ruїns collective

Oleksandr Teliuk / Elias Parvulesco is an artist, film scholar, curator, and archivist. and currently a postgraduate researcher at Queen Mary University of London.As a filmmaker, he took part in several international film festivals, including goEast International Film Festival (2024), FIDMarseille, Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (2022); The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2022); Glasgow Short Film Festival (2022); Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2020); Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (2014, 2018); Odesa International Film Festival (2016); Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (2018); 86 International Festival of Film and Urbanism (2016).As an artist, he participated in a number of collective exhibitions and art projects such as 'Landscapes of an Ongoing Past' (2024); 'Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity' (2024); 'Implantations' (2023); 'Heart of Earth' (2022—2023, 2024); To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine' (2022); 'UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES' (2022); 'antiwarcoalition.art' (2022); 'Chain Reaction' (2022); 'Kyiv Biennial (2021); 'Un/archiving post/industry' (2021); 'Climate Emergency Movement' (2019); 'Armed and Dangerous' (2019); 'Creating Ruin' (2018); 'Gray Cube' (2018); 'Social realism. Pretend to be Different' (2018).In 2017, he was a co-founder of 'ruїns collective', in 2020, the group had a personal exhibition 'NHT' ( w/ Teta Tsybulnyk, 2020, The Laboratory of Contemporary Art 'Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal'). Also, he was a nominee of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, a nationwide prize in contemporary art to young Ukrainian artists.As a film archivist and film history scholar, he worked at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv, leading a number of publishing and exhibition projects. He also studied at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum, University of Rochester, NY, USA, as well as working as a research assistant on the FIAF's Film Atlas project.
Personal and collective works:

Other Storms (2024)
Endless Sea of Sand (2023)
Narcissus Sacro, Narcissus Profano (2023)
Famine (2022)
Profession: Photojournalist. Part 2: Monochrome (2022)
Salty Oscillations (2021)
Profession: Photojournalist. Part 1: Hometown (2021)
Insect Echotaxis (2020)
... The Winds Have Swept Us Off in All Directions... (2020)
K-Object from LL-Group (2019)
zong (2019)
Untitled (Armed and Dangerous) (2019)
Comrade Kobzar (2018)
dendro dreams (2018)
Lviv Intervision (2018)
Complicated, Difficult, Abstruse (2018)
Proper Man (2017)
The Pink Map (2016)
Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia (2016)
Lilith’s Community (2015)
Children’s Rights (2014)
The Limits of Europe (2014)
Workers of Lviv City (2012—14)

Selected collective exhibitions:

Everything for Everybody / Kyiv Biennial, DCCC, Dnipro, Ukraine, 10.10.2025—07.02.2026.
Art After 2000. Glossary, Kyiv, Ukraine, 18.07—24.08.2025.
Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity, Leipzig, Germany, 14.09—14.12.2024.
Heart of Earth, Ukraine House in Denmark, Copenhagen, 23.08—24.11.2024.
Landscapes of an Ongoing Past, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, Germany, 16.08—22.09.2024.
Implantations, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany, 07.12—10.12.2023.
To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine, 2014–2023), BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands, 09.09—29.10.2023.
Chain Reaction, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia, 06.02—12.02.2023.
The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 20.01—03.03.2023.
Heart of Earth, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Urraine, 25.11.2022—28.02.2023.
Non-Human Agents During the War at documenta fifteen, documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany, 17.09.2022.
To Watch the War — The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2022), Coalmine — Raum für Fotografie, Winterthur, Switzerland, 08.09—18.12.2022.
Unfolding Landscapes — Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 30.10—10.11.2022.
Unfolding Landscapes — Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 08.07—18.09.2022.
Chain Reaction, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy, 03.05—15.05.2022.
Unfolding Landscapes — Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark, 29.01—01.05.2022.
Kyiv Biennial 2021, The House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine, 22.10.2021.
NHT, Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine, 04.09—20.09.2020.
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine, 09.02—30.05..2020.
Climate Emergency Movement, MetaCulture, Chernivtsi / Kyiv, Ukraine, 12.06—18.06.2019.
Armed and Dangerous exhibition, Izolyatsia. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine, 31.01.-17.03.2019.
Armed and Dangerous, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 05.04.-04.05.2019.
Grey Cube, VCRC, Kyiv / Tiu Platform, Mariupol / Kharkiv School of Architecture, Kharkiv, Ukraine / Bunker Gallery, Chisinau, Moldova 08.09—30.10.2018.

Selected festival screenings:

KORDON Art Film Festival, Kärdla, Hiiumaa island, Estonia, 01.08.2024.
goEast International Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany, 28.04.2024.
FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille, France, 08—11.07.2022.
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK, 25.03.2022.
Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 24.04—10.05.2020.
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 05.05.2022.
International Short Waves Festival, Poznan, Poland / online, 19.06.2022.
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 26.05—02.06.2019.
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 31.05.2018.
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic, 27.10.2018.
Odesa International Film Festival, Ukraine, 20.07.2016.
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Short Joy Programme Section, Jihlava, Czech Republic, 29.10.2014.

Curated film exhibitions

In a Grandiose Sundance, in a Cosmic Clatter of Torture (w/ Stanislav Bytyutkyi, Alona Penzii), Kyiv Biennial, Dovzhenko Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2025
‘The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast’ (w/ Stanislav Bytyutkyi, Alona Penzii):
- Kyiv Biennial, Dovzhenko Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023;
- Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2024;
- Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2024;
- TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland, 2024;
- The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024.
‘To Cry! To Call! To Burn!,’ Dovzhenko Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020 (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko).
‘VUFKU. Lost&Found,‘ Dovzhenko Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019 (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko).

Selected curated film programs

'Ukrainian Film Symposium’, BAMPFA, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, 2025.
'Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance’, BAMPFA, Berkeley, USA, 2025.
'I Don't Like Nature As It Is,' Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2024 (w/ Alona Penzii).
‘Prologue for the exhibition ‘Kaleidoskop of (Hi)stories. Ukrainische Gegenwartskunst 1912-2023,’ SKD (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) Voices, online, 2023.
‘Ukranima! Ukranima!,’ Cinémathèque française's HENRI, online, 2023 (w/ Alona Penzii).
‘Tender, Passionate, Ardent,’ Kino42, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023 (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Alona Penzii).
'Futurity,' Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2023 (w/ Alona Penzii).
‘Weird, Whimsical, Fantastic,’ Kino42, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022 (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Alona Penzii).
'Front-Line Geographies,' Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2022 (w/ Alona Penzii).
‘The Mirages of Freedom. Ukrainian experimental films of the 1960-1980s,’ Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival; BEAST Fest, Porto, Portugal, 2021.
‘Independent,’ Odesa International Film Festival, Odesa, Ukraine, 2021 (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Arsenii Kniazkov, Anna Onufriienko).
‘Free in Odesa: Independent Cinema of the 1990s,’ Odesa International Film Festival, Odesa, Ukraine, 2020 (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Arsenii Kniazkov, Anna Onufriienko).
‘Factory of Social Realism,’ Dovzhenko Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019 (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Anna Onufriienko).
‘Tender Age,’ Odesa International Film Festival, Odesa, Ukraine, 2017 (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko).
‘Heroic Make-Up,’ Natioanal Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2015 (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko).

Selected edited books

‘Ukrainska antolohiia kinorytyky 1920-kh’ [‘Ukrainian Film Critic Anthology of the 1920s’] (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi). 2018—2022. ISBN 978-6177652-27-3.
‘VUFKU. Lost&Found‘ (w/ Ivan Kozlenko, Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko). 2019. Dovzhenko Center. ISBN 978-6-177765-02-7.
‘Mykhail Kaufman: Ukrainska dylohiia’ [‘Mikhail Kaufman: Ukrainian Dilogy’] (w/ Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko). 2017. Dovzhenko Center.
‘Chornobyl (ne)vydymyi’ [‘Chornobyl (In)Visible’] (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko). 2017. Dovzhenko Center.
‘Kinematohrafichna reviziia Donbasu 2.0’ [’Cinematographic Revision of Donbas 2.0’] / ‘Kinoreviziia Dobasu 2.0’ (w/ Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Anna Onufriienko). 2017. Dovzhenko Center, ISBN 978-6-177393-66-4.
‘Kinoreviziia Donbasu’ [’Cinematographic Revision of Donbas’] (w/ Anna Onufriienko, Stanislav Menzelevskyi). 2015. Dovzhenko Center, Art-Knyha. ISBN 978-6-177242-18-4.

Selected publications

Teliuk, Oleksandr (2025). Nikitin's system. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Teliuk, Oleksandr (2025). Wolff-Heide. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Teliuk, Oleksandr (2024). British Cinecolor. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Brown, Simon & Oleksandr Teliuk. 2024. Cinechrome. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Brown, Simon & Oleksandr Teliuk (2024). Hillman Colour. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Brown, Simon & Oleksandr Teliuk (2024). Talkicolor. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum.
Brown, Simon & Oleksandr Teliuk. 2024. Raycol. In James Layton (ed.), Film Atlas. www.filmatlas.com. Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives / Rochester, NY: George Eastman Museum
Ayman, Alia & Petra Belc, Shai Heredia, Oleksandr Teliuk, Philip Widmann in conversation. Amplifying Presence in Place of a Typology / Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema. 2024. Berlin: Archive Books. ISBN : 978-3-949973-32-1.
Teliuk, Oleksandr & Olena Honcharuk. Sensitive Institutions. The Case of the Dovzhenko Centre. Journal of Film Preservation Brussels: International Federation of Film Archives, Nov 1, 2023.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. U pidnizhzhia Marsa, abo pro te yak Oleksandr Dovzhenko provodyv chas u Berlini ta buv pid vplyvom nimetskoi stseny [At the Foot of Mars, or About Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Period in Berlin and the Influenced of the German Scene]. Suspilne Kultura. Sep 8, 2023.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. A film archivist takes us inside the battle to save Ukraine’s Dovzhenko Centre. Kassiki.online. Sep 22, 2022.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Dokumentuvannia nasyllia: etychne vyprobuvannia v neihrovomu kino. Konspekt lektsii Docudays UA [Documenting of Violence: an Ethical Challenge of Non-Fiction Cinema. Synopsis of Lectures at the Docudays UA Film Festival]. Lb.ua. Feb 13, 2022.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Kazky proty propahandy. Desiat pershykh multfilmiv ukrainskoho kino [Fairy Tales Against Propaganda. The First Ten Cartoons of Ukrainian Cinema]. Nv.ua. May 3, 2021.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Fantastychnyi muzei zabuttia [A Fantastic Museum of Oblivion]. Your Art. Nov 26, 2019.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Anemichne, mekhanichne, diahonalne v rannii ukrainskii kinokrytytsi [The Anemic, The Mechanical, The Diagonal in Early Ukrainian Film Criticism]. // Antolohiia ukrainskoi kinokrytyky 1920-kh. Tom 2. Kino/eksperyment. Kyiv: Dovzhenko Center, 2019. P. 10-22.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Mizh entuziazmom i katastrofoiu: obraz Donbasu v ukrainskomu radianskomu kino [Between Enthusiasm and Disaster: the Image of Donbas in Ukrainian Soviet Cinema] // Kinoreviziia Dobasu 2.0. Kyiv: Dovzhenko Center, 2017. P. 15-42.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Nauka zghaduvannia, abo chomu tak vazhko stupaty «za horyzont»? [The Science of Remembrance, or Why is it so Difficult to Step "Beyond the Horizon"?]. KORYDOR. Nov 20, 2016.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Anneksiia Zapadnoi Ukrainy Sovetskim Soiuzom v ukrainskom sovetskom kino [The Annexation of Western Ukraine by the Soviet Union in Ukrainian Soviet Cinema]. Cineticle. Nov 16, 2016.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Efemerna animatsiia: mizh propahandoiu i maskultom [Ephemeral Animation: Between Propaganda and Masscult]. KORYDOR. Apr 30, 2015.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Stereotypy novoho ukrainskoho kino [Stereotypes of the new Ukrainian cinema]. Ukrainska pravda. Zhyttia. Jul 29, 2013.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Dovzhenko i mifologiia [Dovzhenko and Mythology]. Cineticle. Feb 17, 2013.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Nova khvylia stala, yaka ne buvala [A New Wave Has Come that Never Happened Before]. PROSTORY. Feb 9, 2013.
Teliuk, Oleksandr. Borodata tin Paradzhanova [Bearded Shadow of Parajanov]. Ukrainska pravda. Zhyttia. Jul 26, 2012.