Volodymyr manzhos aka Waone

artist, muralist based in kyiv, ukraine

EXHIBITIONS:

2024: 20/21 CENTURY ART - Day Sale CHRISTIE’S PARIS

2024: MOT x The Collectyv. Group exhibition, MOT Cultural space. Lviv, Ukraine.

2024: “Nuit de Lumiere“ solo exhibition, Centre Culturel d'Ukraine en France, Paris.

2024: “Ordinary Mystic“ solo exhibition, Sapar Contemporary, New-York City, USA.

2023: “Visionary Tales“ solo exhibition, Item Gallery (Idem Paris), Paris, France.

2023: “ART ON THE BATTLEFRONT” group exhibition, Albertina modern ,Vienna, Austria.

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.

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

AUCTIONS: Live Auction 23008 20/21 CENTURY ART - Day Sale

Œuvres vendues au profit du Fonds de dotation « L’Imprimerie d’Art du Montparnasse » CHRISTIE’S PARIS

COLLECTIONS:

Colleccion SOLO
MAEGHT Fondation

CLIENTS:

TSUM Kyiv, SNCF, Paris Airport, Hermès

MURAL PROJECTS:

2019:
#1096 project, Versailles, France

Ipaf Festival. Martinique, France

2018:

Scoala Goga, Cluj Napoca Romania

UpeArt, Kotka Finland

Concrete Canvas, Victoria BC Canada

Stadtwandkunst , Mannheim, Germany

Concrete Canvas, Victoria BC, Canada

2017:

Somo Fresh Walls. Somo Cantbria, Spain. 

JIDAR - Toiles de Rue, Rabat, Morocco. 

2016:

Artrepublic JAX. Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

District Walls. Washington DC, USA.

Richmond Mural Project. Richmond, Virginia, USA.

2015:

"Emergence" street-art project, Catania, Sicily, Italy.

"Form" mural and contemporary art project, Perth,WA, Australia.

Charity mural project by Interesni Kazki. Kiev, Ukraine

"WeAArt" mural project, Aalborg, Denmark

Milestone project. Girona, Spain.

2013:

"Wynwood Walls" project, Miami FL, USA.

"Library Street Art Collective" project. Detroit, USA.

"Favca" mural and contemporary art project, Ciudad-del-Carmen, Campeche, Mexico.

LGZ project, Moscow Russia.

"Boombarstik" festival in Vodjnan, Croatia.

Mural project by Underdogs, Losbon Portugal.

"No name festival", Fleury-Les-Aurbais, France.

2012:

mural project "Earth meets Heaven", St.Ottilien, Germany.

Starring for movie "Les Noveaux Explorateurs" CANAL Plus.

Mural for the Europejska Fundacja Kultury Miejskiej Festival in Lublin, Poland.

"All City Canvas" Mexico DF, Mexico.

"Living Walls", Atlanta USA.

"Open Walls", Baltimore USA.

2011:

"Wynwood Walls"  project, Miami FL, USA.

"Street Art Communication" project, Kozice, Slovakia.

"Walk&Talk" mural art festival, Ponta Delgada, Azores islands, Portugal.

"Bloop Festival" mural and contemporary art festival, Ibiza, Spain.

"Stenograffia", mural art festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

2010:

"Arte Para Todos" mural art festival, Sevilla, Spain.

2009:

"Poliniza" mural art project, Valencia, Spain.

2003-2005: 

Painting murals in Ukraine, style developing and Interesni Kazki establishing.

1999:

Strating to paint graffiti.  

Artist statement

The main goal of my art is to find out who am i and explore the outside world.
Viewing through the lens of the creative process gives me posibility
to shift the focus away from the vanity of common life and tap into stranger invisible world, the origin of the entire existence…

It was a long way started back in 1999, when i stepped on the streets with a spray can. During next 18 years i developed a fairy tale visual language, a visual story telling with transcendental ethereal form of contemporary muralism.

Inspired by the old masters art i continue my evolution, i like to imitate the esthetic of antique book illustrations and old engravings in my murals, canvases and drawings.

BIO

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.

Vladimir was born in 1981 near Kyiv. His father was an art lover and a collector of local art and rare orthodox icons. Their home was full of art books and soviet magazines with perfect hand painted illustrations. Vladimir interested in art for the first time in early childhood when he was 4-5 y.o.  

The art career of Vladimir Manzhos more known as Waone, begun in 1999. 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 and from San Francisco to Kyiv. 

Early 2016 Vladimir established new direction in his mural painting - black and white murals.  

2016 was the last year of Interesni Kazki as an artist duo. Since May 2016 Waone works as a single artist. 

Art for Waone is a way to perfection and a portal to divine worlds. His artistic goal is to make high divine values accessible to every man.

Early Influences and Artistic Beginnings
 

Creating Understandable Visual Forms