Nordic, Baltic and Ukrainian contemporary art exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine

March 14, 2016
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Kristina Inčiūraitė, 'Mother', 2013, a fragment of audio-visual installation

Kristina Inčiūraitė, ‘Mother’, 2013, a fragment of audio-visual installation

“Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertaint” – the Nordic, Baltic and Ukrainian contemporary art exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine will open to the public on the 19th of March and will be on view untill May 22. It 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 has been organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga) in partnership with the National Art Museum of Ukraine, as well as the real architects behind this idea – the embassies of the Nordic and Baltic States in Ukraine.

Solvita Krese, Director of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 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.

Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty

Opening: 18.03.2016 (Friday) at 6 pm
Curator: Solvita Krese

Exhibition will be open to public from 19 March until 22 May.
http://namu.kiev.ua/en/exhibitions/bills/view.html?eid=250
http://www.lcca.lv/en/exhibition-identity/