Next Friday, May 9, at 6:00 PM, we are waiting for you at special events within the project "Art Speaks". The event is non-standard not only because of the time change, but also because of its format: it will combine the usual artist talk and the presentation of a new art venue in the Dnipro.
We invited artist Dasha Podoltseva from Kyiv to talk about herself and her own artistic practice. She creates site-specific installations, graphic works, curates exhibitions, conducts workshops and teaches. The artist works with such topics as public space, urban paradoxes and infrastructural absurdity, the so-called “temporary inconveniences”, changing functions, recycling and upcycling. In particular, during the meeting we will talk about “exhibitions without a budget”, disappearing installations and construction installations, and what to do with such works after the exhibition.
And Margarita Platonova, Ksenia Aleksiuk and Liliya Nebera will present Dniprostir — an independent cultural space in the Richport building. They will talk about the directions of their activities and share their plans.
“We are about increasing the artistic presence in the city of Dnipro, teamwork, community formation, the opportunity to share ideas and discuss, popularizing a passionate approach to life — in short, from people for people with love. We are about empathetic communication and mutual respect,” say the project authors.
WHEN: Friday, May 9, 6:00 PM
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Krutogornyy Uzviz 21a, Dnipro. Entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square
Admission is free
Project author: Oleksandra Shovkun
Photo: Stanislav Pyvonos
We remind you that our open call for participation in the project “Art Speaks” is ongoing, so join us — leave your applications via the link.
*In the background, a work by Daria Molokoyedova from the exhibition “The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood” at the Artsvit Gallery in 2024
Dasha Podoltseva is a Kyiv artist and graphic designer. She graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She studied academic drawing and painting in the studio of Oleksandr Titov. She studied at the Central Saint Martins / University of Arts London summer school, the Petr Bankov poster school. A graduate of the Canactions Studio 1 urban school. Co-founder of the “Series__” project dedicated to Ukrainian panelkas. She received a gold medal at the Warsaw Poster Biennale and the Poster Triennial in Toyama. She participated in the exhibitions: "Vacation on the Balcony" ("Ukrainian House", Kyiv), "Coexistence with Darkness" ("Mystetsky Arsenal", Kyiv), Fragile Dream (DSQ Gallery, London), Fragile Brutalism (Goldsmith College, London), Since we are here (Matera, Italy), "Beauty of Care" (public program of the Ukrainian Pavilion, Biennale, Venice), Ukrainian Contemporary Art (James Gallery, New York), Dreamscape (Small Gallery of "Mystetsky Arsenal", Kyiv) and others.
Margarita Platonova - interior architect of public catering establishments, co-founder of Dniprostir
Ksenia Aleksyuk - project and event manager, co-founder of Dniprostir
Lilia Nebera - multidisciplinary artist and culturologist, art manager of Dniprostir
