“The range of problems Yuriy Musatov covers in his works falls within the sphere of my specific interests in ceramic arts. The artist creates chamber spatial compositions, which are the evidence, not only of his mastery but also perfect command of the essence of creation. Musatov works with various materials from chamotte to porcelain. He is looking for links between the form and the surface as well as its rich structure enlivened by adding coloring pigments. Certain parts are glazed with addition of copper oxide. The combination of geometric and organic elements indicates that the author derived his inspiration both from nature and technology, which has resulted in expressive works linked into the surrounding reality,”
Professor Chrzistopher Rozpondek from the Department of Ceramics of E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland for the catalogue of Yuriy Musatov works in 2020.
Yuriy Musatov was born in 1981 in Konotop. In 2008 Yuriy Musatov graduated Lviv National Academy of Arts and since 2017, he is a member of UNESCO International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva (IAC) and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
In the years 2012-2020, he has had more than 12 solo exhibitions, including «My Explosion», Kahan Art Space Budapest, Mudapest, Hungary; «My dreams», Kapolna Gallery (International Ceramic Studio), Kecskemet, Hungary (2022); Project 2020 «Project 2020». Dasha S Kandinsky. Yuriy Musatov – MANDARIN MAISON art by Spivakovska. Kyiv. Ukraine; «Invasion», Triptych: Global Arts Workshop, Kyiv. Ukraine; «In progress» / Shcherbenko Art Center. Kyiv. Ukraine (2018) and «My mountains» / Shcherbenko Art Center. Kyiv. Ukraine (2017).
He has also participated in 70 group shows including Yingge IAC Members’ Exhibition – New Orientalia in New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Keramik der Welt in Gallery Marianne Heller in Heidelberg, Germany, 18 Biennal de Ceramica D’esplugues in Spain, International Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition in Beijing, China, XII Biennial Artistic Ceramics in Portugal, Art for Peace in Korean Cultural Center in Ankara, Turkey, Cluj Ceramics Biennale in Cluj, Romania.
In recent years, several his ceramic artworks have been bought by world-renowned museums and collections among them:
Education
2008 Graduated Lviv National Academy of Arts. Master degree.
2001 Graduated Sumy Higher Arts and Culture College named after Dmytro Bortnyansky.
Professional Membership
2017 UNESCO International Academy of Ceramics (Geneva).
2017 National Union of Artists of Ukraine
Solo Projects and Exhibitions
25.10.2022 «Explosion», Helen Ritz Gallery, Valencia, Spain.
25.08.2022 «My Explosion», Kahan Art Space Budapest, Mudapest, Hungary,
07.07.2022 «My Dreams», Kapolna Gallery, Kecskemet, Hungary.
15.06.2022 «Illusion of balance», Imagine Point Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
02.02.2022 «GALAXY», Teathralna Art Space, Sumy, Ukraine.
2020 Project 2020 «Project 2020». Dasha S Kandinsky. Yuriy Musatov – MANDARIN
MAISON art by Spivakovska. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2019 «Invasion» / Triptych: Global Arts Workshop (T-GAW) is Ukraine’s first private art
gallery. Kyiv/ Ukraine.
2019 «Craters» / Shcherbenko Art Center. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2019 «Touch to the dream». Konotop’s museum of history and nature. Konotop. Ukraine.
2019 «Trajectory» Alena Kuznetsova (painting) & Yuriy Musatov (ceramic sculpture) /
Mironova Foundation. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2018 «Urban caves» / Triptych: Global Arts Workshop (T-GAW) is Ukraine’s first
private art gallery. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2018 «In progress» / Shcherbenko Art Center. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2017 «My mountains» / Shcherbenko Art Center. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2017 «Windows» / It’s not the louvr gallery bar. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2016 «Fixation» Sky Art Foundation / Art Space. Kyiv. Ukraine.
2015 «Sinergy» : Ukrainian-Chinese project (Yuriy Musatov /Alona Olasyuk). Sky Art
Foundation Art Space. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 The « EVOLUTION OF CLOUDS » Yuriy Musatov within the VII Great Sculpture
Salon / The Mystetskyi Arsenal National Cultural-Arts and Museum Complex .
Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 «Khmaroutvorennia» (Formation of Clouds) / Art Gallery of the Spiritual Culture
Development Center, Opishne, Ukraine.
2012 «CLOUDS» / Center of Culture and Sport, «Kaplica Zamkowa» Gallery
Szydłowiec, Poland.
Objects in the Public Environment
2016 «My Thai» campus Sanam Chan. Silpakorn University. Thailand.
2015 «Explosions». Ceramic sculptures. Feldman Ecopark. Kharkiv. Ukraine.
2013 «Tower». Ceramic sculpture dedicated to the V National Competitive Exhibition
of Art Pottery «CeramPik in Opishne». Height 515 cm / Opishne, Ukraine.
Exhibitions
2022 « Migration(s)» Musée Ariana – Swiss Museum for Ceramics and Glass
Avenue de la Paix Genève. Switzerland.
2022 The final exhibition of the XII. International Ceramic Symposium Romhild, Germany.
2021 «CLOUD IN THE WINGS» Tongin Gallery. Seoul. Korea.
2020 «ONE DAY AFTER…». International art project ./ KYIV HISTORY MUSEUM &
EXHIBITION CENTER. Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 «Observation 2020» / White World. Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 ART Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
2019 «Art for Peace» Exhibition participant artists’ works at Korean Cultural Center in
Ankara / Ankara, Turkey
2019 4rd Cluj Ceramics Biennial. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2019 International Biennale of Art Ceramics by Vasyl Krychecsky, Opishne, Ukraine
2019 The First International Competition for Contemporary Ceramics Art. / The Bordo
National Museum.Tunisia
2019 Exhibition Ukrainian Contemporary sculpture / «Golden Section» auction house, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2019 «Just Porcelain», Group exhibition / Ceramic Creative Studio. Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Volta Art Fair / Mironova Gallery. Basel. Switzerland
2019 «TseGlyna» / Festival of modern ceramic. TseGlyna Art Space. Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 «Revelations» International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial / Paris France
2018 Yingge IAC Members’ Exhibition – New Orientalia. New Taipei City Yingge
Ceramics Museum / New Taipei City, Taiwan
2018 «Keramik der Welt» / Gallery Marianne Heller / Heidelberg, Germany
2018 LATVIA INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS BIENNALE 2018
MARTINSONS AWARD, International Ceramics Competition / Daugavpils Mark
Rothko Art Centre / Daugavpils, Latvia
2018 IV International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 «Triangle» Sky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Voyage of Discovery, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea
2017 XIII International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Aveiro. Aveiro. Portugal
2017 3rd Cluj Ceramics Biennial. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 Ukrainian Biennale of Art Ceramics by Vasyl Krychecsky, Opishne, Ukraine
2017 CELEBRATION INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITION
International Ceramic Studio. Kápolna Galéria. International Ceramic Studio,
Kecskemét, Hungary
2017 «BALANCE» 5th International Triennial of Silicate Arts / International Ceramics
Studio. Kecskemet, Hungary
2017 «Corpusculum II» Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 «Implementing the mission» Art project / M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 18 BIENNAL DE CERÀMICA D’ESPLUGUES / MEL – Museus d`Esplugues, Spain
2016 «Clouded Lands» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 «GREEN LIFE» Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts
of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 CORPUSCULUM Exhibition of non-figurative sculptures / Modern Art Research
Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 International Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
2015 XII International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Aveiro. Aveiro, Portugal
2015 «Art for Peace» Exhibition participant artists works at Korean Cultural Center in
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
2015 Cluj Ceramics Biennale / Cluj Art Museum, Cluj, Romania
2015 THE III INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF CERAMICS UNICUM 2015
PRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SLOVENIA, Liubliana, Slovenia
2015 «Modern Art of Fire» Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 SERES’14 3rd INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC and GLASS EXHIBITION / Anadolu
University. Eskişehir, Turkey
2014 «Dialog der Generationen» Galerie Friederike Zeit. Deidesheim, Germany.
2014 4th International Triennial of Silicat Art, International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary
2013 «Accessible Art» Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 «Сeramics / Glass» Exhibition of contemporary ceramics and glass, Ukrainian
Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago, USA
2013 «Art of Seeing» within the framework of VIII ART KYIV Contemporary III, The Mystetskyi Arsenal National Cultural-Arts and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 XI International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
2013 Festival «Modern Ceramics in Urban Space» / Youth on Andriivskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 «Art, Design, Photography» Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 International Biennale of Applied and Decorative Arts, Konstantin Brinkush
Exhibition Center, Kishinev, Moldova
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 National Competitive Exhibition of Art Pottery «CeramPik in Opishne» National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne, Opishne, Ukraine
2011 International Exhibition of Ceramics «Outside Boundaries» / Museum of Applied Art of School of Art and Design after A.L.Stieglitz, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
2010 International Exhibition of the Small Porcelain Forms. Museum of Porcelain, Riga, Latvia
2010 «ZNAK» 9 International Biennale of Ceramics organized by the association
Keramos, Warsaw, Poland
Symposia. Residences
2022 International Ceramic Symposium Romhild. Romhild, Germany
2020 International Mehmet Nuri Göcen Ceramic Workshop, Kusadasi, Turkey
2020 The 9th China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium, Changchun, China.
2019 IX Macsabal Wood Firing Ceramic Symposium, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2019 Kohila XIX Symposium, Kohila. Estonia
2019 Workshop Sculpture Camp / Edem Resort, Lviv.Ukraine
2018 International Mehmet Nuri Göcen Ceramic Workshop, Kusadasi, Turkey
2018 «Intonation» International Symposium of Ceramics / Deidesheim, Germany
2017 International residency program at the Creative Center in Clayarch Gimhae
Museum, Korea
2017 International Ceramic Symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
International Ceramic Studio. Kecskemet, Hungary
2017 National Symposium of Artistic Ceramic “Philosophy of life” Opishne, Ukraine
2016 Ceramic Art Residency, FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (FLICAM)
Fuping, Shaanxi, China
2016 «Bucovina» International Ceramic Symposium, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
2016 XXI Panevezys International Ceramic Symposium, Panevezys, Lithuania
2016 «Sanamchandra Clay Work 2» Silpakorn Ceramics Symposium, Thailand
2015 Beijing (China) International Macsabal Woodfire Festival, China
2015 Macsabal Wood Firing Symposium, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2015 «Feldman Art Park»Festival of contemporary art young authors. Feldman
Ecopark, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 V INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishne «2014: 14 х14» Opishne, Ukraine
2013 International Symposium of Ceramic Art «LANDscape» Daugavpils, Latvia
2012 CeramoResidence, National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne, Opishne, Ukraine
2012 Residence in the Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
2012 ІII INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishne «2012: 12 х12» / Opishne, Ukraine
2012 «Intonation» VIII International Symposium of Ceramics, Deidesheim, Germany
2011 47 International Symposium of Ceramics and Sculpture in Boleslawiec, Boleslawiec, Poland
2011 ІI INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishne «2011: 11 х11» Opishne, Ukraine
2010 International Project ATELIER OF ART «Hous der Freude» Wildenbruch, Germany
2010 III International Symposium of Ceramics «Ukraina Soborna» Slоvyansk, Ukraine
2009, 2010 II International Symposium of Ceramics «Art-Wagonetka» Sumy, Ukraine
2008 International Symposium of Art Pottery «Porcelana Hodzez» Chodziez, Poland
2007 International Plein Air of Art Pottery «Mini-Ceramics» Lviv, Ukraine
2004 II International Symposium of Art Pottery «ART-Zhyzhal» Babruysk, Belarus
Awards and Scholarship Programs:
Ukraine
Works are in collections:
Publications:
500 Teapots. Volume 2 (Lark Publishing, 2013)