The international jury selected from among 120 submissions, 5 artists whose first-person contributions will be added to the Secondary Archive.
The finalists of the Open Call:
1. Viktoriia Rozentsveih
2. Dasha Chechushkova
3. Ola Yeriemieieva
4. Anna Ivchenko
5. Karina Synytsia
and the overall winner is Dasha Chechushkova.
The work of the selected finalists, together with 10 other artists selected by the curators - Kateryna Iakovlenko, Oksana Briukhovetska, Alya Segal - will also become part of 'The Sky Is Open. Voices From Ukraine', an archive of works by artists from Ukraine created after 24 February 2022. The project will culminate in an exhibition at the Galeria Labirynt with the participation of the competition winners, which will also be an opportunity for the archive to go beyond its virtual framework.
All finalists will get a fee for participating in the project and the overall winner will also be given a financial prize to support her artistic practice.
JURY
Bogna Stefańska – is an art historian, curator, co-founder of the HER Docs Film Festival and researcher of the Anti-Fascist Year Atlas. Curator of the Polish part of the Secondary Archive.
Erëmirë Krasniqi – art writer, curator and researcher. From 2017 to 2024, Erëmirë was the executive director of Oral History Kosovo. In 2024, Erëmirë will curate artist Doruntina Kastrati for the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In the SA project, she represents Kosovo.
Iga Maria Szczepańska – director of the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, coordinator of the Secondary Archive project since 2022. Producer and performance artist.
Kateryna lakovlenko – project supervisor, curator and publicist originally from Ukraine. Editor-in-chief of the portal "Suspilne Kultura", researcher, author and compiler of the publication "Why there are great female artists in Ukrainian art".
Oksana Briukhovetska – project supervisor, artist, curator and publicist. Her practice deals with the social and feminist dimensions of art. At SA she is responsible for the development of research concepts.
Róna Kopeczky – Budapest-based art historian and curator, co-founder of Easttopics, a platform dedicated to Eastern European art life. In 2024, Róna will be the curator for the Pavilion of Hungary at the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In the SA project, she represents Hungary.
Waldemar Tatarczuk – director of the Labyrinth Gallery and curator of several projects with Ukrainian artists, organised in Poland and Ukraine. He will act as coordinator of the exhibition at the Labyrinth Gallery with 15 female participants in the project, as well as curator of the platform 'The Sky Is Open'.
The project ‘Secondary Archive. Women Artists in War’ is supported by the European Union as part of the House of Europe programme.
