Research Platform
Research platform is an open platform for thinking, research, and discourse that is accessible to all. Housed in library at the 4th floor of the PinchukArtCentre the Research Platform conjoins research, exhibition making, and education.
At its core stands an academic project that aims to generate a living archive of Ukrainian Art from the early 80ties till present. The platform will attempt to engage with a broad understanding of artistic practices in Ukraine. It provokes interrogation potential to generate new interpretations and readings of the contemporary history of Ukrainian art.
Archive of contemporary Ukrainian art
SINCE 1980ʼS TILL NOWADAYS
An assignment of project — preserve, catalogue and rethink the information gathered. Through the institutional collaboration and individuals support who provide personal archives and share little-known information, the platform accumulate a large amount of material.
● Research Platform Exhibitions
With a growing body of materials that is collected through institutional collaborations and with individual support, the research platform is a centre of knowledge on Ukrainian art. Its mission is to preserve, catalogue and reconsider gained information. The results will be freely available in Ukrainian and English at the library and online.
An active public program rooted in the research engages broad audiences, the Ukrainian Art Community and international experts. Public debate stimulates to reflect on the role of historical research and archiving while re-thinking Ukrainian art history.
The Research Platform is a fundamentally open platform to build out partnerships both in and outside Ukraine sharing knowledge and expertise on archiving and Ukrainian art.
Nikita Kadan «Stone Hits Stone»
The book is published on the occasion of a solo exhibition by Nikita Kadan Stone Hits Stone and within the framework of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform.The historical past, in the form of ideologies, art and acts of political violence, lies at the heart of Kadan's oeuvre. He delves deep into the (Ukrainian) avant-garde and engages with the history of last century in Ukraine. Permeating the entire exhibition are historical events, objects and designs which the artist re-interprets with regard to modern-day pressing need to resist geopolitical failures, and far-right ideologies. With an acute sense of urgency, Kadan continues to talk about history as the here and now. But the exhibition goes beyond historical facts by addressing political violence embedded in binary world views. It makes the question of memory as such the subject of artistic expression while exposing and contrasting the political injuries caused to it. You can purchase the book Nikita Kadan «Stone Hits Stone» in the Yakaboo online book store Bookstore ONE LOVE books (2nd floor PinchukArtCentre)
Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art?
Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art? addresses the position and importance of women artists in Ukrainian art. This is one of the first attempts to narrate the history of Ukrainian art from the late 19th through the early 21st century through the framework of gender. The analytical texts and essays compiled here consider the practice and works of women artists in the historical, socioeconomical, political and feminist contexts. Acknowledged artists share the space with forgotten or obscure artists. Tackling the image of women in art and the theme of physicality, the authors demonstrate the transformations in art methods, and define the boundaries of creative freedom for male and female artists.
Parcommune. Place. Community. Phenomenon
The book has been based on the research that preceded an eponymous exhibition that was held in October 2016. The book includes articles that reveal the squat's history, analyse exhibition activities of its members and explore the importance of Parcommune as a phenomenon in whole. All the information is presented in the historic context of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and supported with archival materials collected by the Research Platform team from the Ukrainian art scene figures.
Fedir Tetyanych. Fripulia
The book is dedicated to the life and work of Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007) – Ukrainian artist whose artistic practice encompassed happenings, painting, graphics, objects, installations in public space, and more. Tetyanych is primarily known for his concept of "Fripulia," which at a certain point became the name of its author.
As an artist, Fedir Tetyanych developed in the late 1960s when the Khrushchev Thaw was still resonating in the USSR, while in Europe and the USA, art movements such as Arte Povera and Fluxus made loud statements. The way of existence and the sense of life as a prolonged performance connect Tetyanych's practice to these artistic phenomena, and at the same time, he did not hesitate to create monumental works commissioned by the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.
The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Fedir Tetyanych. Canon Fripulia," which took place at the art center in 2017 as part of the PinchukArtCentre's Research Platform. Printed with the support of the "Museum XX-XXI" initiative.
Authors-compilers:
Tetiana Zhmurko
Tatiana Kochubinska