Events map: Ukrainian futurism, blackout game, Italian graphics, Horska retrospective, Kinder Album, Odessa nonconformism
22 march, 2024
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Featured Art Events in Ukraine
“Black Earth. Forced Disorientation” exhibition by Viktor Sydorenko
Dates: March 8 — April 7, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Tereshchenkivska Street, 9 (Kyiv National Art Gallery)
Operating Hours: Tue–Wed, Fri–Sun, 11:00–17:00
Ticket Price: 125/250 UAH
Organizer(s): Kyiv National Art Gallery
Curator(s): Halyna Skliarenko
The project "Black Earth," which emerged during 2022–2023, reflects the artists Viktor Sydorenko thoughts on the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and once again raises complex existential questions. His images go beyond the understanding of events, appealing to deep historical experience and combining personal and general, emotional and symbolic. The exhibition consists of paintings and graphic compositions by the author from the series "Flashes of Black Earth" and his film "Black Earth. Forced Disorientation."
The exhibition is a continuation of the artist's overarching theme, with which he has been working since the 1990s. During those years, he created the main character of his work — a semi-naked typified figure lacking individual features — a faceless participant in social cataclysms, who is both "material" and a driving force of modern history.
The exhibition is a continuation of the artist's overarching theme, with which he has been working since the 1990s. During those years, he created the main character of his work — a semi-naked typified figure lacking individual features — a faceless participant in social cataclysms, who is both "material" and a driving force of modern history.
"Bridge" exhibition of Ukrainian and Italian print graphics
Dates: March 14 — March 26, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Tereshchenkivska Street, 15 (Khanenko Museum)
Operating Hours: Wed–Sun, 10:30–17:30
Ticket Price: 50/100 UAH
Organizer(s): Khanenko Museum
Curator(s): Olesya Djuraieva
The group project "Bridge" was initiated in 2021 by the president of the Italian Association of Contemporary Graphic Artists (Associazione Nazionale Incisori Contemporanei) Luciano Rossetto and Ukrainian graphic artist Olesya Djuraieva. The exhibition presents 20 Ukrainian and 20 Italian artists. The authors were not limited by the theme, so they offered two works, the most characteristic of their practice. The exhibition features various graphic techniques (lithography, etching, linocut, mezzotint, aquatint, photopolymer engraving, silk-screen printing, drypoint, xylography, metal engraving, etc.), different generations and schools, different regions of Ukraine and Italy.
"Alla Horska. Boryviter" exhibition
Dates: March 14 — April 28, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Khreshchatyk Street, 2 (National Center "Ukrainian House")
Operating Hours: Tue–Sun, 11:00–19:00
Ticket Price: 50-100 UAH
Organizer(s): National Center "Ukrainian House," Dukat Art Foundation
Co-organizer(s): Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretsky Foundation, Oshchadbank, Visa
Curator(s): Olena Hrozovska, Tetiana Voloshyna, Mykhailo Kulivnyk, Kateryna Lisova
The first retrospective of Ukrainian artist Alla Horska, a representative of the 1960s, will present over 100 of her works (paintings, graphics, sketches of monumental works) and archival materials about her creative and public activities. The exhibition features sketches of mosaic panels in Kyiv and in Eastern Ukraine, set designs for Les Taniuk’s plays, portraits of Vasyl Stus, Ivan Svitlychny, Vasyl Symonenko, Ivan Drach, Lina Kostenko, and other cultural figures of that time. Additionally, a special exhibit will be an audio-video-light installation by Oleksiy Sai, Mykola Marusyk, and Oleksandr Kokhanovsky, created based on the destroyed stained glass window by Horska's group "Shevchenko. Mother."
"Three Hours: Unofficial art of Odesa in the second half of the XX century" exhibition
Dates: March 16 — April 14, 2024
Address: Kryvyi Rih, Kostenko Street, 37 (Grey Club House)
Operating Hours: Sat, 15:00–19:00, Sun, 12:00–19:00
Ticket Price: Free admission
Organizer(s): Kryvyi Rih Center of Contemporary Culture (KRCC)
Co-organizer(s): Grey Club House
The project presents works from the collection of businessman Roman Yermolenko and focuses on the phenomenon of "Odessa nonconformism" of the 1960s. The first exhibition of this movement was self-organized — on the fence of the Odesa National Opera. This kind of protest against the political and artistic system of the time (social realism) lasted only three hours, but it was enough for unofficial art in Soviet Ukraine to begin to change.
"Kinder Album: Magic All Around" exhibition
Dates: March 22 — April 24, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Reitarska Street, 21 (The Naked Room)
Operating Hours: Mon–Sun, 12:00–21:00
Ticket Price: Free admission
Organizer(s): The Naked Room
Curator(s): Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko
A small retrospective of artist Kinder Album titled "Magic All Around" presents ceramic and wooden objects, tapestries, and new graphics that have already gone viral. Kinder Album works with corporeality, femininity, and stereotypes about it, personal fantasies, and acute social issues. In her practice, the artist kind of creates a magical space that reboots the perception of daily tragedies. Humor and seriousness, real and imaginary exist in her works simultaneously, like in a magician's show.
"Lot's Wives” Memory Lab collective project
Dates: March 22 — April 19, 2024
Address: Kharkiv, Ivanivska Street, 1 (Some People)
Operating Hours: Thu–Sun, 17:00–21:00
Ticket Price: Free admission
Organizer(s): Memory Lab Collective
Co-organizer(s): Supported within the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO "Museum of Contemporary Art" and Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund and the UNESCO-Aschberg initiative
The idea of the project emerged in August 2023 during the "Blue Beard" play in Ivano-Frankivsk, focused on the exploration of one’s family roots. A group of participants from Bakhmut, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kherson, and other cities, together with director Sonya Slyusarenko and choreographer Ksenia Pohrebennik, created peculiar maps of individual and collective memories.
The exhibition project "Lot's Wives" continues to work with the same materials, focusing on the phenomenon of the voice as part of corporeality and as an instrument of articulating memory. The biblical story of Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt by the "angry God," is central to the project. Reflecting on this story in her poem, one of the participants — Mashyka Vyshedska — ponders the agency of this unnamed woman, as well as our individual voices during the war. How can we restore sound to our voice and coexist with others, whose voices differ from ours, without trying to artificially balance them — this is the main question of the project. It combines a multimedia exhibition, a three-day public program (March 22-24), screening of the video documentation of the performance, curator's tour, musical performance, and more.
The exhibition project "Lot's Wives" continues to work with the same materials, focusing on the phenomenon of the voice as part of corporeality and as an instrument of articulating memory. The biblical story of Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt by the "angry God," is central to the project. Reflecting on this story in her poem, one of the participants — Mashyka Vyshedska — ponders the agency of this unnamed woman, as well as our individual voices during the war. How can we restore sound to our voice and coexist with others, whose voices differ from ours, without trying to artificially balance them — this is the main question of the project. It combines a multimedia exhibition, a three-day public program (March 22-24), screening of the video documentation of the performance, curator's tour, musical performance, and more.
Special screening of the "20 Days in Mariupol" documentary by Mstyslav Chernov
Dates: March 23, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Khreshchatyk Street, 2 (National Center "Ukrainian House")
Time: 16:00
Ticket Price: 100 UAH
Organizer(s): National Center "Ukrainian House"
After the documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" by Mstyslav Chernov won the Oscar, few are unaware of its existence. Chernov, a video journalist for the Associated Press, along with colleagues, producer Vasylyna Stepanenko, and photographer Yevhen Maloletka, witnessed the full-scale Russian invasion in Mariupol. There, they experienced the first weeks of the city's occupation and documented some of the first high-profile crimes committed by Russia, such as the shelling of a residential building from a tank and the bombing of a maternity hospital. The film, created in collaboration with the Associated Press and American documentarians from Frontline, became the voice of Ukraine not only at the Oscars but also at the Sundance and Docudays UA film festivals, and it also received the Pulitzer Prize.
"Svitlodil" board game by Maria Matiashova
Dates: March 24, 2024
Address: Kyiv, Lavrsa Street, 10–12 (Mystetskyi Arsenal)
Time: 13:00–14:30, 16:00–17:30
Ticket Price: 60–250 UAH
Organizer(s): Mystetskyi Arsenal
The "Svitlodil" project by artist Maria Matiashova is a board game that tells the story of the blackouts from autumn 2022 to spring 2023. Specifically, it focuses on the practice of self-organized mutual support among friends, neighbors, and strangers, which contributed to the continuation of daily life. During the game, participants can recreate this experience, once again resorting to the ingenuity and resourcefulness that helped us adapt to uncontrollable circumstances. The session lasts for one and a half hours, with a maximum of six participants. To participate, registration is required. Entry is priced based on the ticket price for the exhibition "Coexistence with Darkness." The project was created within the Literary Laboratory of Mystetskyi Arsenal under the curatorship of Dima Kazakov.
Ukrainian Projects Abroad
"Futuromarennia: Ukraine & avant-garde” exhibition
Dates: March 17 — September 8, 2024
Address: Belgium, Drogenbos, Kuikenstraat, 6 (FeliX Art & Eco Museum)
Operating Hours: Thu–Sun, 10:30–17:00
Ticket Price: 2/8/10 EUR
Organizer(s): Mystetskyi Arsenal, FeliX Art & Eco Museum
Co-organizer(s): in partnership with the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Art Museum of Dnipro City, Kharkiv Literary Museum, Dovzhenko Center, National Scientific Restoration Center of Ukraine, Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, Kharkiv Private Museum of Urban Estate, Lviv Museum of the History of Religion, Valentyna Kostiukova, and Tetiana Karo-Vasilyeva
Curator(s): Olha Melnyk, Ihor Oksametny, with the participation of Victoria Velychko
The Belgium exhibition is based on research conducted within the "Futuromarenya" project of Mystetskyi Arsenal (2021-2022). Within its framework, 100 unique works (paintings, graphics, book design, and scenography of various genres) by Ukrainian futurists were presented, such as David Burliuk, Oleksandra Ekster, Vadym Meller, Viktor Palmov, Vasyl Yermylov, and others. In addition to these works, the exhibition is complemented by documentary materials and video installations "Poiezomalyarstvo" and "Our 1920s shot in the 2020s."
The curators of the exhibition aimed to reflect the artistic vision of the future that emerged from the Ukrainian 1910s-1920s in the context of contemporary events. In particular, it addresses the appropriation of the art practices of the Ukrainian avant-garde by Russian culture, as well as the consequences of Russian armed aggression for the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
The curators of the exhibition aimed to reflect the artistic vision of the future that emerged from the Ukrainian 1910s-1920s in the context of contemporary events. In particular, it addresses the appropriation of the art practices of the Ukrainian avant-garde by Russian culture, as well as the consequences of Russian armed aggression for the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
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