UART MEDIA FEST is organized by the Gulliver multifunctional complex, which has the largest facade screens in Europe, in cooperation with the international company MEET FUTURE.

Motion designers, 3D visual, and light designers are invited to participate in the international multimedia contest and festival UART MEDIA FEST 2024. Contestants may win grants to develop their projects and have an opportunity to showcase their videos on the largest facade screens in Europe for thousands of festival visitors. The participants may compete in two areas: tech-heavy media art and digital & crypto-art.

Why Participate to the UART MEDIA FEST

The festival will take place on the 5th of October, 2024 in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine. The works of talented motion designers from all over the world will be showcased to thousands of visitors on the large facade screens. The final screening of the participants’ works on the screens of the Gulliver multifunctional complex will take place on the 5th of October, 2024.

The winners, who will be determined by eminent industry representatives, will receive grants for the further development of their projects. The two winners of the UART MEDIA FEST competition will receive an award of $3000 for the best video and $1000 for NFT and the opportunity to cooperate with MEET FUTURE, i.e. the opportunity to present their work on the largest international media platforms.

Creative studios or individual designers can submit their video works that were created before or create content specifically for the festival. The topic of the second UART MEDIA FEST is “The Universe in Everyone”. For more information about participation and conditions, follow the link.

Gulliver shopping mall always strives to be at the forefront of cultural and social events. We are pleased to organize such an innovative festival, which confirms our status as a leading cultural center of the capital. Together with our partners MEET FUTURE, we continue to write the creative history of the country together, telling about our endless possibilities. Kateryna Zhurakivska, Marketing Director of the Gulliver shopping mall, comments. MEET FUTURE, the international company, the expert and trendsetter in innovative technologies and events, has become the organizational and executive partner of UART MEDIA FEST. The festival will be part of the big birthday celebration of the Gulliver shopping center, which celebrates 11 years in October. The event will combine traditional art and digital installations of the future, united by the topic of artificial intelligence.

UART MEDIA FEST was the first event of this scale in Ukraine, which took place in October 2023 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Gulliver shopping mall. The festival attracted both national and international audiences: 22 artists from different countries took part in the contest, and their works were seen by 1000 festival visitors offline and 4000 viewers during online translation. All works were distinguished by their unique style and concept, but were united by the theme “The Light in Everyone”. This event became the starting point for a new format of cultural events in the country, combining contemporary art and digital tools of the future.

UART MEDIA FEST has won the 14th edition of the Eventex Awards 2024, the world’s most prestigious marketing award.

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About Tanya Bilous

Born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1987, a city on the western side of Ukraine, Tanya Bilous still lives and works there. 

Coming from a family of artistic souls, Tanya studies music and violin at high school. She also approaches fine arts, but at that time, she couldn’t find the right motivation to pursue a further interest. So, later on, Bilous applied for psychology studies, a discipline that well suited her ability to deepen human emotions and feel helpful. She indeed felt the urge to support people in need when in 2014, during the first Russian war endeavor towards Ukraine, she wished to help her country with the emergency.

After her psychology studies, Tanya also held a Master’s Degree in tourism at University. For this, she lived in Turkey for a while, working in the entertainment industry. Tanya loves people. Exploring different cultures is why she sees traveling as one of her most vital interests. Believing that life is short and one shall get the most out of it, Tanya started to feel the desire to exploit her feelings more significantly. That’s when art arrived as a rescue remedy to her needs. Life made her encounter a great art teacher, Liudomyr Khudiak, whom Tanya still considers accountable for encouraging her to commit to painting. He pushed her to believe in herself as an artist and was also an excellent psychologist to her. He saw in Tanya the energy she was waiting to share with the outside world.

Hello Tanya, and welcome back. When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I am trying to remember when exactly I understood it. Art is something that was always part of my life in different forms and different ways. I graduated from music school and studied art at school. Back then, as a teenager, I knew that in the reality where I grew up, there was no way for me to make decent money with art. Later, when I had a successful career as an English-Ukrainian interpreter, I started painting again. It was an inner push for fulfillment as I didn’t feel happy. I found an art teacher, started painting a lot in his studio, and after a year, participated in a group exhibition. I was 28.

Please briefly describe your technique and tell us what drives you to make art.

I paint with the help of oil paints on canvas. Oil paint is my favorite medium, with its character and peculiarities. I like the softness and, at the same time, the hardness of the textures they can create. It gives additional freedom in my expression. I love painting abstract as well as figurative art and landscapes. My inner need for expression drives me. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, my topic has been war and its influence on people.

What is the main feature that has changed in your work or practice?

The expression changes. I used to paint bright landscapes and flowers. Now my landscapes are dark and red, very sharp and vivid.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

My inspiration was always Picasso. I love the freedom in his art. Ukrainian artists Hlushchenko and Exter inspire me as well. Speaking of a modern artists, that would be Kiefer and Kryvolap. Besides visual arts, I love music, theatre, dance, and movies.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

The best way to engage with my work is to buy it

Tell us something more about your new exhibition in Sweden.

I opened an exhibition, “LANDSCAPES” at the Museum of Modern Art and Design in Värnamo, Sweden. The show consists of a series of ten paintings reflecting on the war in Ukraine.

Every day going to work, taking children to kindergarten or school, jogging along the river, or having a walk in the forest we
notice the beauty of the nature surrounding us. Every day, nature and landscapes are changing due to the weather or seasons or even
our mood. Everything we have ever seen, experienced, heard, or felt stays with us forever.

We might not remember it, but our subconscious does. Some landscapes stick in our memory or our hearts once we have seen them. When having a blast, the most memorable moments will bring out landscapes connected to those moments. Those memories can trigger the sound of a train, river, plane, or voice; the smell of rain, fall, fire, or water; the vision of trees, fields, mountains, buildings, or roads. We cannot control the visions when the trigger pulls. It happens automatically, even before our mind starts processing it.
Sometimes our memories take us to beautiful and happy moments; sometimes, we remember the most painful and horrible ones.
The ten paintings “Landscapes?” were created in peaceful and charming Sweden during my art residency in Värnamo. I observed the calmness of the lakes here, the eternity of the green forests, long bright sunsets, and the serenity of the river while having my long walks. However, all I could see was Ukraine.
No matter where I went or how long I was walking, everything reminded me of my home landscapes. Those dear landscapes became flooded by blood and tears. Those landscapes no longer smell of sunflowers and wheat but gunpowder, smoke, and corps. Those landscapes are no longer blue and yellow but turned black and red.

Tanya is part of VictoryArt a platform that sells and represents contemporary eastern European art based in Rotterdam.

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Oleg Gryshchenko is a Ukrainian artist and co-founder of Pictoric. He loves the ancient art and style of engraving. It is exciting for him to work with it, using the capabilities of modern graphic editors. Oleg likes to refer to historical and cultural artifacts in his works. His most successful work is a series depicting mythological stories about real Ukraine’s struggle against the Russian aggressor. They have been successful and received many positive reviews at international exhibitions he has held since the beginning of the invasion. 

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What is Pictoric?

Pictoric is an online platform and community of illustrators and creatives to fight against Russian aggression in Ukraine. They collect and create illustrations, posters, and comic books to support Ukraine and its people, convey accurate information, and inspire the world to fight for freedom and democracy.

What is Warline?

WARLINE became the first Pictoric project in the NFT sphere. It is a chronology of the Ukrainian history of modern times, set in stone. The NFTs are facts accompanied by personal reflections. The formula of each NFT is clear and straightforward: each token is a real news piece from an official source and an illustration from Ukrainian and international artists. 

For its 8th drop, the Warline collection by META HISTORY created a collaboration with Pictoric, the largest community of Ukrainian illustrators, graphic designers, and artists, which includes more than 700 works. 

Interview with the founder of the Ukrainian art community Pictoric, Oleg Gryshchenko.

Pictoric, the largest community of Ukrainian illustrators, graphic designers, and artists, created 50 works of art for Warline, the largest charity NFT collection about war.

The collection, which includes more than 700 works, became the first Pictoric project in the NFT sphere. The team of META HISTORY museum, which creates Warline, invited the community to bring the level of work in the collection to a qualitatively new level. To do NFTs it’s not only a symbol of gratitude to buyers whose money helps Ukraine but also a valuable collector’s item, which will increase in price in the future. It fits the goal of Pictoric, whose founders strive to represent Ukraine in the international arena with worthy artistic projects. The NFT art, which is at the peak of discussion for the third year, must be addressed by any organization operating on the cultural front. 

The co-founder of Pictoric, Oleg Hryshchenko, speaks about the collaboration designed to portray Ukraine better.

Why did you choose Warline to support Ukraine?

We have made more than 50 exhibitions in different countries of the world together with Pictoric partners. All of them were in a more traditional format. We understand that to disseminate information about events in Ukraine. We must use all opportunities. Each of us now spends a lot of time online. Accordingly, art must also adapt and find its audience where it is convenient to interact with art. And if the popularity of NFT looks like a chance to win the support of hundreds of thousands of people in our fight for independence, why not use it to say something important? Therefore, Pictoric cooperates with META HISTORY, entering a new niche – art combined with the most modern technologies.

What exactly did you like about the concept of META HISTORY?

We wanted to find a project for partnership, the idea of which would not be superficial. There are a lot of initiatives. However, they appear and disappear without attracting the viewer’s attention in the future. A strong concept is needed to stay in the audience’s field of vision in the long term to claim their affection. 

META HISTORY has it: clear, transparent, needed by society, with the potential to enter the state’s history. After all, it is necessary to document and tell about the events. And about the authors who create this chronicle for future generations. It is also essential to attract money to help Ukraine. We support these goals and want to be with the team that achieves them.

Do you think Pictoric, along with META HISTORY, will make it?

Warline is an incredibly relevant project. And with the war’s end, it will not lose its relevance. On the contrary, its value will increase in the future. After all, our victory is inevitable. And in the future, more artists will be willing to join the struggle. At least to learn about its history is to know about Ukraine’s path, changing itself and the world. So all that is required of us, by and large, is to continue to capture history for the future, making full use of the talent of the artists. Time will do the rest: the fog of war will dissipate, the truth will be revealed, and propaganda will be defeated.

Does it matter that META HISTORY is an NFT project?

I am now more of an observer who joins individual conceptual projects with interest. It is also the first full-fledged NFT project for Pictoric Warlinethat we implemented. But in general, new opportunities in art are attractive to me. They mean development and moving forward, thanks to the evolution of technology. There is an opinion that art is dead and nothing new appears. But no – art continues to find new forms and possibilities. As an artist, it keeps me in shape and excites me as a connoisseur. However, I have yet to purchase any NFT jobs. For now, my job is to create it.

In your opinion, which art actions are the most effective for communicating with the world about Ukraine?

If we talk about our experience and those projects in the Pictoric curatorial group with Olena Staranchuk and Anna Sarvira, the most successful was the tough campaigns. By combining the efforts of illustrators, journalists, and cultural managers, we reach the widest audience and receive feedback and support that allow us to develop the project further.

One of the best examples today is the project “Even in dark times, there is light,” where we tell visual stories about the struggle of ordinary Ukrainians, where personal initiatives and heroes are volunteers, children, teachers, athletes, and many others. And since each hero has his audience, the project finds a way to reach those people whom we are unlikely to acquire.

What will you personally do after Ukraine’s victory in the war?

I love to travel. Therefore, after the victory, I want to travel through Ukraine. Specifically, de-occupied cities where to implement creative projects and create a new Ukrainian culture.

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GUNIA Project is an Ukrainian brand of exceptional interior items & accessories focused on crafts and significant decor — it expands and rethinks traditional craftsmanship through effort and imagination. The founders are two Ukrainian designers, Natalia  and Maria Gavryliuk. 

Their main goal is to preserve Ukraine’s national values and tell the world about the country’s beauty in a modern way. Inspired by their ancestors’ deep and rich cultural heritage, Natalia and Maria produce ceramics, glass, homeware, and accessories.

The main philosophy of the brand is not to limit itself.

The brand wants to interpret the Ukrainian heritage in various forms and without boundaries.

For instance, they produce candles, sculptures, carpets, and jewelry. Also, Gunia creates educational content via social, shares information about artisanal crafts, and is planning to expand the variety of activities even more in the future.

The brand uses folk crafts to inspire and uses traditional culture to create designer products.

Ukrainian Heritage

Ukraine has a vast cultural potential, filled with rich traditions and cultural manifestations, regrettably mainly unfamiliar to most people.

Therefore, one of the main goals of Ukrainian brands is to spread accurate information about their national masterpieces, by overturning stereotypes and existing artificial perceptions. 

GUNIA Project is among the brands that aim to change the global views about our country formed in the past and show its new and modern present. From time immemorial, many stereotypes have gathered around Ukraine; GUNIA Project tries to influence human thoughts about Ukraine and change them.

The primary compass of the brand’s work is the modernization of art and giving a second life to those forgotten things and meanings. With its careful approach to resurrecting traditions in design, GUNIA Project develops a culture of caring for crafts, materials, and traditions, nurturing conscious consumption and emotional attachment to things.

About the Founders 

The founders and art directors of GUNIA Project — Natalia Kamenskaya and Maria Gavrilyuk worked together for a long time in the fashion industry and, in 2019, joined forces to create GUNIA Project.

The central vision drives the creative duo to create the future inspired by the best practices of the past and its modern interpretation. 

The first product released under the brand name was the Hutsul wool coat gunia, handmade in the Carpathians. It is in honor of this product that GUNIA Project got its name.

Artists

Ukraine has a rich and ancient culture of handicrafts, thanks to the country’s deep history and the artists that have entangled that account into their masterpieces with their own hands. GUNIA Project supports Ukrainian artisans and revives ancient Ukrainian techniques to uncover the underexplored world of Ukrainian craft for people interested in art and its roots and for aesthetic connoisseurs.

The search for artists specializing in rare techniques is a very responsible process. Still, the founders prepare carefully and never limit the purpose of the hunt because they often find even more than just talented people. They often find a perfect addition to the team, a fascinating story behind it, or an inspiration for the new collection.

Throughout the brand’s journey, the GUNIA Project team has worked with various techniques to produce multiple items. Among them are the guta glass, ceramics, gunia’s, and textile items.   

Tempered glass

One of the unique techniques is the production of Guta glass which then takes the form of artful homeware. It is traditionally made in the Carpathiansthe mountainous region in the Western part of Ukraine by a particularly unique method. Everything is done delicately by hand to create products of the proper shape, then color is added. 

It is worth noting that glass has its characteristics. Thus, it is quite challenging to work with, so the craftsmen can rightly call themselves true artists as they have a set of specific techniques and methods of manual processing of glass in a hot state that are pretty complicated to replicate.

Ceramics

Creating clay dishes or decorative items is a meticulous multi-step process into which artists invest all their knowledge and experience. In Ukraine, ceramic plates traditionally used by Ukrainian housewives were made by hand and decorated with hand-painted ornaments and patterns. GUNIA borrowed and adapted the idea to the modern world, producing items that can look great in the kitchen and when used as decor. 

Such dishes can become a true jewel in the house, adding a touch to the age-old experience of our ancestors. The GUNIA Project founders developed unique designs inspired by Ukrainian stained glass, antique towels, and Ukrainian folklore.

Gunia weaving

The most iconic thing for the brand is a traditional Hutsul fur coat called “gunia”, woven from sheared sheep’s wool called gunia. That’s where the brand name came from. 

Creating such a fur coat takes several weeks and is done exclusively by hand. Gunias were worn as work clothes when people tended to sheep in the mountains. The artists with exceptional technology and skills emphasize that making gunia beautiful and lush is vital. Every detail in this delicate work is essential, especially making yarns on ancient precious musical instruments using technologies passed down from older generations.

Textile

The founders’ release of the first collection of ornamented silk scarves by GUNIA Project was in 2018, inspired by Ukrainian embroidered towels of the XVIII century from the archives of the Ivan Honchar Museum.

The First Gunia Collection

When preparing the first collection, Maria and Natasha established an inevitable and close connection with other arts — painting, icons, woodwork, and ceramics. Scarves and bandanas of the brand made of silk and wool decorated with ornaments based on naive folk paintings or ceremonial holiday sewing are all handmade and stand out with a unique color palette.

Wickerwork

In Ukraine, there are whole villages where the main activity of the population is wickerwork. In ancient times, the entire family took part in this process. Each product is a unique creation that reflects the author’s mood, skill, and character. The method of wickerwork is truly magical, especially the special preparation of thin cane or whole vines for weaving. The artists make a basket with their own hands and put soul into each item, which usually takes a full day of hard work. 

GUNIA Project shows us repeatedly that everything created by the artists is always special and unique because it has its energy, history, and soul. Masterpieces of wickerwork, filled with vital content, could become a talisman for any home.

GUNIA Project is a brand that has absorbed traditions, customs, and artistic heritage and turned these masterpieces into contemporary elements of our lives. The high quality and personal character of each product are of the essence. 

Undoubtedly, the strength of each nation is in its original history, and those who emphasize and support this with their creativity, like GUNIA Project, deserve particular emphasis and admiration.

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Marta Pitchuk is a talented artist from Ukraine that is still living and working there. Pitchuk’s work is primarily focused on traditional media like oil painting and graphite drawings. We at Hue&Eye recently got to interview her!

Let’s start from the basics. What’s your name and where have you grown up?.

My name is Marta Pitchuk and I was born and grew up in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I once tried to remember exactly when I started painting, but I realized that I don’t know myself without a brush in my hands. My mother has an art and graphics degree, and since childhood, I have had the opportunity to observe the creation of her paintings. One of my most vivid childhood memories is when my mother worked on a replica of a small portrait of Lydia Delectorska, created by renowned French artist Henri Matisse. The whole process of creation seemed like magic to me. That’s when I realized that I wanted to dedicate myself to art. I still have, indeed, that portrait in my workshop.

I knew then that I wanted to study art and become an artist.

Choosing which university to attend and which program to pursue was a daunting task for me. I was most impressed by the Monumental Painting major offered at several institutions, browsing various art programs at universities across Ukraine. The paintings on the walls at these schools did not particularly interest me then. But the program appealed to me because it allowed me to become acquainted with many artistic techniques: stained glass, mosaic, fresco, sgraffito, encaustics, etc. Another reason I chose this major is that entrance exams for this program were challenging; it gave me confidence that this program had high standards for future artists.

For me, being an artist is a natural calling. My workday does not end when I close the workshop. Even at home, I think about what I was creating that day; I look for new ideas and live in the captivity of my creative thought. Even if my paintings were not interesting to anyone, I would still keep making them because painting is part of who I am.

And how would you like people to engage with your art?

When I made the first Motanka, I felt that this specific image reflects who I am as an artist at this stage of my life. In my paintings, an inanimate doll passes through time, travels from previous centuries to the present, and turns into a woman of flesh and blood. The living Motanka is no longer an object but a person with her character, thoughts, and views. She is the embodiment of the past that came to life.

I explore the ethnic regions of Ukraine, trying to find something special and unique in them. Each of my works is devoted to a specific area, so it is an anthropological study. The value and mission of my paintings are that they communicate the energy and power of a Ukrainian woman who inspires and encourages the viewer to admire their roots.

Can you briefly describe your creative technique and tell us what drives you to make art?

My painting ideas come in many different ways, often in my sleep. It’s almost like a mirage, just one specific motion or image. It is never a detailed image of a painting but one crucial detail or element, like the movement of fur in the wind. When this vision comes to me, I immediately put it on the canvas. This singular vision later becomes the basis for the entire painting.

The ideas for paintings come to me from somewhere. My task in life is to listen to these ideas, understand them, and depict them on canvas. I don’t come up with them; they want to be born through me. I’m just a mechanism through which they can happen.

The state of my soul in creating my artworks varies. I paint some of my artworks very quickly, with a lot of dynamism. Others need to take their time. I often leave the paintings that need to wait to face the wall for up to a year. Only when her time comes can I turn her around and finish the artwork in a few hours. Every painting is different, each with its unique mood and approach.

Working on an image of a Motanka, I completely detail her facial features, and only then do I cover it with painted threads so that Motanka may have a soul. It becomes not only a beautiful image but also a deep reflection of her own thoughts, emotions, and experiences. If you look closely, you can see a woman’s gaze in the middle of the picture under a layer of paint.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

It is my everyday life that inspires my work the most. I often draw inspiration from adventures through the Ukrainian countryside, where I seek out antique headdresses, embroidered shirts, and traditional interior decor. Analyzing the traditional ethnic motifs specific to the various artifacts I discover and getting the style of work from which I draw inspiration is what I aim at. Also to form the central tenets of my technique from the tempera style, where you begin with a dark background. I borrow the method for illuminating the image from a tempera religious painting. I like the idea of painting light onto a dark background rather than the traditional way of painting shadows on a light backdrop.

The continued journey to discover more about my past and the history of Ukraine keeps me motivated. My “Motanka” series began after I found a traditional Hutsul headdress called a чільце (chiltse) in my old family house. In my free time, I research conventional Ukrainian clothing, caps, and other ancient relics to breathe new life into the symbolism of the past.

As a digital artist, do you feel you’ve been waiting for something like NFTs for a long time?

My art is traditional painting, and I think I will continue to paint in this medium and base my shows around this physical art style for a while. My husband and I also create a lot of street art murals across Ukraine. I like the juxtaposition between the bleak Soviet high-rise buildings and the highly adorned, folksy Motanka heroines. Being able to explore new mediums and ways to express myself and share my art is at the core of my work.

A foundation of my work is not to be afraid of mistakes. I’m not scared to lay down strokes that I will later need to cover up and spend hours of my time getting it right. All of my art brings this personal freedom. As an artist, I feel I have to be in a state of perpetual soul search.

I saw the transition into NFTs as a natural next step to bringing traditions and past artifacts into modern-day life and reinvigorating the symbolism of the past. I genuinely believe that it’s the essential task of each Ukrainian painter to show our rich and remarkable culture to the world.

In times of war mainly, NFTs have provided an important way for me to continue to share my art and historical facets of Ukraine. I hope to contribute to this by sharing my NFTs, bringing awareness to my culture, and supporting the relief efforts by donating proceeds from sales of my NFTs to the excellent organizations working tirelessly to provide aid every day in Ukraine.

And how do you see the NFT world will benefit your professional career?

I offered my art as NFT to help support my country in dire need. It is very tough to transport goods across our borders right now, but NFTs, and crypto in general, provide a borderless, decentralized environment for exchanging goods and money. NFTs allowed me to use my art to raise funds for organizations doing great work on the front lines every day, risking their lives to help Ukraine. NFTs have also provided me with a medium through which I can share the history of Ukraine through my paintings with a broader audience and raise awareness of the brutal treatment the Russians are inflicting upon Ukraine.

Spread the word! Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?

At the beginning of June 2022, I launched a project with Devvio, a blockchain company. The project is on their GlassBlock marketplace. Through NFTs for Ukraine (NFTsForUkraine.io), we are selling NFTs of 7 of my paintings, one of which is called the Victory Motanka of Kyiv Polissia, which I created while the war waged outside my studio. I would often be painting and would have to stop my work because I could hear bombing outside.

The work I have for sale is available to anyone who wants to support Ukraine while securing a unique Ukrainian history and culture moment.

I have included high-resolution images of these 7 NFTs. However, I would be happy to send over 2 of them as NFTs, valued and $25 and $2,000, respectively.

The art is part of my “Motanka” Series, depicting the traditional Ukrainian Motanka talisman, with roots in ancestral memory and symbolizing protection from evil, hope for a better future, and fertility.

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Liste Art Fair is the renowned Basel-based event showcasing the newest discoveries in emerging and contemporary art. It will host for its 2022 edition 82 galleries from 37 countries. Representing the emerging scene in modern and contemporary art, they may be found in Hall 1.1 at Messe Basel from 13 – 19 June.

There will be much to discover with works by over 100 artists, 60 solos, and 22 group exhibitions.

Participating Galleries

The Liste Committee has selected 18 galleries to exhibit at Liste Art Fair Basel for the first time. These include Rhizome from Algiers, CLC Gallery Venture from Beijing, Hot Wheels from Athens, Femtensesse from Oslo, Harlesden High Street from London, and Bel Ami from Los Angeles.

This year, Liste would like to give a special welcome to two Ukrainian galleries: The Naked Room and Voloshyn. Indeed in a solid and courageous sign of solidarity, our Russian galleries, Fragment, and Osnova, decided to forgo their participation this year. This is why some of our Eastern European galleries will give Ukrainian art a platform by expanding their presentations with Ukrainian artists.

Liste’s Three Formats

As a matter of fact, since 2021, Liste has consisted of three formats: Liste Art Fair Basel, Liste Showtime Online, and Liste Expedition Online.

As mentioned, facing the war in Ukraine, special attention is paid to the representation and participation of Ukrainian artists and galleries this year. For instance, the Naked Room and Voloshyn’s invites to participate in an exhibition of Ukrainian artists supported by Friends of Liste.

Liste Art Fair

Founded in 1996, Liste Art Fair Basel is the international fair for new discoveries in contemporary art. Every year in Basel, a younger generation of galleries exhibit artists who are outstanding representatives of the latest developments and trends in contemporary art. Many of today’s most influential and successful galleries for contemporary art laid their foundations at Liste.

Liste Showtime Online

Liste Showtime Online, the digital edition of Liste, was first launched in 2020 and offers galleries participating in Liste Art Fair Basel the opportunity to expand their presentations in the digital space. It will run from 13 – 26 June 2022.

The digital edition of Liste Art Fair Basel is a place for discovering the newest voices in contemporary art, presented by international galleries of the younger generation.

On the digital platform, Liste Showtime visitors can discover over 80 emerging artists and find inspiration in the diversity and quality of the participating galleries from more than 35 countries. Each exhibitor will present one artist in-depth, thereby not only offering works for sale but also providing deeper insights into the featured artist’s individual practice.

Liste Showtime Online runs parallel to Liste Art Fair Basel, the physical edition of the fair. It is made possible with the generous support of Liste’s main partner, E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers.

With media-rich presentations, the galleries will not only offer works for sale but also provide deeper insights into the practices of their artists.

Liste Expedition Online

Liste Expedition Online was launched in 2021 as a non-commercial research forum. The digital platform offers a continuously growing artist index of the world’s most critical new positions in contemporary art alongside collaborative pro- jects carried out with artistic and media partners. It is permanently available throughout the year.

Special Guest Programmes

Every year, Liste Art Fair Basel invites institutions, magazines, initiatives, and artist projects to present special programs within the context of the fair. This cutting-edge approach expands Liste’s mission to highlight the latest developments in contemporary art. Learn more here >

Urgent call to donate in solidarity with the Ukrainian people

Liste is a significant part of galleries’ identities. Because of this, Liste understands the urge to address the current situation as a community and will financially support the people of Ukraine, who are fiercely resisting the Russian regime.

Polish galleries suggest donating to Fundacja Ocalenie (rescue foundation), which helps immigrants and repatriates build a new life in Poland. Especially now, the foundation is working towards raising awareness about the situation in Ukraine, lobbying, making in-kind donations, and volunteering. They believe their efforts will go a long way to help the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Ukrainian border. You can find more information about Fundacja Ocalenie here.

Go here to donate to one of the following two NGOs recommended by Liste galleries in the region or learn more about the program.

Where and When

Liste Art Fair Basel

Preview: Monday, 13 June 2022, 11 am – 6 pm

Opening: Monday, 13 June 2022, 6 – 8 pm

Fair: Tuesday, 14 June – Sunday, 19 June 2022

Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 8 pm; Sunday, 11 am – 4 pm

Liste Showtime Online

Preview: Wednesday, 8 June – Sunday, 12 June 2022 Public: Monday, 13 June – Sunday, 26 June 2022

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Why is Ukraine the epicenter of this war?

Ukraine is a country with an abundance of rich and complex historical events. Until the late 20th century, the country was dominated by Poland, Lithuania, and Russia and was a member of the Soviet Union, known as the Ukrainian Soviet Specialist Republic. In 1990, the Soviet Union began to fall apart, urging Ukraine to take action and declare sovereignty and independence shortly after. 

The declaration was highly favored by all, and after years of domination, their wishes were granted in a plebiscite. As of December 1991, Ukraine was an independent country and contributed to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States – an association of countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.

Following their independence, Ukraine dissolved the communist parties present in the country and developed its infrastructure. 

The country was viewed as having the most incredible chance of building a prosperous economy and integrating with Europe. Ukraine experienced some issues, unfortunately, and the economy took an unlikely blow. However, the country continued to develop itself further into the thriving, independent country it is today.

Depressing effects due to an unfortunate event are spiraling through Ukraine. Many Ukrainians are suffering under the conditions they were forced into, lack of shelter, access to food, and even bare necessities. Numerous civilians are traveling for painfully long hours to seek refuge in neighboring countries, most of which welcome them with open arms. Several Ukrainians across the globe watching the abominable blows to their country’s infrastructure be destroyed. The aggression from Russia toward this country is sad to see. Our hearts stand with all those who are affected by the situation. 

Russia justifies its acts by the “need to protect the people of Ukraine”, and “aim for demilitarization and de-Nazification”. 

These arguments are incredibly unjust, as Ukraine is a prosperous country with a Jewish president. Despite the reasoning, these aggressive advances into Ukrainian territory are taking a significant toll on many innocent lives.

What can you do through Victory Art?

Victory Art currently hosts artworks from seven brilliant Ukrainian artists. The current situation has urged them to do all that they can to help those within their community directly affected by this tragic occurrence.

It has been decided that 100% of the profit from the art sales will be given to the artists to assist their friends, family, and ultimately their mental health.

Victory Art is seeking to spread awareness regarding this campaign with fellow art lovers to provide support in the best ways possible.

Go here to learn how to purchase and donate >

Discover Victory Art’s Ukrainian Artists

The following are all Victory Art amazing artists from Ukraine:

Alina Shevelina, a landscape painter with nature as the most prominent theme of her work. This piece is entitled “Seascape”.

Katerina Pyatakova is a landscape painter who makes use of impressionism in her work creating whimsical pieces of art. The title of this pink-hued piece is “Way to Home”.

The title of this piece is “In with Both Feet” by Konstantin Lyzogub, another talented artist. His pieces are inspired by his personal experiences. His works of art are truly inspiring and depict human feelings and fears.

Sophia de Beo gives a modern take on her artwork, using intriguing colors of acrylic paint blended seamlessly to create a great piece to have in an interior. This warm and cool-toned contrasting painting is “Summer Lunch”- extremely fitting for the piece.

Tanya Bilous states that she “projects her emotional state onto the canvas” highlighting her passion for art. She makes use of various styles and techniques and most of her work can is modern art. The title of this beautiful piece is “Energy I.”

Tetiana Mokrik is a full-time artist committed to her passion for painting. She focuses on abstract art and has stated that it assists her with expressing her emotions with others, without the need for words. This piece is “Happy With You II”.

Lastly, and certainly not least, is Yulia Paliy, an abstract artist using ink as the dominant medium in her work. Her love for new and unique things has urged her to produce the art she creates.

Go to Victory Art’s website >

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About The Jam Factory Art Center

The Jam Factory Art Center was envisioned as a cultural space where the various art disciplines meet in a time of peace. 

Today, war is affecting the lives of everyone in Ukraine, and artists are among those who suffer the most.

Many artists such as painters, sculptors, musicians, and others had to flee, leaving their homes, workrooms, and materials. They cannot create art anymore. Some stay at the frontline, volunteering or caring for their lives and their loved ones. Even those who are more or less safe lost their jobs as all the art and culture projects are closed in Ukraine. 

The Artists in War Program

The launch of the Artists in War Program means supporting and encouraging artists to come back to artistic work and empower the voices of the society living through the most devastating times. To help the artistic community in Ukraine survive and potentially renew their work, the Ukrainian organization “Jam Factory Art Center” launched the “Artists in War” to support artists in crises with basic necessities. 

After that, the organization plans to create a project reflecting on the war with works of supported artists. 

“In these times of deepest crisis for the country, art and culture are crucial to reflect on human conditions in reality dominated by violence and pain. We need the hands and voices of artists to express in a profound and lasting way what happens in our minds and souls today.” – said Bozhena Pelenska, the Jam Factory Art Center director.

How to Help and Donate

Jam Factory is asking organizations and individuals to help them to support more people. One week after launching the program, they already received more than 350 applications with devastating stories asking for help.

Any donation will be a massive help to the program.

Go here to learn more.

Or you can directly support the initiative via card by the link.

Jam Factory’s Values

Jam Factory Art Center is a contemporary art institution. To them, this means taking a critical stance toward global and local social processes. It also serves to represent and support artists who show active social and political interest in their particular circumstances.

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About Tanya Bilous

Born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1987, a city on the western side of Ukraine, Tanya Bilous still lives and works there. 

Coming from a family of artistic souls, Tanya studies music and violin at high school. She also approaches fine arts, but at that time, she couldn’t find the right motivation to pursue a further interest. So, later on, Bilous applied for psychology studies, a discipline that well suited her ability to deepen human emotions and feel helpful. She indeed felt the urge to support people in need when in 2014, during the first Russian war endeavor towards Ukraine, she wished to help her country with the emergency.

After her psychology studies, Tanya also held a Master’s Degree in tourism at University. For this, she lived in Turkey for a while, working in the entertainment industry. Tanya loves people. Exploring different cultures is why she sees traveling as one of her most vital interests. Believing that life is short and one shall get the most out of it, Tanya started to feel the desire to exploit her feelings more significantly. That’s when art arrived as a rescue remedy to her needs. Life made her encounter a great art teacher, Liudomyr Khudiak, whom Tanya still considers accountable for encouraging her to commit to painting. He pushed her to believe in herself as an artist and was also an excellent psychologist to her. He saw in Tanya the energy she was waiting to share with the outside world.

Art & Psychology

Today Tanya shifts between her two favorite fields: art and psychology. By seeing art as a tool to elaborate emotions and heal human matters, Tanya wants to use her creative abilities to reinforce pain. Her paintings are abstracts depicting her inner flow. As she aims to be surprised by what comes out of her workflow, Tanya paints without breaks. She considers powerful the time and space she has for herself for the painting process as if it could heal wounds and all the scars in this world. Tanya finds great inspiration in the work of Picasso, Turner, Rothko, and Mykola Hlushchenko. 

Border, 2018

Every artist has a particular piece they feel most attached to, and for Tanya Bilous, ‘Border’ is the one. 

“There is something cathartic that happened with that piece of work. I made Border in 2018 without realizing the true meaning of why I wanted to accomplish it. It was only this year that I could put the dots together. ‘Border’ shows harm, blood, and a feeling of suffering and division, with small but significant hope. I indeed had this feeling inside me after 2014. But it’s only now, during this horrible war, that I could reveal what it was all about: pain, harm, and light at the end of the tunnel. Because this is how I feel. Although it begins with suffering, light is also there. And it will all shine one day.” 

Tanya wishes people to feel connected and loved when relating to her art. She is deeply attached to her suffering home country, and all she wants is to help her people let their light shine again as soon as possible. 

Tanya is part of VictoryArt a platform that sells and represents contemporary eastern European art based in Rotterdam. Go here to visit her page and buy an artwork. Click here to follow her on Instagram.

YOU CAN SUPPORT UKRAINIAN ARTISTS TOO

Ukraine needs our support and VictoryArt made the decision to dedicate 100% of the profit to Ukrainian Artists.

You can help them too by purchasing one of their artworks and supporting their passion. Go here to learn more >

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