About the artist
Volodymyr Manzhos is an artist, known for his street art works and illustrations. Vladimir was born in 1981 near Kyiv. The art career of Vladimir Manzhos more known as Waone, begun in 1999. Artistic name WAONE, came from a real name Vladimir, popular in slavic contries, and it is a short friendly version as well. «Вован» (sounds like [Vavan]) was popular in post soviet 90's but written as Wa-One, which also referring to hip-hop aesthetics. Few years after he has been painting graffiti a s a member of Ingenious Kids crew in Kyiv. In 2003 he got bored of letters and together with Aec went to the next level of public art - visual storytelling. They have been painting big surreal murals with fantasticstories. They developed their unique style of contemporarymuralism with extraordinary ephemeral form of monumental art. In 2005 Waone and Aec established an artist duo - Interesni Kazki, which means «Interesting fairy tales» in ukrainian. Their murals are full of fairy characters, fine details, smooth gradients, symbols and stories. Next 10 years duo travel a lot. Inspiring by local cultures and traditions they paint murals expressing local flavor. Now their bright surreal paintings decorate the walls from Australia to Mexico.
List of the exhibitions
2020: “IMPRINT“ group exhibition, Ukrainian printmaking of the XX-XXI centuries. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019: “Алхімія мотивації“ (alchemy of motivation) group exhibition. Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv.
2019: “Must Have“ group exhibition. Mironova Foundation. Kyiv Ukraine.
2019: “Уличная волна“(Street wave) group exhibition of “Urban Wave artists“. Omsk regional M.A. Vrubel museum of fine arts
Omsk, Russia.
2018: “This art is too smart“ solo exhibition Varsi gallery, Rome, Italy.
2018: "ПО ГРАФІКУ/FOR GRAPHICS" group show for Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017: "Weird Tales" solo exhibition, curated by Ivan Quaroni, Antonio Colombo Arte Conemporanea, Milan, Italy.
2017: "Theriomorphism IV" group exhibition, curated by Okuda San Miguel with Ink And Movement at Kreisler Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2016 "Sacred Gravitation" Interesni Kazki solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015 "SOURCE CODES, URBAN CONTEMPORARY VISIONS". This major survey aim to investigate relations between 80’s graffiti and contemporary street art
Curated by 999Contemporary / Stefano S. Antonelli & Francesca Mezzano. Catania, Sicily, Italy.
2015 "Surface" project by Søren Solkær at Allouche Soho Art Gallery New York, NY, USA
2014 "Inter Arma Silent Musae" Interesni Kazki solo show at Studio Cromie gallery, Grottaglie, Italy
2012 "The street of the World" group show at Opera Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012 "My Turn" group show at Carmichael Gallery, Los-Angeles, USA
2011 "Nothing special" Interesni Kazki solo show at Midcity-Arts gallery, Los-Angeles, CA,USA
2011 "Objects of the Universe" Interesni Kazki solo show at Avantgarden gallery, Milan, Italy
2011 "ASA All Stars" group show at Go-Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 "Twenty Century Mirabilia" group show at Avantgarden gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 "Paranoya and shtrihi" Interesni Kazki solo show at All Over Gallery, Lyon, France