On 27 June, the National Art Museum of Ukraine hosted the first event within the educational and discussion programme of the Polish-Ukrainian exhibition project ‘Different Places’. Visitors had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the concept of the exhibition and meet its authors during a curatorial tour led by Waldemar Tatarczuk. This was reported on the Facebook page of the Polish Institute in Kyiv.
Waldemar Tatarczuk is a well-known Polish artist in Ukraine, curator, director of the Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, who has been actively developing joint Polish-Ukrainian art projects for many years.
The exhibition consists of three parts:
▪️Works by Polish artists of different generations, created before the full-scale war, which take on new meaning from today's perspective.
▪️A series of photographs of the Ukrainian sky, The Sky is Open, which illustrates the call to close the sky over Ukraine that was heard at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. At the request of Waldemar Tatarczuk, Ukrainian artists took photographs, and their Polish colleagues created their own works based on them.
▪️The video installation One Minute, which is an artistic echo of the daily minute of silence in Ukraine to honour the memory of the dead, is a symbolic gesture that has united artists from both countries.
This Saturday, 5 July, from 13:00 to 15:00, visitors will have the opportunity to join a guided tour of the exhibition, led by the project's co-curator, art historian and deputy director general of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Oksana Barshynova.
The project is organised by the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Galeria Labirynt, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.