Vysheslavsky and in Ukrainian.

In Kyiv he founded the magazine «Terra incognita». It is a private, an independent and non-profit publication about the theory and practice of contemporary visual art (1993–2001). As a video artist he was a member of the 50th Venice Biennale. He took part in the international Biruchiy contemporary art project (2005). A trend accentuated on digital technology in the art he realized in the «G. V. Kh.»- group: Golub, Vysheslavsky, Kharchenko). Their project «Digital yard № 3» was shown in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008).

Since the second half of the 1990s Glib Viches has been participating in exhibitions in France. He held exhibitions at the Alexandre Gallery (Paris, 1989), the Michel Cabaret Gallery (Nice, 2002), and the Pales Carnoles Museum of Art (Menton, 2002), in the cathedral – St. Germain des Pres (Paris, 1993) and Paris Nord (Paris, 1993), at D.Art – Nice Expo (Nice, 1996), Salin des peintres mediteranee (Nice, 2003), at the Museum of Art, Toulouse, France (1993). His photos taken over the past few years have been exhibited at the Salon des arts modernes  — St.-Sulpice (Paris, 2019), and at the exhibition «Station Paris» in Cloitre, gallery «Caravane», (Paris, 2019).

Then he continued studies in «Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts», (Paris) (1989–1993). He was trained in the fund «Villa Arson» (Nice) in 1992. He graduated his training in Kiev in the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (1993–1997).

Glib Viches (Vysheslavsky) (French: Glib Viches; Ukrainian: Вишеславський Гліб; born on 6 May 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR)  — is a Ukrainian artist; art historian, he holds a PhD in art theory and history (2014), and is a member of the International Union of Artists «Sztuka bez Granic» (Krakow) and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He is an author of art in painting, graphics, photo, video, installation and scientific research of contemporary art. Representative of Ukrainian New Wave.

Glib Viches (Vysheslavsky) was born in Kiev on 6 May 1962. In 1980, Glib graduated from the Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine.