We are announcing a new public event within the project "The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood" — a lecture by Kateryna Yakovlenko "Back to the Future", which will take place on the last day of the exhibition, June 29 at 2:00 PM.
When is the beginning of modern art in Ukraine? If it didn't start today, why does everything start from the beginning? When did painting die and who erected a heroic monument on its grave? What remains when it seems that nothing is there? After all, where are you looking, Angel of History?
This lecture will discuss the role of the periphery, marginality, painting-centricity, text, and research in modern art in Ukraine. About the distant and the near, about miracles in half an hour, about the end of the end, and the 1990s, which constantly return.
The event will be broadcast live on the Artsvit gallery’s YouTube channel at the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/zutE0noxztU?si=1rnBnw3s1pzTzI_Y.
WHEN: June 29, at 2:00 PM
WHERE: The Naked Room gallery, Kyiv, Reitarska Street, 21
Kateryna Yakovlenko is the editor-in-chief of the Suspilne Kultura website, a researcher of contemporary Ukrainian art and a curator. She is the editor of the book “Why There Are Great Female Artists in Ukrainian Art” (2019), “Curatorial Handbook” (2020), and co-editor of the special issue “Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014” of the Obieg magazine on Ukrainian art (2019). She is the co-curator of the Ukrainian part of the Secondary Archive project.
The exhibition "The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood" is supported by the Partnership for a Strong Ukraine Foundation, which is funded by the governments of Great Britain, Estonia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Finland, Switzerland, and Sweden.
