UKRAINE! UNMUTED Ukrajins’kyj Zriz

Opening: 22.09.2023, opening hour: 18.00

Open until: 10.11.2023, opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12.00-18.00

Grafika w formie poziomego prostokąta. Na białym tle na górze po lewej w języku ukraińskim dwuczłonowy napis UKRAIŃSKI / ZRIZ. Pierwsze słowo na górze w kolorze niebieskim, drugie słowo na dole pod nim, w negatywie, czyli białe litery na żółtym tle. Z prawej strony po środku boku niebieski duży trójkąt równoboczny przyklejony jednym z boków do brzegu grafiki. W środku biały delikatny napis UKRAINE! / UNMUTED. Trójkąt przypomina grot wskazujący na lewo. Do jego dolnej krawędzi dotyka mniejszy żółty trójkąt równoboczny. Oba trójkąty są o nieco brudnej powierzchni, w obu przypadkach nie jest to jednolity kolor, z lekkimi zakłóceniami.

The fifth edition of the Triennial of Contemporary Art Ukrajins’kyj Zriz is titled “UKRAINE! UNMUTED.” The curatorial concept of the exhibition was prepared by Vlodko Kaufman, in cooperation with Sergiy Petlyuk. The exhibition was originally carried out in Lithuania, as part of the European Capital of Culture in Kaunas, in December 2022.

The idea of the exhibition is to counteract the silencing and strengthen the voice of fighting Ukraine. The war is a catalyst for many changes in Ukrainian society and public institutions. It poses existential questions and demands quick and honest answers. In this context, presentation of the Ukrainian artists’ statements is of great importance. War is the price Ukraine pays to be in the spotlight, not only of the reporters from around the world, but also of artistic and cultural institutions and specialists who shape artistic canons, create and destroy hierarchies, and evaluate artistic phenomena. Ukraine is painfully emerging from the shadow of the Soviet empire, gaining a chance to gain the desired cultural voice and subjectivity. Ukrainian artists worked on this not only by reflecting on the collective state of uncertainty and lack of voice, but also by looking for different ways to extract the right words and the possibilities of saying them. The purpose of the exhibition is to reflect the artists’ feelings and observations in a situation where their voices can be heard and “unmute” becomes possible.

Artists participating in the exhibition: Yana Bachynska, Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva, Fantastic Little Splash [Lera Malchenko, Oleksandr Hants], Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Nikolay Karabinovych, Vlodko Kaufman and [Yana Krykun, Maksym Mazur, Sergiy Radkevych, Serhiy Savchenko, Natalka Shymin], Myro Klochko & Anatoliy Tatarenko, Sasha Kurmaz, Katya Libkind, Natalia Lisova, Pavlo Makov, Sergiy Petlyuk, Viacheslav Poliakov, Andriy Rachinskiy & Daniil Revkovskiy, Volodymyr Topiy, Stanislav Turina, Kostiantyn Zorkin.

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