| Yuri Kosin | |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Kompaniivka, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
| Occupation: | Photographer |
Yuri Kosin (Ukrainian: Косін Юрій Олекса́ндрович; 26 September 1948 – 24 October 2022) was a Ukrainian photographer, lecturer, curator of exhibitions, and traveler. Kosin was a member of the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine, tutor and curator at the Independent Academy of the Photographic Arts of Ukraine, organizer and curator of the "Eksar" photo gallery, Ukraine. He was also a member of the "Kulturforum" association and the artistic studio "Kulturwerkstatt Trier", Germany. He was a permanent member of the TV Ukrainian program "Svoimi ochima" (eyewitness) dedicated to travel and tourism. Kosin was named one of the experts in photography criticism in Ukraine in expert poll conducted in 2011[1] and was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
Kosin was born on 26 September 1948 in Kompaniivka, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in the Kirovohrad Oblast of central Ukraine). In 1974 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. For some time he worked as an engineer, but later he became fond of art and photography. In 1988 he graduated from Kiev Institute of Journalism. In 1977 he was co-curator ofavant-garde association «Rukh»(«Movement») and underground exhibition, in which were artists: Mikola Trehub, Vudon Baklitsky, Alexander Kostetsky, Olena Golub, Nicholas Zalevsky and others.[2] Later Kosin organized a lot of exhibitions, mostly photography, both his personally and for groups.
Kosin later lived in Irpin (Kyiv region, Ukraine). His daughter Vera Kosina is a photographer too. She lives and works in Poland. Yuri Kosin died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 74.[3]
Since 1987 Yuri Kosin has participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia, the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lithuania and France.[4] Many of his works are included in private collections in Switzerland, the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. There are also some of Kosin's pictures placed in The Photography Fund in Moscow, the Latvian Museum of Photography in Riga, Lancaster University, the National Historical Museum of Ukraine. For over 20 years Yuri Kosin has been engaged in organizing photo exhibitions of Ukrainian artists.
In the 1980s, Yuri Kosin created his own artistic method which was subsequently named the "transgression". From 1980 to 1990, "transgression" was achieved by a partial physical and chemical destruction of the emulsion.
Action Tour "Chernobyl – meeting place", Great Britain USA
Performance "Meeting place" (“First Moment of Plague"), Andrievskiy uzviz, Kiev, Ukraine
"Live pictures", museum "Kyiv Fortress", Kyiv, Ukraine
"Chernobyl 1986–1995", House of three languages, Lumen, Belgium
"Silver Light", "Garage" gallery, Riga, Latvia
"Personification", Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
"Passage lesson", De Markten Gemeenschapscentrum, Brussels, Belgium
"Anabiosis", National Historical Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
"Emanation", Eastern-Westerneuropean cultural center «Palais Jalta», Frankfurt, Germany
Transgression, Cultural Center "Tuchfabrik", Trier, Germany
"Transgression", Mill Gallery, Kalai, Britain
"Transgression", Folli gallery, Lancaster, Britain
Action "Art as a celebration", Irpin, Ukraine
"Autobiography from the third person", gallery "Dim Mikoli", Kiev, Ukraine
"Pisannitsy", gallery Art Center on Kostelnaja, "Fotobienale" month of photography in Kiev, Ukraine
"Pisannitsy", Sovereign Duma in Moscow, Russia
"Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine", Ministry cabinet, Kiev, Ukraine[5]
"Borderland", Ukrainian Institute USA, New York City
"The Human Experience Twenty Years Later", Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, USA
"It was always this way", Center of Contemporary Art "Solvay", Kraków, Poland[6]
"Color of Hope", Cabinet of Ministers, Kiev, Ukraine
Participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia and France.
"The Hot Trace". "Metropol" gallery. Minsk, Soviet Union.
"The Ukrainian Photography Today". Catholic Academy. Schwerte, Germany.
"Photoartists of Kiev". Museum "Kyiv Fortress". Kyiv, Ukraine.
"Ukrpressphoto-95". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine.
"Ukrpressphoto-95". "Gart" gallery. Yuzhnoukrainsk, Ukraine.
"7 x 7". Photogallery "Na uzvozi". Kiev, Ukraine.
"Vision Art". National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
"All Ukrainian Exhibition". Ukrainian State Museum of Great Patriotic War History. Kiev, Ukraine.
"Ukrpressphoto-96". Photogallery "Na uzvozi". Kiev, Ukraine.
"Imprese". Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
"The UFO". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine.
"Artist League". Photogallery "Eksar". Kiev, Ukraine.
"Without words". Photogallery "Eksar. Kiev, Ukraine.
"Mesiac Photografie". Bratislava, Slovakia.
"Photo session", Soviart gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
"Position", Lavra gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
"Ukraine in focus", "Gorod N" gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
"Chernobyl–20", New-York, USA[7]
"Chernobyl–20", Washington, USA[8]
"Orange moment", Ukrainian House, Kiev, Strasburg
"Children of revolution", photographed by A. Chekmenev, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Pornography", photography by E. Pavlov, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Incarnation", photography by E. Martinyuk, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Poetical landscape", photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Skill of image conservation", photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Body, photo gallery “Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"No comment" photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine
"Presence effect", photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine