Category: Artist`s Stories

The creative industry has been hit hardest by the pandemic and artists have been the least protected from the 2020-2021 crisis. To overcome the pandemic consequences, there is a need to create a database of information material, the source of which would be the international experience of direct participants in the cultural sphere.

As a result, Kyiv NGO “Art research platform MOKONSHU” initiated the creation of a Library of artists stories and voices of artists from different countries and local contexts.

The pandemic experience research is part of the international art project “#365daysafter”, which brings together Ukraine, Croatia, Portugal and China in a joint study of the art of the 2020-2021 pandemic period, which has already involved more than 200 artists born and/or living in one of these countries. An important part of the art project are stories of creative experience of the COVID period from each participant, describing, characterizing and documenting the last year, through which we can remove the walls of social isolation built by the pandemic.

Olya Safina

Born 1989 in Kyiv region, Yagotynsky district in the village of Lozovy Yar. Interior designer, artist. Thanks to the quarantine, I met many other interesting artists both online and live.  Olya Safina Thanks to the pandemic, I have much more time to be creative. The pandemic has greatly affected my career as an artist. Before… Continue reading Olya Safina

Li Rui

1993 was born in China · Sichuan. Multidisciplinary. In the works, the body and senses are often placed in an unfamiliar context to re-read self-reading, exploring urban space, individual privacy, boundaries, power discourse, and personalized body perception and expression. 《Body Measurement》: March 2020 Chengdu in China Holding a pen in hand, the body keeps rotating… Continue reading Li Rui

Fu Qiang

Born 1992, China, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. Digital sculpture. …my computer had become a new tool…   Fu Qiang The epidemic was particularly sudden, school had to stop classes, there were unfinished graduation works which had not been completed. Fortunately, my potential was forced out, and my computer had become a new tool. In the… Continue reading Fu Qiang

Tania Bohuslavska

Born in 1990 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv. Works with photography, video,performance, painting and mixed media. …for me, it was a ‘technical’ break for inner recovery, enduring disparate (various) emotions…   Tania Bohuslavska Spring fracture, 2020This series records the beginning of quarantine in the spring and the easing of quarantine restrictions in… Continue reading Tania Bohuslavska

Maria Bondarenko

Born 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Painting. The artist is a reflection of his time…   Maria Bondarenko Everything that happens around-war, pandemics, crises, isolation-he passes through himself, through his essence, reproducing his thoughts, his positions and conclusions in artistic images. In the same way, I delve deeper into myself, analyze the changes and try to… Continue reading Maria Bondarenko

Peggy Le Poulen

Worked in France as a textile designer in carpet furnishing. Arrived in Shanghai in 2006. Painting. the Covid has made it possible to develop and make a big leap in digital, media and virtual.   Peggy Le Poulen My story on Covid-19. We suffered in Shanghai only one 6-week lockdown in March 2020. I am… Continue reading Peggy Le Poulen

Martinho Dias

Born 1968, Trofa, Portugal. Painting. At first I thought that the pandemic was a distant problem that would be overcome quickly. But I quickly realized the opposite.   Martinho Dias It didn’t take long for the whole world to be aware of their own powerlessness in the face of an invisible virus. When the effects… Continue reading Martinho Dias