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Roman Tkachenko is a visual artist and researcher. Born in Rostov on Don, Russia, he currently lives and works in Amsterdam for over 10 years. His practice is based on investigating the political and social implications of the built environment. To do so, he looks closely at the vulnerabilities, mis/uses and il/legal re/developments of (institutional and/or domestic) architecture and public space. Roman calls himself an architectural dramaturg. He explores the soft borders between factual data and storytelling — how do they affect and inform one- another? He is interested in a narrative of the built environment which exists between non-fiction and fiction, history and present.

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Timeis.capital is an online platform for audio-visual research on self-organisation in the arts

www.timeis.capital

Roman Tkachenko

Visual Artist, Architectural Dramaturg and a Researcher.

Live and work in Amsterdam.

Born in Rostov on Don, Russia. 1996.

Education

Master of Arts in Interior Architecture - Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Netherlands - Studio for immediate Spaces. 2018/2020

Bachelor of Art & Design in the field of Architectural Design - Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands - Preparatory year. 2013/2014; Basic year 2014/2015; Architectural Design. 2015/2018
Exchange - University Centro. Mexico City, Mexico - Interior Architecture. 2016. 

Residencies (Personal)

Upcoming: Posysjes (positions in Friesian) at Kunstinitiatief Voorheen de Gemeente (VHDG). Leeuwarden, Netherlands. February- March 2024.  
 
Spatial Disruptions at Stichting SIGN. Suikerterrein - Groningen, Netherlands. July - August 2021. (Generously supported by Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Groningen) info 

Fundings

Mondriaan Fonds Artist Start. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023

Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (Mijn Eerste Aanvraag). Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2022 
Permanente Professionele Ontwikkeling (PPO). Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2021-2022. 
Het Centre of Expertise for Creative innovation (COECI) through Institute of Network Cultures. Amsterdam, Netherlands 2022  
 
 
Exhibitions (Personal) 
 
Film Negotiation Plot and site-specific intervention at a collective self-organised exhibition Time is an unrenewable resource — and you know how we are with those at Donauweg 8 and at W139. Amsterdam, Netherlands. February - March 2022.  https://www.timeis.capital/index-expo.html

52h performance and installation Sweet Home - Office Work at a collective exhibition House Peace at Hotel Mokum. Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2021.

Site-specific intervention and a video work Negotiation Plot at a collective exhibition Spatial Disruptions at Stichting SIGN. Suikerterrein - Groningen, Netherlands. August 2021. (Generously supported by Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Groningen)

Site-specific installation Neighbours of Zero _ les Orphelins at a collective exhibition Freed From Desire at Reneenee. Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2021. (Generously supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst)

Site-specific installation Neighbours of Zero at Sandberg Institute Graduation 2020 at Het Hem. Zaandam, Netherlands. November 2020.

72h performance and installation Sweet Home - Office Work in a rented AirBnB apartment at a collective exhibition Walks throughout Bos en Lommer. Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2020.

Photographs; written document The Institutional Touch at a collective exhibition Closing Party: 'doei doei' dapper & friends at Dapper. Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2019.

Film Ground Flow part of Zoomscape series of One Minutes. Presented at:  
Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa (PT); Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art (CN); Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL);

Dortmunder U (DE); East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN); Mu, Eindhoven (NL); Museum Hilversum (NL); Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL); De School, Amsterdam (NL). 2019

Photographs; written document The Institutional Touch at a collective exhibition Trying 2 Deliver at Butcher’s Tears. Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 2019.

Exhibitions (Collective)

Screening of Timeis.capital | Index on Self-Organisation in the Arts at Borderless, Beyond the Frame by Norwegian Cultural Center. Oslo, Norway and Singapore. April 2023 
 
Screening of Timeis.capital | Index on Self-Organisation in the Arts and presentation of a platform of Timeis.Capital together with Iskra Vukšić at Not Just an Art Fair at Post Arnhem. Arnhem, Netherlands. April 2023 

 
Screening of Timeis.capital | Index on Self-Organisation in the Arts and presentation of a platform of Timeis.Capital together with Iskra Vukšić at Free Spaces Expo at Binnenpret/LAG/Occii. Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2023. 
 
Video work and a platform of Timeis.Capital together with Iskra Vukšić and Maisa Imamović at Blurring The Format, Expanded Publishing for Practice-Based Research by THE VOID of Institute of Network Cultures at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam, Netherlands. February 2023. Info

Public Space Interventions by Studio for Immediate Spaces and Laure Jaffuel - Agora/Aγορα at Kritis 40, Athens studio and its surrounding. Athens, Greece. March 2020.  

Educational work (Personal)

Concept and production of The Rietveld Mulch Online Platform that focuses on professionalisation of graduates under a pilot program Rietveld Mulch of The Rietveld Society at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023.  https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/25122/rietveld-mulch-platform 
 

Workshop Studio set-up for students of Design Lab department at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2022   

Guest tutor for STATEMENTS seminar led by Maria Mazzanti at Studio for Immediate Spaces at Sandberg Institute. Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2021 
 
Presentation of an artistic research and my master thesis Vulnerable Spaces at Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2019. 

Lectures, Talks, Symposiums (Personal)

My contribution Captivating Alternatives to Business as Usual mentioned on AT5 and Pakhuis de Zwijger live during launch of Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam by Annelys de Vet, Subjective Editions and Arcam. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023. From 42:22    
Presentation of artistic research Atlas of Redevelopment [Research Phase] at Circle Inside the Square Below the Triangle, A.I. x Arts Meetup by ARIAS Amsterdam x Buzzhouse (UVA). Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 2022.

Presentation of my art practice and public discussion on Dutch Housing Crisis at Workshop: Knitted Together by Camilla Gueneau de Mussy and Anne Giesen at Framer Framed. Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2022 
 
 

Lectures, Talks, Symposiums (Collective)   

Public interview with 2 Arnhem based project spaces by Timeis.capital at Not Just an Art Fair at Post Arnhem. Arnhem, Netherlands. April 2023 
 
Presentation of audio visual research Timeis.Capital together with Iskra Vukšić at Blurring The Format, Expanded Publishing for

Practice-Based Research by THE VOID of Institute of Network Cultures. Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023   Info

Concept and production of a symposium on Artists’ Self-Organisation in collaboration with Maisa Imamović, Ekaterina Volkova, Natália Blahová, Lena Karson and Iskra Vukšić. Guest speakers: W139, Hotel Mokum, Dead Darlings, Mertens Frames Project Space by Plan B, Reneenee, puntWG, Tilde and 4bid gallery from OT301. At Donauweg 8. Amsterdam, Netherlands. February 2022. Info 

Publications and articles (Online and offline) (Personal)

Contribution Captivating Alternatives to Business as Usual at Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam by Annelys de Vet, Subjective Editions and Arcam. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023  https://www.subjectiveeditions.org/atlases/p/subjective-atlas-of-amsterdam 
 

Articles about my work ‘What makes a good conversation?’ and ‘Algorithmic Materialism: Roman Tkachenko fumbles with the future of Suikerterrein’ by writer Maartje Terpstra published on Sign website. Groningen, Netherlands. 2021. https://sign2.nl/ events/spatial-disruptions-the-writings/ 
 

Contribution Chislennichek 2022 - Here Is Not Here by bez.naz. collective. (a tear-off calendar made by 365 artists). Moscow, Russia. Published in 2021. 
https://chislennichek.com/9/

Contribution The Subject of The Email edited by Jason Page, Julia Mullié. Published by Sandberg Instituut. ISBN 978-90-827670-3-2. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2020. https://issuu.com/sandberginstituut8/docs/sandberg_instituut_the_subject_of_the_email_final

Appearing in Immediate Spaces 16-19 edited Leopold Banchini with Malissa Anne Canez Sabus in cooperation with the HGB Leipzig, typography class Ludovic Balland. Published by Sandberg Instituut and Park Books AG, ISBN 978-3-03860-193-7. Amsterdam, Zurich. 2020. 
 

 
Publications and articles (Online and offline) (Collective) 
 
Appearing in article ‘Amsterdam telt tal van culturele vrijplaatsen...’ PS of Het Parool. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023  https://www.parool.nl/ps/amsterdam-telt-tal-van-culturele-vrijplaatsen-wie-hier-exposeert-krijgt-de-sleutel-en-kan-zelf-bepalen- wat-hij-doet~b187a914/?fbclid=IwAR2epgDhDZkEDdR4lwlKgL4u- WjvcXwZuYyB0tHCjkBtNe5V3Ouhu6vSaH8&utm_campaign=shared_earned&utm_medi 
 
Article on our self-organised exhibition Time is an unrenewable resource — and you know how we are with those and our symposium on Artists’ Self-Organisation by Maria van der Togt published on Institute of Network Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/03/02/time-is-an-unrenewable-resource-and-you-know-how-we-are-with-those/? fbclid=IwAR09JYXegDqX2CiOZfn1dyhnBM1pFOn3pbp9gliCK0rIHLL8dsdMJQ3amiw

Miscellaneous

 
Silk screen print Voyeurism of Opportunity sold at 14th edition of Dead Darlings auction - From Stage-fright to Limelight, at Heimathafen Theater. Berlin, Netherlands. April 2022.  
 
Embroidery Vulnerable Spaces sold at 13th edition of Dead Darlings auction - Love for Sale - fundraiser for W139. Amsterdam, Netherlands. February 2021.

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Contact

Roman Tkachenko lives and works in Amsterdam
E: tkachenko.roman.bo@gmail.com
P: +31 6 87 07 22 89
F: Roman Tkachenko
I: @tkachenkoroman

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Roman Tkachenko is an artist, independent architect and researcher. Born in Russia, he currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He has been investigating the political implications of built environments such as the design of public spaces, the architecture of public institutions, and domestic environments focusing on their vulnerabilities, misuses and il/legal redevelopments. His previous research has widened towards social movements that negotiate the built environment in order to defend their rights and establish forms of care for one's surroundings.

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