Hlib Vysheslavskyi () or Glib Viches () (born 6 May 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR) is a Ukrainian artist and art historian. He holds a PhD in art theory and history (2014), and is a member of the International Union of Artists ëSztuka bez Granicû (Kraków) and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He is an author of art in painting, graphics, photo, video, installation and scientific research of contemporary art. Representative of Ukrainian New Wave.
Glib's art works are presented at the Menton Pales Carnoles Museum (France), National Art Museum of Ukraine, Sumy Art Museum (Ukraine), in the Sarajevo Museum of Contemporary Art (Croatia) etc.
Hlib Vysheslavskyi was born in Kyiv on 6 May 1962. In 1980, Hlib graduated from the Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Then he continued studies in ëEcole nationale supérieure des beaux-artsû, (Paris) (1989âÂÂ1993). He was trained in the fund ëVilla Arsonû (Nice) in 1992. He graduated his training in Kyiv in the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (1993âÂÂ1997).
During Perestroika Hlib was a member of the Squatting movement, Soviet Nonconformist Art. Later he investigated underground movement and published theoretical articles. He worked as part of the New Wave group in the art of Ukraine "Sednev-88", where A. Babak, M. Geiko, R. Zhuk, P. Kerestey, P. Makov, A. Roitburd, A. Sukholit and others also performed.
In Kyiv he founded the magazine ëTerra incognitaû. It is a private, an independent and non-profit publication about the theory and practice of contemporary visual art (1993âÂÂ2001). As a video artist he was a member of the 50th Venice Biennale. He took part in the international Biruchiy contemporary art project (2005). A trend accentuated on digital technology in the art he realized in the ëG. V. Kh.û- group: Olena Golub, Vysheslavskyi, Kharchenko. Their project ëDigital yard â 3û was shown in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008).
Vysheslavskyi was Biennale curator ëMonth of Photography in Kyivû (2003), co-curator of the exhibition ë10 years the Ukrainian Modern Art Research Instituteû. He also was the chief editor of the ëGalleryû magazine (2007âÂÂ2010). He is the author of monographs and articles publications in specialized magazines, in particular, ëUne culture dissimuléeû in ëLa regle du jeuû, 2015, No. 57. He is the co-author of the theoretical book ëTerminology of Modern Artû, where he analyzes the contemporary art diversity and development, based on the examples of more than 400 authors.
Since the second half of the 1990s Hlib Vysheslavkyi has been participating in exhibitions in France. He held exhibitions at the Alexandre Gallery (Paris, 1989), the Michel Cabaret Gallery (Nice, 2002), and the Pales Carnoles Museum of Art (Menton, 2002), in the cathedral â St. Germain des Pres (Paris, 1993) and Paris Nord (Paris, 1993), at D.Art â Nice Expo (Nice, 1996), Salin des peintres mediteranee (Nice, 2003), at the Museum of Art, Toulouse, France (1993). His photos taken over the past few years have been exhibited at the Salon des arts modernes â St.-Sulpice (Paris, 2019), and at the exhibition ëStation Parisû in Cloitre, gallery ëCaravaneû, (Paris, 2019).
In 2022 he was a participant and co-curator of the project "Identity. Aspects of modern photography in Ukraine. Apollonia, Strasbourg"
In 2025 he was a participant of the TRYST International Art Fair in Torrance Art Museum, in the project "Wartime-Lifetime" by the Open OâÂÂpen$ group (Oleg Kharch, Olena Golub, Andriy Budnyk, Glib Viches, Volodymyr Kharchenko, Rene van Kempen).