How has the life of the artists who stayed in Russia changed since the beginning of the war? How to find visual and artistic means to talk about complex issues in this situation and what is the role of art residencies in this process? How can artists incorporate environmental practices into their work? We talked about these and many other questions with Adel Kim for the Reside/Sustain project.
For this publication, I made a small series of images in my studio to illustrate our conversation about the flickering spaces and roles.
I feel responsibility as an artist. My art has little impact on what happens globally, it does not influence thousands of people, but perhaps it can help someone to find means and tools to talk about the difficult, painful, unimaginable, and inexpressible. Now, more than ever, I realise how valuable this is. It breaks my heart that it took such a tragic event to finally understand this.
The interview took place in early September 2022. The full text is available here (English) and here (Finnish).
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“Bakal” at the exhibition in the Ural branch of the Pushkin Museum
Till March 12, 2023. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
Artist talk at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (Sweden)
November 23, 10:00 am, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden
Webinar “Visions of ecology” at the Macmillan Center, Yale
November 4, Friday, 12:00 pm EST, Zoom; Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center, Yale University, USA
Workshop “CV and portfolio for artists” in Arkhangelsk
September 17–18, Arkhangelsk Center for Contemporary Art
Premiere of the new project “Decision altitude” in Yekaterinburg
Till October 23, 2022. Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
Invitation to the Malt AIR residence
It’s planned that I’ll work in residence in Ebeltoft (Denmark) in March-June 2023
Participation in the exchange program in Stockholm
As part of a group of Swedish and Russian artists/curators, I participated in a networking project in Stockholm
The Bakal project at the exhibition “Point 55.754630, 37.638530”
Till July 3, 2022. GROUND Solyanka gallery, Moscow
The 2nd Ural Kvartirale
April 17, 16:00–19:00. NCCA in Ekaterinburg. Free admission
Interview at the studio
Conversation at my temporary studio in NCCA Ekaterinburg
“Eurotour” was mentioned in the publication of the Moscow Art Magazine
Researcher Polina Lukina mentioned my Eurotour project in her large review publication on the theme of coloniality...
Gomma Grant finalist
“Assemblage” is among the finalists of the Gomma Grant
Open studio
February 19, 16:00–18:00. NCCA in Ekaterinburg. Free admission
Winner of the Present Continuous contest
An annual joint initiative of the V–A–C Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA) is supported...
Participation in the conference “The Art and Practices of Hospitality”
November 25–28, Vyksa AiR