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Ukrainian Theatre Critic and Publisher Hanna Sherman: “The Line Between Saving Human Life and Saving Art Almost Disappeared”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko While working with Ukrainian media, theatre scholar Hanna Sherman did not limit herself to critiquing cultural output and analysing social processes. Alongside words, she has always preferred action. Today, Hanna Sherman is the director of the Antikvar Publishing House and editor-in-chief of the...

SPACE TURNED INTO ART: THE STORY OF THE “INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION”

Veronika Synenka The art group “Institute of Automation” emerged in the premises of the former Kyiv Institute of Automation at 22 Nahirna Street, where an artistic community spontaneously began to take shape in 2016–2017. Its founders, Maksym Mazur and Andrii Pidlisnyi, recount how the open-studio...

Sofiya Martyniuk: “A New Ukrainian Language of Memory Is Taking Shape Today”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko / Tie2.lt Artist Sofiya Martyniuk was among the tens of thousands of residents...

Ukrainian art theorist Olga Balashova: “It is important to decentralize the right to decide what has cultural value”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko/Tie2.lt Art historian, theorist, and contemporary art curator Olga Balashova is Chair of the...

Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Budnikov: ,,Art always comes from art”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko/Tie2.lt In the landscape of contemporary Ukrainian art, Volodymyr Budnikov is a rock that cannot...

Ukrainian Art Curator Anna Morokhovska: “A Person Who Does Not Have Their Own Point of View Finds It Harder to Understand Another Person’s Perspective”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko/Tie2.lt The Museum of Odesa Modern Art (MoOMA) was founded in 2008 (https://msio.com.ua/en/home-en/). It...

Ukrainian poet Vitalii Bilozir: “Love is complemented by war, silence by emptiness, and tenderness by freedom”

Kostiantyn Dorošenko / Tie2.lt On June 3, a creative meeting with Ukrainian poet Vitalii Bilozir...

KATERYNA LEVCHENKO: “WE ARE SHAPING A NEW CULTURAL REALITY OF KRYVYI RIH”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko / Tie2.lt Art historian and cultural manager Kateryna Levchenko worked at PinchukArtCentre, Mystetskyi...

Academician Borys Grynyov: “The collection becomes a testimony to the time in which Ukraine lives and fights”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko/Tie2.lt Based on data from Scopus and Google Scholar, materials physicist Borys Grynyov ranks...

Ksenia Malykh: “No pedestal is high enough, no signature stands strong”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko/Tie2.lt Ksenia Malykh was one of the faces of the most renowned private Ukrainian...

Ukrainian artist Olga Stein: ,,Any romantic, exessive ornateness seems to me like an unacceptable distance”

Veronika Synenka/Tie2.lt Olga Stein Kalinovska-Kravchuk is a Ukrainian artist, curator, and theatre designer; the founder...

Sergii Chaika. Standing at the threshold between creative life and military service

Veronika Synenka/Tie2.lt This interview with Sergii Chaika, a Ukrainian painter and multidisciplinary artist, was recorded...

Oliver Laxe: In Cinema, the Most Difficult Fight Is With Myself

Valdone Rudenkiene/Tie2.lt Oliver Laxe is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary European cinema....

“We are like two cripples, leading and supporting each other” — ,,The Ambrozia Project” on art, relationships, and war

Veronika Synenka/Tie2.lt The Ambrozia Project — a Ukrainian multidisciplinary art duo that has been working...

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Ukrainian Theatre Critic and Publisher Hanna Sherman: “The Line Between Saving Human Life and Saving Art Almost Disappeared”

Kostiantyn Doroshenko While working with Ukrainian media, theatre scholar Hanna Sherman did not limit herself...

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Veronika Synenka The art group “Institute of Automation” emerged in the premises of the former...

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