[Oberlist] UA* Art a priori: projects – finalists start in the museums

[Tetyana Filevska]

On May 16, 2009, the presentation of curator projects - finalists of the
"Art a priori: Contemporary Stories" International Curator Project Contest
announced by the EIDOS Arts Development Foundation in autumn 2008 - will
start in the museums of Ukraine. More than 50 applications from different
parts of Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Moldova, Poland and Russia were
submitted to the contest. International judges with the Head Judge, Yara
Bubnova, selected 12 projects for further realization.  Participants'
projects offer new perspectives on the history of Ukrainian art and
represent contemporary art practices next to the masterpieces of traditional
art from the collections of the national art museums of different Ukrainian
cities.

The presentation of the projects was preceded with serious preparation of
both young curators and contest administrators. The key event at this stage
was the workshop for the contestants organized by the EIDOS Foundation. The
invited experts, Yara Bubnova and Kateryna Diogot, made many participants
rethink some aspects of the projects with their stern, yet constructive
commentaries.

The contest projects help the admirers of the traditional artistic heritage
discover contemporary art and invite the permanent museum visitors to the
dialogue. The young curators are working with the local context, local
museum collections, that will be presented in unexpected new ways in the
contest projects.

The "A Thing in Itself" project under the curatorship of Olena Afanasyeva
and Marina Plugnyk-Hlagyr will be presented on May 16, the "Museum Night. It
will be realized in an unusual location - O. Bleschunov Odessa Municipal
Museum of Private Collections, which exhibits a great amount of
miscellaneous objects. The aim of the new exposition is to renew the
spectator's feeling of value and importance of a separate object by
accenting the visitors' attention on an only object in each museum hall.
During the project presentation young actors of the Meyerhold Herson
Municipal Theatre will show a series of plastic performances that will be
video and photo-documented and demonstrated in the museum during the
following days.

On May 18 the International Museum Day is celebrated all over the World.
This very day a multidimensional project "Incompatible Compatibility" by
Maryna Koneva and Kateryna Mariushkina starts in the Kharkiv Literary
Museum. The project, except for the exposition in the Literary Museum
includes a series of lectures, video showings, literary actions and other
events. The curators investigated the connections between the situation in
the arts at the beginning of the 20th century, represented in the exposition
with the works of Borys Kosarev, and the beginning of the 21st century
(works of Artem Volokintin and Roman Minin). To underline the contemporary
and traditional art symbiosis actions with participation of Sergiy Gadan (a
separate hall of the museum is dedicated to his life and works), SuchUkrLit
representatives and "Sobaky u Kosmosi" ("Dogs in the Space") band are
planned at the Literary Museum.

In three days, on May 21, one more project will be presented in Kharkiv. The
"New Story" by the SOSka group promises to "rethink the traditional forms of
museum exposition" using the example of Kharkiv Art Museum by zoning the
exposition space and bringing performance into it. The project involves
artists David Ter-Oganian, Vladimir Logutov, Sebastian Moldovan, Lucia
Nimtsova, Anatoliy Bielov, Stas Voliazlovskiy, SOSka group and others, whose
works will intervene into the museum space, commenting on its permanent
exposition. The principle of the project composition can be divided into two
blocks: first - genre analogies and plot contraposition and second -
broadening of the traditional media boundaries. Next to the classic
landscape paintings by A. Kuindzhi static video-landscapes by V. Logutov
will be demonstrated in the museum permanent Вexposition space. Lucia
Nimtsova social video "Exercises", depicting three elderly women in the
process of doing physical exercise, is in tune with the realistic works of
S. Prokhorov, particularly, his "Friends" canvas. The genre of battle
painting is represented in the works of I. Repin, I. Miasoyedov, G.
Semigradskiy and photo and video-works by the SOSka group shot during
teenage rock-concerts and night club parties. The minimalist graphics
"Plants" by V. Kohan is contrasted with the rich and pompous "Weeds" by M.
Berkos.

On June 10 the first project in the capital - "Micro Art 1:10" by the
"Strupek" group from Krakow and Alina Zazymko will be presented. "Micro Art"
is art in the 1:10 scale. The "Strupek" group proposes to create micro
galleries, miniature copies of the existing museums. Models of the chosen
halls, placed in the outskirts of the city and its centre, promote museum
installations in places where traditional information about them does not
reach. Project "Micro Art 1:10" will be presented in Kyiv as a miniature of
several halls of Kyiv Russian Museum in the "Knyharnia Ye" bookstore space.


Project "Art Labyrinth" under the curatorship of Victoria Danyliuk will be
presented on June 19 in Sevastopol. It pictures contemporary art as a
labyrinth. Having found their ways into the labyrinth, artists, curators and
spectators stay there forever, because they consciously don't seek a way
out: the labyrinth gradually draws them in, becoming a part of their lives.
The exposition will take place in M. Kroshytsky Art Museum of Sevastopol,
where the very labyrinth will be created. Works by young Sevastopol artists
created from transparent materials, through which the museum exhibit items
that inspired the authors will be seen, will be presented.

By the end of September five more projects will have been presented, among
which "Patriotism. Excursion" by REP in Lviv, "Audiopictures" by Lioha
Garikovych in Poltava, a seven hours long performance in the National Museum
under the curatorship of Larysa Babiy, "Artistic Studies in the Vyshnevetsky
Palace", that will turn the Vyshnevetsky Palace in Ternopil region into a
place for young artisits' experiments, and the "Little Stories" project in
the National Museum of Toys.

In October 2009 EIDOS Foundation will hold a conference featuring
international experts. During the conference the results of "Art a priori:
Contemporary Stories" International Curator PROJECT Contest will be summed
up and a catalogue featuring all of the projects will be presented.


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