About the artist

Prof. Sergei Sviatchenko (b. 1952, Denmark/Ukraine) is an architect, artist, photographer, is one of today’s most influential collage artists and pioneers of contemporary collage, leader of the Modern classicist movement, founder and creative director of the Triennial for Contemporary Collage Art and The School of LESS in Viborg, Denmark.

In 2004 Sviatchenko invented the artistic construc- tion-deconstruction-reconstruction strategy, where he by adding a maximum of three elements, would detour the narrative of a given image.
He named it LESS, and to this day, the LESS approach is Sviatchenko’s most original and greatest contribution to international collage.

Sviatchenko’s LESS approach and his persistent attention to detail is inspiring younger generations of photographers and artists all over the world.
Sviatchenko’s work has been published in monographs including Sergei Sviatchenko: Collages by Rick Poynor (Schlebrügge, Vienna, 2014), Everything Goes Right and Left if You Want it. Art by Sergei Sviatchenko (Gestalten, Berlin, 2012), and Sergei Sviatchenko: I AM COLLAGE (Lindhardt & Ringhof, Denmark 2018). In 2007 Sergei Sviatchenko was awarded the International Yellow Pencil Award/London, (D&AD).
Honorary Member and Professor of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture, Foreign member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

A provocateur in the world of contemporary art, Sviatchenko’s collages, paintings, photography, films and master classes have been exhibited and hold in Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, England, Canada, and the USA and featured in celebrated magazines such as Dazed & Confused, AnOther, Kilimanjaro, Varoom, Elephant.