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.

Yaroslav Bilyk (UKR)

Painting The pandemic is making adjustments… Yaroslav Bilyk Year of life and knowledge, year of quarantine and search. The year of isolation made it possible to observe more, communicate with nature, contemplate the morning and evening conditions. Changes and rethinking encourage the creation of abstract but emotionally saturated and mysterious spots. Change is always good,… Continue reading Yaroslav Bilyk (UKR)

Oleksii Kozyr (UKR)

Born 1983. Painting. …I believe that, whenever possible, our entire life and, moreover, art, as the strongest tool for modeling states, is obliged to awaken in us the best, viable mood. Oleksii Kozyr The lockdown began during my stay in Kiev. When the city was paralyzed by a wave of quarantine measures and the spirit… Continue reading Oleksii Kozyr (UKR)

Vira Mukhina

Born 1982 in St.Petersburg. Resident in Kyiv, Ukraine. Watercolor and graphic artist. Quarantine gave me more time to watch. Vira Mukhina During the quarantine, I was more and more inspired by the sky. It’s endless free space, constantly changing and amazing! I really love to watch the clouds float, and now they have become an… Continue reading Vira Mukhina

Tea Švarić

Born and live in Croatia, Samobor. Sculpture. Everybody fell apart in some way during the corona crisis. Tea Švarić Aside for the pandemic problems there were a lot of earthquakes that aded up the stress. Many works were destroyed and new ones began to take shape as broke down stories. That reflects my thoughts and… Continue reading Tea Švarić

Nuno Fareleira

Born 2001 in Viseu, Portugal. Visual art. I feel like I came out of this pandemic a totally different person; renewed. Nuno Fereleira Most of my freshman year of college was spent at home creating in the space of my own room, on the wall, on the ground, wherever I was able to make space.… Continue reading Nuno Fareleira

Anna Pichuhina

Dnipro, Ukraine. Mixed media. Before the pandemic, I already had the background of self-isolation… Anna Pichuhina It was due to a long period of depression. Thus, lockdown, paradoxically, became for me a mechanism for rapprochement with people. After all, my habitual views on the world became more clear for my acquaintance only in quarantine. I… Continue reading Anna Pichuhina

Nora Bolanca

Born 1997 in Rijeka, Croatia. Photography. The pandemic influenced my artistic practice. I work more but my work is less exposed. Nora Bolanca I created the series of photographs “Self-isolation”, that is a product of the events of 2020. The world was facing new crises and we were forced to stay in our own homes… Continue reading Nora Bolanca