His projects were exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings in different museums and art institutions worldwide. Arthur cooperates with many international magazines, newspapers and online media. His works have been published in Time, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, The Times of London, Der Spiegel, De Volkskrant, etc.
He is the author of 7 photobooks, among them: “Shadows of Wormwood”, “Signatures of War”, “Barricade: The Euromaidan Revolt”, “Valery Faminsky V.1945” and "The Verge".
Arthur Bondar is the founder of WWII/ABC. For many years Arthur Bondar has been collecting unknown WWII negatives all over the world, exploring and systematizing these historically unique and important documentary evidences. This collection consists of more than 15000 unknown visual evidences and different objects. Arthur Bondar exposes these historical heritage as complex projects and exhibitions with a different art and documentary approach, that allows us to look at WWII history from different perspectives.
Awards:
2023 - Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, Book Design Prize (Prize Nominee)
2023 - The Society of Typographic Arts (STA), 100 Chicago (Winner)
2020 - Shortlisted, Kassel Dummy Award 2020, book "Daisy Rivers" (Kassel, Germany)
2019 - Silver Award, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2019/20, book "Berlin May 1945" (Germany)
2019 - Winner, The Society of Typographic Arts (STA), "The Verge" (Chicago, USA)
2018 - Silver Award, European Design Awards, book "V.1945" (Oslo, Norway)
2016 - Allard Prize Photography Competition (Vancouver, Canada)
2016 - Nomination for the Prix Pictet Award
2016 - Nomination for the Foam Paul Huf Award
2015 - Winner "PDN Photo Annual", book "Barricade" (New York, USA)
2014 - participant of VII Mentor Program
2013 - UART Grant, finalist (Ukraine/France)
2013 - The Young Photography competition, winner (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2013 - Finalist “The Pure Souls” Palm Spring Photo festival (Palm Springs, USA)
2013 - Best Photographer of the Year in Ukraine,
1st prize - Documentary Photostory of the Year;
1st prize - Portrait Photostory of the Year;
3rd prize - Documentary Photostory of the Year;
2013 - Documentary Project Fund, winner (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
2012 - Forward Thinking Museum, finalist of 4th quarter (New York, USA)
2012 - The Young Photography competition, winner (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2012 - Magnum Foundation Human Rights Scholarship, winner (New York, USA)
2012 - Finalist “The Pure Souls”, Cortona on the Move Photo festival (Milan, Italy)
2012 - Finalist “Shadows of Wormwood”, “Signatures of War”, Palm Spring Photo festival (Palm Springs, USA)
2011 - Vilnius Photo Circle, Short list (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2011 - National Geographic Grand (EAW) (Jeffersonville, NY, USA)
2010 - Magnum Expression Awards, Short list
2010 - Pikto International Competition, 1st Prize (Toronto, Canada)
Exhibitions:
2024 - Group exhibition "Victory over Victory", Köttinspektionen (Uppsala, Sweden)
2023 - A Bridge Too Far Project, Connecting the Dots, Ria Kebuaria Foundation (Kachreti, Georgia)
2021 - Exhibition "Valery Faminsky: unknown war archive", Innovative Culture Center (Kaluga, Russia)
2021 - Online exhibition "Valery Faminsky Berlin 1945", Buchkunst gallery, (Berlin, Germany)
2021 - Personal exhibition “Shadows of Wormwood”, Museum of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)
2020 - Group exhibition “Neue Zeit? 75 Jahre Kriegsende”, Willy-Brandt-Haus (Berlin, Germany)
2020 - Photobook exhibition “Daisy Rivers”, Fotobokfestival Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
2020 - Personal exhibition “Far superior to Photographs: American tintype”, New Wing Art Space, The House of Gogol (Moscow, Russia)
2020 - Group exhibition “Human Dimension”, House of writers, Peredelkino (Moscow, Russia)
2020 - Personal exhibition “Signatures of War”, Museum of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)
2020 - Personal exhibition “Human Dimension”, NOOR bar, (Moscow, Russia)
2020 - Personal exhibition “The Archive of stranger memories”, New Wing Art Space, The House of Gogol (Moscow, Russia)
2019 - Group exhibition “I want to believe”, Artservatory gallery / Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art (Khabarovsk, Russia)
2019 - Group exhibition “Shot List Exhibition”, New Wing of Gogol House gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2019 - Group exhibition “Red Utopia”, ImageSingulires photo festival (Sete, France)
2018 - Personal exhibition “Valery Faminsky. Berlin. May 1945”, Bildband gallery (Berlin, Germany)
2017 - Personal exhibition “Valery Faminsky. Berlin 1945”, Fotografika gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2017 - Exhibition “I want to believe”, Metenkov House Museum of Photography (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
2017 - Personal exhibition “Valery Faminsky. Berlin 1945”, Bauman Garden public space (Moscow, Russia)
2017 - Personal exhibition “Valery Faminsky. May 1945, Berlin”, Gallery of Classical Photography (Moscow, Russia)
2016 - Personal exhibition “Signatures of War”, KH gallery (Brest, Belarus)
2016 - Personal exhibition “Signatures of War”, Metenkov’s House museum of photography (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2015 - Personal exhibition “Signatures of War”, Literary Museum of Petrus Brovka (Minsk, Belarus)
2015 - Personal exhibition “Where my childhood died”, Chobi Mela VIII festival (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
2014 - Group exhibition “Euromaidan: The True Story”, Checkpoint Charlie Museum (Berlin, Germany)
2014 - Personal exhibition “From the Varangians to the Greeks”, 10B Gallery (Rome, Italy)
2013 - Personal exhibition “From the Varangians to the Greeks”, The Art Barn (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
2013 - Exhibition “Signatures of War”, Ukrainian cultural center (Paris, France)
2013 - Personal exhibition “From the Varangians to the Greeks”, Art-Prichal gallery (Kiev, Ukraine)
2013 - Exhibition “Mother Motherland”, The Young Photography competition, Center for Art and Music Library, (Saint- Petersburg, Russia)
2013 - Exhibition “Ward Number Laughter”, MMOMA (Moscow, Russia)
2013 - Exhibition “Europe without borders”, parliament of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
2013 - Exhibition “Where my childhood died” Lavra Art Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine)
2013 - Exhibition “Soullines” National Chernihiv Art Museum (Сhernihiv, Ukraine)
2013 - Group Exhibition “Best Photographer of Year”, M17 Contemporary Art Center (Kiev, Ukraine)
2013 - Installation “Forest means cheaper”, Pinchuk Art Center, project Alexey Salmanov, photography Arthur Bondar (Kiev,Ukraine)
2012 - Exhibition “Where my childhood died”, The Young Photography competition, Center for Art and Music Library (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2012 - Personal exhibition “Europe without borders”, European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium)
2012 - Personal exhibition “Europe without borders” (Kiev, Ukraine)
2012 - Personal exhibition “The Holy War”, Browse Photo festival (Berlin, Germany)
2012 - Group exhibition “Other World” (Leeds, UK)
2010 - Personal Exhibition "Signatures of War" (Toronto, Canada)
Screenings:
2016 - Screening “From the Varangians to the Greeks”, Athens Photo Festival (Athens, Greece)
2015 - Screening “Vanishing Island”, Tbilisi Photo Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2014 - Screening “Soullines”, Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers (Moscow, Russia)
2014 - Screening “Shadows of Wormwood” Lumix festival for young photojournalism (Hannover, Germany)
2014 - Screening “From the Varangians to the Greeks” Palm Spring Photo festival (Palm Springs, USA)
2013 - Screening “Soullines”, Center of Documentary Photography “Photodoc” (Moscow, Russia)
2013 - Screening “The Holy War”, the 9th Angkor Photo Festival (Cambodia)
2013 - Screening “Soullines” Obscura Fotofestival, (Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia)
2013 - Screening “Shadows of Wormwood” and “Soullines”, Tbilisi Photo Festival, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2012 - Screening “Signatures of War”, Arles Photo festival (Arles, France)
2012 - Screening “Shadows of Wormwood”, “Signatures of War”, Palm Spring Photo festival (Palm Springs, USA)
2011 - Screening "Shadows of Wormwood", Bursa Photo festival, (Bursa, Turkey)
Education:
2020 - "WWII in cinema, literature, painting and music", the Center for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin), (Saint-Petersburg, Russia / Tbilisi, Georgia)
2018 - "Identification of photographic processes of the XX century", Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow, Russia)
2012 - Jose Bautista master-class “Audiovisual possibilities of photo projects” (Moscow, Russia)
2012 - New York University, Tisch School of Art, Documentary photography and Human Rights (New York, USA)
2011 - Eddie Adams Workshop Barnstorm XXIV (Jeffersonville, NY, USA)
2011 - NOOR-Nikon Masterclass of Documentary Photography. Stanley Greene, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet (Bucharest, Romania).
2010 - Jason Eskinazi master-class "Killing the Buddha" (Kiev, Ukraine)
2009 - Donald Weber master-class "Photojournalism" (Kiev, Ukraine)
2009 - Sergey Maksimishin master-class "The way to success. Photo stories. Work with news agencies" (Kiev, Ukraine)
2008 - Aleksandr Lapin master-class "Photography as ..." (Kiev, Ukraine)
2000 - 2004 - Kiev National Linguistic University (Kiev, Ukraine)
Art Residencies:
2022 - Ria Keburia Foundation (Kachreti, Georgia)
2019 - Museum of History of the Russian Villages (Yaroslavl Region, Russia) 2019 - Brest Fortress Development Foundation (Brest, Belarus)
2018 - Peredelkino Writers Village (Moscow region, Russia)
2017 - Museum of Photography (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2016 - Creative peacebuilding / Art out of conflict (Tbilisi Georgia)
2014 - Paducah Art Alliance (Kentucky, USA)
Curatorial work:
2019 - "ONE" exhibition, Fotografika gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2018 - "Memory Card" exhibition, Fotografika gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2017 - "Bigger than I" exhibition of Olga Bubich (Minsk, Belarus)
2017 - "Time" exhibition, Fotografika gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2017 - "I Want to Believe exhibition", Metenkov Museum, (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2016 - "The City of Roads", group exhibition in Fotografika gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2013 - "Inner City" exhibition, Natavan Gallery (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Lecturer:
2020-2021 - School of Photography “Fotografika” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2016 - School of Photography “Fotografika” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2015 - Month of Photography (Minsk, Belarus)
2015 - Uglich Photofestival (Uglich, Russia)
2015 - Mirzoyan Library (Yerevan, Armenia)
2014 - School of Art and Design (Paducah, KY, USA)
2013 - Contemporary Art Space «Yarat» (Baku, Azerbaijan)
2013 - Lavra Art Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine)
2013 - National Chernihiv Art Museum (Сhernihiv, Ukraine)
2013 - School of Visual Arts «Vinzavod» (Moscow, Russia)
2011 - Department of Journalism Taras Shevchenko National University (Kiev, Ukraine)