Transition. Cultural Understanding, Integrity and Democracy in Ukraine and Beyond
A series of talks, accompanied by interventions of Ukrainian artists in the contemporary art collection
December 9, 2022 – May 7, 2023
Context
Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of Eastern, Central, and Western Europe has gained more and more geographical significance every year. However, communication problems between Eastern and Western parts of Europe were not solved. The conception of so - called "brotherly nations" and the mixing of cultural identity is a distortion and a mistake at the political level, which in part has led to the catastrophic consequences of today.
The European War of 2022, which started in Ukraine and has assumed the name "War against Ukraine," has put the entire world in a transition state. The War opens a global question of the independence and freedom, security, and integrity of Europe, and raises the issue of protecting democracy in countries within Europe and beyond.
The starting point for the conversations will be the artistic intervention of the Ukrainian artists in the contemporary collection of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur. The topics of the “Transition Talks” are mirroring the connections between the art works of the collection and the interventions.
Program
The complete program in the overview:
Transition Talk #1
December 9, 6 pm, Long Friday Night
Auditorium
Welcoming Words
Hermann Arnhold, Director LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Changes of Contemporary Society. War as a Transitional Mistake
Olena Pravylo, Chairwoman in NGO of the Congress of Cultural Activists of Ukraine and Expert in the project “Transition Dialogue”, Kyiv/UA in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Daniel Müller-Hofstede
Screening of the movie “The Ukrainians”
Introduction by Vitalii Adlermann, Kyiv/UA and Münster/G
2015, directed by Leonid Kanter, Ivan Vasniy, 85 min
8 pm, Auditorium
DJ-Set @cha0sy
from 9 pm, Foyer
Transition Talk #2
Myths and Lies of Empires I
January 17, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Victor Griza, Associate Professor of the Department of Cinema and Television Arts, Institute of Cinema and Television of Kyiv National University and creator of the art project “Apotheosis of the empire”, Kyiv/UA
and
Joanna Warsza, Co-curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 59 Venice Biennale, Program Director CuratorLab at Konstfack University, Interdependent Curator, Editor and Writer, Warsaw/PL and Berlin/G
in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Marianne Wagner
Transition Talk #3
Myths and Lies of Empires II
February 7, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Anke Hilbrenner, Professor of Eastern European History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Daniel Müller Hofstede
Transition Talk #4
Freedom and Perplexity. The Perebudova I
March 10, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Oleksandr Kovsh, Director of Documentaries and National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine Kyiv/UA
in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Nora Staege
Transition Talk #5
Freedom and Perplexity. The Perebudova II
March 23, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Rainald Schumacher, Curator at Deutsche Telekom Art Collection, Berlin/G
and
Daniil Galkin, Artist, Dnipro/UA
in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Marianne Wagner
Transition Talk #6
Border as a Concept of Independency
April 4, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea/UA
and
Marta Vashchuk, Artist, Kyiv/UA
in conversation with Kateryna Ray
Transition Talk #7
Monuments as a new Dynamic
April 14, 6 pm, Collection Contemporary Art, 2nd floor
Dorothea Schöne - art historian, curator, the director of the Kunsthaus Dahlem (Berlin), initiator of the exhibition dedicated to the competition "The Unknown Political Prisoner"
and
Daniil Shumikhin, Artist, Kherson/UA
in conversation with Kateryna Ray and Tanja Pirsig-Marshall
Interventions of Ukrainian artists in the contemporary exhibition
Daniil Shumikhin, The Hand 2022
Daniil Galkin, Nothing Common Nothing Personal 2016
Mykola Ridnyi, Shelter 2012
Marta Vashchuk, Verge or white-white snow 2016
Marta Vashchuk, Identification of personality 2014-2022
Nikita Kadan, Photo of the art work “Exhibit. Inseparable“ 2014
Oleg Tistol, Ukranian Money Projekt 1997-2007
Daniil Shumikhin, Temple 2017
