Poetry I started writing during the pandemic… Dolphina Reef I started writing during the pandemic and we decided to work together with the illustrator Tina and develop further, there is still a closed work, but there is already a desire to show something and this exhibition is very suitable for us and is interesting in… Continue reading Dolphina Reef (UKR)
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.
Matea Zeman
Rijeka, Croatia. Sculpture, Murano glass. This year has been demanding, tense, media-poisoned, static in life, but artistically rich. Matea Zeman Working in glass set me free and I feel it more than usual. The masks, apart from my mother’s illness which she fortunately successfully overcame, are what affected me the most. Mask- a visual barrier,… Continue reading Matea Zeman
Olha Yefymova (Ellaya)
Kyiv, Ukraine. Painting. I realized that I don’t like to make digital art and want to be an artist as I always dreamed to be (working with real brushes) Ellaya I am aspiring Ukrainian artist started my path in art during pandemic in 2020. I have medical education and good understanding of such measure like… Continue reading Olha Yefymova (Ellaya)
Kateryna Bortsova (UKR)
Painting, graphic art. This period prompted me to create a series of portraits. Kateryna Bortsova In April 2020 I start a series of portraits reflecting the internal state of a person in self isolation. This period prompted me to create a series of portraits. In them I want to convey my perception of this situation… Continue reading Kateryna Bortsova (UKR)
Nazar Kulchytsky
Born 1984, Lviv, Ukraine. Stained glass. …pandemia gave understanding that not all black – black, not all white – white… Nazar Kulchytsky During the COVID-19 * pandemic, I had time to analyze, rethink all the experience of the pandemic year and the time before the pandemic. The pandemic has changed a lot in my head,… Continue reading Nazar Kulchytsky
Kateryna Ocheredko (UKR)
Graphic art My art has become more personal… Kateryna Ocheredko I spent the whole of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 in a foreign country as, due to the closure of borders, I could not return. I fell ill with covid and all experience, worries, fear embodied i transferred in my works. The questions that… Continue reading Kateryna Ocheredko (UKR)
Anastasiia Arakcheieieva (UKR)
Artist, illustrator. I was quite isolated from others as an artist even before the quarantine. Anastasiia Arakcheieieva I never understood how the pandemic affected me. I watched how it affected other people. I was quite isolated from others as an artist even before the quarantine. And when the time came for May holidays like Easter,… Continue reading Anastasiia Arakcheieieva (UKR)
Maryana Kosyka
Born 1992 in Chernelytsia, Horodenka district Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine. Graphic art. We, little fish, are born in grace and, only by being in it, can we be unharmed… Maryana Kosyka “Golden Stars” Through gestures, through touches, Everything happens between the stars. The light of wonders, the wonders of heaven, Everything happens for the sake of… Continue reading Maryana Kosyka
Bohdan Svyrydov (UKR)
Born in the USSR. Multidisciplinary artist. Some of my acquaintances were stressed by the lockdown, but for me this period was only a joy. Bohdan Svyrydov The first quarantine period was the most productive for me. I went to the studio and spent whole days creating works. And besides that, I walked with friends on… Continue reading Bohdan Svyrydov (UKR)
Tania Belashchuk (UKR)
Painting, watercolor. I received a very positive influence during the lockdown. Tania Belashchuk The pandemic time provides for me a lot of opportunities and it’s the most productive time in my art career. I received a very positive influence during the lockdown. I live in the small far village, here I almost didn’t feel the… Continue reading Tania Belashchuk (UKR)