Andrij Bojarov

A profound influence on his becoming an artist, was his uncle who had graduated from the graphics department at the State Polygraphic Institute in Lviv. Andrij chose to study architecture, which required to master drawing and graphic techniques. Because of this, Bojarov took classes from Lviv-based artist Marion Ilku who, in turn, had been a student of Roman Selskyi.  For many years, Andrij has been friends with Tõnis Vint (a Tallinn colleague of Oleksandr Aksinin).

In 1984-1989, Andrij Bojarov studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Lviv Polytechnic Institute. However, before graduation, since 1987, he has lived in three cities alternately: in Tallinn, in Warsaw, and Lviv. That is when he started meeting artists who further influenced the formation of the artist's artistic language and impacted his early artistic experiments. Bojarov was one of the first Lviv artists who started experimenting in the area of conceptual photography and video art. His creative method lies in the reuse  of visual materials. He works with already made photographs or video footage from newspapers, magazines, books, television, etc. He duplicates the images, extracts them from their original contexts and situations, incites viewers to interpret and re-interpret the media reality. "He thought of himself as a DJ who is artful in sampling the sounds and sentences, and deconstruct the available work to get a new aesthetic quality" (Shumylovych, "Lviv Media Art. Brief Excursus").