Artist Statement
The photograph-as-object, its material properties and interactions with other media are currently my biggest interest. My previous background in Economics and Social and Political Science enables me to combine the conceptual and the decorative in novel ways. Process Statement
My practice can be described as being primarily photography-based, but it has been expanding through the inclusion of other elements, such as collage and drawing, as well as by borrowing from the language of sculpture and painting. It traverses the resulting border territories and mines their potential to create hybrid forms that question photography’s material condition.

 

 

Nikolai Ishchuk was born in Moscow in 1982. Since 2007, he has established himself as one of the most promising young Russian-born photography artists. He received a BA(Hons) in Economics and Sociology from The University of York in 2004 and an M.Phil. in Modern Society and Global Transformations from the University of Cambridge in 2005. Ishchuk completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Lens Based Image Making at the London College of Communication in 2007 and is currently studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Ishchuk's practice can be described as being primarily photography-based, but it has been expanding through the inclusion of other elements, such as collage and drawing, as well as by borrowing from the language of sculpture and painting. It traverses the resulting border territories and mines their potential to create hybrid forms that question photography’s material condition.

Whitechapel Gallery has recently named Ishchuk among London's 35 most dynamic artists.

Recent exhibitions include The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012; Big Bangs, Big Bucks, Diemar/Noble, London, 2010; Workshop 20’11, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2011; Salt, 2nd International Moscow Biennale of Young Art, 2010 and Landscape…, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, 2009.

 

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