KYLYM. CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ARTISTS 2015-2016

ANDRII SYDORENKO / DEFENDER OF CULTURAL PHOBIA / What is modernity? The mind suggests visual associations with technological development. The associations with ethnical traditions can be just as selective. The more these images strengthen widespread stereotypes, the better fit they are for inferior pride or ungrounded phobias. In keeping their stereotypes safe from destruction, people are often divided, similarly to sports teams, by available cultural contexts and symbols. Few of them ask themselves, however: how do sociocultural changes actually influence thinking?

How could the people in the past do without a mobile phone and why did they need all these ornaments on carpets, clothes, and furniture?

36 Born 1983 in Kharkiv. Works in painting, video art. Curator and contemporary art researcher.

Lives and works in Kyiv.

Selected Exhibitions: 2017 “Private Collection. Contemporary Ukrainian Artists”, Modern Art Research Institute of the

National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv; “Show Promise”, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv.

2016 “What If Fest”, National Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv; “Spirit of Time”,

Zenko Foundation art space, Tatariv.

2015 “R-Evolution”, Beulas Foundation, Huesca; “Images From Ukraine’s Maidan, 2013–2014”,

Wilson Center, Washington / The Ukrainian Museum, New York / Ukrainian Cultural Center,

Baltimore; “Ukrainian Contemporary Art. From Private Collections”,

Zenko Foundation art space, Tatariv.

2014 “Long Path To Freedom”, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; “I am a Drop in the Ocean”,

Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; “Civil Mysticism”, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy

of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2013 “Industrial Eden”, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine,

Kyiv; “Habitat”, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv.

2012 “Social Euphoria”, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy

of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2011 “Space Odyssey”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.

2010 “Illumination”, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.