National Art Museum of Ukraine, Visual Culture Research Center, Polish Institute in Kyiv

Open call for workshop by Artur Żmijewski
OPEN MUSEUM

September 10-17, 2013
6 Hrushevskogo St., Kyiv (NAMU)

Open call

Artists, activists and academics (particularly with background in sociology, cultural studies, art history, philosophy, and cultural management) are invited to apply for participation in the workshop by Artur Żmijewski that will take place in the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

The workshop will be held in the format of a series discussions, talks and practical classes. Participants will develop a collective research project based on various aspects of the museum’s work – from its collection to the work of the museum’s staff. Artistic and academic research strategies are equally encouraged within the workshop’s framework. The participants will be granted access to the museum’s collection, as well as other selected aspects of the museum’s work as an institution.

The workshop will evolve around the idea of an ‘open museum’, focusing on the following issues: How does the museum’s mission transform in today’s world? How should the museum change in order to represent contemporary society? How can external factors and agents contribute to the museum’s development?

Applicants should submit their CV and letter of motivation describing the fields of their interest to info@vcrc.org.ua

The workshop will be held in English.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge.
The participants are expected to take part in the workshop on a daily basis during the working hours of the museum.

Deadline for submission is August 30.
The list of participants will be announced on September 3.

Artur Żmijewski is an artist, essayist and curator. He is the artistic editor of Political Critique magazine (Krytyka Polityczna). He represented Poland at 51st Venice Biennale (2004). His works were shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; KunstWerke (Berlin), National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Documenta 12 (2007), Manifesta 4 (2002). In 2012, he curated the 7th Berlin Biennale.

TAKE PART!

8 – 9 June, 2013
National Art Museum of Ukraine, 6, Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv

For the past three weeks the premises of the National Art Museum have become a platform for free public communication through drawing. Together with Ukrainian and foreign artists the participants covered inch by inch the walls and floor of one of the Museum’s rooms with their drawings. All comers participated in the production of a collective work of art within the walls of the most honored art institution of Ukraine.

For the ending of the Draftsmen’s Congress we invite everyone to come and take part in the common drawing and dicsussion program of the last day of the Congress on Saturday, June 8th. On Sunday, June 9th at 14:00 at the Draftsmen’s Congress closing event the artwork created by the draftsmen will be divided into parts, so that everyone will be able to take a piece of the collective work of art.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

8 June, Saturday – the last day of Draftsmen’s Congress in Kyiv

14:00 – Talk with SOSka group: «Mapping the Territory / Appartment Exhibitions»
15:00 – Presentation of In-hibition project by Visual Culture Research Center
16:00 – Presentation of «Disputed Territory» exhibition catalogue by curatorial association Hudrada
17:00 – Discussion about the Draftsmen’s Congress. Participants: Maria Zadorozhna, Svitlana Tsurkan (National Art Museum of Ukraine); Lesia Kulchinska, Oleksiy Radynski (Visual Culture Research Center). Moderator: Vasyl Cherepanyn.

9 June, Sunday – Draftsmen’s Congress closing event

Come to the Art Museum and take a part of the collective work of art!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

5 June, Wednesday

12:00 – Tetyana Gershuni
14:00 – Mykola Vlasov
15:00 – Alisa Berezka
16:00 – editorial staff of Prostory magazine

6 June, Thursday

12:00 – Alina Yakubenko
15:00 – Lada Nakonechna and the School of Visual Communication

7 June, Friday

12:00 – Alevtyna Kakhidze
17:00 – Serhiy Popov
18:00-20:00 – screening of film «Incident in a Museum» by Oleksiy Radynski followed by a discussion

8 – 9 June. TAKE PART!

8 June, Saturday
the last day of Draftsmen’s Congress in Kyiv

11:00 – Pavlo Makov
15:00 – curatorial association Hudrada

Discussion program:

14:00 – Talk with SOSka group: «Mapping the Territory / Appartment Exhibitions»
15:00 – Presentation of In-hibition project by Visual Culture Research Center
16:00 – Presentation of «Disputed Territory» exhibition catalogue by curatorial association Hudrada
17:00 – Discussion about the Draftsmen’s Congress. Participants: Maria Zadorozhna, Svitlana Tsurkan (National Art Museum of Ukraine); Lesia Kulchinska, Oleksiy Radynski (Visual Culture Research Center). Moderator: Vasyl Cherepanyn.

9 June, Sunday
Draftsmen’s Congress closing event

Go to Art Museum and take a part of the collective work of art!

Changes and additions in this schedule could be made.
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Visual Culture Research Center at The Third International Arsenal Book Festival
presents

31 May, Friday, 19:00
Book Arsenal, 10-12, Lavrska St., Hall 1

HATRED FOR THE ART
Presentation of the closed exhibitions research project and Ukrainian Body catalogue

The project In-hibition by Visual Culture Research Center exposes the stories of exhibitions that were closed in Ukraine during the last twenty years, attempting to explore what exactly needed to be suppressed, which fears and anxieties stood behind the acts of shutdown, why art was deprived of the right to be visible. A shutdown of an exhibition is always a reaction to the intolerable, which indicates that art is being experienced as dangerous, threatful for the comfortable viewer’s position. The project was first introduced at the exhibition Ukrainian News at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowsky Castle (Warsaw, Poland).

Presentation of the catalogue for the exhibition Ukrainian Body, which was closed in February 2012 at Visual Culture Research Center that was based in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, will take place. The edition describes the story of the exhibition, its participants and the position of Ukrainian Body in the contemporary Ukrainian art context. The project In-hibition and the publication Ukrainian Body track the most significant manifestations of intolerance towards art while depicting the most vulnerable points of Ukrainian society.

Participants: Oksana Briukhovetska, Oleksandr Ivashyna, Serhiy Klymko, Lesia Kulchynska, Oleksiy Radynski.
Moderator: Vasyl Cherepanyn.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS INVOLVING ARTISTS AND GROUPS:

29 May, Wednesday

11:00-13:00 – zigendemonic
13:00-15:00 – Anatoly Belov and Alina Kopytsia

30 May, Thursday

10:00-14:00 – Oleksandr Burlaka
14:00-18:00 – Oksana Bryukhovetska, Mykola Vlasov

31 May, Friday

14:00-19:00 – KYIV AIR Artist Residence participants

1 June, Saturday

13:00-18:00 – Feminist Ofenzyva

2 June, Sunday

13:00-18:00 – Feminist Ofenzyva

Changes and additions in this schedule could be made.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

22 May, Wednesday

13.00-18.00 – Tenpoint group. Penetration
13.00-15.00 – Stanislav Silantyev. New Language

23 May, Thursday

10.00-13.00 – Maria Matiyenko. The Drawing of Movement
13.00-18.00 – Anna Zvyahintseva

24 May, Friday

12.00-18.00 – Nikita Kadan. Certain Cases

25 May, Saturday

10.00-14.00 – Volodymyr Protsenko
14.00-18.00 – Paulina Antoniewicz. Rainbow

26 May, Sunday

10.00 – Oleksandr Dolgiy, Dmytro Korniyenko
10.00 – Ivan Melnychuk
14.00 – Vova Vorotniov & ETC

Changes and additions in this schedule could be made.
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National Art Museum of Ukraine, Polish Institute in Kyiv and Visual Culture Research Center

Invite to the opening of the
DRAFTSMEN’S CONGRESS
Concept by Pawel Althamer

May 18, 20:00
6 Hrushevskogo St., Kyiv

The Draftsmen’s Congress initiated by the artist Pawel Althamer, will take place from May 18 until June 8, 2013. During this period the premises of the National Art Museum will turn into a platform for free public communication through drawing as a principal means of expressing one’s opinions, passions, and having a discussion.

Draftsmen’s Congress in Kyiv opens on the Museum Night on May 18, 2013 at 20:00. Artist Pawel Althamer, the members of ESC social center (Rome), as well as Ukrainian artistic and political initiatives Hudrada, R.E.P., Direct Action, Feminist Ofenzyva, and everyone interested will participate in the opening of the Congress.

Draftsmen’s Congress is a meeting of people who communicate by images instead of words. Any eager to participate can join the discussion through paint, charcoal, collage or other traditional materials and techniques in order to express themselves on the topics of their concern.

During Draftsmen’s Congress one of the rooms of the Museum will turn into a platform for continuous visual communication. The Museum’s walls and floor will be covered with white surface, which the visitors together with Ukrainian and foreign artists, architects, designers will gradually fill with their drawings. Over the period of three weeks anyone will have a chance to leave their own trace within the walls of the most honored art institution in Ukraine.

Not happy with what other people paint? Use a paintbrush to cover their images or draw your comments next to them. Together with Pawel Althamer we encourage everyone to have an honest talk. Be polite or politically incorrect, delighted or indignant, and fight others in an image battle. Picture your emotions, convictions and demands. Spit out the truth and speak out!
We oppose the hierarchies of qualification and popularity that dominate in the art world with access to public visual communication, which is free and open to all. Politics, religion, economic issues, ideological and aesthetic opinions can become the points of intersection within the discussion unfolding in the Museum. No opinion will be in a privileged position, for anybody can react and transform it beyond recognition or cover it up entirely.

Representatives of different social groups with different interests, views and convictions will be invited to participate in the dialogue and encouraged to communicate in a nonverbal way. Such visual conversation is destined to overcome the barriers that usually occur in an oral discussion.

Parallel program that will accompany the Congress in the Museum will include video screenings, presentations, debates, and workshops with the participation of Ukrainian and foreign artists, curators, activists.

Draftsmen’s Congress was for the first time initiated by the artist Pawel Althamer within the 7th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2012 (curated by Artur Zmiewski). One of the nonworking churches in Berlin (Elisabethkirche) was transformed into a platform for common drawing. Its success with the audience of the biennial incited Pawel Althamer to develop the idea and to make such congresses in Rome, Warsaw and Kyiv.

Pawel Althamer is an artist, sculptor, performancist, representative of Polish critical art, winner of the Vincent Van Gogh Award. For many years he is teaching art lessons for the excluded social groups (disabled people, inhabitants of poor districts). His works have been at Documenta X, Manifesta 3, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) etc.

Special partner:
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski

Project partners:
Foundation for Development of Ukraine
ARTTECHNOLOGY
Stedley Art Foundation
Caparol
Azur

Media partners:
ART UKRAINE
Kievreport
Наш Киев
WHAT’S ON
ПЛАТФОРМА
Political Critique

Contacts:
VIsual Culture Research Center::
Lesia Kulchinska, kulchinska@gmail.com, tel. +38 093 0400548

Polish Institute in Kyiv::
Tetyana Artushevska, tatiana.artuszewska@instytutpolski.org, tel. (044) 288 0304

National Art Museum of Ukraine::
Nataliya Mykhaylova, namumuseum@gmail.com, tel. (044) 278 7454

On the 27th of April the screening ‘The Collection’ takes place on Nyzhnyoyurkivska 31, Kyiv. The program includes short Dutch experimental films & animations by Mels van Zutphen, Mark van der Maarel, Anton Setola, Koert Davidse, Katelijne Schrama, Pim Zwier, Leo de Boer. The films seek to tell stories by balancing between documentary and fiction, using archive material, still images and text.