The hostilities directly affect creativity - any artistic project created now is in this context and touches on the theme of war. Moreover, its trace will be noticeable in the future work of artists as a fragment of public history that must be conveyed not only to the professional artistic community, but also to a wide audience.
How to work with wartime art: understand it, study it, systematize it, has the visual language become more complicated, how have images of war transformed over time? Art historian Olga Balashova will answer these questions.
In her lecture, she will talk about projects that work with memory, memorializing the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is important to collect, record, preserve, research and process related information - not only works of art, but also text interviews with artists, videos and audio recordings.
WHEN: Friday, July 26, 6:30 PM
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Krutogornyy Uzviz 21A (entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square)
Admission is free with mandatory registration! Link to the Google form: https://forms.gle/DM52pC7wRsRxnTbUA
If possible, we would be happy to support with a donation — we will contribute all the funds raised to the collection for medicine, which is being held by one of the artists whose work is presented at the exhibition, Margarita Polovinko.
Photo: Olya Vasylets
Design: Alla Sorochan
Olga Balashova is a curator and art critic. She taught at the National Academy of Fine Arts, worked as the Deputy Director for Development at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and currently works at the public organization “Museum of Contemporary Art”, which she founded together with art manager and systems analyst Yulia Hnat.
The event is taking place within the framework of the project “The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood”.
This exhibition is supported by the Partnership for a Strong Ukraine Foundation.
