{"id":61781,"date":"2016-10-18T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=48248"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T09:01:04","slug":"48248-uk-artists-at-33-soshenko-art-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/48248-uk-artists-at-33-soshenko-art-studios","title":{"rendered":"UK artists present their Ukraine works in Kyiv\u2019s historic residency place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two UK artists staying in Ukraine within a residency program presented their works to the artistic community at the 33 Soshenko Art Studios. Ukrainian artists who had to also assume the role of civic activists to preserve the studios speak about the history of the place and share their future plans.
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UK-Ukraine artistic residency program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Tynan and Sarah Lippett are two of the six UK artists who worked in Ukraine in the framework of an artistic residency program. The program entitled SWAP<\/a> is initiated and run by the British Council. It places Ukrainian artists on residency programs in the UK and vice versa: gives UK artists opportunity to explore Ukraine\u2019s artistic scene and work over their own projects in artistic residencies in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

On September 24 Sarah Tynan and Sarah Lippett presented their works at the 33 Soshenko Art Studios to the artistic community and spoke about the projects they were following while in residence in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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33 Soshenko Art Studios. Photo by Anna Sorokovaya.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Tynan\u2019s take on Kyiv\u2019s modernist architecture and decommunization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Tynan, Dublin-born and London-based artist was resident at the 33 Soshenko Art Studios in Kyiv in September 2016. Sarah holds a Master degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. Installation is a technique the artist widely uses to research individual space within a wider urban public context. Tynan\u2019s \u201cMultifaith<\/a>\u201d work received the Dazed Emerging Artist Award in 2015. The work is a reconstruction of an actual chapel in Austria from which all the religious symbols were removed.<\/p>\n

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Artist Sarah Tynan. Photo by Anna Sorokovaya.
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\nIn Kyiv Sarah Tynan\u2019s particular interest was with the city\u2019s modernist architecture, some of the examples of which include the \u201cSalute\u201d hotel, the Crematorium and the \u201cTarilka\u201d concert hall. Sarah expressed the opinion that apart from its direct function the Soviet-style architecture used to have a strong ideological component and affected people mentally. The process of decommunization also captured the artist\u2019s attention. \u201cAlthough the Soviet system was extremely difficult, I don\u2019t agree with erasing history,\u201d commented the artist. \u201cDestroying artwork is extremely negative,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou should not erase that part of the conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The work, that Sarah started while on the residency program in Ukraine, is still work-in-progress. The artist demonstrated an artistic piece of what she hopes will become a big wall. It comes as a curtain split by sections each of which is filled with what reminds of house debris and refers to the idea of demolished buildings that are being covered with fabric.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her motivation to come to Ukraine Sarah Tynan said: \u201cI was really interested in seeing what it is like living and working in a city which is so close after Maidan and what it means for art making.\u201d The artist said she was impressed with enthusiasm that Ukrainian artists demonstrate despite little governmental support. She noted that they are really anxious to make arts and create the artistic infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Sarah Lippett\u2019s yellow-and-blue graphic stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Lippett is a London-based graphic artist. She graduated from the Royal College of Art. Sarah has produced a number of illustrations for magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Guardian and Time Out. She is the author of the graphic novel \u201cStan and Nan\u201d that tells a touching personal story of relationship between the artist\u2019s grandmother and grandfather whom she never met. Sarah\u2019s graphic works<\/a> and comic strips were published as books and make part of public space. Within the SWAP residency project in Ukraine, Sarah Lippett spent a month at the Muzychi<\/a> Expanded History Project \u2013 a residency space outside Kyiv organized and run by Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze.<\/p>\n

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Artist Sarah Lippett. Photo by Anna Sorokovaya
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\nLippett\u2019s Ukrainian work is a series of graphic stories based on conversations with residents of Muzychi and other people as well as on visual documenting. To illustrate her stories the artist uses the colors of the Ukrainian flag. \u201cI was told everyone paints everything blue and yellow after 2014 and I thought it was brilliant,\u201d Sarah explains. Speaking about her Ukrainian experience the artist said she was impressed with the generosity of Ukrainian people. \u201cI also really love the buses you have here \u2013 you pass the money [to pay the ticket],\u201d she said. For the presentation of interim results of her residency work in Muzychi Sarah made what she calls her \u201cown Muzychi money\u201d with Alevtina Kakhidze, her husband and a dog that the guests could use and pass to the driver of the special bus that was supposed to take them to the village. Sarah\u2019s Ukrainian works may well transform into a book, the artist noted, that she would be also happy to have translated into Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Lippett’s Ukraine-inspired\u00a0graphic\u00a0art piece. Photo: the Muzychi Expanded History Project.
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\n33 Soshenko Art Studios: artistic cradle for six decades <\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the presentations of artists Anna Sorokovaya and Taras Kovach, artists and curators of the 33 Soshenko Art Studios, made an excursion along the 33 Soshenko Art Studios. The curators spoke about the residency\u2019s origin, history, their struggle to preserve the space for artists and about their future plans. Premises of the 33 Soshenko Art Studios were constructed in 1949 as a private villa but were soon transferred to the Ukrainian branch of the USSR\u2019s Arts Fund while still under construction. The house provided working space to artists \u2013 fresh graduates for three years and was sort of an \u201cartistic residency\u201d at that time. In the 60s the studios were re-subordinated to the USSR Academy of Arts, they continued to serve as workshops for fresh graduates. According to Anna Sorokovaya, in the Soviet time the studios used to be the place of free artistic expression, exchange of ideas and non-censorship. The studios\u2019 suburban location and thus less control and pressure exercised upon them made it possible to maintain this unique spirit over the years. \u201cSpirit of freedom was present here even in times when the strictest control was exercised,\u201d said Taras Kovach. \u201cKyiv was considered to be at the periphery, that\u2019s why control over artists and artistic activities here was not so rigid\u201d, he added. \u201cAll who used to work here in their memories mention that it was a place where active and free communication was swirling even in the times when everything around was very strict,\u201d explained Anna Sorokovaya. \u201cMany refer to the place as to the one that formed them as professionals, as artists,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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Anna Sorokovaya, curator of the\u00a033 Soshenko Art Studios. Photo provided by Anna Sorokovaya<\/em><\/p>\n

As Ukraine got its independence, the 33 Soshenko Art Studios as well as the land plot around them were transferred into the property of the National Academy of Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. The studios preserved their postgraduate function serving as workshops for artists. Currently there are nine workshops in the studios. In 2012 illegal construction was supposed to start on the land plot where the studios are standing. A 25-storied residential building was the ultimate goal. Artists struggled to preserve the studios by getting to the streets to protest as well as by collecting legal documents to get the heritage status for the studios. Local residents supported the artists. Illegal construction was stopped. In 2014 resulting from efforts of the artistic activist group the premises were granted the status of a cultural heritage site. In 2015 the studios were one of the locations within “The School of Kyiv”\u00a0– Kyiv Biennial 2015. The studios\u2019 curators envisage their plans to keep developing the studios as workshops for artists as well as the residency place. \u201cWe are not only anxious to save the place but to keep developing it as a residency and develop its educational functionality important to the Arts Academy,\u201d Taras Kovach said.<\/p>\n

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Taras Kovach, curator of the 33 Soshenko Art Studios. Photo by Anna\u00a0Sorokovaya.<\/p>\n

Cover photo: Sarah Tynan and Sarah Lippett present their Ukraine works at the 33 Soshenko Art Studios. Photo by Anna Sorokovaya.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article was amended on October 21, 2016 to clarify that historically the main function of the 33 Soshenko Art Studios has been postgraduate education. The studios have been providing workshops to artists \u2013 recent graduates. The studios\u2019 curators are now trying to expand this role and be also developing the premises as residency.<\/p>\n

An earlier version also referred to “The School of Kyiv”\u00a0– Kyiv Biennial 2015 as the Kyiv Contemporary Art Biennial.
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