The International Program of Art Residency Programs for Young Artists is a project founded on the basis of Nazar Voitovich Art Residence (NVAIR), designed to develop a network of international institutional partnerships to develop opportunities for Ukrainian young artists to gain experience in international projects and create a positive image of Ukrainian art and Ukraine as a whole abroad. Implemented in partnership with SCHAFHOF (Freising, Munich).
The Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, which was founded by NGO "Congress of Cultural Activists" and NGO "Family of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred" in 2017 in honor of the youngest Hero, begins working with international organizations and creating exchange programs for young artists thanks to the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation in the NORD program.
Participants:
Kateryna Kobylianska (Kyiv)
Roksolana Uhryniuk (Lviv)
Bohdan Svyrydov (Cherkasy)
Angela Geisenhofer (Munich, Germany)
Curator: Lucy Nychai
3 young Ukrainian artists and 1 artist from Germany, who won the competition to participate in the program and worked during July at the residency in Travneve village on their own projects, to present them in Ternopil at the end of the month.
Kateryna Kobylianska is an artist who works with themes of sincerity and philosophical reflections on human existence in time and space, her main medium is abstract painting, sound and audio practices.
Roksolana Uhryniuk is a performer who works on themes of behavioural traditions, traumas and destructions of society and personality, main mediums - performance, installation, video art and land art.
Bohdan Svyrydov is a conceptual artist working with themes of value, expertise, modelling the future, and main mediums - non-figurative painting.
Angela Geisenhofer is an artist who works with objects and video, exploring location contexts. All artists in this program experiment with new materials, create new projects based on local context.
Liudmyla Nychai - program curator and manager of the Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, has been overseeing the project for 3 years. Past curatorial projects include "Tale of Freedom" (Zbarazh Castle), "Values in the Way" (Zbarazh Castle, Tsehlyna Art Kyiv, LITE-HAUS Berlin), "Inside/Outside" (Port Creative Hub, Kyiv), "Revitalization" (BunkerMuz, Ternopil)
Program result:
MEASURE OF SILENCE
Exhibition of results from the International program of Exchange Art Residencies - NVAIR/Ukraine-Germany Ternopil Regional Art Museum
Close your eyes and listen to the field, filled with numerous productive sounds that together form silence. What villages are silent about, people in conditional isolation and temporary residents of the art program. What is visible from the side, and completely lost in perspective, what territories live here and now, what incompatibilities and productivities carry everyday actions and thoughts? Artists - program participants - during the month looked at Travneve from different angles and through their own themes, building new impressions in confirmation or denial of expectations. About exchanging time, that is life, for material values from Bohdan Svyrydov, About lost villages and the reason for losing the value of one's own history, reflects Roksolana Uhryniuk, about reducing the weight of paradoxes from Kateryna Kobylianska, About levels of vulnerability and feminine tenderness from Angela Geisenhofer.
