One with the other. Spatial dialogues. IMMINENTLY: Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi arsenal presents new exhibition
The Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal” presents the exhibition “One with the other. Spatial dialogues. IMMINENTLY” — the sixth exhibition of the project “One with the other. Spatial Dialogues”.
The exhibition will open on September 14 at 12 pm and will be held to October 15, 2023.
“One with the other. Spatial dialogues. IMMINENTLY” is the sixth exhibition in the series of dialogues between artists and artists within the project “One with the other. Spatial Dialogues”.
This exhibition is an attempt to grasp the feelings experienced by the artists just before the Russia-Ukraine full-scale war and during the blackouts of late 2022. These two periods, although separated in time, are permeated with anxious premonition — anticipating the Russian full-scale invasion and adapting everyday life to the power outage schedule.
The inability to influence the situation creates a tension between helplessness and the desire to resist. Nevertheless, artists discover a zone of control amid constant insecurity, interpreting their uncertainty.
Exhibition participants: Volt Agapeyev, Dima Tolkachov
Curators of the exhibition: Natasha Chychasova, Andrii Myroshnychenko, Anastasia Garazd.
The exhibition was created in partnership with Art Arsenal Community NGO as part of the project supported by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy to Ukraine. The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Government.
At the Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal” the exhibition will be held from September 14 to October 15, 2023.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 12 pm – 7 pm.
Free admission
❗️❗️ We care about everyone’s safety, so in case of an air raid alert, the exhibition will be closed. At this time, you can go to the nearest shelter. The exhibition will start working after the end of an air raid alert.
❗️In case of emergency power outages, we will additionally inform you about the opening hours on our social media.
Volt Agapeyev (b. 1989, Ternopil) is a multidisciplinary artist. Participated in numerous exhibitions and residency programs both in Ukraine and abroad. His artworks are present in private collections and public places in Austria, Slovakia, Germany, and other countries. Most often, Volt works with graphics, media art, and graffiti. In his works, the artist pays attention to the amorphisation of boundaries between human consciousness, technology, and nature. He lives and works in Kyiv.
Dima Tolkachov (b. 1989, Mala Vyska). He mainly works with photography and uses it as material for conceptual typologies. Dima also experiments with objects, video, and digital collages. After February 24, 2022, he focused on looking for metaphors that reveal how war affects our sense of time and reality. Dima participated in group exhibitions both in Ukraine and abroad. He lives and works in Kyiv.
“One with the other. Spatial Dialogues” is a processual project of the Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Mala Gallery of the Mystetskyi Arsenal.” It is the result of discussions between the members of the artistic community. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, the Laboratory has begun to collect works about the war by Ukrainian artists — from 2014 till today. This array of works has transformed into an online archive — Ukraine Ablaze. While working on the archive, Laboratory curators realized the importance of recording processes and transformations in artistic practices, which often remain invisible.