Glib Viches

Painting by Glib Vyshes in Kiev’s «Art14» Gallery

"Digital yard №3". Catalogue, 2008

Glib Viches (Vysheslavsky) was born in Kiev on 6 May 1962 in family with great cultural traditions. His father Anatoly Makarov  —is a literary critic, and his mother  — Irina Vysheslavska  — is artist; while his grandfather  — Leonid Vysheslavsky  — is a poet, and his grandmother  — Agnes Baltaga  — is a poet too. In 1980, Glib graduated from the Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine. After that he went to Moscow to study at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. There students were able to study not just traditional artistic techniques, but also free avant-garde art of the world.

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).

During Perestroika Glib was a member of the Squatting movement, Soviet Nonconformist Art. Later he investigated underground movement and published theoretical articles.[2] He worked as part of the New Wave group in the art of Ukraine “Sednev-88”, where A. Babak, M. Geiko, R. Zhuk, P. Kerestey, P. Makov, A. Roitburd, A. Sukholit and others also performed.

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).[3]

Vysheslavsky was Biennale curator «Month of Photography in Kiev» (2003), co-curator of the exhibition «10 years the Ukrainian Modern Art Research Institute».[4] 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.

Since the second half of the 1990s Glib Viches has been participating in exhibitions in France, Antibes, in The Atelier St. Esprit. He held exhibitions at the Alexandre Gallery (Paris, 1989), the foundations of A. Gerra (Berre-les-Alpes, 1992), 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).

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, Vyshe, Slavsky, GV and in Ukrainian.

• in Ukr.: G. Vysheslavsky , Sidor Hibelynda-O. '. // Terminology of Modern Art, Paris-Kyiv, Terra Incognita, 2010, – P.235-242. ISBN 978-966-96839-2-2
• in Fr.: Glib Viches . Une culture dissimulée//La Rеgle du Jeu. Paris, 2015. № 57. P. 131–139.
• in Ger.: G. Vysheslavsky. Vom nonkonformismus zur Oragen Revolution // Springerin, Viennа, 2006. P. 22–32

• in Fr.:Perottino S. Gleb Vysheslavsky on le Pensee du sensible.// Meditrrancee. – 1992. – №10.
• in De.: Sergey Kuskov. Triade. lunge Kunst ans Frankreich, Rusland und Deutscland. Ausstellungs-katalog. Leipzig, 1992.
• in Pl.: Sacharuk V. Robit swoje nigzego nie oczekujac. / / Magazyn Sztuki. – 1994. – № 4. – 160–167 p.
• Perrotino C. Art Impressions. / / Directory. – Kiev – 1994. – 20–22 seconds.
• in fr.,rus.: Burlaka B. Du cote de l'art. // Gleb Vyche-Slavsky. Musee des beaux-arts. Exhibition catalog. Menton, France, 2002 – 1c.
• in fr.: Laffont N. Entre peinture et photo. // Nice-Matin, 27 octobre 2002 – 16p.
• in rus.: Minko E. " The two sides of the world . // Domus designe, April 2003 – 33s.

• in Ukr.: Glib Vysheslavsky. Ukrainian art library
• in Ukr.: Interview with G. Vysheslavsky. # 1944
• https://cargocollective.com/Viches