Pavlo Volodymyrovych Gudimov (born 12 October 1973, Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician, guitarist, art collector, and art manager. Leader of the band Gudimov, former guitarist of Okean Elzy.
Biography.
In 1991, he entered and graduated from the Ukrainian State Forestry University (now the National Forestry University of Ukraine) with a degree in landscape gardening in 1996.
Since 1991, he has been actively involved in music. His first band was "Klan Tyshi" (partners: Denys Glinin, Andriy Golyak, Yuriy Khustochka). 1994-2005 - guitarist of the band "Okean Elzy". In 1998, like the rest of the band, he moved to Kyiv.
In 2001, he founded the architectural studio and gallery "Ya Design". He began organising exhibitions of Ukrainian contemporary art.
In 2005, after leaving the band Okean Elzy, he founded the band Gudimov. He released two albums: "Springboards" (2005) and "Monopoly" (2007).
On 12 April 2007, he founded the Gudimov Art Project cultural holding, which includes the Artbook publishing house, the Accent creative group, the Ya Design architectural studio, the Ya Gallery art centre, and the Gudimov music group.
He is married and has a daughter.
Curator of Ukrainian and international art projects, in particular, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lviv Municipal Art Centre.
Guinness Book of Records
On 1 April 2005, the Hudimov band broke a world record when they filmed, edited and broadcast a video for their song "Short Talk" in a short time. On that day, representatives of the Guinness Book of Records presented the band with a diploma confirming the "purity of the new record". Pavlo and the M1 TV crew managed to break the previous record, which was 3 hours and 46 minutes. The most recent record in the Guinness Book of Records is 3 hours and 28 minutes.
Teaching activity
Since November 2009, she has been teaching several courses on art and interior design at Kruhozir (agency), including:
"How to learn to understand contemporary art. Some aspects of collecting and contemplation";
"How to become an interior designer: developing taste and sense of style";
"Interior design: Material. Texture. Colour";
"Ascetic design: stylish design from improvised materials".
