2013 - Third Prize, 2014 Qingdao International Horticultural Expo International Sculpture Competition China2011 - Second Prize, The 1st International Public Art Festival of Mudanjiang Jingpo Lake, China
Beauce Art - Interview with artist Viktar Kopach
Viktar Kopach (Belarusian pronouciation: Viktar Kopach) is a Belarusian contemporary sculptor who lives and works in Minsk.
He was born on 24 August 1970 in Kopachi, a village in the Masty district, Grodno Region of western Belarus. He moved to Minsk in 1986. From 1986 until 1990 he studied at the art college; in 1990 he started a study at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, which he finished in 1996. His first exhibition was in 1993 at the Marc Chagall Art Center in Vitebsk, Belarus. Since 1993, he has held over 38 exhibitions, in Belarus, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Syria, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Brasil, Spain and Germany. Since 1999 he became a member of Belarusian Artists' Union. In 2005—2012 he works as a restorer in Memorial Museum of Zair Azgur, Minsk, Belarus.
A number of public space sculptures in Belarus, Russia, South Korea, China, Turkey, Brazil, Spain, Syria, Kazakhstan, Israel and Poland. The author's works are in galleries, museums and private collections in Belarus, Poland, Germany, Malta, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, China and USA.
2015 - Third Prize, Kish Island international Sculpture symposium, Iran
2013 - Third Prize, 2014 Qingdao International Horticultural Expo International Sculpture Competition China,.
2011 - The Medal of the Ministry of Culture "For his contributions to the cultural development of Belarus"
2011 - Second Prize, The 1st International Public Art Festival of Mudanjiang Jingpo Lake, China.
2006 - China Olympic Park, the award (diploma) Beijing, China.
2005 - First premium in a nomination a sculpture on 1-st Minsk the International competition of young architects "Leonardo 2005", Minsk, Belarus.
2004 - Second Prize, Granite Sculpture Symposium, Mogilev, Belarus. Selected as an official representative of Belarus' for the building of the Monument to Mankind. (2002 - "Monument To Mankind" ).
2000 - the Republican Competitive Exhibition of the Young Artists “The New Names” - the 2nd award of the Belarusian Presidential Fund of the Support of Culture and Arts (Sculpture)
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, National Young Artists Exhibition-Contest. Minsk, Belarus.
1998 - Honourable mention at Time. Space. Personality, National Young Artists Exhibition-Contest. Minsk, Belarus.
1996 - Grant of the Belarusian Branch of Soros Fund Management, Talk With Stones, Plein air. Belarus
Exhibitions
2012 - “Sculpture”, Mersin, Turkey.
2012 - China International Copper Sculpture Art Exhibition, Tongling, China
2012 - “Sculpture”, Minsk, Belarus
2012 - “Four in one”, Gomel Palace & Park Ensemble, Belarus
2010 - “Belart.by”, State Central Museum of contemporary history of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
