UKRAINIAN ART IN FRANKFURT WHEN ANATOMY BECOMES POLITICAL. BY ISABELLE HAMMER

The art of Ukrainian artist Vlada Ralko gets under your skin - quite literally. At the heart of her drawings and large-scale paintings lies the human figure, which she painterly dissects and brings to light. Under the title "Political Anatomy. Version“, her work is currently on display at the 91 Gallery.

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Story #137: Artist Transforms Her Traumas into Visual Diary

Yevheniia Laptii, a photographer from Kharkiv, talks about how the war has changed her art and the pride she takes in her unbreakable city.

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Digital evidence: interview with Anna Manankina

Anna Manankina, a media artist from Kharkiv, told about her practice and the Fog of War project, based on the documentation of bombed Kharkiv after February 24, 2022.

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Flowers Against Rockets

In the courtyard of photographer Zhenya Laptij's house, a Russian shell hit, destroying her dream of a garden with lilies. However, Zhenya still planted flowers, but now on the grounds of a European gallery. Through her project "There are 250 thousand white lilies in my garden, only they don't exist," she tells the story of losing her home and the hope that life will ultimately triumph over rockets.

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I Will Tell You a Scary Story

For her photo series, Zhenia Laptiy created a story about a village inhabited by various characters. She photographed local children from a real village in the Kharkiv region in the roles of a mad King, a deceitful Jester, and an evil Princess. But when Russians occupied the village, the horrifying fairy tale began to transform into reality.

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Art became therapeutic

Shcherbenko Art Centre is a platform for contemporary art in Kyiv. Since the outbreak of the war, the gallery has organised several exhibitions abroad. Meanwhile, the space in Kyiv was transformed into an open studio, says founder Maryna Shcherbenko.

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Feature: Maria Proshkowska’s “No Name Ritual”

The "no-name ritual" is a metaphor for reflection on the experiences collected and lived through and the future. The project is about the importance of working with these experiences, the permanence and routine of this process and how it is an integral part of any journey.

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Fragment of the MUHi 2009-2021 book

We publish an article by Yevheniia Butsykina prepared especially for the “MUHi 2009-2021” book.

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Fragment of the MUHi 2009-2021 book

We publish an article by Maryna Shcherbenko, prepared especially for the “MUHi 2009-2021” book.

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THE BEST BOOK DESIGN 2022 ANNOUNCES THE WINNING BOOKS OF THE NATIONAL CONTEST

"MUHi 2009-2021" received a jury’s special award for a design that reveals the value of young art.

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