Sergey Bratkov (1960)  is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist. Within his visual practice, private life and public space are closely intertwined. His visual forms move between portraiture, panoramic compositions, and staged scenes positioned on the threshold between documentary and fiction. Working with photography, video, painting, and performative actions, Bratkov metaphorically scratches the surface of the collective body, approaching it through a phenomenological inquiry that questions and destabilizes its apparent solidity. Raw and at times deliberately abrasive images - often bordering on the limits of “good taste”- form the expressive core of his extensive body of work.

Since the late 1990s, his work has been consistently presented within an international institutional context, including participation in the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, and Manifesta, as well as exhibitions at institutions such as Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Centre Pompidou (Paris), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Deichtorhallen – Haus der Photographie (Hamburg), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, and PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv).

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