A Q&A featuring Ukrainian Artists, moderated by Alisa Lozhkina, Ukrainian art historian, curator, and critic
Ukrainian artists are practicing their craft under the very dangerous conditions of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Join us as we ask them about their art and what makes them continue their creative pursuits even when their lives are at risk.
Kinder Album - Born in 1982 in Lviv, Ukraine. she studied architecture at the University of Lviv and at the Technischen Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. In 2012 she started working under her artist name "Kinder Album", and in 2013 she presented her first exhibition at the Dzyga Gallery in Lviv. She is still particularly active in the art scene of Ukraine, but also exhibits across Europe, from the Germany to Montenegro and Lithuania. In 2021, she exhibited outside the European continent for the first time as part of the exhibition "Transcending Boundaries", which was shown at Galeria Tira al Blanco in Guadalajara (Mexico). Kinder Album slips her own fragility and fears into her artworks. These fears, hers, are also ours, and Kinder Album invites the audience to face them. Slowly, the childish varnish cracks, revealing morbid scenes and a society riddled with cynicism.
Igor Gusev - Born in Odessa in 1970, Igor Gusev is a Ukrainian artist, poet, author of performances, films, objects and installations, participant and organizer of many art events, leader of the Art Raiders movement, and founder of the underground gallery "Norma." He graduated from the Odessa Art College named after M. B. Grekov. Gusev has been participating in exhibitions since the early 90s and is a representative of the New Wave of Ukrainian contemporary art. He is a regular participant in major exhibition projects such as "Restart," "Space Odyssey," "Independent," "20 years of presence," "Double Game" (a special project of the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012), Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, and "Days of Ukraine in UK." Gusev lives and works in Odessa.
Catharina Lisovenko
A video introducing the featured artists and the short bio of Lisovenko to be shared soon, as this panel of artists comes together to share with us.
Updated event details, including the video and short bios, can be found here.
Alisa Lozhkina, Ukrainian art historian, curator and critic, moderates this Q&A session with contemporary Ukrainian artists and helps us to learn their stories and what they have to tell us today through their creative work. From 2013 to 2016, Lozhkina served as deputy director of Mystetskyi Arsenal, the largest museum and exhibition complex in Ukraine. She also served as the editor-in-chief of the major Ukrainian art magazine, ART UKRAINE, from 2010 to 2016.
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This Q&A session with the Ukrainian artists is a part of the Creative Horizons: Art in the Post-Soviet Era series.
Creative Horizons is a collaboration between ASU’s Melikian Center, the Havighurst Center at Miami University, Ohio, and the Institute on Russia at the University of South Florida.