EXHIBITION

Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty

National Art Museum of Ukraine , Kiev City, Kiev, 03/19/2016 - 05/22/2016

6 Hrushevskogo St., Kiev

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Nordic, Baltic and Ukrainian Contemporary Art Exhibition

Exhibiting artists: APT artist Kristina Inčiūraitė (LT) Roman Minin (UA), Open Group (UA), Lesja Zajac (UA), Matts Leiderstam (SWE), Meriç Algün Ringborg (SWE), Mats Adelman (SWE), Joar Nango (NO), The Stitch Project (NO), Ane Hjort Guttu (NO), Ester Fleckner (DK), Gudrun Hasle (DK), Kalle Hamm un Dzamil Kamanger (FIN), Tellervo Kalleinen (FIN), Bita Razavi (FIN), Anna Aizsilniece (LV), Ieva Epnere (LV), Katrīna Neiburga (LV), Tanel Rander (EST), Kristina Norman (EST), Flo Kasearu (EST), Arnas Anskaitis (LT), Eglė Budvytytė (LT), and Gabríela Friðriksdóttir (IS).

Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty is promising to be one of the most spectacular manifestations of the last decade by the artists from the North Eastern regions of Europe. The exhibition is organized by The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the embassies of the Nordic and Baltic States in Ukraine are organizing an exhibition.

Solvita Krese, director of LCCA, and the curator of this exhibition reflected on her work: ‘With this exhibition we wish to re-evaluate the notion of identity, emphasizing its diverse aspects and to welcome the exploration of national, political, territorial, social and gender issues through the prism of identity, having previously assumed that artists are sharp-sighted interpreters of context and commentators of situation, able to discover and sketch out the network of changes in today’s maps of the world faster than anyone else, and are not afraid to take a look behind the curtain of uncertainty, in which traumas of the past and vagueness of the future are woven together’.

The idea of organising a contemporary art exhibition supported by eight embassies first emerged in 2013 as a solidarity gesture towards the complex political situation in Ukraine. The embassies of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland have acknowledged this collaboration as a vital platform that allows the searching for a cohesive identity of Europe and establishing a mutual dialogue. National Art Museum proved to be the most appropriate place for this conversation, as far as it keeps, works with and creates identities – joint with community and by force of art. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by educational programme and different side events as discussions, workshops and performances.

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