“When I was thinking over and then making the “Miners’ Folklore” project, I didn’t put a problem to make a laughing-stock from the trite collection of the miners’ jokes or to tell the viewer about the hard work of the miners in realistic way with the detailed mechanisms. Instead of this I propose the viewer to look deeper at his life and to think more serious over his destiny. I hope that the viewer will see this real feeling or presentiment, this fear or not clear force, the trust in God, which is the main topic of my works.”

The fragment from “My Miners” article by Roman Minin

Was born in 1981 in Dimitrov-city, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

1998 – 2002 – studied at Kharkiv Art secondary school.

2002 – 2008 – studied at Kharkiv Art Academy, faculty of monumental painting.

1998 – 2008 – took part in a lot of non-comformist, underground exhibitions and rock concerts in Kharkiv-city, Ukraine.

2009 – took part in Makhno- Fest contemporary art festival in Hulyai- Pole- city, Ukraine.

2009 – took part in Gogol- Fest Contemporary Art Fair at “Mystetsky Arsenal Gallery” in Kyiv

2009 – became a member of the Ukrainian State Union of Artists.

Biography