The Cultural Forum “SlobodaCult” Visual program

2

weeks
100

events
20

lectures, talks and discussions
10

concerts, plays and performances
10

film shows
9

exhibitions
20

curatorial excursions
1

fashion show
21

event for children and teenagers
150

participants
10

thousand visitors
18

locations
6

programs

In the visual program, we tried to present the most significant phenomena of visual art of Sloboda Ukraine, which according to the curators widely depicts the issues of the region and its self-awareness. The accompanying projects were chosen by Kharkiv co-curators and were designed to expand the idea of the longevity of the artistic tradition and the development of well-known practices – including Kharkiv School of Photography and Graphic Design.

The program featured more than 150 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, installations, photography and video art. The works were provided by the directorate of exhibitions of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Pshenychny Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, VOVATANYA (Kharkiv) and Artsvit (Dnipro) galleries, families of collectors – the Hrynyovs, Eremenkos, Umanskys, Iryna Bakhchanyan, Institution of Unstable Thoughts, Stedley Art Foundation and authors of works

The experience of team work on the program was important, and it was gained by our permanent curators of the visual program (Oksana Barshynova, Dmytro Golets – Kyiv) together with Kharkiv colleagues (Tetyana Tumasyan, Natalia Ivanova, Anastasia Leonova, Borys Filonenko).

Curators

Dmytro Golets (Kyiv)

Art critic, expert of the Korners Auction House. Curator of the exhibition "Mykhailo Tkachenko. 150 years since his birth" and the author and compiler of the monograph "Mykhailo Stepanovych Tkachenko 1860 - 1916" (Kyiv, 2010). Co-curator of two exhibitions "Russian and Ukrainian art from private collections" (Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, 2003, 2004) and the exhibition "Serhiy Shyshko" (Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine Museum, Kyiv, 2006)
Тетяна Тумасян (Харків)

Кураторка, галеристка, директорка й керівниця програм Харківської муніципальної галереї. Директорка Другої національної Бієнале молодого мистецтва (Харків, 2019). Авторка ідеї та менеджерка першого в Україні молодіжного арт-форуму – Фестивалю молодіжних проектів «NonStopMedia» (з 2003), який за роки свого існування перейшов у статус бієнале. Кураторка галереї сучасного мистецтва «VOVATANYA» (з 2007). Кураторка масштабного виставкового проєкту про харківське візуальне мистецтво «Місто Ха» в NAMU (2017).
Анастасія Леонова (Харків)

Кураторка, культурна менеджерка і видавниця. Керівниця галереї сучасного мистецтва COME IN в Харкові. Співзасновниця (разом із Катериною Носко) видавництва IST Publishing, що спеціалізується на виданні non-fiction текстів у царині теорії та історії мистецтва. Координаторка східного регіону УФА (Українська Фотографічна Альтернатива).
Oksana Barshynova (Kyiv)

Art critic, curator, Deputy Director for Exposition and Exhibition of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. She studies and promotes Ukrainian art of the last quarter of the XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. Author of articles on the history of art of the twentieth century and contemporary art.