[oberlist] informal spaces and artistic practices of Western Ukraine in Berlin

[Maria Lanko]

*if only flies saw the show does it mean that it actually happened?*

informal spaces and artistic practices of Western Ukraine

between bodies, studios, conversations, actions and memories

curated by Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko
[image: Inline images 1]

*Opening 30 May 2014, 7.00 pm*


30.05 — 13.06.2014


another

vacant

space


Biesentalerstraße 16
Berlin<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Another-Vacant-Space/207470732619864?sk=page_map>



 *Spaces:*

chervony rury gallery

decima gallery

detenpyla gallery

efremova26 gallery

garage gallery of lubomyr sikach

korydor gallery / temporary exhibition project

io imovirnist — 89 days of winter project

tymutopiyapres gallery


Artists:


gabriel buletsa (uzhhorod)

open group (lviv-mukachevo-kyiv)

lubomyr tymkiv (lviv)

yuriy sokolov (lviv)

andriy stegura (uzhhorod)




If only flies saw the show, does it mean that it actually happened?,
wondered artist and poet Lubomyr Tymkiv while speaking about the garage
gallery that he has been running for around 2 years in the backyard of his
house in the outskirts of Lviv.


In the situation of an institutional wasteland in the non-metropolitan
regions of Ukraine this type of artistic thinking has created a number of
out-of-system territories or production, representation and circulation of
art. Territories that may be mapped through collecting occasionally found
stuff and giving them a status of an art material. Or through living an
asocial life marked by artistic presence on the Web or in sent-out paper
letters. Or through an everyday living lodging directly in the gallery
space or wearing webcam with online broadcast nonstop for 2 months.


 These places, stories, moments substitute for conventional system of art,
yet not in the sense of an opposition to it or institutional critique.
These territories are hardly identifiable but are continuously created
in-between bodies, studios, galleries, conversations, actions and memories.
Permeating the daily life of artists and communities, they seem to seep
through history because of their immaterial nature.


 The exhibition focuses on artistic practices and self-organized galleries
in Western Ukraine since late 1980s up to the present day. Underground
spaces have emerged since 1980s throughout the country mapping the
previously non-existing domain of contemporary art. Yet in Kyiv these
artistic initiatives were gradually replaced by a more or less divaricate
art infrastructure, while in places like Lviv or Uzhhorod artistic
communities until today have unwillingly maintained the functions of the
art system being producers, distributors, spectators and commentators for
their own art practices.


 Being a part of the Open Archive project the exhibition explores how the
nature of given, newly created or imagined spaces/territories shapes
artistic decisions (and vice versa) today. But also how the unwritten
stories of the past are reinterpreted when acquiring new “walls” and
“ceiling” around them. Another Vacant Space becomes the first temporary
home of this venue-less performative history.


*_________________________________________*


 OPEN ARCHIVE is an instrument of an ongoing research of artistic practices
launched in 2014 by Kiev-based curators Maria Lanko and Lizaveta German in
collaboration with the artists of Open Group. The online platform
*openarchive.com.ua
<http://openarchive.com.ua>* reveals methodology of its authors’ curatorial
approach as well as presents its intermediary result – the artists’
profiles made up of СVs, selected artworks, texts etc. The profiles can be
viewed independently or as elements of a social tree in this decentralized
growing network. The geography of the archive is not limited to Western
Ukraine. Open Archive is a living process without any predictable or
desirable destination.


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*Contacts:*

Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko

Kyiv

info at openarchive.com.ua, + 38 067 262 49 50, + 38 050 942 05 09


Adam Nankervis
Berlin
http://anothervacantspace.org
+49 (0) 176 38 803 179

The project realized with the support of i3 "Idea - Impulse - Innovation"
of Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation "Development of Ukraine"

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*Partners:*

Perevorot studio (Kyiv)
Artcult foundation (Kyiv)
Foundation for Cultural Initiatives ArtHuss (Kyiv)
Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv)
Detenpyla Gallery (Lviv)
Pereoblik project (Lviv)


-- 
Kind regards,

Maria Lanko <http://www.facebook.com/lanko.maria?ref=tn_tnmn>
openarchive.com.ua
+380509420509
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