Support campaign for Ukrainian artists in residence at atelierWG in Amsterdam
Event held at puntWG, September 2022.
Since spring 2022, a group of artists from atelierWG, the largest studio community in the Netherlands, have been working on creating a support campaign for their Ukrainian colleagues.
Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual artist and photojournalist. Before the war, she had a small photo studio in Kyiv. Her most recent and ongoing project “My Mom Wants to Go Home”, about the experience of fleeing Ukraine, has been shown in the media and in exhibitions across Europe. Hanna wants to use her residency to reflect further on what it means to be a refugee and document her experiences.
Anna Kakhiani (1991) is a visual artist and curator who worked from Kyiv until the war. Her video, text, and performance works often touch on themes such as psychology, memory and the experience of public spaces and others. During her residency, Anna wants to work with the memories associated with objects and places that she (and other refugees) had to leave behind.
The Mondriaan Fund contributed to the basic costs of the residency. ART FOR UA was organized to provide further support for livelihoods, productions and performances.
More than 40 artists from atelierWG have contributed to a Solidarity Art Sale. Works by Servet Kocyigit, Kristina Benjoki, Sarah Mei Herman, Tao Sambolec, Typex Koot, and Marieke Zwart, among others, are available; Artist books (signed) by, among others, Rineke Dijkstra, Antoinette Nausikaa and PolakVanBenthem.
Various activities were carried out with the invited artists, including the HECHO EN VENEZUELA video festival, the PERPETUAL BIKE CRASH concert, and the performative reading by Yuliia Elyas Petryshena.
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