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.

Nadya Mitskevitch

Born in Moscow, Russia. Resident in Kyiv, Ukraine.Artist, illustrator. …finding myself at home, in a studio, locked up, I began to draw works, working on the theme of violence. Nadya Mitskevitch Statistics say that during the quarantine period, the number of cases of domestic violence increased in many countries. Since 2019, I have taken up… Continue reading Nadya Mitskevitch

Maria López and Josephine Gerhardt

Maria López, a Lisbon based architect and artist and Josephine Gerhardt, an artist and architects based in Karlsruhe. Our project is rooted in the pandemic situation Maria and Josephine We are Maria and Josephine, an artist duo created in 2020 world pandemic, based in Lisbon, Portugal and Karlsruhe, Germany. We are two friends from Portugal… Continue reading Maria López and Josephine Gerhardt

Eduard Potapenkov

Born 1968 in Dnipro, Ukraine. Painting. The world of sleep, self-isolation froze in anticipation of the offline season. And Quarantine, virus, isolation, death will remain in virtuality. Of course, the pandemic affected me. Although, in fact, she did not change either my routine or the workspace, but I, like the rest of the world, shook… Continue reading Eduard Potapenkov

Lyudmila Davydenko

Born 1965, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine. Painting. I have been affected by the quarantine and pandemics as everyone. But I can`t tell that it is a negative experience.   Lyudmila Davydenko The time of quarantine, pandemic and self-isolation, which lasts at intervals of 2 years, gives rise to thoughts about different states and reactions to external changes… Continue reading Lyudmila Davydenko

Dmytro Tarasenko

Born 1988 in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. Painting. The pandemic will surely pass, it’s a matter of time, and you can’t get away from dialogue with yourself.   Dmytro Tarasenko Last year’s quarantine began with the fact that everything stopped – business, people, time. “Chaos and panic” reigned all around in the sense that this virus seemed… Continue reading Dmytro Tarasenko

Liudmyla Rashtanova

Born 1981, Kyiv, Ukraine. Quarantine changes plans Liudmyla Rashtanova Quarantine changes plans. Part of the series was sent to Dubai at Atr Dubai 2021 in the winter of 2021, part remained, and should be part of the Nord Art exhibition in Germany. For the first time, I’m not exhibiting a whole series. The art work… Continue reading Liudmyla Rashtanova

Zhihui Zhang (China)

Born 1990s. Digital collage. Graduating during the Covid-19 was such a special experience for me,I did enjoyed my first solo showcase in my backyard, my first European residency at De Liceiras 18 in Porto, and my turning point from being a free art student to a newer member of the full-time work. In China, the… Continue reading Zhihui Zhang (China)