Stanislav Turina

Stanislav Turina is a Ukrainian artist, writer, and curator. He is one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists of his generation. Stanislav was born in 1988 in Makiivka in Eastern Ukraine (now under Russian occupation). Since 2018, Stanislav has lived and worked in Kyiv. He is the co-founder of BlackCircleFestival (2010), Detenpula Gallery, (2011), Open Group collective (2012) and atelienormalno (2018). Stanislav is a co-curator of land art symposium Mohrytsia (2018, 2021) and a stipendiate of GaudePolonia (Poland). He represented Ukraine at the 56th Venice Biennale and was a participant at the 57th and 58th Venice Biennales. Since 2018, he has co-curated studio atelienormalno for artists with Down’s syndrome. At the beginning of the Russian invasion, Stanislav decided to stay in Kyiv to help people with disabilities at the Pavlov psychiatric hospital and Pusha-Vodytsia boarding school.