IN UKRAINE

Curators: Yulia Krivich, Katarzyna Sagatowska

3–17.09.2022

Galeria Jednostka, Andersa 13 (Tekla Bądarzewska square), 00-159 Warszawa, PL
opening hours during Druh Druha 3–4.09.2022: 12.00–18.00
opening hours after Druh Druha: wt.–sob.: 14.00–18.00

Exhibition is a part of the Druh Druha / Друг друга project 3–4.09.2022
https://www.facebook.com/events/473571587575170
Ukrainian Cintemporary Art at Warsaw Galleries

Special event:
3.09.2022, 16.00 – Kateryna Aliinyk’s talk

Black earth, nature and landscape are some of the key symbols associated with Ukrainian identity and culture. Today, when looking at the war damage, we see an occupied scenery – steppe on fire, burning fields and devastated nature. We also see the ruined landscape of Ukrainian villages and cities, which have been developed and modernised so arduously in recent years.

The ravaged Ukrainian landscape is void. We can sense the void in the building window hole captured by Nazar Furyk in one of his photographs or in the ‘awaiting of the apocalypse’ portrayed by Sasha Kurmaz in his photo book. The void can also manifest itself as uprooting from the black earth, contamination, and hidden casualties of war (both people and nature), as depicted by Kateryna Aliinyk in her paintings.

The exhibition ‘In Ukraine’ showcases works by three Ukrainian artists of the young generation. Kateryna Aliinyk’s depictions of nature reflect on the consequences of war that are not discernible yet, but will need to be faced in the future. They are like toxic fluids soaking into soil or rocket debris biting deep beneath its surface.

Nazar Furyk’s photographs tell two stories about landscape, which is seen, on the one hand, as a private, and on the other, as a common, public space. The artist devotes his Edited series of photographs (2017-2020) to the ‘beloved and hated’ suburbs of his hometown, exploring the tensions in everyday life and wandering whether creating a parallel metaphorical world by means of photography is possible. His other series is a set of snapshots documenting life in Ukraine after the Russian invasion, which the artist regularly posts on Instagram. Furyk has found a personal visual language that becomes a surreal and universalising filter superimposed on the reality he photographs.

In Wasted Youth (2009–2019), his first series of photographs featured, Sasha Kurmaz explores the condition of a human being in post-Soviet society and the relationships between individuals and space. The artist’s other body of works showcased, in addition to presenting his work, is an invitation to cooperation. Kurmaz is looking for a publisher of his book ‘Awaiting the Apocalypse’, the mockup of which will be on display.

The artists’ works presented in the Jednostka Gallery are a multi-faceted look at Ukrainian space. Landscape will always remember fear and devastation.

Kateryna Aliinyk
(born in 1998 in Lugansk, Ukraine)
Focused on painting, she also works with text, creates objects and installations. The main topics of her art – war and occupation of Ukraine (previously of the Donbas) – are depicted through imagery and metaphors of nature, as well as through non-anthropocentric optics.
A graduate in painting of the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev (2021), she has also completed contemporary art courses at the KAMA Kyiv Academy of Media Arts and at the Method Fund (both in 2020). Artist-in-residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2022). She has shown her art in Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Romania.
She lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Nazar Furyk
(born in 1995 in Kolomyia, Ukraine)
Visual artist and freelance photographer. His current artistic endeavours explore the devastating consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war, as reflected in the lives of people and the space they are associated with, and study the impact of the war on the collective memory of present and future generations.
Nazar Furyk has graduated in architecture from the Kiev School of Building, Architecture and Design and in engineering from the Šiauliai State University of Applied Sciences (Lithuania). Finalist of the 2022 Palm Photo Prize. His works have been published in international magazines: Fisheye, Burn, FK magazine, Broadmagazine, British Journal of Photography. The artist’s work has been featured at solo and group shows in Ukraine, Great Britain, Latvia, Korea, Poland, Canada, France, USA and Portugal.
He lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Sasha Kurmaz
(born in 1986 in Kiev, Ukraine)
Visual artist specialising in photography, video, public interventions and performance. He studies various models of human interaction with public space, society and the modern world. His interest lies in the tension between the individual and power structures.
A graduate of the National Academy of Government Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts, he has won the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2016 (Germany) and the 2020 Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (Ukraine). Artist-in-residence of KulturKontakt 2015 (Austria), EoFA 2017 (Switzerland), HIAP 2018 (Finland), CEC ArtsLink 2019 (USA), Akademie der Künste 2020 (Germany). His works have been widely published in international magazines, incl. FOAM, Liberation, Vice, Krytyka Polityczna, Fisheye, Rolling Stones, Die ZEIT. Kurmaz has participated in a number of international group shows and festivals, inter alia in Ukraine, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland, USA, Latvia.
He lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.

Druh Druha particiapiting galleries:
BWA Warszawa, Le Guern, IMPORT EXPORT, Jednostka, m², Piktogram, Dawid Radziszewski, Stereo, Szara, Wanda, Wschód

Partners: Artesola Gallery, I Do Art

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