photography, graphics, painting, media art
He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1960. Multimedia
artist, curator, representative of the Kharkiv
School of Photography.
From 1988 to 1993 he was in a group of artists called
«Litera A»: creating semifigurative painting, he
participated in group exhibitions in Ukraine and Germany.
In the early 1990s, he was one of the artists who managed
the Up/Down Gallery, which was the first contemporary art
space in Kharkiv. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of
the Fast Reaction Group («Rapid Response Group»)
together with the photographer Boris Mikhailov, Viktoria
Mikhailova and Sergey Solonsky.
He attempts to combine various media in his art — from
sculpture(freezing photographs in the blocks of ice or
turning them into lollipops)to performance.
In the 2000s, Bratkov moved to Moscow, where he resided
until 2022. There he worked at the Rodchenko Moscow
School of Photography and Multimedia.
In 2007, he was represented in the Ukrainian pavilion
at the 52nd Venice Biennale as part of the project «Poem
About An Inland Sea» organized by the PinchukArtCentre.