“Through Maidan and Beyond”

This creative project is organized by the Kyiv Vision Foundation in cooperation with Kyiv-based contemporary art platform RSA. Visitors at its inauguration included Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria Sebastian Kurz, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Austria Oleksandr Shcherba, and representatives of Austrian political and cultural scenes.

“Through Maidan and Beyond” is the first exhibition of the Ukrainian contemporary art to be presented at the prestigious cultural forum Vienna Art Week. The project examines the circumstances that prompted the mass protests, events of the Euromaidan, and the changes it has brought. “Through Maidan and Beyond” has as its objectives introducing the international audience to the Ukrainian contemporary art and encouraging the development of cultural dialog between the two countries.

“Over this year, the European public was sometimes getting biased information about the changes that took place in Ukraine,” the  project’s organizer Oleksii Chernyshov told the press. “We figured out that art and leading representatives of Ukrainian cultural scene could tell the story of these changes better than newspapers and TV stations, and so the idea of ‘Through Maidan and Beyond’ was born. The project is being offered as part of the Vienna Art Week, and moreover, it is hosted at an iconic venue, the famous museum center MuseumsQuartier.”

“Through Maidan and Beyond” introduces the viewer to works of 23 Ukrainian artists: Borys Mykhailov, Serhii Bratkov, Zhanna Kadyrova, Mykyta Kadan, Artem Volokitin, Roman Minin, Anna Zviahintseva, Alevtina Kakhidze, Lada Nakonechna, Lesia Khomenko, Anatolii Bielov, Dobrynia Ivanov, Maria Kulikovska, Mykola Ridny, Myroslav Vaida, Oleksii Radynsky, the R.E.P. group, Sasha Kurmaz, Vasyl Lozynsky, Vlada Ralko, Volodymyr Kuznietsov, Vova Vorotniev, and Yevhenia Bielorusets.

Some works were created long before the mass protests in response to human rights and freedoms violations, others were created these days as reflections of current events.

The exhibition will run until November 30.