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Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga)
Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga)
Open Group – Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga is a Ukrainian collective founded in 2012 in Lviv, and since 2015 it has been scattered across different countries, with members living in Ukraine, Poland, Germany and the United States.
They held solo exhibitions at institutions including High Line, New York, USA (2025); Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2025); Serlachius, Mänttä, Finland (2025); 601artspace, New York, USA (2025); Labirynt gallery, Lublin, Poland (2022); Аrsenal gallery, Białystok, Poland (2017); PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (2014 and 2025); Closer art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (2013).
Open Group works were presented at group exhibitions in High Line, New York, USA (2025); Jeonnam Museum of Art in Korea (2025); Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland (2025); 8th Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2024); Salzgasse Albertinum in Dresden, Germany (2023); 4th Autostrada Biennale Prizren, Kosovo (2023); Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art in Wien, Austria (2023); ARS AEVI the Museum of contemporary art in Sarajevo (2023); Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York, USA (2022); Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary (2018); National Art Museum Kyiv, Ukraine (2016); Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine (2015); Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine (2014), amongst others.
Their works were featured at the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. In 2016, the Open Group curated the show entitled “Dependence Degree, Collective Practices of Young Ukrainian Artists 2000-2016” BWA Awangarda (Wrocław, Poland). In 2017, the group’s work was presented in frames of the Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2017 (collateral events of the 57th Venice Biennale). In 2019, the Open Group was the curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2024, the Open Group was representing Poland at the 60th Venice Biennale with the project „Repeat after me II”.
The artist’s works are in the collections of the KADIST, Paris (France) and San Francisco (USA); Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (Poland); ARS AEVI, the Museum of contemporary art in Sarajevo; MOCA NGO/ Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) collection, Kyiv (Ukraine); National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson (Ukraine) and in private collections.
