FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL

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/ 

EVENTS

17.11.23 18:00 OPENING FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL

18.11.23 12:00 LECTURE PERFORMANCE

01.02.24 18:00 GUIDED TOUR FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL MIT IVANA MARJANOVIĆ  

15.02.24 18:00 ARTIST TALK WITH NATASHA TSELIUBA / FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL  

16.02.24 16:00-18:00 THE FOOD WE SHARE DRAWING-WORKSHOP WITH NATASHA TSELIUBA  

23.02.24 16:00 BODY OF THE EMPIRE ARTIST TALK WITH KATERYNA LISOVENKO