What&`s On? Event Map for August

"Drawflowerswaters" show by Oleh Perkowsky

Dates: August 7, 2024 — September 8, 2024
Address: 21 Reitarska Street, Kyiv (The Naked Room) 
Opening Hours: Mon-Sun, 12:00–21:00 
Ticket Price: Free Admission
Organizer(s): The Naked Room, residence "Sorry, no rooms available"
Curator(s): Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Petro Ryaska

The Naked Room in collaboration with the residence "Sorry, no rooms available" organizes the first solo exhibition in Kyiv by Oleh Perkowsky "Drawflowerswaters." The exhibition will feature works created during the artist's residency in Uzhhorod in 2023-2024. However, there will also be a space of emptiness in the exhibition instead of the last work that Perkowsky has been working on for the last two months specifically for this exhibition. The work was suspended in early July when the artist was mobilized to the Armed Forces.

"For me, this exhibition is about the experience of living in Ukraine with all its mythologies and losses. Looking at the fantastic landscape of the Carpathians, redrawn from the legendary labels of Transcarpathian mineral waters, it is impossible not to think about the lost steppes of Kherson, the fields of Luhansk and the Crimean cliffs…," says Maria Lanko.

"In the middle of the storm": Solo project by Tanya Pukhnavtseva

Dates: August 8, 2024 — September 8, 2024
Address: Kyiv, 23 Nyzhniy Val Street (into the courtyard through the arch), 1st entrance, 3rd floor, SPLAV
Opening hours: Thu-Sun, 15:00–19:00
Ticket price: Free Admission 
Organized by: artist-run space SPLAV 

Artist-run space SPLAV will present a personal project by Kharkiv artist Tanya Pukhnavtseva. The artist explores the state of constant catastrophe in which a person finds himself during the war. 

In her works, Pukhnavtseva reflects on how the observation of constant tragic events causes an inner numbness, and expresses this state through the metaphor of petrification. In mental frozenness, she looks for a resource for focused contemplation, turning immobility into a physical carrier of memory. 

"I Dreamt… Did I Dream…?": Solo show by Sana Shahmuradova Tanska

Dates: July 19, 2024 — August 25, 2024
Address: 13 Tereshchenkivska Street, Kyiv (Voloshyn Gallery)
Opening hours: Wed-Sun, 11:00–18:00
Ticket price: Free Admission 
Organizer: Voloshyn Gallery

​Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv presents the exhibition "I Dreamt… Did I Dream…?," the first personal project of the artist Sana Shahmuradova Tanska in the gallery. 

In the paintings presented at the exhibition, Shahmuradova Tanska articulates important changes in human character happening to her generation, developing her compositions around non-verbal experience, the idea of the conventionality of place, and the conventionality of time. Under the traumatic influence of the current war on consciousness, the artist is looking for signs that replace the trauma of loss and the wounds of destruction. The author's main goal is to capture the emotional traces of events, knowledge of which is important for us today. This includes stories of genocides both within and outside the Ukrainian historical context.

"Nobody. Nowhere. Never. Indeed!"  

Dates: July 18, 2024 — September 28, 2024 
Address: Dnipro, 21A Krutohirnyi Uzviz (Center for Contemporary Culture in Dnipro) 
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 12:00–19:00 
Ticket price: Free admission
Organizers: Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Academie Des Beaux-Arts
Curators: Nastasiia Leliuk, Natasha Chychasova

The exhibition "Nobody. Nowhere. Never. Far away!" is a dedication to what has been lost and a way to be together with our present and future. Through memories and small gestures of approach, we affirm the return to our native places, which are now impossible to reach.

The exhibition participants were Ksenia Buryka, Tamara Turlyun, Viktoriia Rosentsveih, Chykalo Olha, Yeva Kafidova, Mariia Stoianova, Clemens Poole, and Dmytro Chepurnyi. 

"The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood" in Dnipro

Dates: July 15, 2024 — October 5, 2024 
Address: Dnipro, Krutohirnyi Uzviz, 21A (Artsvit Gallery) 
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 12:00–19:00 
Ticket price: Free admission
Organizers: Artsvit Gallery, Secondary Archive 
Curated by: Alya Segal
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The exhibition, presented in June at The Naked Room gallery in Kyiv and now being dismantled in Dnipro at the Artsvit gallery, interweaves numerous stories and testimonies collected as part of the Secondary Archive project. At the same time, the exhibition captures the direct speech of women whose role in the artistic environment is still invisible. 

The exhibition participants were Kinder Album, Anna Zvyagintseva, Olha Kuzyura, Daria Molokoiedova, Marharyta Polovinko, and Dasha Chechushkova.

"Mental Siege": Solo exhibition by Vitaliy Grekh 

Date: August 3, 2024 — August 17, 2024
Address: Ivano-Frankivsk, 15 Sichovykh Striltsiv St. (Asortymentna Kimnata)
Opening hours: Mon-Sun, 12:00–18:00
Ticket price: Free admission
Organizer: Asortymentna Kimnata
Curated by: Asya Tsisar

“Mental Siege” is an exhibition of paintings created by Vitalii Hrekh in 2022-2024. The series, which is being exhibited for the first time, reflects on his personal experience of living through a large-scale war—the experience of civilian and military actions, existential crises, and tectonic shifts in Ukrainian society.

Vitaliy Hrekh layers contexts and sensations, tracking how war inevitably changes established borders, destroys integrity, and creates a "new reality" that requires new mapping methods. Our cities are growing into our bodies, and fragments of our bodies are mixing with the city's body. Lines and gaps from the maps become marks on our faces, pinching our lungs, streams of information from screens and streets besiege our thoughts, just as a siege does - through uncertainty and long waiting, through a fight to the death.

"Coordination on the Steppe": Solo show by Sofia Korotkevich

Dates: August 7, 2024 — August 21, 2024
Address: Ivano-Frankivsk, 15 Sichovykh Striltsiv St. (Asortymentna Kimnata)
Opening hours: Mon-Sun, 12:00–18:00
Ticket price: Free admission
Organizer: Asortymentna Kimnata

At her solo exhibition in the Asortymentna Kimnata, Sofiia Korotkevych will present works in which she continues her research, which she started in the project "Space: Danger." Moving beyond the city, she shifts her attention to the steppe zone, focusing on its vulnerability due to its geographical location. This research becomes a resonant topic for the artist, who seeks to create a space that speaks about the problems of the suffering landscape of southern and eastern Ukraine.

The artist invites visitors to the exhibition to be alone with their inner landscape through contact with one of the installations. In this way, the exhibition not only captures the stages and states of the Ukrainian landscape but also offers a reflection on the personal experience of each person in this space.

Ukrainian projects abroad

"Sentience" exhibition at Voloshyn Gallery in Miami, USA

Dates: August 3, 2024 — September 3, 2024
Address: Miami, Florida, USA, 802 Northwest 22nd street, Voloshyn Gallery
Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 11:00–17:00 and by appointment
Ticket price: Free admission
Organizer(s): Voloshyn Gallery
Curator: Lilia Kudelia

Voloshyn Gallery in Miami is presenting a group exhibition curated by Lilia Kudela. The exhibition brings together works by American and European artists who jointly reflect on the mechanisms of optics and the critical need for new ways of relating to the planet and acquired knowledge. 

An important concept in ethics, sensuality is linked to moral agency, which it determines a person's capacity for suffering and happiness. Manifesting itself through the nervous system to detect and respond to stimuli, sensuality precedes logic and reason, prioritizing self-awareness and the ability to think of different kinds - including the perception of humans, plants, and animals, as well as the digital realm of artificial intelligence.

Participants of the exhibition: Carrie Bencardino, Danylo Halkin, Pavlo Kerestey, Paula Malinowska, Joel Murray, Elijah Ruhala, Liz Trosper, Artem Volokitin

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