Creating in stormy times

Description
An anthology of poems or short stories, a collection of essays, a collection of works, a catalog of artworks, an art album of a collective exhibition. Various forms of documentation and work with the past and the present are in demand today. Today, in the new security environment, culture is learning to speak anew, regardless of the topics it chooses, because the context itself is changing rapidly, both in Ukraine and in the world. Culture is looking for forms and tools to experiment and react quickly to internal and external changes. How can catalogs and anthologies of contemporary Ukrainian art, design and illustration make many voices heard? Let's talk to curators and creators of anthologies, archives, zines and magazines about the relevance and popularity of this format of expression.

The event is in English.

The event was made possible by funding from the special budget Ukraine of the City of Leipzig, the funding of the Saxon State Chancellery and the Leipzig Book Fair.

Participants:

Lars Harmsen (Slanted) has been Professor of Typography and Design at Fachhochschule Dortmund since 2011 and is the author of numerous publications on design and typography. His work has won national and international awards.

Olha Zhuk (Ukraine on Fire, Mystetsky Arsenal). Since fall 2021, Olha Zhuk has been working as Deputy General Director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal for Contemporary Art and Museum Affairs. From 2017 to 2021 she was Creative Director of the Dovzhenko Center. From 2010 to 2015 she headed the international festival Book Arsenal. In 2016, she headed the new Department of Cultural Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Lada Nakonechna is an artist and researcher. She has been involved in a number of collaborative projects such as the artist group R.E.P. and the curatorial association Hudrada and is co-curator of the educational and scientific programs of The Method Fund, a non-profit organization for the support and development of contemporary art and culture in Ukraine. In 2022, she was a visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and has been a research associate at the documenta Institute since 2023.

Svitlana Libet (1994, Kiev) is an author, editor and journalist. Since 2022 Svitlana Libet has been working as a local producer for the BBC, helping to cover the war between Russia and Ukraine. From 2019 to 2022 she worked as editor-in-chief at Your Art, an online magazine for contemporary Ukrainian art. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a senior editor at the Osnovy publishing house, where she mainly dealt with art projects.

Ukraine Stand