Danylo Kovacs was born in 1992 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, and lives and works in Vienna.

His work focuses on graphics, painting, installation and performance.

Danylo Kovach is a multidisciplinary artist who combines various media and approaches to working with classical techniques in his practice. Some methods in his practice are narratively expressive for him, such as working with painting and graphics (sometimes printed on atypical materials). Others, such as performance and actions in public space, are artistic gestures towards intuitive and bodily comprehension of the chosen ideas or topics with which the author works.

His artistic education is based on the Transcarpathian painting tradition represented by the teachers of Emma Levadska (Uzhhorod Art School), teachers of the Adalbert Erdeli College of Arts, and the academic approach of the teachers of the Lviv Academy of Arts. Instead, the conceptual and ideological component was formed in the family, and in particular in the underground circle of like-minded people of the Pavlo Bedzir Museum and the Korydor Gallery in Uzhhorod, founded by his father, the artist Pavlo Kovach Sr. The environment of the cult Detenpool Gallery in Lviv and the Open Group's social circle; as well as active involvement in performative practices and the author's approach to action art.

Danylo Kovacs' practice is dynamically developing and changing. In traditional media, he tests the limits and possibilities of the material, sometimes undermining its semiotic meaning to reveal the unexpected materiality and nuances of his own artistic idea. In other approaches, he deliberately embeds his idea in the material and thus forms an added semantic component. His easel works are characterized by working with patterns of different orders: patterns of forms and environment in the series “Mechanism” (2013-2015) and “Not Welcome” (2022); patterns of symbols in different cultures in the series “Gaze” (2015), “Homo sapiens” (2014) and “One month as one day” (2022); color patterns in pop art culture and their recognizable references in the series “Deers” (2023), “Narbut and Mickey mouse” (2023).

Danylo Kovach has participated in exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. His practice covers a wide range of topics and interests, so his style does not dominate the idea of artistic practice and a specific work. Danylo Kovacs has also participated in international residencies and workshops, and as a resident artist he works as a researcher of the local context, analyzing the environment and comprehending it with the help of his own means of artistic expression.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2024 EMPATIA Space: “ROOMING INN” Vienna, Austria.

2022 “PLEASURE” “Jan Arnold Gallery” Vienna, Austria.

2021 WITHOUT BORDERS Detenpyla Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine.

2020 “Happy Birthday” Exhibition of apartment owners Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

2020 “Welcome” Art Center Dzyga. Lviv, Ukraine.

2018 Sheptytsky Center “Intervention” Lviv, Ukraine.

2014 “Sculpture” Gallery. “Detenpyla” Lviv, Ukraine.

2011 “Dead Emotions” Gallery. “Detenpyla” Lviv, Ukraine.

2011 “Sleep-It”, Museum of Architecture Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

2008 “Sketch” Art School named after A. Erdeli. Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2024 “Open Studio Days” Dzvina Podlashetska and Danylo Kovacs.

space: “ROOMING INN Vienna, Austria.

2024 Group exhibition “Liutyi/February” Exhibit Eschenbachgasse 11

organized by Office Ukraine, Vienna Austria

2023 Group exhibition “Milk and Blood” Rakvere Gallery in Estonia

2023 Group exhibition “Get Together” Integration Foundation ÖIF Vienna Austria

2023 (New dream Foundation) “Frost Gallery” part 2 New York, USA.

2023 Curator of Kryvyi Rih Art Gallery 39.9 Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.

2023 “Milk and Blood” Rakvere, Estonia.

2023 Integration Fund “Get Together” ÖIF Vienna, Austria.

2023 (New Dream Foundation) “Frost Gallery” part1 New York, USA.

2023 “The Art of Resistance” Museum of Contemporary Art of the Institute of Valencia. Curated by Valencia, Spain.

2023 “Golden arben” Schloss Schönhausen curated by Anna Petrova Berlin, Germany.

2022 Berlin Art Week “Be an angel eV | Benefit Art Show Berlin, Germany.
2022 “Art of Resistance” Sala d'Exposicions Municipal - Casino Lliberal, Algemesí, Valencia, Spain, Valencia.
2022 “not gallery” group exhibition Vienna, Austria.
2022 Museo Estatal del Tirol (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck) Austria.
2022 Art of Resistance Krakow, Poland.
2019 Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art “Only until Slava tells you” Kherson, Ukraine.
2018 Gallery “Tam gdzie teraz” Curated by Labyrinth Waldemar Tatarchuk Lublin, Poland.
2018 “Polylogue” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa) curated by Martin Hüttel. art group Aspei support program for the exhibition “Polylogue” Odesa, Ukraine.
2015 Contemporary art project “Integration” at the Lviv National Art Gallery. Curators: Khrystyna Berehovska, Vasyl Odrekhivskyi Lviv, Ukraine.
2015 “Razem ze sztuka” Gallery Brzuch Wroclaw, Poland.
2015 “Feldman Art Park” Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2013 “Temporary Exhibition” part 1 is a long-term project curated by Petro Ryaska Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
2013 Lviv - Project 50 - Western Ukrainian contemporary art Lviv, Ukraine.
2013 ilko gallery- “Bedzir known unknown” Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
2013 Long-term project “temporary exhibition part 2” curated by Petro Ryaska Uzhhorod, Ukraine.