UKRAINE! UNMUTED: 5th Triennial of Ukrainian Contemporary Art // Curatorial tour by Vlodko KAUFMAN

In the autumn of 2022, the triennial took place in the European Capital of Culture 2022 — the city of Kaunas in Lithuania. Under the slogan UKRAINE! UNMUTED the project spoke to a foreign audience through art and dialogues and called to put Ukraine in unmute mode! The project consisted of several parts: an exhibition of Ukrainian сontemporary art & performance event, a series of discussions with speakers from Ukraine and abroad, a book of essays on Ukrainian culture.

The exhibition of the Ukrainian Cross-Section took two floors of the former Kaunas Main Post Office and included 17 art projects: video, installations, objects, painting, graphics, performance and photography. The exhibition contained the artworks of Yana Bachenska, Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev, Kostiantyn Zorkin, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Nikolay Karabinovych, Myro Klochko and Anatoliy Tatarenko, Sasha Kurmaz, Katya Libkind, Kateryna Lysovenko, Pavlo Makov, Sergiy Petlyuk, Viacheslav Poliakov, Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy, FANTASTIC LITTLE SPLASH (Lera Malchenko and Oleksandr Hants), Stanislav Turina, Volodymyr Kaufman (project in cooperation with Maksym Mazur, Serhiy Savchenko, Yana Krykun, Sergiy Radkevych, Natalka Shymin, Natalia Lisova. Some artists, like Pavlo Makov, participated in the Ukrainian Cross-Section before, but this year there are also debutants, like the artistic duo from Kharkiv Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy. Interesting fact that one of the art projects will include the film work of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, a famous Ukrainian writer and film director (years active 1926-1956), a classic of world cinematography. The artistic part was curated by Vlodko Kaufman and Serhiy Petlyuk.

More info about UKRAINE! UNMUTED: https://isc.lviv.ua/en/ukrainskyy-zri....
The Triennial of contemporary Ukrainian Art "Ukrainian Cross-Section" UKRAINE! UNMUTED is implemented by Cultural Strategy Institute, NGOs Institute of Contemporary Art and Virmenska-35 with the support of Lviv City Council, ZMIN FOUNDATION, International Renaissance Fund and Lithuanian partners Kaunas 2022.

The Ukrainian Cross-Section was created at one time as an attempt to find out and tell what Ukrainian art is. The idea of the project is to present the art of Ukraine primarily outside its borders, to be a translator of Ukrainian art for a foreign audience.

Videography: Andriy Artym. Editing: Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko. Cover photo: Viacheslav Poliakov.

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