Last Friday we launched the Secondary Archive with 15 new Ukrainian women artists together with Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and Galeria Labirynt. In the next two weeks, we will share quotes from their statements. We encourage you to go to the secondaryarchive.org and read the full texts!
♦ Olha Marusyn is an interdisciplinary artist, mainly occupied with work around performance, theatre, video and text work. Her academic background is in landscape architecture, costume and graphic design but she utilises many mediums of art, as well as her own body to transpose thoughts about her surroundings and the world.
♦ Katya Buchatska works with different mediums, from environmental art, photography and installation to painting. She obtained her education in Kyiv. Her portfolio encompasses themes related to the Russian invasion, delving into the role of the artist as a chronicler of historical events — a commitment that comes from a profound inner drive and simultaneously carries self-destructive tendencies. She embraces the concept of environment as a fundamental aspect of both art and life, viewing it as an abundant well of resources and a testimony to our past.
♦ Katya Libkind is an artist who was born in Vladivostok but grew up in Mykolaiv. She is the co-founder of atelienormalno which is a creative studio space that welcomes both artists with and without Down syndrome. Her primary work is based on set design, although she interacts with various mediums such as graphic design, installation and video. The artist explores themes of honest human experience in the world – rippled with questions of social boundaries as well as internal, more intimate conditions of the individual.
The #secondaryarchive is a digital, constantly expanding archive that presents the history of Central and Eastern European art from the perspective of its women creators.
The project ‘Secondary Archive. Women Artists in War’ is supported by the European Union as part of the House of Europe program.
