Yuri Kosin ( uk, 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 and was a participant of the

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Biography

Kosin was born on 26 September 1948 in

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, at the time in the

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of the

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(today in the

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of central Ukraine). In 1974 he graduated from the

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. 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 of avant-garde association «Rukh»(«Movement») and

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exhibition, in which were artists: Mikola Trehub, Vudon Baklitsky, Alexander Kostetsky, Olena Golub,

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and others. Later Kosin organized a lot of exhibitions, mostly photography, both his personally and for groups. Kosin later lived in Irpin (

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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.

Achievements in photography

Cover of the Aleksievich book with photo by Yuri Kosin-2016

Cover of the book Transgession by Yuri Kosin-2019

Cover of the photo album by Yuri Kosin-2005

Cover of the book I've seen - photo by Yuri Kosin-2016

Since 1987 Yuri Kosin has participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the

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, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia, the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lithuania and France. 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

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, the

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. 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.

Personal exhibitions

* 1988 – "Interconnection", exhibition hall of the association of artists of Ukraine, Kiev, Soviet Union * 1990 – "Infected Zone", Budinok Pismennika, Kiev, Soviet Union * 1991 – "The world we lost", "Kinocentr", Moscow, Soviet Union * 1992 – "

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", International art gallery, Minneapolis, USA :Action Tour "Chernobyl – meeting place", Great Britain USA :Performance "Meeting place" (“First Moment of Plague"), Andrievskiy uzviz, Kiev, Ukraine * 1994 – Performance "Building model of contemporary mind"

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, Ukraine :"Live pictures", museum " Kyiv Fortress", Kyiv, Ukraine * 1995 – "Transgression", Creative academy "Bezalel", Jerusalem, Israel :"Chernobyl 1986–1995", House of three languages, Lumen, Belgium :"Silver Light", "Garage" gallery, Riga, Latvia :"Personification", Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia * 1996 – "Transgression", French cultural center, Kyiv, Ukraine :"Passage lesson", De Markten Gemeenschapscentrum, Brussels, Belgium :"Anabiosis",

, Kiev, Ukraine :"Emanation", Eastern-Westerneuropean cultural center «Palais Jalta», Frankfurt, Germany * 1997 – Performance "Creative advertisement", Irpin, Ukraine :Transgression, Cultural Center "Tuchfabrik",

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, Germany * 1998 – "Chernobyl", Ministry of Environment,

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, Germany :"Transgression", Mill Gallery, Kalai, Britain :"Transgression", Folli gallery, Lancaster, Britain * 2000 – "Endless photography", gallery "RA", Kiev, Ukraine :Action "Art as a celebration", Irpin, Ukraine * 2001 – "Contemporary art", "Art Club 44", Kiev, Ukraine * 2002 – Gallery "Dim Mikoli", Kiev, Ukraine :"Autobiography from the third person", gallery "Dim Mikoli", Kiev, Ukraine * 2003 – Action "Cry in the Water", Irpin, Ukraine :"Pisannitsy", gallery Art Center on Kostelnaja, "Fotobienale" month of photography in Kiev, Ukraine :"Pisannitsy", Sovereign Duma in Moscow, Russia * 2004 – Action "Cry in the Sky", Irpin, Ukraine * 2005 – "Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine", gallery "RA-photo", "Fotobienale" month of photography in Kiev, Ukraine :"Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine", Ministry cabinet, Kiev, Ukraine * 2006 – "Chernobyl–20", Harvard University, Washington, New-York, USA :"Borderland", Ukrainian Institute USA, New York City :"The Human Experience Twenty Years Later",

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, Washington, USA :"It was always this way", Center of Contemporary Art "Solvay",

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, Poland :"Color of Hope", Cabinet of Ministers, Kiev, Ukraine * 2010 – "Reality of the “phenomenon"”, gallery of the Lithuanian Photographers’ Union, Vilnius, Lithuania Participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia and France.

Group exhibitions

* 1988 – "The Hot Trace". The Palace of Youth. Moscow, Soviet Union. :"The Hot Trace". "Metropol" gallery. Minsk, Soviet Union. * 1991 – Exhibition of the Ukrainian Artists' Union. Culture Centre. Kiev, Ukraine. * 1994 – "Three Perspectives". Town Hall.

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, Germany. :"The Ukrainian Photography Today". Catholic Academy.

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, Germany. :"Photoartists of Kiev". Museum " Kyiv Fortress". Kyiv, Ukraine. :"Ukrpressphoto-95". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine. * 1995 – "Cherkassy-95". Exhibition Hall of Ukrainian Artists' Union.

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, Ukraine. :"Ukrpressphoto-95". "Gart" gallery.

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, Ukraine. :"7 x 7". Photogallery "Na uzvozi". Kiev, Ukraine. * 1996 – "Ukrpressphoto-96". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine. :"Vision Art".

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. Kiev, Ukraine. :"All Ukrainian Exhibition". Ukrainian State Museum of Great Patriotic War History. Kiev, Ukraine. :"Ukrpressphoto-96". Photogallery "Na uzvozi". Kiev, Ukraine. * 1997 – "Blitz Exhibition". The Artsyz Gallery". Kiev, Ukraine. :"Imprese".

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, Ukraine. :"The UFO". The Ukrainian House. Kiev, Ukraine. :"Artist League". Photogallery "Eksar". Kiev, Ukraine. :"Without words". Photogallery "Eksar. Kiev, Ukraine. :"Mesiac Photografie".

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, Slovakia. * 2003 – "Defining Dictionary", Kiev, Ukraine :"Photo session", Soviart gallery, Kiev, Ukraine :"Position", Lavra gallery, Kiev, Ukraine :"Ukraine in focus", "Gorod N" gallery, Kiev, Ukraine * 2006 – "Once upon a time Chernobyl",

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(CCCB), Barcelona, Spain :"Chernobyl–20", New-York, USA :"Chernobyl–20", Washington, USA :"Orange moment", Ukrainian House, Kiev, Strasburg

Curator work

* 1997 – "Lege Artist", photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine * 1998 – "Paradzhanov", photography by A. Vladimirov, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine :"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 * 1999 – "Deliberate reality", photography by O. Polisyuk, photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine * 2002 – "Through this air the God is looking at me", photography by Ivan Zhdanov (Russia), photo gallery "Eksar", Kiev, Ukraine * 2003 – "Position", gallery "Lavra", Fotobienale – 2003 "Month of photography in Kiev", Kiev, Ukraine

Competitions

* First all-union slide-festival "

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Artsyz Artsyz (, ; bg, Арциз ''Artsiz''; ; or ''Arsız''; or ''Arzis'') is a city and the administrative center of Artsyz municipality, Bolhrad Raion in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Population: In 2001, population was 16,370. History The city was fo ...

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Collections

* Photography fund, Moscow, Russia *

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(or Bonn Museum of Modern Art), Bonn, Germany * Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia *

* History museum in Kiev *

, Great Britain

References

Sources

Yuri Kosin.Transgression// Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
* Yuri Kosin. Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine // K .: SPD FO Chaltsev, 2005

External links

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Ivan Zhdanov, Of Hermeticism and burning problem of freedom

Personality in the Expert Journal

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Yuri Cosin on Art Welle

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