GRAM group - portfolio 2024

GRAM group

ARTISTIC BIO

Art group founded in 2016 in Kyiv (Ukraine), based in Krakow (Poland). Group members: Denys Hryshchuk, Fanni Malinovska.

Denys Hryshchuk born in 1985 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Graduate of Donetsk State Medical University, gained professional experience in the artfield when working at the Donetsk Regional Art Museum, IZOLYATSIA platform for cultural initiatives and Mystetskyi Arsenal art gallery. Attended the course of Contemporary art at MethodFund, the school of Lada Nakonechna and Katia Badianova. Managed several cultural events and exhibitions.

Fanni Malinovska born in 1988 in Kherson, Ukraine. Graduate of National Pedagogical University in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ex-ballerina, performance artist, model, filmmaker. In 2020-2021 produced and directed a short documentary ‘The Mourning Chorus’ about the demolition of art studios on Cieszynska 9 str. in Krakow (Poland) and created a website dedicated to this place.

ARTISTIC BIO

The group took part in Kyiv Biennial The School of Kyiv, performed at WUK in Vienna, participated in several editions of KRAKERS Krakow Art Week. In 2022 both artists became scholars of Goethe-Institut Kraków, in 2023 both artists became scholars of Krakow Institute of Literature.

GRAM group are conceptual artists working in new media: installation, video art, performance art, streaming art. They explore the following topics: concepts of memory; post-Soviet self-identity; traumatic experiences and dealing with trauma; Russian-Ukrainian war.

Currently, GRAM group are working on an project for CU at Sadka gallery (Krakow, Poland) curated by Arkadiusz Półtorak and Agnieszka Szostek. The show will present a series of mosaics, video works and live performance.

Selected shows

2023 - “The Human” / Stage reading at Institute of Literature, Krakow, Poland

2023 - 24 h stream “Standby. Чатування. Czuwanie”, installation at UkrainaTV studio

2022 - “Necropolis” / CSW Wieworka art residency (Krakow, Poland)

2022 - European Stadium of Culture / “EIZO -Acts of Memory” (Rzeszów, Poland)

2022 - KRAKERS CracowArt Week 2022 / “The “Fatale” Villa. Its architect, Its volksdeutsch, Its general” (Krakow, Poland)

2022 - Ukryte // czyli co widzimy z zewnątrz // Gadafest (Ksiaż Wielki, Poland)

2021 - KRAKERS CracowArt Week 2021: (NO) HOPE / “Rise-Fall-Rise” (Krakow, Poland)

2019 - “Humanista nie wita dnia uśmiechem”, Piotrowska/SzczęśniakAtelier (Krakow, Poland)

2016 - “The Orchid show by Mikhail Koptev”, Department of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial in Vienna (Austria)

Recentlyimplemented projects

THE HUMAN / ЛЮДИНА

The story of female refugees in Ukraine

Stage adaptation by Fanni Malinovska of the modernist feminist novelThe Human / Людина by Olga Kobylanska. stage director

The protagonist is transferred to the modern world. Events take place in Berlin after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We want to show how the main character would cope with the challenges of modern times, the experience of being a refugee and the choice between following her own dreams and caring for her family.

VIDEO in postproductionTBA

More than 100 years have passed since the time of the most famous Ukrainian feminist, Olha Kobylianska, who has a main street in Chernivtsi named after her. The majority of Ukrainian women are not forced into marriage, and for the most part, no one prevents them from getting an education.They give birth to children, become politicians, head corporations and fight at the war front. But sometimes it turns out that women still face problems similar to those they had to overcome in the late 19th century, and they still have to make difficult choices between their own values, loyalty to family, external circumstances and the desire to maximise their potential as human beings.

Necropolis - GRAM group

Using parallels between Chinese magic and funerary practices from the third century BC and the contemporary funerary practices of the invading Russian army, the artists direct our attention to Moscow's catastrophe in the sphere of martial spirituality (ukr: Моральний дух, russ: воинский дух) and pose once again the question of the meaning of Russian aggression.

It is in this area, close to magic and metaphysics, using 3D scans and the traditional terracotta technique, the artists create objects depicting plastic bags with the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers. "Replacing" the substances of the plastic bags with hard ceramic models, they make a comparison between theTerracottaArmy and the macabre body stock of fallen Russians.

Funded by the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education 2022 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut

Necropolis (2022-2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= P4iF-0G4wQ0&list=PLXbDn0IupJA cmhw9iVS8rKGgeSaDlClma&index =3

Acts of memory (EIZO) 2022

performance installation

360° Video

Acts of memory (EIZO) 2022

„Acts of memory” is a contemporary art exhibition that touches upon the subject of memory, the transformation of space. EIZO, a group of artists from Poland and Ukraine, using various mediafrom 360° videos and photos, through VR, visualizations and performance, creates a site specific open-air exhibition in a spatial art installation. The project was created in frames of Europejski Stadion Kultury festival in 2022.

The first performance was recorded in Krakow at Zalew Nowohucki, the artificial water reservoir and surrounding modernist park located in the old part of Nowa Huta in Krakow.

The 360° video was part ofActs of memory installation in Rzeszow. The second site-specific performance was presented live at the opening of the installation.

LINK to video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjiRAUUP_z

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Fanni Malinovska’s two site-specific performance depicts a city mermaid living in the fountain. She goes out of the water during the daytime and plays her hypnotizing song.The work is focused on maintenance and conservation of city water sources (particularly the Old Fountain in Rzeszow).

VIBRANTLIQUID ESSENCE (2022)

Exhibition

Ukryte // czyli co widzimy z zewnątrz // Gadafest (Ksiaż Wielki, Poland)

VIBRANTLIQUID ESSENCE

(video art) an immersive experience, a voyeurist pleasure. This video–vibration coupling strength now reaches your ears and eyes and is being transferred to your brain in the form of nervous signals. What you see aside is our visual.

https://youtu.be/uByGntBEmVM?si=t ecN5e3TzLyTXN8f

RUSCISM

Installation / sculpture / video

Ruscism (2022)

EVENT

https://cracowartweek.pl/en

/the-fatale-villa-its-architectits-volksdeutsch-its-general /

Project created as part of the Villa Fatale exhibition (curated by Bogumił Książek, CCASquirrel) for Krakeks CracowARTWeek 2022.Aroom-size installation, based on Denys Hryshchuk's personal archive about his captivity in Slovyansk (eastern Ukraine) in 2014, where the artist was held by Russians for 3 months for expressing pro-Ukrainian views.

The room-size installation Ruscism including the short film, sculptures, photos, text and sound was presented in frames of the KRAKERS Krakow art week 2022 as part of the group show “The Villa Fatalle” at SCW Wieworka art space.

The video is a reenactment of the artist’s 3 month captivity by Russian paramilitary troops in 2014 in occupied Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

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UKRA))ї((NATV - is an information hub and webTV created by a group of individuals, organizations and institutions.

UKRAїNATV is a joint venture of a Ukrainian-Polish editorial collective, theAcademy of FineArts in Krakow, Foundation36.6 and the MalopolskaArt Garden.

In February -April 2022 Fanni Malinovska and Denys Hryshchuk wereTV hosts and editors at UKRA))ї((NATV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYbo1Dp5Nmo&t=813s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGImaNwKQKg&t=5333s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9xzHoihXs&t=2613s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7N6sKsKWwo&t=3130s

“Streaming media as a tool to establish intercultural connections in times of war”

Fanni Malinovska, Sandra Bak

Rise-Fall-Rise(2021)

ExhibitioninframesofKrakersCrakowArtWeek

The project Rise-Fall-Rise CMDAaims at maintaining the presence of the building on Cieszynska 9 within a societal mental map despite its physical loss to gentrification.

According toAldo Rossi, Italian architect, each urban artifact has its own singularity by the actions of individuals. We explore the idea of ‘collective memory’, as well as ‘private and public lives’, mobilizing various types of resources and constructing multiple commemorative forms.

The collective memory of Cieszynska 9 participates in the actual transformation of the new space on Zwierzyniecka 4. Mateusz Szymanowski’s installation becomes the guiding thread of the entire complex urban structure, developing a new narrative for the interpretation of the past.The Mourning Chorus, film by GRAM group explores the role that ceremonials such as mourning processions play in establishing a link between our present lives and the past, and how they help shape a sense of shared cultural memory about events and places.

https://wydzialsztuki.up.krakow.pl/wswm2021-krakers-rise-fall-rise/

https://www.facebook.com/events/15135

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online archive www.cmda.pl

Ourcollectiveisexploringtheradicalpotentialofanarchive throughalong-termprojectcalledCMDAofCieszynska9(from CollectiveMemoryDigitalArchive)-acommunity-created virtualdatabankthatusessocialmediaplatformstocollect personalnarrativessuchasphotographs,videos,and three-dimensionalstructures.Throughthesemeans,weaimto extendthelifeofthebuildingatCieszynska9.

THE MOURNING CHORUS

The Mourning Chorus, film by Fanni Malinovska and Denys Hryshchuk explores the role that ceremonials such as mourning processions play in establishing a link between our present lives and the past, and how they help shape a sense of shared cultural memory about events and places. TheTelkom-Telos building used to produce measuring devices and telecommunication equipment. While scaling back it became home to numerous workshops, recording studios and ateliers.This is building hosted numerous art events and became a link between residents of the city and the local art community. Unprotected by the city, the building became one of many victims of gentrification in Krakow and was torn down.

THE MOURNING CHORUS

The destruction of theTelkom-Telos building on 9 Cieszyńska, str. happened during the lockdown. Fanni Malinovska collected its residents personal narratives to keep the memory about this city space and choreographed a mourning procession to express the grief of loosing it.

The film was presented at:

Krakers KrakowArt Week NO HOPE

2021 (as part of the Rise-Fall-Rise exhibition, Partner Program)

TNM 2021 (summer activist camp, Belgium)

Film Spring Open 2021 (film workshops in Krakow)

VIDEO

Video, installation

( group exhibition Humanist greets the day with no smile, Piotrowska/SzczęśniakAtelier, Krakow)

In order to preserve the life of all other species, the humanity stopped its existence and disappeared.

Voluntary Human Extinction is one of the 9 famous scenarios of the end of the World or human kind.

The memories about the antropogene era rest under the ground.

The video was shot at the military training base near the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.

Video link

Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0X-WzA7dYw

Ars

(2016-2018)

THE ORCHID SHOW

In the years 2016-2017 Den Hryshchuk and Fanni Malinovska were performers in theTheatre of provocative fashion «The Orchid» by Mikhail Koptev.

EVENT

https://www.facebook.com/events/wuk-1090-vienna-project-room-w%C3%A4hringerstra%C3%9Fe-59/provocative-fashion-performance-by-mikhail-koptev-and-the-orchid -theatre/806061736191341/?locale=pt_BR

PUBLICATION

https://supportyourart.com/columns/koptev/