Anatoliy Gankevich

Born in Odessa on August 24, 1965. In 1981 he graduated from Odessa art school. He took individual painting lessons. In 1993-1994, he attended courses at the George Soros National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. Since 1990, he began his professional career as an artist. Since 1991, he engaged in video art, the first video installation “Cleansing” in the gallery of Marat Gelman. In 1992, he implemented the first pictorial project “Communion”. In 1993, he showed the first performance of “Resuscitation of a still life” in the Odessa Literary Museum. In autumn 1993, he took part in the international festival of performances in Lublin (Poland), in the gallery “Labyrinth”. From 1995 to 2005 he was actively engaged in directing commercials and music videos, as well as producing visual effects in the film industry. Since 2006, he has focused on his art projects in such areas as painting, drawing, sculpture, and video art. In 2020, he released his first experimental movie "Aquatoria", the first film of the trilogy “Gaze of the Sun”. In 2022, he released his second movie "Full Sunn", the second film of the trilogy “Gaze of the Sun”