[spectre] ANN: On Art and Resistance in Ukraine (Hamburg/online, 2 Nov 22-19 Jan 23)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Natalya Stupka
Date: Oct 29, 2022
Subject: ANN: On Art and Resistance in Ukraine (Hamburg/online, 2 Nov 
22-19 Jan 23)

Hamburg/online, Nov 2, 2022–Jan 19, 2023

On Art and Resistance in Ukraine

Organised by Natalya Stupka and Denis Uhreniuk, Hamburg / Lviv / Kyiv, 
students of Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg.

In order to counter and to question the increasing fatigue and apathy 
which can be observed in Germany and Western Europe concerning the topic 
of the Russian war in Ukraine we invited Ukrainian artists, curators, 
and art historians to share their knowledge and work. All in all, three 
events will center around topics such as the role of moving images in 
times of war, recent developments in Ukrainian contemporary art, and 
decolonial approaches to this field.

We hope to enable a dialog about these pressing topics at Universität 
Hamburg. Since epistemic violence is one of the mechanisms of 
imperialist and colonial power and warfare, true solidarity and 
resistance require attentive listening to the oppressed and continuous 
support in their attempts in regaining their own subjectivity.

Therefore, the events we have organised are an attempt in collective 
action to reflect on the blind spots and myths that can be found in 
Western contexts regarding contemporary Ukrainian art as well as art 
historiography – past and present – in the face of the Russian 
full-scale invasion.

Contact for Universität Hamburg: Petra Lange-Berndt, Department of 
History of Art, and Anja Tippner, Institute of Slavic Studies

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Date: 02. 11. 2022
Time: 7pm
Location: Room 120, ESA West, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg (Q&A 
with the director will be available also on Zoom: 
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/65358557634?pwd=cFRjRjZwWmJRdG8yV0o1Y1dwWGFTdz09)

Iryna Tsilyk, Kyiv
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Ukraine 2020, 74 minutes
Film screening followed by Q&A with the director

Moderated by Mariia Vorotilina, Kampnagel Hamburg

In the multiple award-winning Sundance Film Festival movie The Earth Is 
Blue as an Orange an Ukrainian family documents their life under siege, 
and a professional filmmaker is following along.

Iryna Tsilyk, a writer and filmmaker from Kyiv, Ukraine, has directed 
several short fiction and documentary films. For her debut multiple 
award-winning full-length documentary The Earth Is Blue As an Orange she 
received among other things the Directing Award: World Cinema 
Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2020. Rock. Paper. Grenade, 
her first full-length fiction movie will be premiered this autumn at the 
Warsaw film festival. Iryna is a member of the artistic team of the 
Invisible Battalion, a global advocacy project dedicated to researching 
and documenting the participation of Ukrainian women in the war against 
the Russian army.

Mariia Vorotilina, Kyiv, Ukraine / Hamburg, Germany, studied social 
sciences at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since October 2018 she has been part of 
the communication team at Kampnagel Hamburg and has been curating the 
:::VOICES:::Ukraine programme, a project of Alliance of International 
Production Houses.

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Date: 15. 12. 2022
Time: 7pm
Location: Room 120, ESA West, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg and 
on Zoom, 
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/67349544692?pwd=SEdnWFVMUXhlZG5ISm1ZeW55RXJpQT09

Vasyl Cherepanyn, Kyiv
Revolution at War: Art and Politics in Ukraine
Lecture followed by discussion
Moderated by Mariia Vorotilina, Kampnagel Hamburg

Vasyl Cherepanyn will analyse the cultural and political processes in 
Ukraine since the Maidan revolution in 2014 until Russia’s ongoing 
full-scale invasion of the country. The talk focuses on the functioning 
of art institutions under conditions of war and occupation and 
investigates the realm of memory politics and culture of remembrance in 
Europe’s East in light of the experiences of imperialism, 
authoritarianism and the processes of decolonisation.

Vasyl Cherepanyn is Head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), 
an institution he co-founded in Kyiv in 2008 as a platform for 
collaboration among academic, artistic, and activist communities. He 
holds a PhD in philosophy (aesthetics) and has lectured at the National 
University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, European University Viadrina in 
Frankfurt (Oder), University of Helsinki, Free University of Berlin, 
Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, University of Vienna, Institute for Advanced 
Studies of the Political Critique in Warsaw, and University of 
Greifswald. He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences 
in Vienna in 2016. He coedited Guidebook of the Kyiv International 
(Medusa Books, 2018), ‘68 NOW (Archive Books, 2019), and curated The 
European International (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 
2018), Hybrid Peace (Stroom, The Hague, 2019), and Armed Democracy (2nd 
edition of Biennale Warszawa, 2022), among others. VCRC has been the 
organizer of the Kyiv Biennial (The School of Kyiv, 2015; The Kyiv 
International, 2017; The Kyiv International—‘68 NOW, 2018; Black Cloud, 
2019; Allied, 2021) and a founding member of the East Europe Biennial 
Alliance. VCRC received the European Cultural Foundation Princess 
Margriet Award for Culture in 2015 and the Igor Zabel Award Grant for 
Culture and Theory in 2018.

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Date: 19. 01. 2023
Time: 7pm
Location: Room 120, ESA West, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg and 
on Zoom, 
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/69309594599?pwd=QUhhWkpIZDBaeHB3VXp5Sm1HZjY5dz09

Two lectures followed by discussion
Moderated by Mariia Vorotilina, Kampnagel Hamburg

Kateryna Botanova, Basel & Kyiv
Two-Fold Decolonial War in Ukraine: Images of Emancipation and Resistance

Through looking at the origins of the decolonial discourse and its use 
in South America and Africa, I want to argue its applicability to 
Ukrainian (and in a wider context, Eastern European) context. I suggest 
analysing the knowledge- and image-generating power relations between 
Ukraine and Russia, as well as Ukraine and ‚the Global West‘, in order 
to see Ukrainian resistance from 2014 on as an emancipatory struggle for 
owning one’s agency, voice, and identity. In the course of this lecture, 
I will trace the changes in artistic attitudes and approaches after 
Maidan and their role in the current stage of the war.

Svetlana Biedarieva, London & Kyiv
Ukraine’s New Art in a Time of War: Dismantling the Colonial Narrative

The presentation focuses on how Ukrainian artists challenge and 
dismantle longstanding Russian colonial narratives in their art produced 
after the beginning of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. It 
examines how artists work with contested historical memory, dispute 
Ukraine’s belonging to the post-Soviet space, and address the ongoing 
trauma through both decolonial perspective and anti-colonial resistance. 
The presentation also discusses the role of art activism and the place 
of politically and socially engaged practices in the particular 
decolonial turn that follows the outbreak of violence brought about by 
the full-scale invasion. It proposes a classification of colonial 
narratives in the particular case of Ukraine, in order to create a 
typology of methods and practices of resistance employed by the artists 
in their works.

Kateryna Botanova is a Basel-based cultural critic, curator, and writer 
from Kyiv, Ukraine. Her main focus is on culture as an agent of social 
change. Since 2015, Kateryna is a co-curator of the multidisciplinary 
cultural festival CULTURESCAPES (Basel, Switzerland) and an editor of 
festival anthologies. She was a director of the Center for Contemporary 
Art (SCM) in Kyiv and an editor-in-chief of a cultural online magazine 
KORYDOR. Since 2014, she writes and lectures extensively on decolonial 
and emancipatory discourse in the visual arts and cultural field in Ukraine.

Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian, curator, and artist. Her 
current main research focus is contemporary Ukrainian art, 
decoloniality, and ongoing Russia’s war on Ukraine. She also works with 
selected topics of Eastern European and Latin American art. In 
2019–2020, she curated the exhibition At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 
2013–2019 in Mexico and Canada. She is the editor of Contemporary 
Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021 
(Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Hanna Deikun) of At 
the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 (Mexico City: Editorial 17, 
2020). She has published critical texts on Ukrainian art in such 
academic and media outlets as October, ArtMargins Online, post at MoMA, 
Revue Critique d’Art, Financial Times, Hyperallergic, and The Art 
Newspaper, among others. In 2022, she was selected as the CEC ArtsLink 
International Fellow (hosted by the University of Kansas) and the 
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian 
Studies at the George Washington University. She holds a PhD in History 
of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

All events will take place in English.

This series of events is supported by Liebelt-Stiftung, Hamburg.

Contact: Natalya Stupka, stupka.natalya at gmail.com und Denis Uhreniuk, 
denis.uhreniuk at web.de


Reference / Quellennachweis:
ANN: On Art and Resistance in Ukraine (Hamburg/online, 2 Nov 22-19 Jan 
23). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 29, 2022. <https://arthist.net/archive/37804>.