The Integration Lab is a three-month program of meetings, workshops, and practical assignments for young artists with experience of living through war and displacement. The program was founded to create a common space for action and reflection, integration into new communities, where artists and creative individuals will deepen their knowledge of art, performative actions and collective practices. The project-laboratory will be held simultaneously at SDK Słonecznik / Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Warsaw) and Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro) in March-June 2024.
The Laboratory program included various events: online and offline lectures with experts (Asya Cisar, Alicja Czyczel, Oksana Shkurchenko, Oksana Semenik), workshops (working with communities and generating concepts by Yuriy Kruchak, body exercises and voice control by Yulia Hryshyna, printed graphics by Tetiana Pukhnavtseva), and our collection curator Viktoria Nikitina conducted an excursion to the storage facility where the entire creative collection of the Artsvit gallery is stored. Afterwards, the group from Dnipro traveled to Warsaw, where they united in a single group to apply their new experiences and knowledge and organized an artistic intervention “Tigers in the Garden” as part of the exhibition “Tiger in the Garden. The Art of Maria Prymachenko” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The result of the three-month project in Dnipro was the performative action “Where People Walk, No Grass Grows”.
Artists: Anna Halasiuk, Maryna Dyshlova, Kateryna Koniushenko, Maria Lozova, Renata Miroshnikova, Olena Misyura, Khrystyna Mos, Tetiana Pavliuk, Uliana Khomich, Asya Yakovlieva.
Project curators: Oleksandra Shovkun, Yulia Kryvych
The project is produced by Artsvit Gallery and SDK Słonecznik (Museum of Modern Art) within the "Culture Helps" program. “Culture Helps / Культура допомагає” is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. The project cooperates with Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE).
The Integration Lab was implemented jointly with Solidarny Dom Kultury “Słonecznik” and Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and co-financed by the Meroshevsky Center as part of the 2nd open call.
