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 KAIR (Košice) and SCHAFHOF (Freising, Munich).
The Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, which was founded by Congress of Cultural Activists / NGO "Congress of Cultural Activists" and NGO "Family of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred" in 2017 in honor of the youngest Hero, in cooperation with international organizations in 2019 launched exchange programs for young artists thanks to the support of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation program NORD: Learning, exchanges, residencies, debuts - UCF program.
Program result EXPANSION LANDSCAPE A Multidisciplinary exhibition of participants in the International exchange residency program NVAIR, Nazar Voitovich Art Residence On August 29, 4 projects by Renata Pinterova and Samuel Velebný (Slovakia), Daniel Door (Germany), and Evgeniya Antonova (Ukraine) were presented at the partner gallery "Bunkermus."
Curator: Lucy Nychai
On the opening day, Daniel Door presented a musical set dedicated to this project.
The themes explored by emerging artists touch on global challenges facing people across the planet based on the context of the small village of Travneve. In a joint international project, it's easy to see the local-global connection and their mutual influences. The expanded world of a small community to the dimension of the planet is visualized and verbalized through different mediums in the "Landscape Expansion" project.
Young artists are increasingly turning to abstractions, digital art, and installation, which are increasingly entering contemporary art galleries. This is how they fill their symbolic and small forms with content and large volumes of information. Thus symbolizing the digital information age as a whole. The project curator invites young artists from different countries to participate in their programs to support global connections in artistic collaborations, to form a positive field for understanding and releasing the potential of experiments in a local context.
The results of the group's "field research" reveal the following themes:
Renata Pinterova - in her project seeks connections between nature and technology. Nature, which can represent something feminine in its naturalistic form, as well as hybrid forms of matter and technology, representing destructive male/military forms of energy. This state "between them" is a techno-animistic ritual and ecological approach to things observed in nature. Renata explores and visually "appropriates" natural forms found in nature around Travneve village. According to her, "hybridization" is a symbolic process of political transformation, not only in Ukraine but globally - global transformation.
Samuel Velebný – explores interactions between nature and culture and reveals connections that invisibly determine our behaviour and provoke global transformations. In the project "Associative Atlas of Cultural Landscape. Homo homini lupus", the author poses several uncomfortable questions comparing landscape and boundaries, fake news and reality, gallery and museum. What are the prospects for sustainable human existence? How much does the planet's biomass differ from what it would be without humans? How do military conflicts arise naturally?
Continuing the theme of conflict consequences and Travneve's direct history, Yevhenia Antonova's project "Lines of Demarcation" in her experimental abstract oil works once again raises the theme of forced relocation, and our ability to quickly forget pages of history that fade and disappear in the blue according to classical painting principles. She uses technique and color to fill facts with emotion.
Daniel Door was fascinated by researching Ukrainian identity, but the trigger for this interest was the computer game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chornobyl", based on Tarkovsky's film and the Strugatsky brothers' book. Daniel created an installation "New Problems", based on a simulated intuitive navigation tool. The village landscape is quite monotonous and peaceful, so it very much resembles the film's atmosphere. This project is about orienting oneself in a foreign culture and country on an intuitive level, relying on mystical coincidences.