Kirill Golovchenko was born 1974 in Odessa, Ukraine. From 2002 until 2007 he studied photography by Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Germany. After been supported in the last two years of his studies by Barbara Klemm in the meantime the interest in the work of Kirill Golovchenko grows more and more. He got the Award of Documentary Photography by the Wuestenrot Foundation for the his work 7km – Field of wonders. Further he got the DAAD Scholarship and VG Bild-Kunst Projekt Scholarship for the new project The Ukrainian Breakthrough. Also invitations to a solo and couple of photo exhibitions, and at least in 2009 the printing of the book 7 km- Field of wonders by Snoeck Publisher (Germany) was friendly supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds.

The Ukrainian breakthrough is a new political program of the Ukrainian government which has the slogan: “The Ukrainian breakthrough: for people, not for politicians.” In the program one finds the following statement: “This is a program of the strategical development of the Ukraine … of the progress for the whole country. Not for some ministers or the department of the executive, (more…)