Kharkiv (Ukraine)
National Karazin University
Municipal Art Gallery
Today, it is 18 March 2011 . It’s the 2nd day Wilfried is in Kharkiv (Ukraine). He arrived already on 16 March coming from Kiew. He will continue the event – CologneOFF 2011 Ukraine – in the million city Kharkiv – located close to the Russian border. In Soviet times, Charkov belonged to the most important Russian industrial areas of the national steel industry. 
Nowadays, Kharkiv is the Ukrainian hotspot for higher education hosting more than 40 universities. After the political change, in Kharkiv established the first municipal art gallery for contemporary art, and so Wilfried is collaborating the biggest university, National V.N Karazin University and
The new spirit Wilfried is carrying is less his focus on art and moving images, it is his idea to present a diversity of different artistic and curatorial concepts and the change of perceiving art through the activation of the audience. Of course, this is in first place an intellectual challenge, because Wilfried is presenting a wide range of different curatorial points of view, signalizing that differently than in totalitarian structures there is not that one curator manipulating the audience by dictating the world what art is, but there are many curators and the audience is encouraged to make its opinion by comparing, by becoming this way the actual curator. It is that kind of emancipation of art and audience through its activation which already the “art professionals” Wilfried was meeting in Kiev did not understand, the ladies of the Media Art Lab and Center for Contemporary Art growing up studying art history in Soviet Russia had completely antiquated ideas about art, for them the democratization in dealing with culture was a mere provocation, how will it be in Kharkiv?
Wilfried is staying in a nice hotel close to the Municipal Art Gallery. One of the curators, Yaroslava is caring for Wilfried as the guest from Germany. 
She is joining him in the breakfast room, where they talk about the schedule of the day. She is reporting about the good feedback she got from the opening on the evening before, and that the screening will start today on 18 March at 1 p.m. without Wilfried, because there are much more important appointments – at 11 a.m. the
– a local institution related to public relations of the municipality and the university – later on 3.p.m. a presentation and round table is scheduled at Media Communication Department of the National Karazin University and at 7 p.m. there will be another talk at the Municipal Art Gallery later at 18h.
At the university, Wilfried is welcomed by the head of the department, Lidia Starodubtseva, she is showing him the different rooms for presentation and round table and she and Wilfried will have some nice inspiring talks. Wilfried seems to be a strange person, his status is not completely clear, he is something between an academic, and institutional leader and an artist or combining all in one person? He is addressed as a professor, nobody wants to make anything wrong, but at the same time people is fascinated, that he obvious has no academic affiliation, but is presenting himself as an independent cultural instance, a festival and museum director and what else, yet. But the most important seems to be the selection of art videos he is presenting, because it is a demonstration of Wilfried’s specific kind of curatorship – activating the audience through diversity. 
Later the talks with students are about that topic, even if the selection of nine videos is allowing only a marginal insight in the subject matter, all agree that the most relevant issue cannot be discussed within one hour, in Kiev, yet, the people tried to the impossible – packing fundamental issues of dealing with new forms in art in a really contemporary way in 2 hours, a topic for a whole university study of many years.
Later, in the evening when Yaroslava and Wilfried are arriving at the Municipal Art Gallery, the screening programs are still running, and some visitors are fascinated about the variety of the programs, there are several computers running the screening programs from DVD and a major projection. Wilfried comes obviously right in time, because he is involved in some discussions which again are about his new concept which find many visitors quite confusing, and Wilfried and even more Yaroslava as the gallery curator become aware, that is not sufficient to make just once an introduction into the new concept of presenting art & moving images. 
The audience has to become aware, that video isn’t video, that the moving images of the art works have a completely different meaning than the film and videos people are consuming day and night in television, Internet and cinema or advertising or even that kind of videoart as it is know since decades, already, the visitor/viewer of such a video show thinks he knows already everything, so there is no need to watch the moving images, at all, and those people who do start to understand only slowly that differently that in a usual film where the single frame in the sequence of countless frames loses it relevance completely, it is the single frame of the art video regaining its meaning.
Wilfried is thinking, how important such discussions for a better understanding of new art forms are, and he doubts actually, that such an event like in Kharkiv or earlier in Kiev lasting no more than two days, is making any sense, at all, because it has no sustainable effect on the perception of people, in general, and in particular the few people who come along and see the show more or less by chance. But these are the rules.
CologneOFF 2011 Ukraine – is realized in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Kiev, Media Art Lab Kiev, CCA Kiev, the Nuremberg House Kharkiv, the Municipal Art Gallery Kharkiv, the National V.N. Karazin University Kharkiv
Kiev – Kharkiv – 14-20 March 2011
As a nomadic festival project running 12 months, CologneOFF 2011 is focussing on experimental aspects of the „global“ art medium “video” (experimental film and videoart) by spotlighting the diversity of artistic and curatorial contributions from many countries around the globe. Every month of 2011 is dedicated to other geographical global regions, among them , Africa, Northern Europe, Mediterrenian, Eastern Europe, Balkan, UK-Ireland, Latin America, Germany-Austria, France-Spain-Portugal, Middle East, Far East
This ambitious media art project is using CologneOFF VI – the 6th festival edition- as its fundament – including for the first time an international jury consisting of the curators from 7 internationally reknown festivals.
Margarida Paiva ( director Oslo Screen Festival), Gioula Papadopoulou (curator Videoart Festival Miden Greece), Macu Moran (director Videoart World Barcelona), Giorgio Fedeli (curator VisualContainer Milan), Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson (art:screen Orebro), Mohamed Allam (director Medrar Video Festival Cairo /Egypt), Tamas Gabeli (director Budapest International Shortfilm Festival Hungary) – as well a basic screening program to be extended and complemented by curatorial contributions of videoart, presenting and reflecting not only various views on the art medium itself, but also on the selected artists and art works intending to confront the audience a variety of artistic and curatorial approaches. The filters of 12 additional thematic projects complement the concept of presenting diversity.
While CologneOFF 2011 is present 24 hours a day on the net from 1 January 2011 on, each month physical events are scheduled at other around the globe in form of screenings, presentations and exhibitions to be complemented by lectures and workshops.
The presentation of CologneOFF 2011 Ukraine (Kiev and Kharkiv) is containing more than 18 hours screening, whereby in Kharkiv 194 videos will be presented within 13 hours programming, while 72 videos will be presented in Kiev. This will not only demonstrate the power of the presented video works, but also the power of presenting the diversity of video as an art medium practiced as a global art language.
Center for Media Communication @ National V.A. Karazin University Kharkiv – 18 March 2011
National Karazin University
Lidia Starodubtseva & Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
The Prophet
round table at Mediatopos
Lidia Starodubtseva & Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
CologneOFF2011 – Ukraine
17-18-19 March – Kharkiv
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Locations:
City Art Gallery Kharkiv
Media Communication Department National University of Kharkiv
CologneOFF2011 Ukraine – PDF catalogue
Municipal Art Gallery
17 March
17h Opening with lecture by Agricola de Cologne
and a special screening CologneOFF VI – Corporate II
Dellani Lima – Joacélio Batista (Brazil) – Bolivia, I miss you, 2009, 7:00
Confusion Group (Spain) – Sorry to bother you, 2008, 6´06″
Neringa Naujokaite (Lithuania) – “Horizont”, 2010, 8:53 min.
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:1
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
Marianne & Daniel O’Reilly (UK) – capital’, 2008, 7min
Denise Hood (USA) – Disconnect – 2009, 3:47
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Diachronicon – 2010, 1:00
Jack Brandtman (Australia) – Nightlife, 2010, 1:00
Doug Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42
Richard Bolland (South Africa) – I Dream Manenberg, 2010, 15 Minutes
18 March 2011
11h –
15h Workshop/Round table at Media Communication Department National University of Kharkiv
Municipal Art Gallery
18 March 13-19h screenings
13h-14h Videoart from Eastern Europe (1)
Beyond All Borders – videoart from Ukraine curated by Yarina Butkovska
Borys Pasichniy and Julia Pavlovska – Milk: 3:51, 2007
Oleg Ushchenko – Genius: 1:25, 2006
Olexiy Khoroshko – The Aim Of The Game: 4:20, 2007
Oksana Chepelyk – Shifting Time: 6:00, 2004……
Yuriy Kruchak – Showcase: 2:49, 2006
MaxFlood – Let’s walk More: 1:49, 2007
S. Oleshko & M. Barbara – Stas Perfetsky is returning to Ukraine: 7:51, 2005
Viacheslav Poliakov – Indoor-outdoor, 3:51, 2007
Between the one and the other end – videos from Russia
Mikhail Zheleznikov – Together – Vmeste, 2010, 4′23
Kira Zhigalina -Blank or Attempts to Draw at Nothingness, 2008, 6:00
Shota Gamisonia – Field, Clowns, Apple, 2008, 15:00
14h-15h – The Female Eye (1)
Contextual Face curated by Evelin Stermitz
1. Duba Sambolec (Slovenia) – NoHomeVideos© CODE II – 2000, 01:32 Min.
2. Michelle Handelman (USA) – I hate You, 2002, 02:48 Min.
3. Evelin Stermitz (Austria) – Portrait of Carmen Lipush, 2010, 02:06
4. Ana Grobler (Slovenia) – Migraine, 2007, 05:23 Min.
5. Liana Zanfrisco (Italy) – Like Me, 2009, 01:30 Min.
6. Kika Nicolela (Brazil) – Ecstasy Poem, 2006, 02:46 Min.
7. Vesna Bukovec (Slovenia) – Endless Game, 2006, 01:32 Min.
8. Alison Williams (South Africa) – Sit Stay, 2008, 03:20 Min.
9. Angelika Rinnhofer (Germany) – traumraum revised:insomnia, 2009, 04:41 Min.
10. Grace Graupe Pillard (USA) – What I Worry About????, 2007, 02:57 Min.
11. Dominique Buchtala (Germany) – Collecting, 2006, 04:00 Min.
12. Evelin Stermitz (Austria) – Rose is a Rose, 2008, 03:52 Min.
Women Director Cut 10:10:10 curated by Agricola de Cologne
02. Larissa Sansour (Palestine) – Bethlehem Bandolero 3:40, 2004
03. Unnur A. Einarsdottir (Iceland) – Music in Cake 3:00, 2004
04. Ina Loitzl (Austria) – Snow-white and red like a rose 5:00, 2005
05. Letitia El Halli Obeid (Argentina) – Headphones 2:33, 2001
06. Margarida Paiva (Portugal) – Habit, 5:50, 2005
07. Sonja VUK (Croatia) – My Way 1:00, 2006
08. Clare Ultimo (USA) – Inner Dialogue 3:36, 2004
09. Nancy Atakan (Turkey) – The Wall by 1:40, 2005
10. Isabelle Schneider (France) – The Body of War II, 2007, 4:00
15h-16h – Adventures from the Baltic Sea (1)
Videoart from Sweden curated by Jonas Nilsson& Eva Olsson
1. Dan Lestander – Dreams and Wishes, 2009, 4:19 min.
2. Elin Bruun-Nystedt – Frasse and I, 2009, 2:05 min.
3. Evelina Gustavsson – Mor & dotter (Mother & daughter), 2004, 2:42 min.
4. Sara Lundberg – CORDS (hear us and have mercy), 2008, 3:14 min.
5. Eva Olsson – The Labyrinth, 2009, 3:41 min.
6. Björn Perborg – The Trip To America, 2008-2009, 2:14 min.
7. Nina Lassila – Woman with knife, 2009, 1:49 min.
8. Dana Sederowsky – Special announcements edition four, 2009, 1:35 min.
9. Jonas Nilsson – The choice, 2009, 2:15 min.
10.Antti Savela – My Way, 2010, 4:50 min.
Videoart from Middle East (1)
”Behind Words” – videoart from Syria– curated by Abir Boukhari
01. Adnan Jatto – I am Twelve, 2010, 1:30
02. Fadi Hamwi – Artificial, 2010, 2.11
03. Hazem Hamwi – Cold Breathe, 2010, 4.21
04. Hiba Aizouk – Corners, 2010, 4.19
05. Giwan Khalaf – Female, 2010, 1.29 min
06. Maha Shahine – 2010, Frame, 2010, 0.59
07. Nisrine Boukhari – Accident, 2010, 2.42
08. Razan Mohsen – Paralization, 2010, 1.24
09. Raed Zeino – He & She, 2010, 2:00
10. Ruba Khweis -Stereotype, 2010, 00.59
16h-17h – Videoart from Germany
Feature of the Month March 2011 – Johanna Reich –
1. Blast, HD, PAL, 1`00, 2008
2. Kassandra, HD, PAL, 4`00, 2008
3. Black hole, DV, PAL, 6`00, 2009
4. Front, DV, PAL, 2:18, 2006
5. BlueRed, DV, PAL, 3`00, 2008
6. A State of Crystal, HD, Pal, 3’19, 2010,
7. Notes, HD, PAL, 4’25, 2010
Enigmatic– videoart from Germany (CologneOFF)
Alfred Banze – Exotica, 6:34, 2010
Boris Eldagsen – The Show Must Go On, 11:28, 2006
Philip Matousek – A Beautiful Day, 3:12, 2009
Ebert Brothers – “Bluescape” 2006, 2:54
Ascan Breuer-The Kurukshetra-Report, 8:00, 2009
17h-18 Videoart from Asia (1)
Far West/Far East – Videoart from East Asia
Yu Cheng Yu (Taiwan) – Switch, 2008, 3:30
Liu Wei (China) – Is Fighting Our Machine” 2003, 4:10
Nhieu Do (Vietnam) – Testimony”, 2008, 7:12
Ling-Yin Chen (Taiwan) – Trace” 2007, 5:36
Lili & Honglei (China) – Forbidden City, 2007, 4:15
Aiko Okamoto (Japan) – Silk (Teardrops-salt) – , 2009, 2:48
Bijing Zhang (China) – In the Field, 2009, 3:15
Sreedeep (India) – 1 minute crash-course on SEDUCTION, 1:00, 2009
Yoko Taketani (Japan) – Wall of China, 1:00, 2009
Yoko Fukushima (Japan) – “Hitchhiker”, 2007, 2:03
Greetings from Laos
Videos by Vientianale – Vientiane International Film Festival /Laos
1. Katrin Theurer (Laos) – WHY LAO PEOPLE SMILE SO MUCH?, 2009, 10:00
2. National Institute of Fine Arts (Laos) – HOT COFFEE, 2009, 4:00
3. Bhountanong Xomxaphol (Laos) – YES, I AM, 10:00. 2008
4. Santhavy Phomvixay (Laos) – MY RIVER, 8:00., 2009
18h-19h – Digital video
Digitalis – aspects of digital video
Gerald Habarth (USA) –Pilot/Gamer, 12:00, 2007
Rami Fischler (Australia) – Changing Man, 2:58, 2006
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed, 2:42, 2005
Mihai Grecu (Romania) – Coagulate, 5:56, 2008
Alfonso Rodrigo (Spain) – Fashion Death, 4:51, 2008
Les Riches Douaniers (France) – 8:43, 2009
Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) – The Care Bears – 2010, 3:00
Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Ireland) – Why Do You Have a Beard? – 2010, 6:02
Roland Quelven (France) – La Chambre de May D., 1:33, 2010
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010
Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) – Smoked, 3:20, 2006
Sheldon Brown (USA) – Scalable City, 5.03, 2009
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Dark Fortress Occult Master of Space: Genesis Genesis, 2009, 3:00
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Urban.early sunday morning raw, 4:50, 2007
Laurent Pernot (France) – Still Alives, 2:33, 2006
19 March 2011
13-19h screenings
13h-14h Videoart from Latin America (1)
Lines, colours & emotions – videoart from Latin America – curated by VideoChannel Cologne
Marita Contreras (Peru) -Via Crucis, 2008, 4:00
Luis Ascanio (Venezuela) – Second station, 2008, 2´31´´
Julio Orta Villarreal (Mexico) – Elena in the Prison of Herself, 2006, 6:58
Nuria Fragoso (Mexico) – Anomia, 2008, 4:50
Carlos Ruiz-Valarino (Puerto Rico) – Hosts / Guests, 2004, 7:50
Christian Bermudez ( Costa Rica) – Dear Neigbour, 2006, 7:00
Juan David Gonzalez Monroy (Colombia) – Title: How To Catch A Mole, 2009, 9:00
Alejandra Villasmil (Ecuador) – Fanesca, 2010, 1:00
Henrique Roscoe (Brazil) – Love Rules, 2007, 1:16
Silvia Cacciatori Filloy (Uruguay) – Prostituto, ta., 2005, 4:40
i2off.org+r3nder.net (Argentina) – Siembra: Videocode03 (2006, 4:09)
14h-15h – Videoart from Latin America
Argentinian Dreamers curated by Silvio de Gracia (Argentina)
1. Gustavo Galuppo – Progression of disasters, 2005, 8’ 57”
2. Marcela Rivera – I think my eyes should have wings, 2007, 3’ 8”
3. Gabriela Alonso – Leche (Milk), 2006, 3’ 43”
4. La Nariz en la Taza, Transformaciones , 2006, 5’ 59”
5. Ricardo Rojstaczer – Southward Bound, 2005, 3’ 35” 6.
Silvio De Gracia – Via Crisis, 2007, 2’ 49”
Right Now – videoart from Chile curated by Nicole Rademacher (Chile)
1. ERROR VIDEOS Esteban Cabezas & Joaquín Fernández – TERRORvideos 2 / 2009 / 1.54
2. Rafael Guendelman – Las Palomas, 2010, 1:08
3. TERROR – download error, 2009, 01,35
4. Constanza Gazmuri – En tránsito., 4 min 32 seg ., 2009
5. Macarena Molina – Dollar, 2009, 1:00
6. Bernardita Bennett – La hora del te, 2009,, 1 minute, 31 seconds
7. Luis Hermosilla – Robbery Without Violence /2010 /4m04s /
8. Francisco Schultz – e potestate maleficarum, 2010, 03, 43
15h-16h Videoart from Africa
Still Fighting – videoart from Central Africa curated by Kisito Assangni
2. Saliou TRAORE (Burkina Faso) – Traffic Mum / 2009 / 10′33″
3. Douts NDOYE (Senegal) – Train Train Medina / 2007 / 5′17″
4. Kokou EKOUAGOU (Togo) – Time / 2010 / 2′00
5. Michele MAGEMA (D.Congo) – Interiority-Fresco IV / 2010 / 2′31″
6. Guy WOUETE (Cameroon)-Le dilemme divin / 2009 / 5′31″
City Breath – videoart from South Africa curated by Kai Lossgott
1. Circles, 01:54, 2009 by Terry Westby-Nunn
2. I walk the street with loose parts, 04′00”, 2008 by Ryan Kruger
3. Between, 2′51, 2009 by Colleen Alborough/Johannesburg
4. Fragmented, 4′53”, 2009 by Khanyisile Mbongwa
5. (Un)veiling, 2′51, 2009 by Mandilakhe Yengo
6. waitless, 4′40”, 2009 by Ananda Fuchs
7. The Electrician, 2′5”, 2009 by Terry Westby-Nunn
8 Player 1.1, 4′00”, 2008 by Mark Wilby/Port Elizabeth
9. TV Programs 001: Powerlines /03′10”, 2007 by Nileru
16h-17h – Videoart from USA (1)
Artist of the Month Feb 2011 – Henry Gwiazda (USA)
2. Something/the/you – 4′58″ (2009)
3. About/being/history – 7′34″ (2009)
4. Infectious – 2′03″ (2009)
5. From nothing – an idea – 1′43″ (2009)
6. The smallest changes – 2′03″ (2009)
Horror Vacui? – What’s Happening Next? – videoart from USA
Bill Domonkos – Berenice, 2008, 4:31
David Jakubovic – “JOINED AT THE HEAD”, (2008, 4:40, USA)
Arthur Reynolds – “Three Minute Lease On Life” by (2006, 3:38, USA)
Jay Needham – “Opened”, 2006/2007, 5:00
Erika Yeomans – BOO!, 2008, 4:00
Heidi Kumao – Hole in the Floor, 2008, 7:00
17h-18h CologneOFF 2011 invites… –
Less-Time-Less curated by Gioula Papadopoulou & Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (VideoArt Festival Miden Kalamata/Greece)
1. Ioanna Myrka (Greece) -Frustration, 2006, 1.55
2. Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (Greece) – Tiga Nekra,-2009, 4.45
3. Lukas Matejka (Slovakia) – 20m, 2008, 1.00
4. Dimitris Gakis (Greece) – Four Elements Groove, 2009, 3.11
5. Guy Yitzhaki (Israel) – Liquidation, 2009, 3.00
6. Claudio Stellato (Belgium) – The Attic, 2008, 2.40
7. Tilman Kuentzel (Germany) – Dave, 2008, 4.00 8. Alessandro Vitali,(Italy) – Genesis, 2007/08, 8.35
9. Ivar Smedstad, (Norway) – mekanisk ↔ organisk, 2009, 5.06
10. Jean-Gabriel Periot (France) – Nijuman no borei (200 000 Phantoms), 2008, 7.30
11. Nicolas Wiese (Germany) – Luftkreuz Lullaby, 2007/08, 6.50
12. Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece) – Brown study portraits #1: Maria, 2009, 1.35
13. Bryan Lauch & Petra Pokos (Slovenia) – X, OM, 2009, 1.53
14. Makis Faros (Greece) – Lebensweisheitsspielerei (fr Wallace Stevens’ poem), 2009, 3.13
15. Anna Woch (Canada) – Last message from Mr Cogito, 2009, 4.30
18h-19h
Figure it Out ! – performance in videoart
Cynthia Whelan (UK) – Selfportrait, 3:27, 2005
Sinasi Gunes (Turkey) – Anatolia, 2:27, 2007
Boris Sribar (Serbia) – I love you so much I could kill for you, 3:20, 2010
Kisito Assangni (Togo) – Explosion, 2:22, 2009
Roland Wegerer (Austria) – How to Clean a Puddle, 1:48, 2008
Virginie Foloppe (France) – J.F.’s Toolbox” 2004, 5:50
Renata Gaspar & Marcin Dudek (Poland) – Axis, 2010, 3:07 min.
Luc Gut (Switzerland) – Alter Ego, 2008, 2 min
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Silent Cry, 3:05, 2008
Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland) – Toilet, 5:00, 2005
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Cry Me, 2009, 4:34
Valerie Garlick (USA) – Cakesitter, 4:52, 2007
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge, 4:07, 2008
Oksana Shatalova/Alla Girik (Kazakhstan) – Warning: Women!, 3:12, 2005
Ji Hyun Kim (South Korea)–Wo-men, Wo-rld, 3:34, 2004
Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine after Kiev with around 1.5 million inhabitants and with 42 universities and colleges it is the country’s most important science and education center after Kiev. The city is located in the northeast of Ukraine at the mouth of the Kharkiv river in the Lopan and the Lopan in the Udy.
Kharkov Municipal Art Gallery
(partner of CologneOFF 2011 Kharkov – 17-18-19 March 2011
in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Ukraine and Nürnberg House Kharkiv)
Kharkiv Municipal Art Gallery
Kharkov Municipal Art Gallery (MG) is the only one of gallery, which provides contemporary art in Kharkov. It started activities in 1996. Since then the Gallery has organized around 1000 exhibitions, curatorial projects and art actions both at the Gallery area and outside.
Now MG holds the international festival of the youth projects “Non Stop Media” (since 2003), Street Art Fest (since 2008). Main circle of the Gallery authors includes famous artists of Kharkov, leading masters of modern and contemporary Ukrainian art – participants of prestigious national and foreign exhibitions, working in painting, graphics, sculpture, art photography, art design, prints, art-objects, installations, new media and other techniques.
MG is a famous centre of contemporary art in Kharkov, so the exhibition plan of MG is saturated and known for two years forward. The exhibitions change every two weeks. Besides Kharkov artists in plan of 2011 year are artist from the USA, Germany, Norway, another cities of Ukraine. Against a background constant expositions MG spends different art-events. The Long Night of Museums will be in May 15: MG manages this event in Kharkov (since 2009), 8 art institution took part in it in 2010.
MG regulary supports young artists with Non Stop Media Fest. Next fest will be in 2012 Spring and include contemporary art in the various forms.
Amongst dynamic international MG’s exhibition activities we can note the costant collaboration with Sweden and Poland partners. In 2009 MG made 3 social project of Swedish and Ukrainian authors on the Gogolfest in Arsenal (Kiev, Ukraine, catalog). MG works with Sweden not only one time: in 2007 was Ukrainian-Sweden workshop and exhibition project “Urban Structures” in Getteborg and Kharkov. MG made several project in Poznan (Poland) too. There were International Art Project «Bridge. Poznan-Kharkov-Hanover» (2001), “Kharkiv Photography” (2004), exhibition of young Kharkiv photographers (2006), “Non-Stop Art”: exhibition of young Kharkov artists at the frame of program “Ukrainian spring”(2008).
History
General Information about Kharkiv City Art Gallery
Kharkiv City Art Gallery – one of the first galleries in Ukraine with municipal status, founded at the end of 1996. From 1997 it is a member of Association of Art-Galleries of Ukraine.
Gallery popularize the contemporary art and first of all artists works of Kharkov and Ukraine.
Long-term Gallery programs that are turn to realization of this task: «Kharkov – Art», «Masters», «Our Heritage», «Contemporary Foreign Art», «Russian Palette», «From Private and Museum Collections», «New Names», «Experimental Studio», «Youth Branch».
Every 2 weeks we have a new exposition in the Gallery.
Main circle of the Gallery authors includes famous artists of Kharkov, leading masters of modern and contemporary Ukrainian art – participants of prestigious national and foreign exhibitions, working in painting, graphics, sculpture, art photography, art design, prints, art-objects, installations, new media and other techniques.
Among them: the graphic artists – Pavel Makov, Natalia Mironenko (Honoured Ukrainian Artist), Elena Kudinova, Oleg Veklenko (Honoured Ukrainian Artist), painters – Alexey Borisov, Alexander Vlasenko, Victor Gontarov (People’s Ukrainian Artist), Dmitry Danish, Alexey Esyunin, Vitaly Kulikov, Vachagan Norazyan, Andrew Pichahchi, Viktor Sidorenko (People’s Ukrainian Artist), Vitaly Smahtin, Yuriy Shein, Edward Yashin, designers – Vladimir Bondarenko, Yuriy Ryntovt, Sergey Tynynyka, sculptors – Anna Ivanova, Vladimir Kochmar, Alexander Kovalev, Alexander Ridnyi (Honoured Ukrainian Artist), Sergey Sbitnev, photographers – Sergei Bratkov, Vladimir Bysov, Oleg Malevanniy, Eugen Pavlov, Sergey Solonskiy, Alexander Suprun, etc.
For the time of existence the Gallery became a popular center of contemporary art, famous and authoritative beyond the bounds of the Kharkov and Ukraine. Since then the Gallery has organized more than 500 exhibitions, curatorial projects and art actions both at the Gallery area and outside. It also organized set of personal exhibitions and author’s artist projects from Kharkov, Kiev, Donetsk, Odessa, Lvov, Poltava, Simferopol, Moscow, Nalchik, Penza, Arkhangelsk, Yerevan, Tashkent, Vilnius, Warsaw, Vienna, London, Paris, Nuremberg, Poznan, Syufolka, Cincinnati, and about 50 group exhibitions of foreign authors from Austria, Great Britain, Germany, France, USA, Iran, Serbia, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Moldova, Israel, Armenia, and Uzbekistan.
As result of art rating of Association of Art Galleries of Ukraine in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,2006/2007 Kharkov Art Gallery permanently is ranked as one of the first leading galleries and art centers of Ukraine.
Address:
15 Chernyshevskogo St.,
Kharkov, 61057, Ukraine.
www.mgallery.kharkov.ua
