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Drawing Triennal Wroclaw / Triennale Rysunku Wroclaw

WELTSCHMERZ 14.06 – 28.07.2019  BWA Wroclaw Glowny  

Soviet Mosaics

Looking at the ongoing tendency of institutionalization of Ukrainian art via images of war, poverty, oligarchs and prostitutes, homeless and marginals, far-right movements, drugs, ecological disasters, alcohol and drug addiction, I’m wondering, if the Cold War really ended up long time ago, or we, Ukrainians, experience life on stretched on 1316 kilometers front line, where […]

Ukraine

If you struggle to understand Ukraine, you rather should look at it as country that before 1991 existed only as ethnic minority, but not a country. You should know that it current borders are outcome of external factors (breakdown of Soviet Union) and are drawn around territories that also include other ethnic groups, such as […]

A New Structure

Art Kyiv Contemporary IX

Swan Constellation

Івано-Франківськ

How had changed the name of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk 1662–1772: Stanisławów 1772–1919: Stanislau 1919–1921: Stanyslawiw 1921–1939: Stanisławów 1939–1941: Stanislaw 1941–1944: Stanislau 1944–1962: Stanislaw 1962–1991: Iwano-Frankowsk seit 1992: Iwano-Frankiwsk also in Jewish Stanislew סטאַניסלעװ in Hungarian Sztanyiszló 

Erfahrungswörterbuch

The publication, titled “Erfahrungswörterbuch”, is a metaphorical translation of a notion “Erfahrung/Досвід”, gathered from texts from “Die Schriften zur Naturwissenschaft” of Wolfgang Goethe and from “Лексикон таємних знань” of Taras Prokhasko. “Erfahrungswörterbuch” provides opportunity to compare writings of authors, as well as their approach to the notion of experience, but also nature, memory and death. For both […]

Portrait

Image – Mariya Pavlenko, Olga Shtets Photo – Olga Shtets Make up, hair – Nataliya Knayzheva Kyiv, 2015

Ukrainian Embroidery

Fragments of festive shirts from different regions of Ukraine. End of XIX – beginning of XX century. From Ukrainian Institute of Fashion History facebook page