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Exhibition
18.11.23 – 23.02.24

FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL

KATERYNA ALIINYK, YULIA APPEN, ULYANA BYCHENKOVA, YULIA DANYLEVSKA, OKSANA KAZMINA, KATERYNA LISOVENKO, VASYL LYAH / TKACHENKO, MUSICAL COLLECTIVE, MARIA PRONINA, SASHKO PROTYAH, SVITLAVA SHYMKO, OLEKSANDR SUROVTSOV, NATASHA TZELIUBA, ALINA YAKUBENKO, GALYNA YARMANOVA

Curated by Ivana Marjanović in collaboration with Oksana Kazmina

The exhibition presents art works by the Freefilmers Mariupol collective whose members formerly lived and worked in the East Ukrainian coastal industrial city of Mariupol. Projects created before and during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine commemorate places, social and cultural infrastructures, which have been erased by Russian troops and reflect on complex processes in war-torn Ukraine today. Through art activism, the artists continue to struggle against the Russian invasion. Works  are accompanied by a few projects by other Ukrainian artists whose practice, and struggle the collective appreciates and is in solidarity with. The exhibition presents video performances, short experimental films, paintings, and drawings.  

Freefilmers began as a network of filmmakers and artists based in Mariupol. After the Russian invasion, the collective transformed into a grassroots humanitarian co-operative helping the most vulnerable people in Ukraine. Since 2018, they have been working on topics of urban transformations in East Ukraine and its multicultural entanglements. They have also researched the working-class creativity and industrial past and present of post-socialist cities. Freefilmers make films as aware and sensitive to the reality as possible, and mainly focus on human life, the struggle against imperialist war all over the world, and the struggle for equality and freedom.    

DONATIONS TO FREEFILMERS: https://help-freefilmers.network/ 

 

VERANSTALTUNGEN WÄHREND DER AUSSTELLUNG

ERÖFFNUNG
17.11.23, 18:00
FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL
mit Führung, anschließender Party 

LECTURE PERFORMANCE
18.11.23, 12:00
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF UKRAINE
mit Oksana Kazmina

FÜHRUNG
01.02.24, 18:00
FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL
mit Ivana Marjanovic

ARTIST TALK
15.02.24, 18:00
ARTIST TALK
mit Natasha Tseliuba, Freefilmers Mariupol

WORKSHOP
16.02.24, 16:00-18:00
THE FOOD WE SHARE
mit Natasha Tseliuba 

ARTIST TALK
23.02.24, 16:00
BODY OF THE EMPIRE
mit Kateryna Lisovenko