Viktar Kopach
Belarus

most important prizes

2015: Third Prize, 1st International Sculpture Symposium, Iran.
2013: Third Prize, Qingdao International Horticultural Expo International Sculpture Competition China.
2011: Awarded, Medal of the Ministry of Culture; Second Prize, 1st International Public Art Festival of Mudanjiang Jingpo Lake, China.
2008: China Olympic Park.
2005: First Prize, 1st Minsk the International; Competition of young architects Leonardo, Belarus.
2004: Second Prize, Granite Sculpture Symposium, Belarus; Selected as an official representative of Belarus.
2000: Republican Competitive Exhibition of the Young Artists The New Names; 2nd Award of the Byelorussian Presidential Fund of the Support of Culture and Arts.
1999: Mass Media Prize at Snow Fantasy, 1st International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Murmansk, Russia.
1998: Parallel Jury’s Prize in Professionalism nomination at Time. Space; Personality, Belarus.
1996: Grant of Belarusan Branch of Soros Fund, Talk With Stones, Open air. Belarus.

 

proyect
between heaven and earth

Water is a life symbol. I tell about different physical forms of water and emotional value in my work. - The Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers, Glaciers, Oceans, clouds, rain are eternal circulation.
Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and ice at various places in the water cycle. I model a recognized sign. I want to create a symbol of this eternal phenomenon. - But it not so unequivocal. I speak about dualism of treatment. - I also want to tell about human life in which all of our acts back to us back. It is the same circulation. Who sows the wind reaps the storm. -Thoughts and acts should be exclusively positive. - Our relation with nature should be positive and the nature will pay back us the same. - It is necessary to pause for a moment to meditate in front of a sculpture - for example and to think about the essence of our being--nature and life - constantly being threatened by a wasteful utilization of its-finite-wealth.