Chocolate Seasons 2016

Organizer

Women’s Art Project

Chocolate Seasons 2016

Curator: Georgiy Brailovskiy Museum of Sculpture and Decorative-Applied Art Wing of Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art

Georgiy Brailovskiy curator of Women’s Art Project, collector, founder of In-Art For a long time, museum curators and collectors hardly paid attention to female artists. Nowadays women with major exhibitions and record prices play centre stage on the art scene, which previously was dominated by only men. “A fantastic result”, says Philip Duke von Württemberg (Philipp Herzog von Wurttemberg), the head of the European branch of Sotheby`s auction house about the sale of picture of Rosemarie Trockel for over $5 million.

“This reflects the increasing tendency for more and more female artists to come out of the shadow of men”.

The history of women’s art counts a hundred years or so – a tiny period of time when compared with the general history of humanity. Art is not something exclusive at the struggle of women for equal rights with men. Women were not admitted to higher education institutions, were not permitted to practice medicine, did not participate in political life: their fate was homemaking, in the best case, literary readings in the salons and dances at balls.

Soviet avant-garde radically decided women’s issues; ‘Amazons of avant-garde’ ceased to be simply muses and became active participants in the art process. Then there was a prolonged period of socialist realism, in which the feminine trend in art diminished. A strong stance was taken by the men, though they used the image of the amazons that has already been established: their paintings depict great women with a spatula, in headscarves and trousers caked in plaster.

At the same time in the Western feminist art, a new formulation of the question about the role of women in art and society appears. Feminists did a lot for the restoration of historical justice. Thanks to their efforts, the work of female artists who had held relatively marginal positions in the 40s and 50s are now at the center of critical art discourse.

In the 50s and 60s the names of women in the history of art practically did not figure. In 1962 there was a “History of Art” American critic Janson (H.W. Janson), in which there was no mention of any women artists. The situation changed dramatically in the 70 years with the emergence of the West course of radical feminism. We can only add to this the fact that in the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence, where 1700 self-portraits of artists reside in, only 7% of them are women.

One of the important phenomena that have appeared because of the feminist art was a new ornamentality and decorativeness movement. In the late 70s and early 80s with the efforts of some artists of both genders, decorative art, which was considered marginal in the context of the first modernist minimalist movement, began being recognised as a ‘fine art’, i.e. high art.

The processes in Ukraine are similar to those faced by almost all post-Soviet republics. On the one hand, the only academics of the Academy of Arts of the USSR were two persons in Ukraine – Sergiy Grigoriev and Tetyana Yablonska. Formal equality, if not to take into account that all the artists at that time were forced to carry out the social order of the country and we can talk quite conditionally about purely women’s view in art or feminist issues.

In the years of independence the situation in the country has changed quite strongly. The first program works of Marina Skugareva back in the 80s initially identified a number of issues that the artist set himself. And here again we can recall the women’s view, women’s rendering, their vision of aesthetics and the pursuance of decorative effect. For the first time ever Marina has used embroidery on her paintings. Today, this technique is frequently used in the works of other artists.

Trends of recent years show that the new generation of Ukrainian female artists actively seize their place in the history of modern art from men. In autumn of 2015 the performance of Mariya Kulikovska became a notable event in London Saatсhi Gallery at the exhibition, where it was nominated by Ukraine in the category of sculpture.

Nina Murashkina represented our country in China in the international Biennale in Shanghai in 2015. Graphic artist Olesya Dzhurayeva has already in 2016 won the prestigious international competition of graphic painters in Brussels. All of it testifies the fact that in our country female artists are perceived on par with their male counterparts and that creativity of each female artist is evaluated primarily through their creative work rather than on gender.

Iurii Vakulenko General Director of Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art Ladies and gentlemen, Obviously, the division between men and women in the art world is quite conditional. However, the art created by women often features a special vision of the world - a more subtle, aesthetic view with soulful intonation of expression.

In my opinion, a “women’s line” in Ukrainian art is defined extremely brightly and powerfully. Mariya Bashkyrtseva, Mariya Pryimachenko, Catherine Bilokur, Tetyana Yablonska, Alla Horska – this is not a complete list of names of prominent compatriots who created boundless universes on their canvases – nationalistic and at the same time, immense, universal, deep.

The “Women’s Art Project” in the Chocolate House that brought in prominent Ukrainian women painters, sculptors and graphic artists, is interesting, above all, as an attempt to gather in one space the most interesting contemporary female artists. First of all, those who are looking for answers to today’s challenges speak the modern language and implement themselves actively in various spheres of culture.

This is a synthetic project that unites in the artistic dialogue different names and different genres of art under one roof. By means of this project we are launching a series of art events – “Chocolate seasons”, that are intended to present Ukrainian contemporary art in all its various manifestations

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Contents 8 Tetyana Chorna Alexandra Chychkan Olesya Dzhurayeva Kseniya Gnylytska Galyna Grygoryeva Svitlana Karunska Beata Korn Olga Kravchenko Ganna Kryvolap Maria Kulikovska Zinaїda Lihacheva Tetyana Malinovska Darina Mikituk Nina Murashkina Anastasiya Poderv’yanska Ielizaveta Portnova Olena Pryduvalova Oksana Radkevych Olena Ryzhykh Olga Selishcheva Ilona Silvashi Marina Skugareva Emma Tremba Valeria Troubina

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Special Guests 94 VarrIng (Ihor Babii) 96 Oleg Tistol 100 Ruslan Tremba 104 Special projects 109 Lina Condes 110 Zinaїda Lihacheva 114 Partners 118 Media Partners 119 Credits 126

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Tetyana Chorna Born in 1979, Kyiv, Ukraine Characteristics of creativity (description) – conceptual costume and fine jewelry.

In 2010 Tetyana founded the brand Tetyana Chorna.

Education National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (specialty of architect-artist), 2003

Exhibition list 2006 a member of FIVE – project of “Star Factory”, L-ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 represented in the art-work shop on Gogolfest, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Warm exhibition, Art Prostir 365 Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Art-decoration, P.ART.COM Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Warm exhibition, P.ART.COM Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 solo exhibition of jewelry Jewelry City, P.ART.COM Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 MuzichiChristmasArtFair, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine 2013 Art-bag group exhibition, P.ART.COM Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 solo exhibition of jewelry “I, the Beetle”, P.ART.COM Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Kyiv trade show LEVEL’S, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Belorussian Fashion Week, Minsk, Belarus 2014 Jewellery from the vintage to the present day (the theme Insects and their friends), Moscow, Russia 2014 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Kyiv trade-show LEVEL’s (as a part of design group «DDD» with a collection of “Forms of life in the city”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Kyiv trade-show LEVEL’s, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 collection show of Gosha Altshuler and Tetyana Chorna, European Fashion Union, PRE-FALL 2015, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 creative collaboration with fall-winter 2015-16 collection «NO DOUBT» of LIA SYN and accessories Tetyana Chorna, 36th Ukrainian Fashion Week, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Fashion show of Gosha Altshuler and Tetyana Chorna at Art-fest KRASA DAY, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Cher Nika by Cherkas and accessories Tetyana Chorna collection fall-winter 2015/16, Lviv Fashion Week, Lviv, Ukraine 2015 fashion show “STRONG” Cher Nika by Cherkas & accessories Tetyana Chorna on Fashionable East, Fashion Week, Białystok, Poland 2015 collection “Body Parts” in creative collaboration of designers Tetyana Chorna, Gosha Altshuler and Misha Khumish (Tattoo Family), the 11th International Festival Tattoo Collection Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Daiktai su istorija Craft Art Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania Tetyana is a permanent participant Designers.ua exhibitions, Ukrainian Fashion Market, exhibitions of jewelry and accessories Ukrainian designers.

Collections Tetyana Chorna jewelry is represented in wardrobe of such famous singers as Jamala, Elka, Lena Grozovskaya, actresses Klara Novikova, showmen Danila Polyakov, Ksenia Sobchak, Tatiana Goncharova, Leonid Komsky, ONUKA and many other members of high society and the business community.

Chorna accessorizes can be found in the music video for the song of The HARDKISS “IN LOVE”.

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Collection The body was the first / 2015-2016 Author – Tetyana Chorna Graphics – Michael Khimich Photographer – Sergey Handusenko Model – Andrew Gara Clothing – Gosha Altshuler 13

Collection The body was the first / 2015-2016 Author – Tetyana Chorna Photographer – Sergey Handusenko Model – Julia Rukavitsina Clothing – Gosha Altshuler 14

Collection Bugs / 2014-2016 Author – Tatiana Chorna Photographer – Yevgeny Chorny Model – Julia Rukavitsina 15

Alexandra Chychkan Born in 1988, Kyiv, Ukraine Alexandra’s works are made entirely from glossy magazines Education Kiev Industrial College (department of Chemist ceramics)

Selected Exhibitions 2016 Scissors Plot, Bereznitsky Aesthetics, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Makulatura, Pravda Bar, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Makulatura, Pletnyovska Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2009 RESTART, Marine Art Terminal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Makulatura, pop-up art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Dynasty, KievFineArt, Kyiv, Ukraine 16

Beethoven collage, 125Ń…105 cm / 2013 17

Olesya Dzhurayeva Born in 1982, Dushanbe, Tajikistan In 1989 moved to Ukraine Education Art School for Children in Dnipropetrovsk, 1997 Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named after Mykhailo Boychuk, Faculty of Graphic Design, 2006 Membership Ukrainian Union of Artists, 2004 Olesya works as professional graphic artist since 2002. Her works have been exhibited in Ukraine, Portugal, USA, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Taiwan, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Croatia, Brazil.

Lives and works in Kyiv.

Selected exhibitions (for the past three years) 2016 II Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Wittockania Library, Brussels, Belgium 2015 Green life, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 II”DI CARTA/PAPERMADE Biennale Internazionale di Opere di Carta, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy 2015 I International Festival of printmaking, Ukrainian Museum of Painting, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine 2015 Iosif Iser 11th International Contemporary Print Biennial, Prahova County Art Museum, Ploiesti, Romania 2015 Tribuna Graphic 2015, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2015 Better Living. Copies of Quality, The Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, USA 2015 Vll Splitgraphic International Graphic Art Biennial, Split, Croatia 2015 Art symposium “Communication”, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 Graphic Triennial 2015, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Solo exhibition “Relief”, The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking “Seacourt”, Bangor, United Kingdom 2015 1st Kaunas International Printmaking Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania 2015 Better Living. Copies of Quality, 2015 Southern Graphics Council International Printmaking Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA 2014 Solo exhibition “Сity noise”, Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 III International Print Biennial Livio Abramo, Araraquara, Brazil 2014 Jogja Miniprint Biennial, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2014 7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2014, Portugal 2014 The International Biennial Print Exhibit:2014 ROC, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 2014 17th International Graphic Triennial, Frechen, Germany Awards 2016, II Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Wittockania Library, Brussels, Belgium 18

Morning stories 2 linocut, paper, 25x38 cm / 2016

Morning stories 3 linocut, paper, 25x38 cm / 2016 19

Traces of summer 6 linocut, paper, 61Ń…60 cm / 2015 20

Traces of summer 8 linocut, paper, 61Ń…60 cm / 2015 21

Kseniya Gnylytska Born in 1984, Kyiv. Kseniya lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine Education National Academy of Arts and Architecture (Faculty of Painting), Kyiv, Ukraine, 2009 Taras Shevchenko School of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2001 Membership K.Gnylytska is a co­founder of the Ukrainian artist group R.E.P. (since 2002) Member and co­founder of the curatorial group Hudrada

Selected exhibitions 2013 At clay feet or covering stagnation, Partkom club-gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Colortest, small art gallery of Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Open air, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2011 Inertia expectations, Collection Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Ekshibitsiya, Gallery on Institutska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Open air, Collection Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Starfruit, Fine-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Power, Gallery VP, Art Strelka, Moscow, Russia 2004 Auto-cellulite, (in cooperation with Anna Ermolaeva), Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Auto-cellulite, Jazzclub Leerer Beutel, within the festival of Ukrainian culture Donumenta, Regensburg, Germany Group Exhibitions (for the past three years) 2015 Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland 2015 Walk the Line, Neue Wege der Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany 2015 What I have, is a woman, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Kyiv School. Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Home, topoľčany district, Slovakia 2015 Motherhood, Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine 2015 I am a drop in the ocean, House of Artist, Vienna, Austria 2014 R.E.P.: 10 years. On method, Labirint Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2014 Sister Europe, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria 2014 Deprivation, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland 2014 Postcards from the Maidan, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2014 The Ukrainians, Daad gallery, Berlin, Germany 2014 Goethe Institute, Paris, France 2014 Imaginary Archive, Center for Performing Arts. Kurbas, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Donkult, Museum of Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 And now? The power of art, Gallery Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Practice, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Self Management: cultural evolution vs revolution, Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art in Odessa, Ukraine 2013 Measures of saving the world _ part 3, Contemporary Art Centre, Graz, Austria 2013 Economics in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland 2013 A Race against Time. Art of 1960s - early 2000s, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Ukrainian news, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 22

Chocolate House paper, pencil, watercolor, 28Ń…35,5 cm / 2016

Chocolate House (Renaissance Hall) paper, pencil, watercolor, 28Ń…35,5 cm / 2016 23

Galyna Grygoryeva Born in 1933, Kyiv, Ukraine Galyna works and lives in Kyiv Education Kyiv State Art Institute (National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), 1959 Selected exhibitions 2015 Great Expectations, Ukrainian art of the 1960s, the National Nature Reserve Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Paradise Apple, Gallery of modern classics Syniy Vechir, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 September gifts, KalytaArtKlub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Mountain images by Galyna Grigorieva, Triptyh-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Leitmotiv, KalytaArtKlub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Variations on a theme, KalytaArtKlub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Art Area, solo exhibition, Ukrainian State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Painting Triennial, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Silence, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Light in June, Museum of Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006-2007 Developed Paradise, exhibition hall of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Ukrainian painting on the verge of XX-XXI, Nude Gallery Lufcik OW ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland 2004 Space simplicity, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Autumn Charity Ball, American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Under the Christmas Star, the National Nature Reserve Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Galyna Gryhoryeva invites friends, exhibition hall Hlibnya, Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999 – 2002 annual solo exhibitions, ArtEast Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 presentation of the catalog “Treasures of the forgotten country”, Contemporary Art Centre “Brama”, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Personal exhibition, Ukrainian State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Exhibition Dedicated to the opening of the Squire Sanders & Dempsey office, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 First Kyiv Art Fair, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Impressiyi, Alipiy Gallery, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Art of Ukraine, the Museum of Augustins, Toulouse, France 1994 Leading Ukrainian women-artists ‘94, Contemporary Art Centre “Brama”, Kyiv, Ukraine 1993 First auction of arts in Ukraine in support of Ukrainian State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine 1992 Personal exhibition, Ukrainian State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine 1992 Art of free Ukraine, BBC Arts Centre 1992 Vita Nova, Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv, Ukraine 1991 Second International Art Fair, Moscow, Russia 1991 Exhibition of Ukrainian artists, Christie’s, London, England 1991 Golden Line of Ukraine, Sapporo Museum and Osaka Museum, Japan Awards 1996, the 2nd prize at the exhibition Top Ukrainian artists ‘96. Prize sponsor Digital Equipment, Kyiv, Ukraine 1991, Watercolors Biennial of Danube countries, Second Prize, Zrenzhanin, Yugoslavia Collections UKRAINE: Digital’s Equipment Ukraine, Ukrainian National Museum, Museum of Kyiv History, National Museum in Lviv, Inco-Art, Gradobank, Isaac Kushnir, Igor Dychenko, Irina Gorbachev, Victoria Gallery. CANADA: Tela and Nestor Hayovsky, Bogdana and Bogdan Kupych, Boris Oskin, Myroslava and Boris Samytsya, Audrey and Taras Yuzvishyn. USA: Helen Kryshtalowych, Aneta Hevko, Galyna and Uyuhym Chepovetski, Roman and Mayah Vershhub. EUROPE: Constance Yuzvishyn, Zora and Frank Benamu, O.Spandeletti 24

Under the tree oil on canvas, 75Ń…82 cm / 1989 25

Marigolds and engraving oil on canvas, 80Ń…100 cm / 2008 26

The girl and doll oil on canvas, 70Ń…100 cm / 2004 27

Svitlana Karunska Born in 1968, Fastiv, Kyiv region Education Republican Art School named after Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1986 Kyiv State Art Institute (Faculty of Sculpture), studio of prof. V.Z.Borodayi National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (postgraduate course), 1999 Membership Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1992) Selected Exhibitions 2015 Another, that particular, KalytaArtClub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Book Arsenal, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Great Sculpture Salon, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 1999 Triennial of sculpture, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Garden of braided pathways, Kolo Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Everyone has their joy, KalytaArtClub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010, 2008, 2007 Great Sculpture Salon, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 TOP10 of Ukrainian sculptors, Da Vinchi Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Personal exhibition, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 PURO ARTE VIGO 2006, International Art Fair, Spain 2006 Art Zurich, the International Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland 2005 solo exhibition, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 International Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland 2004 Capriccio Misteriozo, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Own Room personal exhibition, Mykola’s House Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Reality of beauty, L-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Times and Moments, ARTEast gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 International Art Salon, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia 2001 MIX, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2000 Variations on the theme, Children’s Art Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine 2000 Exhibition Cradle Songs for Cat, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999 Exhibition of sculptures to the “Art of Ukraine of the XX century”, Ukrainian National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999 Exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian artists, gallery “Aniksis”, Baden, Switzerland 1998 At Bihac’s, Nicholas House Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 Polyphony, Kyiv Mohyla Academy Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 Art exhibition of International Women’s Club, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1996 Family Tree, Andryyvskyi Spusk, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 Art exhibition of the International Women’s Club, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Outstanding Artists of Ukraine, Art exhibition of the International Women’s Club, Brama Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine; Art exhibition Sanders Squares & Dempsey, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Family of Marks, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 1992 Graduation Exhibition, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 1991 Renaissance – 91 Biennale, Lviv, Ukraine 1987 Gold Line, Kyiv, Ukraine Collection Works held in private collections in Ukraine, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, the USA, Mexico and Germany.

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Psyche bronze, h – 80 cm / 2011 29

The Walk marble, bronze, h – 36 cm / 1999 30

Eve bronze, h – 7 cm / 1997 31

Beata Korn Bborn in 1980, Uzhgorod, Ukraine Education Uzhgorod Art College, 2001 Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ceramics Department), 2003 Teaching 2003-2011, lecturer, Uzhhorod Art College

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Scherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Ilko Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 Ilko Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2013 Scherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Ilko Gallery, Uzhgorod , Ukraine 2011 Zelena Kanapa Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2011 Gallery KyivFineART, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Week of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine 2009 Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 ART Vilnius, in collaboration with the Tsekh Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania 2008 Zelena Kanapa Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2008 ART Moscow, in collaboration with Tsekh Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2008 Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Symposium “Worhol Fest”, Worhol family Contemporary Art Museum, Medzilaborciach, Slovakia 2006 Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2005 Uzhgorod Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 32

Fruits “Start” wood, plastic, acrylic, 100х50 cm / 2011 33

Olga Kravchenko Born in the village of Novo-Dubysche, Krasyliv area, Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine Education Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Viktor Zaretsky’s workshop Membership National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 2005) Olga began to paint after forty years. She studied privately, though for the lessons of art and friendship she owes to outstanding Ukrainian artist Viktor Zaretsky, who valued highly her oeuvre.

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Coffee-houses and flowers, ABC-art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Olga Kravchenko’s Art Café, Modern Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Other shores, KalytaArtKlub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 A white blossom, Museum of Cultural Heritage Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Municipal Museum of History of Art in Bucharest, Rumania 2001 exhibition hall of bookstore “Art”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 exhibition hall of the Museum of History of Kyiv on #3 Andryyivskyi spusk, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv, Ukraine 1993, 1995 exhibition hall of the Cultural Center of the Ukrainian Society of monuments of history and culture protection, Kyiv, Ukraine 1991 first solo exhibition of the artist was held in the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Since 2002 Olga has been taking part in national art exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. She had solo exhibitions in Kyiv museums and galleries multiple times, in the Municipal Museum of Art History in Bucharest, Romania in 2002.

Collections Museum of History of Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Uzhgorod, Bucharest, private collections of Alexander Bray, Igor Dychenko, Arcadiy Raytsyn and others 34

Palm branch oil on canvas, 120Ń…100 cm / 2011 35

Irises on a white table oil on canvas, 100Ń…120 cm / 2012 36

Purple Irises oil on canvas, 70Ń…70 cm / 2015 37

Ganna Kryvolap Born in 1977, Kyiv, Ukraine Education Taras Shevchenko School of Fine Arts National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture Membership National Union of Artists of Ukraine German Art Association “SyrlinKunstverein”

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Andriyvska church from Series Kyiv Horizons, Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Painting, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA 2014 Horizons.Sarajevo, Hanikah Gallery, Sarajevo BIH 2013 Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 MOYA – Museum of Young Art, Vienna, Austria 2012 National Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Lenin Gallery, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine 2010 Istanbul, Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Wells, BottegaGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Kyiv Horizons, BottegaGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Hot Wave, Art Centre on Kostyolna Street, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 exhibition and Body-Art-Performance, Mytec Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 exhibition and Body-Art-Performance, Persona-Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999, 1996 Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1990 Union of Artists, Tbilisi ,Georgia Participation in International Exhibitions 2014 Art-Festival “Saraewska zima”, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013 HFAF- Houston Fine Art Fare, Houston, USA 2013 ARTSD13 – Art San Diego 2013, San Diego, USA 2013 CONTEXT Art Miami – Miami, USA 2010 Art Palm Beach Miami International, Miami, USA 2010 Armory Arts Week, New York, USA 2009 Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey 2009 Berlin-Berlin, GalerieArtodrom, Berlin, Germany 2008 InternationaleKunstmesse, Zindelfingen, Germany 2007 Art International Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 Art Kyiv, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine Awards 2013, Triennial Kyiv, Ukraine, Award of the jury, 1st prize Collections USA embassies Collection National Museum in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine MOYA – Museum of Young Art in Vienna, Austria and in private collections of Austria, Germany, Poland, Holland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, USA 38

Motherhood oil on canvas, 100Ń…80 cm / 2012 39

Croatian Horisons oil on canvas, 100Ń…100 cm / 2014 40

Kyiv horizon. Andryyvskyi descent oil on canvas, 60Ń…80 cm / 2015 41

Maria Kulikovska Born in 1988, Kerch, Ukraine Education College of Building, Design and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2007 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013 Teaching Master of Architecture and Fine Arts, lecturer, researcher, present

Selected Exhibitions and Art Projects 2015 illegal action #onvacation in Russian Pavilion of Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2015 White – illegal action/performance against Russia agression to Ukraine, against annexation of Crimea, 1 of May, Crimea bridge, Moscow-river, Moscow, Russia 2014 Body Protest – The Body in Political Activism – presentation of political art, political protests, raising issues of human rights, organized by students of the University of Malmo, Department of Human Rights and the Study Conflicts in Mellem Rummet, Copenhagen, Denmark 2014 Untitled, group show «Give Me Tomorrow», Bottega-gallery, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Contemporary Art Research Institute of the NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 254, Unauthorized protest action of “Manifesta 10” in, General StaffHermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia, with support of IZOLYATSIA 2013-2014 Body and Borders – Ukrainian – Swedish group project, same sex marriage as an art project, happening, performance, in an artistic group Kulikovska – Shabo 2014 To Be or not to Be, video, performance, presented in the NYC Kinofest, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA 2013 Marketable Condition, video in special project of Scherbenko Art Centre for Kyiv Art Fair’2013, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Soma sculptural installation, 27 salt columns, was nominee for the Pinchuk Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 RutaRuna exchange for young artists from Ukraine and Sweden, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv Ukraine, Sigtuna Folkhogskola, Sigtuna, Sweden 2013 curator of international feminist camp FROG, Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine 2013 Where the wind blows installation, in group show «Orientation on the Ground», National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 SWEET/SS LIFE (Sweet/Swiss Life) – personal project, AKKU-verein Kunstleratelier, Uster, Switzerland 2012 HOMO BULLA, site-specific personal project, IZOLATSIA, Donetsk, Ukraine 2012 Music of the Unextracted Sounds, performance, site-specific project at the Institute of Building Structures and Materials as winner of the open competition “In Search of Spaces of Negotation” Foundation CSM, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Koan series of paintings in the facility, a group project, “Did Painting Die?”, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Pandora, installation, personal special project, Mukhi’2011 (Young Ukrainian Artists), Bottega-gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010-2014 Army of Clones (site-specific project) personal project within the international festival of contemporary visual art GogolFest’10, Studio Dovgenko, Kyiv, collection of IZOLYATSIA Foundation, Donetsk, Ukraine 2010 Untittled, video art, contemporary art week, Weekend Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2009 Untitled land-art facility, International Festival of land art Mifogenez, Vinnitsa, Ukraine 2008 Finalist Creative Youth Forum, Ra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 42

CAST 1 gypsum, bronze coating, h – 19 cm / 2016

CAST 2 gypsum, bronze coating, h – 12 cm / 2016 43

CAST 1 gypsum, metal coating, h – 19 cm / 2016

CAST 2 gypsum, metal coating, h – 12 cm / 2016 44

CAST 1 gypsum, metal coating, h – 19 cm / 2016

CAST 2 gypsum, metal coating, h – 12 cm / 2016 45

Zinaїda Lihacheva Bborn in 1975, Kyiv, Ukraine Education National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Theory and History of Art), 2012-Present National University of Taras Shevchenko (Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology), 2007-2009 National University of Trade and Economics (BA in Banking), 1993-2002

Selected Exhibitions 2015 MUTE, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Black Beads, Scherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Zinaida Lihacheva’s Beads. 2010-2013, National Museum of Decorative Folk Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Autumn Is So Lovely, performance, Lviv Fashion Week, Les Kurbas Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2011 SHE, performance, Concept store Atelier1, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Heart of Birch, performance, Mercedes-Benz Kyiv Fashion Days, Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Live in Kiev, performance, show-room THE ONE, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Live in Kyiv, performance, socio-cultural project I Love Kyiv, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Uzor art, art project, ART MONACO’11, International Show of Contemporary Art, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2011 Design of the show window for Bally boutique, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Z, solo exhibition, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine Zinaїda’s art focuses on current issues around the world. In Ukraine most of her work is inspired by the loss of culture which has been lost in time. She aims to bring the publics’ attention to issues that she believes to be extremely important in order to begin making a change.

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Antropofitea. Ethnography of physicality or erotic folklore Canvas, collage, mixed medium, 200х80 cm / 2015 The work ‘ Antropofitea. Ethnography of physicality or erotic folklore ‘ is Zinaïda’s installation-collage made out of book clippings, which allows the wiewer to explore the hidden sexual content in Ukrainian folklore. The artist sheds light on closed and hidden topics once again, bringing the viewers attention to the fact that making something taboo leads to discrimination and misunderstanding.

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Tetyana Malinovska Born in 1980, Odessa, Ukraine Tetyana lives and works in Kharkiv Education Sevastopol Art School, 1995 Bottega Art Studio, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2003 State Kharkiv Academy of Design and Fine Arts, Department of Monumental Paining, Interior and Design Department, 2005

Selected exhibitions 2015 Art experience, Vienna Art Museum, Vienna New Perspectives, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, the USA 2015 Ridicule, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Bereg Art Rezidence, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Symphosium of Contemporary Art, Biryuchyi Art Rezidence, Biryuchyi Island 2015 International Art Symposium “Communication�, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod 2015 Line, Ermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2015 Appeal to beauty, Lavra City Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 New Ukrainian Dream, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 The Motherland, Korobchinski Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine 2014 Beauty, Modern Art Research Institute of the NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Probability Theory, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Symposium of Contemporary Art, Biryuchyi Art Residence, Biryuchyi Island, Ukraine 2013 Industrial paradise, Modern Art Research Institute of NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 III Biennale of Contemporary Art, Hudpromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine 2013 Presentation, Non-Stop Media, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2013 Vibration solo show, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2013 Symposium of Contemporary Art, Biryuchyi Art Residence, Biryuchyi Island, Ukraine 2012 Emergency Exit, Exhibition in shop windows, Akkumulyator Festival exhibition, Goethe Institute, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2012 Kharkiv Station, Contemporary Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Femine, Union of Ukrainian Artists, Kharkiv 2010 White Animals, Gogolfest, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 One Long Way, Gogolfest, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 IV Festival Non-Stop Media, City Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2007 Around the sun, Kharkiv State Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2007 Bottega, Kharkiv State Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine 48

Symmetrical composition – 2 oil on canvas, mixed technique, acrylic, 100х80 cm / 2015 49

Fragment of Reflection – 2 oil on canvas, mixed technique, acrylic, 100х80 cm / 2015 50

Reflection – 2 oil on canvas, mixed technique, acrylic, 100х80 cm / 2015 51

Darina Mikituk Born in 1993, Lubny city of Poltava region Darina lives and works in Kyiv.

Darina creates works in pop-art style.

Education Art School, 2005 Kyiv National University of Technology and Design, 2014

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Pop Art Mate, Bechterveka Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine 2015 The exhibition of one artist, Lubny, Ukraine 2015 Classic and Contemporary Art, Auction House “Golden Section”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 The VII National exhibition “Art Spring”, Lubny, Ukraine 2015 Day of Kyiv on Andreevskiy from Art Festival TALENT ENERGY FEST, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Post War and Contemporary Art, Auction House “Golden Section”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Christmas Art Weekend, Auction House “Golden Section”, Kyiv, Ukraine Collections Works held in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Spain and UAE 52

2х2 canvas, acrylic, tempera, 100х80 cm

Forgetfulness is my alter ego or something like that... paper, tempera, 39х49 cm 53

Nina Murashkina Born in 1985, Donetsk, Ukraine Education Donetsk Art College (Graphics Design), 2005 Kharkiv Art Design Academy (Monumental Painting), 2009 Kyiv Art Academy (Stage Design and Film), 2011 Poland, Krakow. Art Academy of Jan Mateyko, 2012 Membership National State Artists Union (since 2009) Independent Artists Union (since 2009) Selected Exhibitions, Projects, Plays 2015 Shanghai International Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Chun Gallery, Cnina, Shanghai 2015 TOY STORY, curator project, ArtZbirka Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 INSATIABLE, Contemporary Art-Kyiv 10, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 International Symposium of Contemporary Art “BIRUCHIY”. “10/15”, Biruchiy island, Ukraine 2015 Communication. International Art Symposium, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 Dialogs. Time to listening, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 ART Residence Kunstlersommer Ottensheim 2015, Ottensheim. Austria.

2015 Ridicule, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv Ukraine 2015 INSATIABLE solo exhibition, Yagallery art centre, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine 2015 ZERO, Ermilov art centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2015 Other Land, Come in Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2014 I LOVE YOU, Forum of the art Art-Kyiv Contemporary projects – 9, Mystetkyi Arsenal Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Isn’t present more tears!, Art residence “Art Studio Muzychi”, village Muzychi, Kyiv region, Ukraine 2014 Probability theory, Contemporary Art Research Institute of NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 The War is She, exhibition hall “Magelan”, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2014 International Symposium of Contemporary Art “BIRUCHIY”, island Biruchiy, Ukraine 2014 New Ukrainian Dream, Forbes project, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Golden Rain over us, curator project, 10 exhibition hall “VDNKH”. Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 International Sculpture Symposium. Paintings Programe, Penza, Russia 2014 Paradise Gardens, Art Residence, Penza, Russia 2014 Hi, Naivety!, exhibition of naive art, Vereshchagin’s museum, Nikolayiv, Ukraine 2013 Samovar, IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine 2013 Antin’s Collection Gallery, Art-Kyiv Contemporary, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 My Saint Lover, Solo Exhibition restaurant «L8». Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Art-concept, Symposium-plain-air, Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine 2012 Blue Eyes!, Gogol-Fest Contemporary Art Fair with project in Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Stypendium “Gaude Polonia” from February to July, Krakow, Poland 2011 International art program Carpathian Ridge, project “Huzulschyna” / International symposium-plein-air “Patsorka - 2011 Spring”, Ukraine 2011 Anarhia, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 YIN, M17, Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Genofond. Pinakothek, Titanik Exhibition Halls, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania 2010 Essentiaamor, solo exhibition, Ya Gallery art centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Genofond. IloveKyiv, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 To itself on Wedding!, Volga Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia 54

Pink tigers canvas, acrylic, d-150 cm / 2015 55

Snail canvas, acrylic, 160Ń…170 cm / 2015-2016 56

Flirt canvas, acrylic, 170Ń…160 cm / 2015 57

Anastasiya Poderv’yanska Born in 1978, Kyiv, Ukraine Education Taras Shevchenko School of Fine Arts, 1996 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (faculty of painting, monumental department), 2002 Workshop of Professor M.A.Storozhenko Membership The National Union of Artists (since 2002) Activities Painting, oil on canvas, wall painting, painting on glass, painting on gesso, painting on furniture and furniture design, interior design

Theatrical projects 2014 costume designer for the opera “Animals”, libretto by L. Podervyansky, music V. Nazarov, director A. Kritenko 2012 costume designer for L.Podervyansky’s play “Vassilisa Yehorovna’s Dreams” (director A. Kritenko) 2011 costume designer for L.Podervyansky’s play “Pavlik Morozov” (directed by A. Kritenko) Selected Exhibitions 2016 Country – horror, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Dream butterfly Heretocera, KalytaArtClub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Vegetable salad, Essence J. Grether Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Bird’s milk, KalytaArtClub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Sugared Time, cafe Bobo, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Sugared Time, cafe Antresol, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Traveling Widow’s Garden, Triptych Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine 2004 Cities and Desire, Triptych Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine Group Exhibitions 2013 Art. Design. Photography, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv 2012 International Plein Air, Kavadarci, Macedonia 2011 streetart P’yatka group, Pavlovfest festival, Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital., Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Space Odyssey, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 P’yatka, P’yatka group, Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 MYKHI(Young Ukrainian Artists) competition, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Around, P’yatka group, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Fish Day, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Moscow International Art Salon, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2009 Fish Day, Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 World of gesso, Odessa, Ukraine Collections Works held in collections: Eurolab, Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine, as well as in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Macedonia and the United States 58

Chrysanthemums diptych, board, gesso, oil, gold leaf, 112Ń…128 cm / 2006 59

Ielizaveta Portnova Born in 1981, Kyiv, Ukraine Education Children Art School # 10 of decorative and applied arts (with honors), 1997 Kyiv Industrial College (with honors), 2002 Membership The Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 2015)

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Beijing International Festival macsabal Woodfire 2015 and exhibition in Forbidden City, China, Beijing 2015 participated in Artist Residence Program of International Macsabal Museum, Wanju City, Korea 2015 7th great sculpture salon, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Teapot, The National Folk Decorative Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 charity exhibition, the US Embassy, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 charity exhibition-auction, UCU, Lviv, Ukraine 2014 charity exhibition-auction, Madrid, Spain 2014 charity exhibition-auction, I.P. Kavaleridze studio-museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 It is clay pottery festival, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Andriy + Liza (ceramics and painting), Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Red and White, Parsuna Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Modern ceramics in urban space festival, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 GogolFest, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Angel, Parsuna Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Light and a stone, I.P.Kavaleridze studio-museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Christmas postcard, I.P.Kavaleridze studio-museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Kyiv fairy tale, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Prykrasa, Partkom Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Christmas, Ivan Honchar National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 participated in the creation of ceramic elements of “Landscape Alley”, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Cattle, Partkom Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Springy, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 exhibition of decorative art, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Christmas, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Women artists, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2000 participated in the reconstruction of ceramic rosettes of Uspensky cathedral of Kyiv (Kyiv Pechersk Lavra) Awards 2013, first place in the competition “Gifts with Ukrainian soul” – “ceramic plate” 2002, reward of the Honoree in the national Ukrainian competition “New names of Ukraine” 1998, diploma for participation in the exhibition “Near the clear springs” 1997, second place in the regional fine arts competition 1997, the commemorative diploma of a participant of the exhibition-competition in Shevchenkivskiy district Collections Works held in private collections in the Republic of Karelia, Sweden, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, France, Germany, Australia, Portugal, and India 60

Receiver sculpture, chamotte, faience mass, copper oxide, d – 40 cm / 2015 61

Iva pottery, sculpture, colored enamel, crackle, h – 30 cm / 2015 62

Mushroom pottery, sculpture, oxide copper, enamel, h – 50 cm / 2014 63

Olena Pryduvalova Born in 1960, Kyiv, Ukraine Education National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (faculty of painting, theatrical department of decorative arts, workshop of D.Lider), 1986 Membership National Union of Artists of Ukraine One of the founder members of the creative team “Blue October”, from 2012

Selected Personal Exhibitions 2015 Autumn light, KalytaArtKlub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Live to the Fullest!, TryptyhArt Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Under the sky of Olsztyn, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Variable interiors, TryptyhArt Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Holidays and weekdays, Maysternya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Reality Experience, Ducat Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Painting, Tadzio Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 Clouds ver the city, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Mahoganies, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine) 2004 Gouache, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Still Life, Gallery Ra, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 Trees in the city, Maysternya Gallery, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Kyiv Baroque, ARTeast Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 Painting, Miller Building Gallery, Edmonton, Canada Awards 1998, Famous artist of Ukraine. First Prize 1996, Famous artist of Ukraine. Honor Public Сollections Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, Zaporizhia Art Museum, Museum of Women Artists, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (France),University of Chicago (USA), Paletta Gallery (Germany), Ochre Gallery (Greece), Mars Gallery (Russian Federation), Lavra Gallery (Ukraine), TryptyhArt Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Gallery Ra (Kyiv, Ukraine), Tadzio Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Kolo Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Ducat Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Soros Contemporary Art Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine) Private Сollections Condoleezza Rice, Kateryna Yushchenko, Myriyam Kaiser, Ellie Valentine, Dzvinky Kryshtalowych, Constance Yuzvishn, Frantishek Yanoukh, Grazhyna Strykovska, Eurasia Foundation (USA), Imsa Press Publishers (France), Ukrainian Embassy in France (France), Mitsubishi Co. Tokyo City Hall (Japan), Squire, Sanders & Dempsy, UMC (United Kingdom), Business Centre Regina L & L (Ukraine), The Agio bank (Ukraine).

Also works held in many other private collections in the USA, Canada, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Greece, Scotland, Germany, UK, Sweden, France, Spain, Holland, Israel, Jordan, Belgium, South Korea, Japan, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

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Autumn on Gogolivska Street canvas, acrylic, 80Ń…50 cm / 2015 65

Sunset from the series “Light” canvas, acrylic, 150х110 cm / 2012 66

Alley from the series “Light” canvas, acrylic, 150х110 cm / 2012 67

Oksana Radkevych Born in 1987, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Education Lviv National Academy of Arts, department of monumental painting Membership National Union of Artists of Ukraine Oksana lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine. She is the main theater artist of the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre. Priorities – scenic design, painting, illustration.

Selected ExhibitionsSelected Exhibitions, Plays 2015 Migration, National Nature Reserve Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Migration (III iconic International Plein-Air), Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Communication, ILKO gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 International Art Symposium Communication, Svalyava, Ukraine 2015 Holy peacemakers, Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine 2015 Holy peacekeepers (iconic open air), Zamlynnya, Ukraine 2014 Severin’s Adventure, project illustrations 2014 theater project “The Wall”, Lviv National Lesya Ukrainka Theater, Lviv 2013 Jazz, Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine 2013 Theatrical Project “Dog at the Velour Grasses”, the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2012 theater project “Search: www.MatyNAYmychkA.com.ua”, the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2012 theater project “My dear Pamella or how to kill a granny”, the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2011 theater project “I will betray you anyway”, the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2010 BLACK CIRCLE FESTIVAL (Street Art Festival), Poninka, Ukraine 2010 theater project Taming of the Shrew, the Lesya Ukrainka Lviv Drama Theatre, Lviv, Ukraine 2007 Photo-project Torso, Dzyndra, Lviv, Ukraine 2007 The Torso, Dziga Gallery, Lviv Ukraine 68

Stone-rubinus canvas, watercolor, 40Ń…40 cm / 2016 69

Stone-sapphire canvas, watercolor, 40Ń…40 cm / 2016 70

Stone-emerald canvas, watercolor, 40Ń…40 cm / 2016 71

Olena Ryzhykh Born in 1965, Kyiv Olena lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. Work in the figurative and abstract painting, make a projects of kinetic art-objects.

Education National Art School, Academy of Art of Ukraine, Academy of Art of Georgia Membership National Union of Artists of Ukraine Ryzhykh had 15 personal and more than 50 major exhibitions, 5 International Art Festivals in Ukraine, 18 foreign exhibitions, festivals and biennale Awards Took 6 prizes for painting, twice laureate of All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial of painting, have international gold medal for kinetic art-objects Selected Personal Exhibitions 2015 Art-dynasty, Khlybnia, Sophia National Historical and Cultural Reserve, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Meeting, Mystetska Zbirka Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 The clock of our time. Time to choose (7 kinetic art objects), a parallel program International Biennale ARSENALE – 2012. Soviart, Kyiv 2010 Dynasty, ART-KIEV, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Point of force, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 One year, the Soviart Centre of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 1998, 2002 Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 The Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine Main Group and International Exhibitions 2015 International Biennale Fiera Dolomity, Longarone, Italy 2015 Italian and Ukrainian artists, Palazzo Priulli Bon, Venice, Italy 2015 Make art – not war!, Cyprus – Kyiv 2015 La Biennale dei castelli della Gera d’Adda, Milano-Bergamo, Italy 2015 International EXPO abstract art, Palazzo Annunciation, Matera, Italy 2014-2015 Kiev Art Forum, House of culture Master Klass, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Beads, Chocolate House (a branch of the Museum of Russian Art), Kyiv 2012 Communication 21, International Biennale ARSENALE 2012, CHA 2010 exhibition of Modern Art Museum of Ukraine in State Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi 2007 Creative Dynasties, Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001-2013 five exhibitions All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial, CHA, Kyiv 2000 Ukrainian Art – XX Century, State Museum of Fine Arts of Ukraine 1994 Polystylism, the exhibition – tour, Germany 1993 Ukrainian Avant-garde of the XX century, Museum of Augustinians, Toulouse, France 1993 Pictorial Plastic Art, State Museum of Fine Arts of Ukraine, Kiev 1993 Malevich’s traditions, Kiev-Moskow 1991 the exhibition of East Europe Art, Paris, France 1991 the exhibition of Ukrainian Art, Chicago, USA Collections Nationale Art Museum of Ukraine, Modern Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev museum of the Russian art, 4 regional art museums, State Art Museum of Georgia, The Normann Dodge Art museum (USA), Zimmerly Art Museum (USA), in private collections in Italy, France, Germany, USA, Poland, SAR, Norway, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia 72

Escape to Egypt oil on canvas, 115Ń…180 cm / 2010 73

Capturing by fire oil on canvas, 100Ń…140 cm / 2014 74

Sunset moment oil on canvas, 90Ń…120 cm / 2009 75

Olga Selishcheva Bborn in 1984, Kharkiv Education Kharkiv Art Institute (department of Graphic Design) IKEA BAUHAUS SUMMER SHOOL, Dessau, Germany, 2014 Teaching Kharkiv Art Institute, lecturer Membership Member of graphic designers “4th Block” The youth section of the Union of Artists of Ukraine Selected Exhibitions 2016 Women’s art project, Museum of sculpture and decorative arts (the branch of the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art), Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 Short stories. Contemporary Artists from Ukraine, the project Imago Mundi, Small Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 Photographic unconscious, Modern Art Research Institute of the NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Botany, Comein Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2015 Toy story, Mystetska zbirka Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Exhibition in Feldman Art Park, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2015 X ART-Kyiv contemporary, project Women secret, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Gogol Fest, Exhibition Center of Economic Achievements, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Dialogues. Time to hear, Exhibition of Art residence Bereg, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 The coefficient of independence, American house, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Practice of metamorphosis, Modern Art Research Institute (NAAU), Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Kateryna Bilokur, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Paradise. Transformation (personal exhibition), Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Cero absoluto, project “Camouflage”, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine; 2014 Personal exhibition “Bear & Hare”, exhibition-satellite of the winners of the “Non Stop Media” International Festival, Moskvich-bar, Kharkiv, Ukraine; 2014 Golden Rain Over Us. ClosedCluster#10, Exhibition Center of Economic Achievements, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014, 2013 Design of “3 Days in the Garden” Festival, Botanic Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Design of “Love is ...” Festival, «Museum», Kyiv, Ukraine; 2014 Yermilov 120, Academy Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2013 Metabolism, Instytutska Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 MUHi, Young Ukrainian Artists Contest, Modern Art Research Institute (NAAU), Kyiv, Ukraine Olga participated as a graphic designer and artist in over 50 exhibitions and festivals in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Russia, and Ukraine. Personal exhibitions were held in Kharkiv (2002, 2009, 2014), Berlin (2009), Kyiv (2011, 2013, 2015).

Awards 2008, 1st prize at IV International Festival Non Stop Media, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2006, 1st prize in 3 categories at flash animation contest “Demo 90” Kharkiv, Ukraine 2006, 2nd place at poster contest Designers against fur 2006, the European and the International Tour; 2005, 2nd place, poster of the exhibition Anti-AIDS Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine Collections Posters held in the collections of the Museum of the poster, Aarhus, Denmark Painterly works held in private collections in Ukraine and Germany 76

Fragment of Meeting 1 canvas, acrylic, 120Ń…120 cm / 2015 77

Meeting 1 canvas, acrylic, 120Ń…120 cm / 2015 78

Meeting 2 canvas, acrylic, 120Ń…120 cm / 2015 79

Ilona Silvashi Born in 1974, Kyiv, Ukraine Ilona lives and works in Kyiv Education Taras Shevchenko School of Fine Arts, 1992 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, 1998 Holder of scholarship program “Gaude Polonia”, Ministry of Culture of Poland, 2003

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Inner City, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Bear Kiss, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Hidden, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Those who escape from the storm, Triptych-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Tarodeliya, L-art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 The game of tennis in windy weather, French Culture Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine Major Group Exhibitions 2015 Papir.Svit.Mystetstvo, National Art and Culture Museum Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Motherland, the project “Focus” magazine, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Book Arsenal, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Just Art, National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 House of Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Participated, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Week of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine 2009 Festival Art Field, Vorobiyivka village, Ukraine 2009 Art Symposium Noah’s Ark, Sida village, Ukraine 2009 Transgression, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2008 Shadow, Soviart Contemporary Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 GogolFest, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukaine 2008 Hidden Worlds, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 GogolFest, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 The festival Sheshory Podilsky, Vorobiyivka village, Ukraine 2006 Eye Drops, Art-blues Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Festival Sheshory, Sheshory, Ukraine 2006 Art-Kyiv, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005 The young generation of Europe, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Festival Sheshory, Sheshory, Ukraine 2004 Utopia, L-art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Adam and Eve, Irena Gallery , Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Play with archetype, Ivan Honchar Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 International Festival Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 2002 Plyhavka that disappears by mistake, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001 Indigo-Murlykayuchyy cort, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine 80

DrawingS from the series “Bear Kiss” paper, ink, calligraphic pen, 42х29,7 cm / 2010 81

DrawingS from the series “Bear Kiss” paper, ink, calligraphic pen, 42х29,7 cm / 2010 82

DrawingS from the series “Bear Kiss” paper, ink, calligraphic pen, 42х29,7 cm / 2010 83

Marina Skugareva Born in 1962, Kyiv, Ukraine Education Kyiv Republican Art School, 1977 Jemal Fine Arts College (Makhachkala, Dagestan), 1981 Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, 1987

Selected Exhibitions: 2015 Contemporary Ukrainian Art. From Private Collections, gallery in Koruna hotel, Tatariv vil., IvanoFrankivsk region, Ukraine 2014 OURS, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2013 Terrain Orientation National Art Museum of Ukraine Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2013 London Art Fair 2013, London, UK 2011 Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 20 years of presence, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Independent, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 VozhdiЛєnіє, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2010, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 RESTART, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Art-Kyiv Contemporary 2009, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2008, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 The Constellation of Michaelis, or Good Housekeepers, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Sex. Boxing. Jazz, Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Made in UKR, Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2006 Gifts For…, ARTStrelka Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2005 The Outskirts, Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 A Farewell to Arms, Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 The First Collection, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Madchen, Nymphen, Madchen, Rebel Minds Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2001 A Fragment, Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1999 20 Ukrainian Artists. End of the Century, Atelier Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1998 Venus´ Mirror, Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997 Grundsatzlich Uberflussig, +/- Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1997 By The Way, Atelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1996 Marina Skugareva, +/- Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1996 I am Fine, CCA at NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Gorgon’s Mouth, Brama Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 Quebec—Ukraine, Brama Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 1994 East-West, Odense Gallery, Odense, Denmark 1992 Klingental, Klingental Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1992 Nine Days, St. Alban Tal, Basel, Switzerland 1991 Flash, Architects’ House, Kyiv, Ukraine 1990 The Furmanny Lane, Petr Novitsky Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 1987 Kyiv-Tallinn, Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine 84

Lupine canvas, acrylic, 140Ń…133 cm / 2015 85

Fragment of Guantanamera oil on canvas, embroidery, 200Ń…150 cm / 1995 86

Guantanamera oil on canvas, embroidery, 200Ń…150 cm / 1995 87

Emma Tremba Born in 1985, Uzhgorod, Ukraine Emma lives and works in Uzhorod, Ukraine Education Uzhgorod College of Arts named after Albert Erdeli, 2004 Transcarpathian Institute of Arts, 2009

Selected Exhibitions 2015 The Imprint of reality, Voto art-cafe, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 Plakhta, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2015 The Abstract Reality, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 The Darab, Closer Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Biro, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 Sense of Reality, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Velykyj Pereviz, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 Velykyj Pereviz, residence, Ukraine 2013 Insomnia, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2013 Velykyj Pereviz, residence, Ukraine 2011 Sea Eye, Slovakia 2010 Regional exhibition Graphical Transcarpathian, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2009 International plein-air, Slovakia 2008 Regional exhibition, Lviv, Ukraine 2007 Graphical Transcarpathian (Regional exhibition), Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2007 International plein-air, Slovakia 2006 Graphical Transcarpathian (Regional exposition), Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2006 Interregional Painting plein-air, Koblevo, Ukraine 88

On Emotion canvas, acrylic, 115h150 cm / 2015 89

Reflection canvas, acrylic, 95Ń…95 cm / 2016 90

Hidden feeling diptych, canvas, acrylic, 95Ń…190 cm / 2016 91

Valeria Troubina Born in 1966 Since the mid-1990s she moved to live and work in the UK and then the USA Education Luhansk Art College Kyiv State Art Institute (National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture) Membership The National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1990)

Selected Exhibitions 1989 Between modernism and postmodernism, Warsaw, Poland 1990 Ukrainian art of the twentieth century, Kyiv, Ukraine 1990 Three generations of Ukrainian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine; Odense, Denmark 1990 Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Budapest, Hungary 1990 Ukrainian artists, Stockholm, Sweden 1993 Angels of Ukraine, Edinburgh, UK 1994 Art Attack, Chicago, USA 1994 New Ukrainian art – after the apocalypse, London, UK 1995 Art Impressions, Kyiv, Ukraine 1995 Patriotic Landscape, 1995, Munich, Germany 1999 Fictitious sceneries, Bolinas, USA 2000 Playground, Berkeley, USA 2000 Red Tribe, San Francisco, USA 2002 Bay – Women in Art, San Francisco, USA 2004 Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2005, 2006 Art of Maui, Hawaii, USA 2009 Ukrainian New Wave, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Preventive measures, Berlin, Germany 2011 Art-Kyiv contemporary-2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 Match Point 88: a moment before a new life, Kyiv, Ukraine Collections Works reside in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the National Museum of Russian Art (Moscow), Ukrainian State Museum of Fine Arts (Kyiv), private collections in Sweden, USA, UK, Russia, Ukraine 92

Morning Glory oil on canvas, 63Ń…97 cm / 1993 93

Fragment of Whight Iris oil on canvas, 95x65 cm / 2014 94

Whight Iris oil on canvas, 95x65 cm / 2014 95

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The Women’s Art Project was conceived so that the viewer could get acquainted with the works of our wellknown female artists, while appreciating the high level of their professional skills and the uniqueness of each of them as a creative person. Almost the entire history of art is connected with the names of outstanding male artists; now we show that this inequality was artificial, and that it was due solely to the fact that women in society were not allowed either in education, politics or art.

By creating such a project, we were clearly aware that we touch on a very interesting topic that is sometimes ambiguously perceived, sometimes one-sidedly interpreted. And if the number of questions that are raised by our exhibition does not frighten us, then we definitely want to avoid the biased perception of art from female artists.

Therefore, several well-known male artists have appeared in the project. If we say that the woman in her way looks at the world, then how does a man look at the same picture? People in different locations and at different times always vary in their statements. And what if they are always next to each other?

Therefore, it seemed very interesting to us to include two creative couples in the project: Marina Skugareva and Oleg Tistol; and Emma and Ruslan Tremba. Always together, always next to each other and always recognizable in their creative work, the artists of different generations will present their works. It remains to the viewer to appreciate how differently each of these artists in the creative unions formulate their vision of the world around us, whether the woman is always emotional and sensual, and a man is pragmatic and rational.

We consider similarly interesting the participation in the project of an art photographer Ihor Babii (VarrIng) with selected photos from the collection Fire Embodied. The uniqueness of his project lies in the fact that by using special techniques of reportage photography, he reveals the character of a woman as the creator of material images from fire. The images, which appear out of nowhere and disappear in a moment, reflect the emotional state of a female juggler who turns into a goddess in a fiery dance. This work is created only by means of the camera and is visible in the photos. The male art photographer perceives the fire element and the woman in his own way, through the prism of his own sensations. Therefore, we found it very interesting to show these photos in the general Women’s project. In the process of creating a ‘fire project’, we saw at one point and at the same time the art of man and woman; when a woman creates, the man perceives and records.

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VarrIng (Ihor Babii) VarrIng is an artistic pseudonym of Ihor L.Babii. Born in 1971, lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine Photographer, expert, projects curator He has a degree in: art business manager, an expert – estimator of cultural values (State Academy for the Administration of Culture and Arts, Kiev, Ukraine) Selected Exhibitions Solo exhibition 2014 FIRE EMBODIED, Cultural - Information Centre at the Embassy of Ukraine in France, Paris, France Collective exhibition 2016 Chocolate Seasons-2016, Women Project – special guest with the project FIRE EMBODIED, Mohylovtsev palace (Chocolate House), Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 UKRAINIAN FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY - 2015, Centre for Contemporary Art, “M17”, Kiev, Ukraine 2015 Collective exhibition of Contemporary Art THE BIG BLUE, Business Center International Airport Nice-Cote d’Azur, Nice, France 2015 Group project INSPIRED BY BLACK SQUARE Mystetska Zbirka Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Collective exhibition of Contemporary Art FOUR ELEMENTS, The guest of honor: VarrIng with the photo project FIRE EMBODIED, Business Center International Airport Nice-Cote d’Azur, Nice, France 2014 UKRAINE: REALITY AND DREAMS, Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 UKRAINE: REALITY AND DREAMS, Museum «Mauermuseum at Charlie Checkpoint», Berlin, Germany 2011 HEROIC STRENGTH, Acco International Exhibition Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 MY LAND, V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Organization of photo exhibitions 2011 HEROIC STRENGTH, on Sports Show-Exhibition “Sport Industry 2011″, Acco International Exhibition Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 THE BEAUTY OF UKRAINE IN THE LENS on the 18th International Tourist Fair “Ukraine-2011″

Collection FIRE EMBODIED (2012) - 02/44 Photo project FIRE EMBODIED is a collection of photos, taken in 2012 at the Center of culture and history of Ancient Rus during international festivals: “Bylyny (epic) of Ancient Kyiv of IX-XI century “and” Guests of Ancient Kiev of the XV century”.

Since the appearance of man on earth, the fire has a mystical value. Living in Ancient Rus in the first millennium AD, the Baltic and Eastern Slavs (ancestors of Ukrainians and some European peoples) worshiped the God named Svarozich, personified in fire. For thousands years fire symbolizes good and evil at the same time Fire-show, which was the culmination of the international festivals, was a historical and mystical event for visitors. The photos display moments of transformation of man into the god, lord of fire. Flame signs and figures on the photographs symbolize the victory of good over evil. Looking at the photos, the audience can participate in this victory, touch it and feel the power of positive energy boost from the depth of the centuries.

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Collection Fire embodied, #39 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 7+2АР, 60х60 cm / 2012

Collection Fire embodied, #42 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 7+2АР, 60х60 cm / 2012 99

Collection Fire embodied, #17 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 9, 30х30 cm / 2012

Collection Fire embodied, #11 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 9, 30х30 cm / 2012 100

Collection Fire embodied, #37 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 9, 30х30 cm / 2012

Collection Fire embodied, #38 Paper Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta, 325 gsm, Ink Epson UltraChrome HDR, 9, 30х30 cm / 2012 101

Oleg Tistol Born in 1960, Vradiivka, Nikolaev region,Ukraine Education Kyiv Republican Art School, 1978 Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, 1984 Selected Exhibitions 2015 Koelner Liste-Contemporary Art Fair 2015, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 I Am A Drop In The Ocean, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria 2014 A New Ukrainian Dream, Forbes Ukraine and Mystetskyi Arsenal Art Project Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 SCOPE Art Fair Miami Beach, HudPromo Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2013 London Art Fair 2013, London, Great Britain 2013 Contemporary Ukrainian Artists, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain 2012 The Ukrainian Baroque Myth, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2012 Perspective, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 20 years of presence, Modern Art Research Institute of NAAU, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 SCOPE International Contemporary Art Show, New York, USA 2011 Interpretation of Memories, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA 2010 Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2010, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Khudfond, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia 2009 Art-Kyiv Сontemporary 2009, The Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Ukrainian Art Today, Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Reflection, PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Natsprom (in collaboration with M. Matsenko), M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2001 The First Ukrainian Project, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2000 Intervals, National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine — Henie-Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway 1999 Preventive Measures, Passage de Retz gallery, Paris, France 1998 Accommodation, the Jesuit Gallery, Poznan, Poland 1998 Per Gynt, National Art Gallery, Tronheim, Norway 1996 Interphoto, International Photo Biennale, Moscow, Russia 1994 The 22-nd Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Brazil 1991 Wanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1990 The End of the Century, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 1990 Art in an Empty House, National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1990 In der USSR en Erbuiten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1989 The Furmanny Lane, Petr Novitsky Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 1989 Eidos, The Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia 1989 Three Generations of the Post-Stalin Avantgarde, New Beginning Festival, Glasgow, Scotland 1988 Soviart, The First Soviet-American Exhibition, Kyiv, Ukraine 1987 Kyiv-Tallinn, Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine Collections Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Norton Dodge collection, USA; Museum of Moscow history, Moscow; Ministry of Culture of Turkey, Ankara; Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland; Gradobank collection, Kyiv; Ukrsocbank collection, Kyiv;Va-bank collection, Kyiv; Alpha Capital collection, Kyiv; private collections in Switzerland, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ukraine and Russia 102

Harvest canvas, acrylic, 200Ń…200 cm / 2013 103

Food canvas, acrylic, 100х100 cm / 2015 104

Scrambled eggs canvas, acrylic, 100Ń…100 cm / 2015 105

Ruslan Tremba Bborn in 1980 Ruslan lives and works in Uzhgorod, Ukraine Education Uzhgorod College of Arts named after Albert Erdeli, 1999 Lviv Academy of Arts, 2005

Selected Exhibitions 2015 Seedlings Project, Stuttgart, Germany 2015 Plakhta Project, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 Biro Project, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Biro Project, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod.

2014 Sense of Reality, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Velykyj Pereviz, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2014 Velykyj Pereviz, residence, Ukraine 2013 Insomnia project, ILKO Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2013 Velykyj Pereviz, residence, Ukraine 2013 Ukrainian Slice, Lublin, Poland 2013 Miniatures and Nocturnes, Korydor Gallery, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2012 Doctors Esmarch’s Prescriptions, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2012 Vaccination, Dutem pule Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2011 J Project, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2011 Waiting for the Last Supper, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2010 Minimum-Maximum, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2010 ABSTRACT VISION TEST, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 Third International Graphical Triennial, Belarus 2010 I Love Ukraine, I Love Kyiv Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine 2010 In Strange Body, Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 I’m not Afraid, GogolFest, Kyiv, Ukraine 2009 Lord’s Supper, Museum of Religion, Lviv, Ukraine 2009 Eucharist, St. Clement, Lviv, Ukraine 2009 Conservation, Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine 2008 Trophy of Depresion, Tsekh Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2002 Venice Triennial of Glassworks, Venice, Italy 106

My mountain valley from the series “The Carpathian Gold” diptych, wood, oil, 125х80 cm / 2015 107

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He. She diptych, canvas, acrylic, 194х142 cm / 2015 109

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Lina Condes Born in 1988, Cherkassy, Ukraine Lina works and lives in Kyiv, Ukraine Education Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

Exhibitions 2016 solo exhibition at the Museum of Kyiv History, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 solo exhibition in the gallery «KStudion», Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 participation in a charity auction with the work “Mother’s Heart” in Las Vegas as part of Miss Universe, Las Vegas, USA 2015 Project “Emotions” within X Art-Kyiv Contemporary exhibition, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Russian art exhibition Yuri’s night (with video art work “Pulsation”) 2015 9TH MAGMART FILM FESTIVAL (with video art work “Pulsation”), Naples, Italy 2015 Art video “Heart Cry!” included into the display list at the Berlin Film Festival of fashion video (Shortlisted in BFFF2015), Berlin, Germany 2013 international exhibition, Bulgaria 2010 international exhibition, Berlin, Germany Awards 2015, prize winner at the 9TH MAGMART FILM FESTIVAL, Naples, Italy 2013, 3d place with the painting «Mes soixante-dix premieres» at the international exhibition, Bulgaria 2010, 1st prize on Week of Ukrainian Art in Kyiv, Ukraine 112

Special Project Self-knowledge 113

In about 1930s during his trip to Paris Francis Bacon saw a book about the mouth cavity deseases - and ever since those times the pharynx as an organ personifying and substituting a human, his pains and pleasures at the same time, has hypnotised his forever... Mouth in the history of modern art has been playing a role by no means the least important - it is an undisputable sexual fetish and an existentual symbol at a time. One may have a short guided tour of “mouthmania” from symbolists, Moonk’s “Yell” via flared out bottomless jaws of Picasso, portrait of May West by Dali up to pop-art in classical - Wesselman, Rosenquist - and neo-version. Here we see soft red silicon everywhere - it embodies total sexualisation of pop culture and dispersing of lust, selling it in consumer society - in direct and indirect sense. Advertising -by whose guileless strategies of deception pop-art is aspired - indeed offers us possessing not products, but desires, fantasms...

Rapacious, bleeding with red lipstick and saliva pop-art feminine ‘Mouths’ in Lina Kondes’ works are capable of produsing an impression on anybody - that’s a bit of a fantasms generator. Having seen it once you can hardly forget it - the artist frankly provokes the viewer. Scarlet lip stick is the most sexual of all cosmetic inventions, and it influences equally irresistably both - bulls and men. It is one of the brightest signs of sex and seduction. There also exist in Kondes ‘ works gothic, black lips - those are for seekers of thrills. The artist allows herelf irony and mockery at this means of manipulating the stronger sex - crossing the line of “too much” - too much of agressive

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colour, too much of passion. An undisputable object of men’s desires is “separated” from a woman and becomes a certain, functioning independently ,lustful organism, , associated with the main hero of the film “Alien” - due to the amount of slime. It is by no means a secret, that from the psychological point of view mouth and lips are a substitute of female genital organs. It’s just that it’s not appropriate to speak out loud about it. Hence this odd сraving of women to enlarge their volume, enlarging by this one’s own “price”. The artist is determined to speak about these odd stereotypes of consumering sex and sexual consumering ironically and absolutely without any offence meant. In her bronze sculpture between woman’s legs one can see a widely opened mouth... In Kondes’ works there is quite a lot of mockery over the things men consider of prime importance for themselves - functioning of their genitalia and conneced with that power over women. A mouth between legs is an adequate answer to men’s sexism, which is , by the way, also an instrument of power and domineering. On Kondes’s canvases we may see, on the background of scarlet lips, striving to devour somebody, we see fussily copulating little men, reminding us of Keith Hurring’s pictograms or funny sex- itstructions from the toilet design. Return to the pictographic language of the primitive communal art is by no means accidental. Like scarlet lip stick, it depersonalises a person, makes it part of a crowd, of a general mass of consumers of pop-art, living exclusively by basic instincts.

So the circle closes up, scarlet lips find their “ particular audience”.

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Zinaїda Lihacheva Bborn in 1975, Kyiv, Ukraine Education National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Theory and History of Art), 2012-Present National University of Taras Shevchenko (Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology), 2007-2009 National University of Trade and Economics (BA in Banking), 1993-2002

As part of the framework of the Women’s Art Project Zinaïda Lihacheva presents a video work, which carries radical research the taboo theme of feminine frailty and dependence.

Using a video-portrait allows the artist to talk about issues such as addiction and self-destruction. Thanks to the versatility of the medium, the viewers attention focuses on the untold story of women’s drug use and despair.

The work was developed from looking into survey data, according to which about 10 000 women took drugs in Kiev in 2012. At present out of the 1 500 0000 drug addicts in Ukraine, every fifth is a woman (95% under the age of 16-30).

The artist turns to the reasons that push women to use narcotic substances and the consequences of this. As a result they may be capable of a multitude of actions and deeds that lead to destruction, hopelessness and despair. These experiences, as well as the underlying causes, the artist leaves unsaid, thus creating a silent portrait that appeals to the viewer’s face.

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