Art Under Fire: New Ukrainian Artists Collective

Art Under Fire is an exhibit of young Ukrainian artists. Their work depicts the emotions and experiences caused by the dramatic violence in their homeland beginning with the Euromaidan demonstrations in the Winter of 2013 through the influx of Russian troops.

The exhibit tells the story of how these young artists kept working, kept creating, while surrounded by fire. Despite personal danger and the destruction around them, they continued to create.

These young artists were born in the 1990s and became the first generation to grow up in an independent Ukraine. Key cultural elements that influenced their generation and created a huge social gap in post-Soviet Union society were the absence of political dictatorship and artistic censorship.

They unite in the belief that Ukraine needs a new contemporary culture encapsulating a free state of self-aware people.

Art Under Fire is the product of belief in the ability to change.

JOIN US FOR THIS SPECIAL TWO-DAY EVENT!

SAT MAY 21: EXHIBIT 1-6PM NUAC DOCUMENTARY SCREENING @3pm

SUN MAY 22: EXHIBIT 1-6PM OSCAR-NOMINATED "WINTER ON FIRE" SCREENING @3pm

Q & A WITH ARTISTS (STRAIGHT FROM THE UKRAINIAN CAPITAL, KIEV)

THIS IS A FREE EVENT BUT SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP HERE.

MORE INFO ABOUT THE ARTISTS: NEWUKRAINIANARTCOLLECTIVE.ORG

MORE INFO ABOUT THE EVENT ORGANIZER: GLOBALSEMANTICS.ORG

ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS

In a world where contemporary art is inseparable from its social message, institutional censorship in Ukraine was yet to be broken.

New Ukrainian Artists Collective (NUAC) is an emergent, Kyiv-based arts collective that has taken the lead in establishing intercultural dialogue and representing life in post-2014 Revolution Ukraine. Inspired by Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage as well as the current political situation, NUAC artists have created poignant and intense works of art, media, and craft.

NUAC began in 2007 as a group of art students at the National Academy of Arts in Kiev as a response to rigid academic rules created by a classically Soviet-trained faculty.

Despite their underground nature, NUAC members have been exhibited and recognized by major Ukrainian art institutions: Mystetsky Arsenal Museum, M-17 gallery, and the Golden Section Art Auction. NUAC has also hosted a number of a non-gallery shows (URBAN SHЬІT, etc.).

Members of NUAC are the proud recipients of international European art scholarships, residency programs, and competition prizes. They are united in the belief that Ukraine needs a new contemporary culture that represents a free state of self-aware people. (Visit: newukrainianartcollective.org)

The collective is composed of:

Misha Alekseenko Madlen Franko Ieltsyn Oleksandr Timofeenko Oleksii (aka Cvika Rabinovitch) Melnyk Dasha (aka MLNK) Ilchuk Anton Korban Sasha Solomko Ignat Kosmina Dana Pasichnyk Masha Sean Schermerhorn (NYC participant) Daniil Galkin Yurii Sivirin

Global Semantics (GS) is an English language and cultural consultation service that works to help international professionals, academics, and artists use English as a tool for overcoming language and cultural barriers. Cross-cultural collaboration efforts include special events, international projects and workshops.

Founded by Caroline Steele in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, GS evolved as a response to the rise of global social media in a multicultural world run in English. Silent Barn is a collectively directed art space in Brooklyn, New York. Functioning round-the-clock as a center of multidisciplinary experimentation, Silent Barn is a place to produce, present, and interact with art of all forms. (Visit: globalsemantics.org)