Yarema & Himey (UA)

Yarema Malashchuk
Born 1993, Kolomyia, Ukraine
Lives and works Kyiv, Ukraine

Roman Khimei
Born 1993, Kolomyia, Ukraine
Lives and works Kyiv, Ukraine

Collaborating at the boundaries between visual art and cinema since 2013, Kyiv-based artists and filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk engage with imperialist mythologies, youth, nostalgia and Soviet legacies. Yarema & Himey graduated as cinematographers from the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine, and have been awarded the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020), VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021), as well as the Grand Prix at the Young Ukrainian Artists Award (2019).

Their video works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Frac Bretagne, and Fondazione In Between Art Film. Yarema and Roman are members of the art group Prykarpattian Theater which is currently working on the project Theater of Hopes and Expectations.