We have already told you more than once about the international project ‘Secondary Archive’ — a unique online archive of statements by female artists from Central and Eastern Europe, initiated by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Warsaw, Poland), and in 2021, the Artsvit Gallery became the Ukrainian partner of this important initiative. But now the residents of Dnipro have the opportunity to see it — or rather, hear it.
On 5 July, on the tenth anniversary of Artsvit, we present a special project within the Archive, created for the Manifesta 14 biennial (Pristina, Kosovo) in 2022. It consists of 14 audio works by Ukrainian artists, which were played in the public space of Warsaw — in the window of the Warsaw Observatory of Culture — on the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The installation will be on display in the gallery until 5 August.
Authors: Yana Bachynska, Teresa Barabash, Yuli Golub, Ksenia Hnilitskaya, Anna Zvyagintseva, Alevtina Kakhidze, Tetiana Korneeva, Yulia Kostereva, Yulia Kryvich, Maria Kulikovska, Anna Manankina, Valeria Trubina, Oksana Chepelik, Olya Fedorova
You can view the Archive itself at the following link: https://secondaryarchive.org/
This online platform was created in response to the problem of the invisibility of women from Central and Eastern Europe in recent art history. The digital archive aims to draw attention to the work of female artists from this region and create a space where they can express their active position.
The Secondary Archive contains verified and systematised information about female artists from three different generations. Currently, the platform has collected about 500 text statements by female artists from Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Belarus, as well as Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
The online presentation of the Ukrainian section of the Archive, which includes 50 names, took place on 23 February 2022. The curators of the research are Kateryna Yakovlenko, Oksana Bryukhovetska, Kateryna Rusetska, and Iryna Polikarchuk.
Photo: Olya Vasylets
