
Curator’s Talk by Monika Fabijanska
Curator Monika Fabijanska will give a talk about Women at War.
This event will be livestreamed.
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Curator Monika Fabijanska will give a talk about Women at War.
This event will be livestreamed.
The North Dakota Museum of Art will host a screening of films by Women at War artists at the Empire Arts Center:
– Alevtina Kakhidze, All Good, 2024, 19:57 min – The North American Premiere
– Dana Kavelina, Marc Tulip Who Spoke with Flowers, 2018, 15:19
– Dana Kavelina, Monuments, 2022, 34:35 min
– Q&A with artists via Zoom.
The event will be followed by a reception at the Empire Arts Center.
Language and Text in Feminist Art Part II:
Latin America and the Caribbean, Latinx diasporas
CAA’s 113th Annual Conference
Friday, February 14, 2025, 11-12:30 PM
New York Hilton Midtown, New York City
Mercury Ballroom
Conference Registration required
Conference Schedule
CHAIR:
Monika Fabijanska
PRESENTATIONS:
Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York
To Cheat Language:
Feminist Critique Through Play in Magali Lara's Series “Sielo”
Gabriela Germana, Ph.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
Language to express issues on gender violence and racial discrimination:
The work of four Andean and Amazonian contemporary women artists
Claudia Mandel Katz, Ph.D., Universidad de Costa Rica
Female body, text and language
in the aesthetic practices of Central America and the Caribbean from a gendered perspective
Karen Cordero, Ph.D., Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Deborah Castillo:
Disfiguring and Reconfiguring the Verbal and Corporeal Language of Patriarchy
Image: Paloma Álvarez, Puriypa purinan - Avenida del caminar (Puriypa purinan - Avenue of Walking), 2018, Alpaca thread embroidery on wool, 100 x 100 cm. ©2018 Paloma Álvarez
Curator-Led Tour of Women at War
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 1:00 PM
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Admission is free
Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024, for an insightful journey through the "Women at War" exhibition with curator Monika Fabijanska. These exclusive tours offer a deeper understanding of the powerful stories and artistic expressions that highlight the often-overlooked experiences of women in wartime.
Each tour will provide an intimate look at the artworks, offering unique insights into the creative process and the historical contexts that shaped these powerful pieces. Monika Fabijanska will guide you through the exhibition, sharing her curatorial vision and the narratives that connect the works on display.
Whether you're an art enthusiast or simply curious to learn more about the intersection of art and history, these tours promise to enrich your understanding of the pivotal roles women have played in shaping the world through their resilience and strength.
Image: Anna Scherbyna, Semenivka 2016. Psychiatric Hospital, 2017 (Some Landscapes of the Left-bank Ukraine series), watercolor on paper, 2.4 x 3.9 in ©Anna Scherbyna. Courtesy of the artist and The Naked Room
Curator-Led Tour of Women at War
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 1:00 PM
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Admission is free
Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024, for an insightful journey through the "Women at War" exhibition with curator Monika Fabijanska. These exclusive tours offer a deeper understanding of the powerful stories and artistic expressions that highlight the often-overlooked experiences of women in wartime.
Each tour will provide an intimate look at the artworks, offering unique insights into the creative process and the historical contexts that shaped these powerful pieces. Monika Fabijanska will guide you through the exhibition, sharing her curatorial vision and the narratives that connect the works on display.
Whether you're an art enthusiast or simply curious to learn more about the intersection of art and history, these tours promise to enrich your understanding of the pivotal roles women have played in shaping the world through their resilience and strength.
Image: Zhanna Kadyrova, Palianytsia, 2022, mixed media installation ©Zhanna Kadyrova. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Continua
Exclusive Interview: Monika Fabijanska with Critic Susan Snodgrass
Friday, October 18, 2024, 6:30 PM
Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor South
following
5:30 PM Guided Tour with Curator Monika Fabijanska
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
accompanying exhibition Women at War
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Admission is free
Engage in a thought-provoking conversation between the exhibition curator Monika Fabijanska and renowned Chicago-based art critic Susan Snodgrass. Delve deeper into the themes of the exhibition, discuss the impact of art in documenting history, the realities of life under war in Ukraine, the potential of feminist historiography, the feminisms in Eastern Europe, and gain unique insights into the creative process behind “Women at War.”
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with fellow art enthusiasts, gain a deeper understanding of the pivotal roles women have played in shaping history, and celebrate the power of art to convey profound stories.
2024 The Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL) Conference
June 3-5, 2024
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Day 2, June 4, 1:50 – 3:20 PM: Artist-Constructed Archives – Case Studies
Moderator: Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
Martha Wilson, Artist and Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Rena Segal, President of the George and Helen Segal Foundation (Artist, daughter of George Segal)
Essye Klempner, Director of Programs & Partnerships EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Day 3, June 5, 3:35 - 3:50 PM": Testimonial - Conference Round-Up
Ted Berger, Arts activist, Co-Creator of Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project, Executive Director Emeritus, NYFA, and Director of NYCreates & Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
Monika Fabijanska, Olia Fedorova, and Alevtina Kakhidze in Conversation
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 12 PM CST, Live-streamed
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva, and Alla Horska (1929-1970)
February 29 - April 27, 2024
School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba
255 ARTlab
180 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada
WOMEN AT WAR
Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva, and Alla Horska (1929-1970)
curated by Monika Fabijanska
February 29 - April 27, 2024
Mon-Wed, Fri 9–5 PM, Thu 9–7:30 PM
Closed all statutory holidays
Curator’s Lecture - Thursday, February 29, 12 PM CST
Opening Reception - Thursday, February 29, 5-8 PM CST
Curator’s Tour - Friday, March 1, 12 PM CST
Talk by artist Lesia Khomenko - tbd
Online conversation with Olia Fedorova & Alevtina Kakhidze - Wed., March 20, 12 PM CST
School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba
255 ARTlab
180 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada
BETSY DAMON
PASSAGES: RITES AND RITUALS
curated by Monika Fabijanska
February 29 – May 2, 2024
Opening Reception - Thursday, February 29, 5–7 PM
Betsy Damon in conversation with Dr. Christine Filippone, 4–5 PM
Eckert Art Gallery at Millersville University
Winter Visual & Performing Arts Center
60 West Cottage Avenue
Millersville, PA 17551
Gallery hours: Tue – Sat, 12–5 PM; Thu, 12–8 PM
Closed during holidays and academic breaks
WOMEN AT WAR: Art in Ukraine and the question of feminist historioghraphy
Lecture by curator Monika Fabijanska
Thursday, February 29, 12 PM CST, 364 ARTlab
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva, and Alla Horska (1929-1970)
February 29 - April 27, 2024
School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba
180 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada
LANGUAGE AND TEXT IN FEMINIST ART
Committee on Women in the Arts session
CAA’s 112th Annual Conference
Friday, February 16, 2024, 11-12:30 PM CST
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Marquette Room (Hybrid)
conference registration required
CHAIR:
Monika Fabijanska
DISCUSSANT:
Kimberly Kay Lamm, Duke University
PRESENTATIONS:
David Sperber, Hebrew Union College-JIR
“Body Text”: Feminist Art in Traditional Spheres
Nissim Gal, Haifa University
From Writing to Vision: Palestinian Female Visual Artists Shaping Feminism through Language and Text
Erin Devine, Northern Virginia Community College
Textual/Textural Translations: Recitation and Resistance in Shirin Neshat's Photographs
Iris Gilad, Duke University
Body & Type: The Relationship Between Body and Text in Contemporary Feminist Middle Eastern Art
Artist Hannan Abu-Hussein will join the session and will be available for Q&A
PERFORMING FOR YOU, FOR ME, FOR YOU
simone madison hunter
Emily Mogami
Mahira Naznin
Curated by the Curatorial Practice Class
New York University’s Visual Arts Administration Program
under the guidance of Course Instructor Monika Fabijanska
January 6–27, 2024
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM
Public programs:
Tuesday, January 23, 5-7 PM
Exhibition Walkthrough and Artist Panel Discussion with simone madison hunter, Emily Mogami, and Mahira Naznin, moderated by co-curators Cindy Hou and Eli King
Friday, January 26, 5-7 PM
Closing reception with ongoing performative intervention by Emily Mogami and Exhibition walkthrough
80WSE Gallery
80 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003
PRESS RELEASE
ESSAY
PERFORMING FOR YOU, FOR ME, FOR YOU
simone madison hunter
Emily Mogami
Mahira Naznin
Curated by the Curatorial Practice Class
New York University’s Visual Arts Administration Program
under the guidance of Course Instructor Monika Fabijanska
January 6–27, 2024
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM
Public programs:
Tuesday, January 23, 5-7 PM
Exhibition Walkthrough and Artist Panel Discussion with simone madison hunter, Emily Mogami, and Mahira Naznin, moderated by co-curators Cindy Hou and Eli King
Friday, January 26, 5-7 PM
Closing reception with ongoing performative intervention by Emily Mogami and Exhibition walkthrough
80WSE Gallery
80 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003
PRESS RELEASE
ESSAY
PERFORMING FOR YOU, FOR ME, FOR YOU
simone madison hunter
Emily Mogami
Mahira Naznin
Curated by the Curatorial Practice Class
New York University’s Visual Arts Administration Program
under the guidance of Course Instructor Monika Fabijanska
January 6–27, 2024
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM
Public programs:
Tuesday, January 23, 5-7 PM
Exhibition Walkthrough and Artist Panel Discussion with simone madison hunter, Emily Mogami, and Mahira Naznin, moderated by co-curators Cindy Hou and Eli King
Friday, January 26, 5-7 PM
Closing reception with ongoing performative intervention by Emily Mogami and Exhibition walkthrough
80WSE Gallery
80 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003
PRESS RELEASE
ESSAY
Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom,
Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko,
Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva,
and Alla Horska (1929-1970)
curated by Monika Fabijanska
July 13 - October 28, 2023
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Thursday, September 28, 6 PM - Curator’s Lecture
Friday, September 29, 10 AM - Curator’s Tour
Thursday, October 12, 6 PM - Conversation with artist Lesia Khomenko
Feminist Legacy Planning Workshop with Monika Fabijanska & Betsy Damon
Tuesday, July 11, 6-8 PM
Pen and Brush
29 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
(212) 475-3669 info@penandbrush.org
The workshop accompanies The Feminist Institute’s Memory Lab and Exhibition who’s afraid of feminist archives? curated by Monika Fabijanska, in collaboration with Helena Shaskevich, at Pen and Brush, June 15 - July 15.
CPAL (Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies) Conference
June 5-7, 2023
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
June 7, 1:30-3 PM – Curating a shared Legacy Platform: Perspectives from the Field
Moderator: Terrie Sultan, Independent Curator and Cultural Consultant and Principal Museum Strategist for Art Museum Strategies @ Hudson Ferris
Panelists | Dan Cameron, Independent Curator, Founder of Prospect New Orleans, former Senior Curator, The New Museum, Monika Fabijanska, Art Historian, Contemporary Art Curator and Art Appraiser who specializes in women's and feminist art, Corinne Erni, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Parrish Museum, Natalie Diaz, Co-Curator, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham
Women at War: Ukrainian Feminist Art Today
a guest lecture by Monika Fabijanska
Art Now! Lecture Series
March 22, 2023, 6-7:30 PM CST
Columbia College Chicago
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, room 813
Chicago, IL 60605
Monika Fabijanska, curator of the exhibition Women at War, will discuss the contemporary feminist art scene in Ukraine, providing a context for Russian-Ukrainian war as represented in art over the eight years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist Republics in Donbas in 2014. War is central to history. History has been written (and painted) by men. This presentation will provide a platform for female narrators of history and examine the perception of war as gendered. It will also be an introduction to Eastern European feminisms, which are significantly different from the Western mold, and will contribute to a conversation about how national identity is tied to the perception of women’s role in society.
Monika Fabijanska is a New York City-based independent art historian and curator who specializes in feminist art. In 2022, she curated Women at War at Fridman Gallery. Her previous exhibitions include critically acclaimed Betsy Damon. Passages: Rites and Rituals (La MaMa Galleria, The New York Times best shows of 2021); ecofeminism(s) (Thomas Erben Gallery, 2020, featuring Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cecilia Vicuña, etc.); and groundbreaking The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S. (Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, 2018). Fabijanska’s writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Women’s Art Journal, Orońsko Sculpture Magazine, BLOK Magazine, etc. https://www.monikafabijanska.com
Conversation with artist Dana Kavelina and screening of her film Letter to a Turtledove (2020)
accompanying the exhibition Women at War
Tuesday, February 28, 20023, 12 PM EST
Stanford in Washington
SESSION
Feminist Visual Activism for Reproductive Rights
at CAA’s 111th Annual Conference
New York Hilton Midtown – 2nd Floor – Madison Suite
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 4.30-6 PM
CHAIR:
Basia Sliwinska, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
PRESENTATIONS:
Bang Geul Han: Weaving Abortion Rights, Word by Word
Monika Fabijanska
The Trouble with Showing: Visualizing Forced Pregnancy
Lauren Ashley DeLand, Savannah College of Art & Design
Thank God for Abortion: Queering and Decolonizing the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom
Vanessa Parent, University of Ottawa
‘You will never walk alone’: feminist contemporary visual activist practice in support of reproductive rights in Poland
Basia Sliwinska, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Conversation with Dorothy Kosinski, Director Emerita, The Phillips Collection
and Monika Fabijanska, Curator of the exhibition Women at War
Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 7 PM (in person)
Stanford in Washington, D.C.
2655 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
A program accompanying the presentation of the exhibition of Ukrainian artists Women at War at Stanford in Washington, D.C., Jan. 12 - March 21, 2023
Conversation with artist Alevtina Kakhidze - an artist who has served as the United Nations (UNDP) Tolerance Envoy in Ukraine
accompanying the exhibition Women at War
Wednesday, January 25, 20023, 12 PM EST
Stanford in Washington, on zoom
An artist talk with Ghalia Benali and Dindga McCannon, moderated by Monika Fabjianska for the closing of the exhibition Fabula Rasa
Thursday, December 15, 2022, 1 PM
Fridman Gallery - on zoom
Monika Fabijanska:
Women at War: Contemporary Ukrainian artists and the question of feminist historiography
Introduced by Linda Bell, Barnard Provost
Reception to follow
Barnard College
James Room, Barnard Hall, 4th Floor
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 6 PM
Independent art historian and the curator of the critically acclaimed exhibition Women at War, Monika Fabijanska will discuss works by leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provide a context for the current war as represented in art across media since the Russian annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist “republics” in Donbas in 2014.
While history has largely been written – and painted – by men, this presentation will focus on women narrators of history, and will also examine gendered perspectives of war. The presentation will offer an insight into Eastern European feminisms, which are significantly different from the Western mold.
After the presentation, Dana Kavelina’s film “Letter to a Turtledove” (2020, 21 min.) will be screened, followed by the Q&A session with curator Monika Fabijanska and artist Dana Kavelina.
Curatorial Roundtable with Monika Fabijanska
September 7, 2022, 5 PM
MA Curatorial Practice
School of Visual Arts
New York City
The conversation will take place on zoom and the first hour will be available for all audiences.
Conversation about Alla Horska's (1929-1970) legacy in art and politics (virtual)
with Ukrainian art historians
Dr. Lizaveta German,
Dr. Olga Balashova,
and Evgenia Molyar
moderated by curator Monika Fabijanska
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
at Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, New York City
Wednesday, August 17, 1 PM ZOOM LINK
Conversation with artists
Zhanna Kadyrova and Alevtina Kakhidze
moderated by curator Monika Fabijanska
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
at Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, New York City
Wednesday, August 10, 1 PM WATCH HERE
Zhanna Kadyrova (b. 1981 in Brovary, Kyiv oblast) works in sculpture, installation, and public art, and is a member of R.E.P. collective. Her practice focuses on the context, site and space, and often references Soviet building materials, aesthetics, and symbols that shaped Ukrainian public space. She graduated from the Taras Shevchenko State Art School. She received PinchukArtCentre Main Prize, 2013, and Special Prize, 2011, as well as the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award, the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award for Public Art, and the Grand Prix of the Kyiv Sculpture Project (all 2012). Kadyrova's works were featured in the 58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition curated by Ralph Rugoff, 2019, and twice in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, in 2015 and 2013. Her works were shown at the M17 Contemporary Art Centre, Kyiv, 2021; the Shanghai International Sculpture Project JISP, 2020; Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France, 2020; the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2016; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013; Bureau for Cultural Translations, Leipzig, 2016 (solo); the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, 2015 (solo); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2013; the National Art Museum of Ukraine, 2010, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, 2008; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2008; and several times at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, where her first major retrospective will be held in 2023. She lived and worked in Kyiv - since March 2022, she has been displaced to rural Western Ukraine.
| kadyrova.com | instagram.com/jannkad
Alevtina Kakhidze (b. 1973 in Zhdanivka, Donetsk oblast) is an artist, performer, curator, and gardener who focuses on drawing, and social and ecofeminist practice. Since 2018, she has served as the United Nations (UNDP) Tolerance Envoy in Ukraine. Kakhidze graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv, 2004, and Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, 2006, and was awarded the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award in 2008. She presented her performances and lectures at the UNWomen Conference, 2020; PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2019; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2016; Manifesta 10, 2014; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2015; 7th Berlin Biennale: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012; and The New Theatre in the New Great World, Warsaw, 2010. Her solo exhibitions include rum24, Aarhus, Denmark, 2020; Bozar, Brussels, 2017; PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2014; FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, 2013; and Iaspis, Stockholm, 2009. Her works were featured in group shows at the M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, 2021; Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, OR, 2021; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018; M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, 2018; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2017; Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, 2016; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyiv, 2014; CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 2013; Moroccan Pavilion project at the 54th Venice Biennial, 2012; MOCAK, Krakow; Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland; and Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, all 2011. Since 2009, Kakhidze has lived and worked in Muzychi village near Kyiv.
Conversation with artists
Lesia Khomenko and Anna Scherbyna
and special guest Ksenia Nouril (The Print Center, Philadelphia)
moderated by curator Monika Fabijanska
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
at Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, New York City
Wednesday, July 27, 1 PM WATCH HERE
Lesia Khomenko (b. 1980 in Kyiv) is a multidisciplinary artist who reconsiders the role of painting – she deconstructs narrative images and transforms paintings into objects, installations, performances, or videos. Her interest lies in revealing tools of visual manipulation in the context of history-making and myth-making. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, 2004. A member of R.E.P. group since 2004, she is also a co-founder of curatorial union HUDRADA, a self-educational community based on interdisciplinary cooperation, 2008. Khomenko is an initiator and program director of the “Contemporary Art” course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Her works were shown in many exhibitions, including at the Lviv Municipal Art Center, 2021 (solo); PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2018 (solo); MNAC, Bucharest, 2016; The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, 2015; CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 2014; The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice2013; Kyiv Biennial 2012 (main project); National Art Museum of Ukraine, 2012; Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, 2011 (solo); Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2011; White Box, New York, 2010; MUMOK, Vienna, 2009; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2008; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2008; Ukrainian pavilion at Venice Biennale, 2007 (a collaboration with Mark Titchner); and Kunsthalle Vienna, 2006. She was a finalist of the Pinchuk Art Prize in 2009, 2011, and 2013, and a 2016 finalist of the Kazimir Malevich Award, Kyiv. She lives and works in Kyiv - since March 2022, she has temporarily been in the West.
| lesiakhomenko.com | instagram.com/lesia_khomenko
Anna Scherbyna (b. 1988 in Zaporizhzhia) is artist, curator, and illustrator. Her artistic practice examines the critical potential of mediums such as installation and video, drawing and painting, exploring the visual traditions of Ukraine’s painting school, political aspects of a landscape, historical memory, and gender performativity. She graduated from the National Academy of Visual Art and Architecture (2015) and Contemporary Art Course (2015). She participated in numerous exhibitions and projects, including The Portal, VBKÖ, Vienna, 2021; Armed and Dangerous, 2019; A Space of One’s Own, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, 2017; Edenia, the city if the future, Kharkiv, 2017; Socialist Realism. Seeming to Be Another, Kyiv, 2017; TEXTUS. Embroidery, textile, feminism, Kyiv, 2017; In a shelter, Paris, 2015.
Scherbyna’s curatorial practice is driven by the feminist approach to building artistic communities and collaborations. As a member of curatorial groups, she organized a reading club for artists and theoreticians Chytanka (2020), international feminist exhibition The Cave of the Golden Rose, Kyiv, 2019, and Sabber, Deer and Spining Wheel in Stanica Luhanska, 2018. She was a co-founder of the Concrete Dates Collective (2015–17), and a member of the art-group “Iod” (2013–15). Since 2009, she has lived and worked in Kyiv; and since March 2022 in Germany.
Conversation with artists
Dana Kavelina and Olia Fedorova
moderated by curator Monika Fabijanska
accompanying the exhibition
WOMEN AT WAR
at Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, New York City
Wednesday, July 13, 1 PM WATCH HERE
Olia Fedorova (b. 1994 in Kharkiv) is a conceptual artist who works with performance, photography, video, and text. She graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts in 2016. She was the winner of the Nathan Altman Contemporary Visual Art Contest, Vinnytsia, 2017; a finalist of Ukrainian Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, 2019; and MUHi (Young Ukrainian Artists), Kyiv, 2017. Solo exhibitions include: Municipal gallery, Kharkiv, 2021, 2017; Contemporary Art Center Tea Factory, Odessa, 2017; and several galleries in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Dnipro. Group exhibitions include Eye/View II organized by Videocity, Electronic Billboard at the Congress Center Basel, 2022; Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, 2020; Brüdershaft project, supported by the German Embassy in Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro), 2020; International Winter Land Art Festival Mythogenesis (Nemyriv, Ukraine, 2017-2020; and Museum of Ideas, Lviv, 2017. Fedorova participated in many artist residency programs, including in Mariupol, Ukraine; in the UK, Austria, Germany, and Poland; as well as online during the covid-19 pandemic, including Co-iki Arts Living Space (Tokyo), and American Art Incubator residency (Isolation Fund, Kyiv/Zero1, San-Francisco). Fedorova lives and works in Kharkiv – since May 2022, she has been a refugee in Graz, Austria.
| oliafedorova.com | instagram.com/olia_off
Dana Kavelina (b. 1995 in Melitopol) works primarily with animation and video, but also installation, painting and graphics. She graduated from the Department of Graphics at the National Technical University of Ukraine. Her works often address military violence and war, seen from gender perspective—especially with regard to the position of a victim as a political subject—as well as the distance between historical and individual trauma, and memory and misrepresentation. Her works were exhibited at the Museum Folkwang Essen, 2022; MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2022; Zionskirche, Berlin, 2022; Kristianstad Kunsthalle, Sweden, 2021; Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art, Ukraine, 2019; and Closer, Kyiv, 2019. Kavelina’s films were screened at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, 2022; HKW, Berlin, 2022; ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2022; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2022; and e-flux, New York, NY, 2021. Her animated film Mark Tulip, who spoke with flowers received the Special Jury Mention at the 2019 Odessa International Film Festival, and the Grand Prix of the 2018 KROK animation festival, Kyiv. Kavelina was based in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine; since March 2022, she has been a refugee in Germany.
CLOSING CONVERSATION: "IF YOU GRIND THE THRESHOLD OF THREE OTHER HOUSES"
Friday, May 13, 2022 | 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Join us via Zoom for a special conversation between artist Bang Geul Han and curator Monika Fabijanska next Friday, May 13 at 1:30 pm as part of a closing event for Han’s solo exhibition “If You Grind the Threshold of Three Other Houses.”
In light of the recent Supreme Court leak overturning Roe v. Wade, the conversation will focus on Han’s recent works exploring the intersections of reproductive rights, abortion law, and questions of race and class, in relation to wider questions of relationships between text, desire, power, and representation.
To register for this online conversation, click the link HERE.