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Urban Re-Public
Community of Communities
CLEMENS POOLE – RETURN TO THE 13TH FLOOR
Performative installation
19:30, Grant Restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattya Hotel, Uzhhorod

SNRA Residence is pleased to present a performative installation by Clemens Poole at the opening of a group exhibition by Urban Re-Public and at the opening of the Community of Communities symposium. Clemens’ performative installation based around an assembly of sounds, objects, images, gestures, and spatial connections collected during his two research visits to Sorry No Rooms Available residency as part of the Community of Communities program. Return to the 13th Floor explores the recursive character of spaces and communities within the walls of the hotel, as each distinct floor is revealed through evolving loops of ambient sound and activated objects.

The Community of Communities project funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

URBAN RE-PUBLIK
NOVOVORONTSOVKA: MUSEUMIZATION THROUGH ARTISTIC AND URBAN LENSES
Decolonial Reimagining of the Village’s Space and Heritage: From Historical Landscape to a Living Museum.

19:00, August 24-30, 2026, Grand Restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel.
Sorry No Rooms Available: partner support for the organisation for the exhibition in Uzhhorod.

Curatorial Team: Serhii Diachenko, Yuliia Manukian, Mykola Lukin.
Project Participants: Olesia Lukina, Vasyl Dmytryk, Mariia Honchar, Yuliia Danylevska, Yelyzaveta Yevseieva, Rina Khramtsova, Semen Khramtsov, Andrii Lopushynskii, Andrii Polshyn, Oleksandr Naselenko.

How can a settlement be transformed into a living museum, and its historical heritage into a resource for community recovery and development? We invite you to join the conversation on the decolonial rethinking of Novovorontsovka’s space and memory!
Cultural heritage is not a set of frozen artifacts behind glass, but a living fabric of memory that requires continuous reflection—especially today, as Ukraine frees itself from imperial and Soviet narratives. Novovorontsovka is a unique area within the Great Meadow and Black Sea steppe, where cultures, events, and human destinies have intersected for centuries. This project offers a broader perspective: viewing the settlement as a holistic cultural landscape where the museum extends beyond exhibit halls into the streets, architecture, natural environment, and daily stories of its residents.
Throughout the project, artists, architects, urbanists, and researchers from Odesa, Kherson, and other cities immersed themselves in museum archives, records, and local accounts. Their work resulted in artistic visions and urban scenarios for the future. A key focus of this reinterpretation is a decolonial perspective and the inclusion of the contemporary Russo-Ukrainian war—capturing the community’s experience of resistance, loss, and daily resilience.
This exhibition does not offer rigid solutions or finalized plans. Instead, it serves as an open invitation to dialogue with the community—residents, youth, educators, veterans, and museum workers—who are the true co-creators of this space. Local history can become a catalyst for growth, and cultural heritage a foundation for modern identity.

The project is part of the “Revival of Small Towns in Kherson Region: Decolonial Artistic and Urban Practices” program, implemented within the Ukrainian-Swedish “Community of Communities” framework supported by the Swedish Institute.

We’d like to share wonderful news – From August 24th-28th, 2026 a symposium for the COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES project will be held in Uzhhorod which will be attended by representatives of the five project partners: SNRA (Uzhhorod), Baltic Art Center (Visby, Sweden), Milvus Artistic Research Center (Knislinge, Sweden), Precarnia (Kyiv), and Urban Re-Public (Kherson/Odesa). In Uzhhorod, they will be joined by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, the project’s external advisors. The symposium will be hosted by Sorry No Rooms Available (SNRA). During the symposium, the participants will share and discuss the work that they have conducted in the frame of the project, including through a series of public events—an exhibition, sound installation, artist’s talk, and publication launch. In addition to these programs, the participants will also conduct excursions to various cultural institutions and initiatives in and around Uzhhorod. The symposium program is developed by Petro Ryaska with Alex Fisher, Anna Norberg, and Helena Selder.

PUBLIC PROGRAM COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES
August 24 – 27, 2026, Uzhhorod

August 24
19:00, Official Opening of the Symposium COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES.
Opening of the group exhibition by Urban Re-Public – NOVOVORONTSOVKA: MUSEUMIZATION THROUGH ARTISTIC AND URBAN LENSES. SNRA, the grand restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattya hotel.
Performative installation RETURN TO THE 13th FLOOR by CLEMENS POOLE. SNRA, the grand restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattya hotel.

August 25
16:00, Andriy Stegura, curatorial project, presentation of the publication “NoROOMS”, Double Room 1114 / SNRA.

August 26
16:30, Stvorinnya Group, presentation of the animated film “THE SNAKE–HUMAN”, Transcarpathian Academy of Arts Lecture hall.

The Community of Communities project funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURAL NAKED FORM

FESTIVAL OF NAKED FORM
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FNAF – SNRA, 8–11 July 2026, Uzhhorod
Curators: Lenka Klodova, Petro Ryaska

Participants:
DARINA ALSTER
MICHAL DURDA
MATYÁŠ DYNKA
JURAJ HAJNAL
ANDRIY HELYTOVYCH
LENKA KLODOVÁ
KAČA OLIVOVÁ
MILA PETRIV
KASHA POTROHOSH
KAROLÍNA RAIMUND
PETRO RYASKA
NATALIA SHEVCHENKO
SARA WOLLASCH

The Festival of Naked Forms, in collaboration with Sorry No Rooms Available, presents the Czech-Ukrainian ‘Festival of Architectural Naked Forms’, which combines manifestos on naked bodies – both those of performers and architectural forms. Through art, and in particular performance art and its inherent nudity, the project draws attention to the protection of architectural cultural heritage, especially during the russian-Ukrainian war, when cities in Ukraine are disappearing as a result of russian bombing and other factors. The venue for the performance festival is the SNRA residence on location at the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel complex, which combines an architectural phenomenon, a social context, a cultural cross-section and a historical narrative. In particular, the hotel building is a monumental 15-storey example of Brutalist architecture, built in 1979.

The sustainability of nudity means strengthening resilience and inner artistic power, leading to independence from adverse conditions, whether climatic, financial, or political. The Festival of Nude Forms seeks sustainability. It aims to maintain awareness that preserving nudity in art is important. Through nudity in art, universal values such as tolerance, openness, honesty, and solidarity are upheld. If we uphold these values in art, we will make artistic creation involving nudity sustainable for creators of all ages, all forms of expression, and all body types. FNAF aims to be sustainable in its own right as an independent platform. It wants society to remain open to nude art forms and to understand them as important for its own sustainability toward greater humanity.

Photo credit in the poster: Lucie Bricco, performance, FNAF Prague 2025, photo Karolína Raimund.

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts and the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.
Community of Communities project.
STVORINNYA GROUP – VUZH MISTO (snake city)
15:00, June 26 – July 9, 2026, Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Skansen.

We are pleased to present “Vuzh Misto” (Snake city), an exhibition of the new generation Stvorinnya group. In the exhibition, which will be held at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, the zoo-anthropological and social image of the fantastic inhabitants of Uzhhorod will be shown. Considering the relativity of the existence of phenomena and attempting to look at us (humans) through the eyes of the animal world, the exhibition asks whether an animal can exist simultaneously with the dominant anthropocentric world and inquires after what and who will remain after the human era.
“They simply became snakes when suddenly something happened and changed them. Existing for some time, they did not even know that they were no longer the same. Another process is taking place. They cannot remember where they started, and in an attempt to adapt their memory blurred and returned somewhere where they had already been.”

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aiming to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project, the Stvorinnya group’s participation and the exhibition are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

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ANTONIN BRINDA – BIG CITY LIFE
18:00, April 23, 2026, Double Room, Intourist-Zakarpattya Hotel,

We cordially invite you to an artist presentation and a discussion of Antonin Brinda “Big City Life”. The artist will introduce examples of his previous performance works focused on urban space and political geography, realized in Ukraine and elsewhere. He will speak about his research conducted during the ongoing residency at the SNRA – particularly about the overnight project “Nightlife: Uzhhorod”. An open discussion will follow after the presentation. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 11th floor!

Antonín Brinda is a Czech performance and conceptual artist based in Europe. He graduated from various art and art theory programs in the Czech Republic and elsewhere. Brinda works mainly with performance and site-specific/urban art, exploring themes of global mobility, urbanism, and transport infrastructure. To counterbalance these serious subjects, he also creates performances that are more personal and humorous. Beyond his artistic practice, Brinda is active as an organizer and curator of performance art events and festivals. He would like to know, “How to make love with a city”.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Credits in the poster: Antonin Brinda, Sitting Around Cairo, 5.2025, Cairo, EG; photo credit: Kristýna Pánková

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Antonin Brinda
Nightlife: Uzhhorod
On the night of April 19-20, 2026

Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine is the only region in the country where there is currently no curfew. Elsewhere in Ukraine, it is forbidden to stay outside during the night (specific times vary by region). As a response to this relative freedom of Zakarpattia, artist Antonín Brinda from the Czech Republic, current resident of SNRA, realises his performance-research “Nightlife: Uzhhorod.”

The artist will spend one night (from sunset until sunrise) in the public space of Uzhhorod. The aim of the project is simple: to enjoy the possibility of staying outside all night long, and observe the city and its changing rhythm. Throughout the night, the artist will post online one random photo from the action every full hour. The photos will be abstract so as not to reveal any critical infrastructure.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present ANTONIN BRINDA, participants of the residence in April 2026.

Antonín Brinda is a Czech performance and conceptual artist based in Europe. He graduated from various art and art theory programs in the Czech Republic and elsewhere. Brinda works mainly with performance and site-specific/urban art, exploring themes of global mobility, urbanism, and transport infrastructure. To counterbalance these serious subjects, he also creates performances that are more personal and humorous. Beyond his artistic practice, Brinda is active as an organizer and curator of performance art events and festivals. He would like to know, “How to make love with a city”.

I am passionate about extensive urban environments, peripheries in various senses of the word, and the “nomadic” way of living. My mobile lifestyle is precarious yet voluntary. Aware of my privileges as a white male and EU passport holder, I strive to go beyond the notion of ordinary tourism and to reflect critically on issues related to international mobility and political geography through my art. Whenever possible, I step outside the “Fortress Europe” to learn, pay respect to, and connect with peoples and countries that Western paradigms describe as the “developing world”. I am a performance and conceptual artist. My venues include streets, playgrounds, parks, highways, shopping malls, rivers, housing estates, supermarkets, buses, trains, forests, fields, flats, bridges, pedestrian crossings, churches, monasteries, metro stations, staircases, boats, as well as art galleries. The main tools of my minimalist artworks are my body and the specific sites where the actions take place. The performances can last from a few minutes to many hours and be almost invisible or highly expressive. Through my art, I explore the role of the individual in the globalized, mobile world and the power structures that shape our daily lives and movements. My passion for performance art is both practical and theoretical. I am active within the scene as a curator and facilitator, give lectures and workshops, organize discussions, foster networks among cultural workers, and help popularize performance art among the general public.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Photo credit in the poster: Adéla Vosičková

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Ksenia Platanova – ONE MORE DAY
18:00, February 14 2026, Double Room 1114, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel.

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present Ksenia Platanova’s solo exhibition ‘One More Day’. Ksenia Platanova is an artist from Zaporizhzhia who has been living in Uzhhorod since the full-scale invasion.

A word from the author:
“Since childhood, I have needed special dolls with their own personalities. By creating them, I freed myself from traumatic experiences. The characters, objects, anthropomorphic masks, and portraits were created from things I found nearby. Paper, textiles, clay, plastic, food — mixed techniques and mixed feelings. Everything I do is a reaction to events that have happened or are happening. This is the most effective therapy for me. I have no formal art education, and I had to get used to being called an artist or even a sculptor. I consider frank conversation a real gift, and working together a special relationship.”

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage, development of artistic-cultural institutions.

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Korydor Gallery
PHILIPPE MARCUS, MISHA ZAVALNY – TWO AUGUSTS
16:00, December 20, 2025, Korydor Gallery, 7a Stepana Dobosha Str., Uzhhorod.

The authors’ text:
Short history of the Two Augusts project: Two artists, Philippe Marcus and Misha Zavalny, meet in Paris shortly before Philip leaves for the residency “Sorry No Rooms Available” in Ukraine. They decide to buy two disposable film cameras and take photographs in parallel during the whole residency period: one in Paris, the other in Uzhhorod, a city in western Ukraine. Since they cannot share images, they choose to send each other short poems every day. Each artist then looks for a photo subject based on the poem, in the place where they are.The goal of the project is to create a book and an exhibition in which images and poems interact in a non-narrative way. Two parallel but very different realities. The artists, living at the same time in very different contexts, try to communicate through artistic media: photography and poetry.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage, development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program and Philippe Marcus’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts).

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Community of Communities
NATALIA SHEVCHENKO – TUMORROW WILL BE CLOUDY WITH CLEARINGS
18:00, 30 October 2025, Double Room 1114, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel.

Text by the author:
My project Tomorrow Will Be Cloudy with Clearings explores the experience of alienation, silence, and the search for home as a state of presence. I turn to moments when the familiar suddenly feels foreign, and silence opens new ways of perception.
Light, space, and pause are tools for working with memory and inner movement. I create situations that place the viewer at the boundary between body and light, between loss and calm, inviting them to experience a return to themselves.
The path in this practice is not a direction but a way of remaining in motion while accepting uncertainty. Movement becomes a form of trust, and coincidence — a guide where maps no longer work. The project touches upon the ability to stay within the process, allowing the current of experience to shape us.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project, the Natalia Shevchenko’s participation and her exhibition are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

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ELENA SUBACH – LIGHT WAVES OF WARM COLOURS ARE THE FIRST TO BE ABSORBED BY WATER
18:00, October 30 – November 30 2025, Room 1416, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel.

Text by the author:
At the core of my project Light Waves of Warm Colours Are the First to Be Absorbed by Water lie reflections on light, water, and the border. The work was inspired by Anna Atkins — the British naturalist and photographer who, in the nineteenth century, created the world’s first illustrated book using photography; her first images were prints of seaweed.
My own gaze turned toward plants that grow on the edge — between water and land, in the borderlands. If the human body is made up of sixty-five per cent water, what is the body of a plant composed of — one that touches two worlds every day?
In the cyanotype technique, light becomes an instrument of memory. On a surface coated with a light-sensitive iron solution, sunlight leaves an imprint — a reaction occurs, and the paper turns a deep blue. This colour is the trace of a wave carried by a photon, the final glimmer of warmth before it dissolves in water. They say light does not reach the full depth of a river, and not everyone can make it to the opposite shore. Perhaps this blue is the memory of an attempt to cross the threshold where the visible ends.
The exhibition combines handmade cyanotypes and direct photographs of the places I encountered during the Sorry No Rooms Available residency.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program, the Elena Subach’s participation and her exhibition were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

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Barbara Le Béguec Friedman – THE SHADOW TELLS US WHERE THE LIGHT COMES FROM
18:00, October 9, 2025, The Double Room 1114, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod.

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present a solo exhibition by French artist Barbara Le Béguec Friedman, “The Shadow Shows Us Where the Light Comes From”.

Text by the author:
“The shadow tells us where the light comes from.
In this space, consisting of two cubes that form a single room, the installation ‘The Shadow Tells Us Where the Light Comes From’ questions the idea of “point of view”.
This immersive work invites the viewer to enter a bubble where time seems to have stopped. A place where the absence, oscillate between the trace of what is no longer there and an invitation to what could be.
Where should we look?
What should we see?“

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the Barbara Le Béguec Friedman’s participation and her exhibition were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

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Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
Community of Communities
Stvorinnya Group – CONVERSATION STVORINNYA
18:00, 25 September 2025, Double Room, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel

STVORINNYA GROUP – Maria-Gabriella Fediaieva, Masha Pelishenko, Vitalina Boikiv, and Svitlana Zapryliuk form a new-generation art collective. The collective was established in 2023 in Uzhhorod, Transcarpathia, where its members live and work. Together, they experiment with painting, graphics, installation, media art (new media), and performance. What unites them is a shared desire for personal expression.
The collective develops both individual and social themes, engaging with issues of identity, the human being in society, and inter-social and inter-gender relations, among others. They also address urban challenges: in the performance Overlapping the Uzh River (2024, Uzh River, Uzhhorod), the artists critically opposed the illegal development of Uzhhorod and the destruction of architectural heritage by developers.
In their first exhibition Maruda (Red Bar Yama, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod), the group presented their personal stories as distinct “narrative objects” – the problems they wished to raise, the concerns of each member, and their self-explorations of war, childhood, memory, trauma, lived experiences, and processes of becoming. Maria-Gabriella Fediaieva, Masha Pelishenko, Vitalina Boikiv, and Svitlana Zapryliuk are also part of the formation Nemozhlyvo povtoryty (“Impossible to Repeat,” new media) and of Photinus Studio. The members of the collective currently study at the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions. Participation in the STVORINNYA GROUP is part of the cooperation with the Transcarpathian Art Academy.

The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project and STVORINNYA GROUP’s participation are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

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Barbara Le Béguec Friedman – IN-BETWEEN
Art conversation
18:00, October 1, 2025, in the conference hall of the Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod.

Barbara Le Béguec Friedman (born 1982) is an artist based in Perpignan, France. Barbara practices visual and performance art. In 2005, she started exploring the dialogue between inner and outer landscapes through mediums such as drawing, video, sound, installation and photography. From 2010 to 2017 she focuses her research on the confrontation with otherness. Her work questions the idea of labelling and the impermeability of the boxes in which we try to evolve. The notion of paradox is deeply present in her work, through the ideas like : nothing exists without its opposite, absence is a form of presence or every boundary is also a meeting point… ideas she often used as a way of questioning, of challenging once again what appears to be a single fixed reality.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Barbara Le Béguec Friedman’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo сredits in the poster: Barbara Le Béguec Friedman, performance “Our body memory” Prague, 2023, photo credit Pascale Ciapp.

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Community of Communities
Natalia Shevchenko – Video Archive Film ’98
18:00, 25 September 2025, Double Room, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel

Presenting unknown archival video, Natalia Shevchenko draws attention to neglected recordings that document the cultural atmosphere of a particular time and represent how art and artists interacted with society, institutions, politics, and other cultural phenomena. A rare video by Olexander Sabov from the 1998 group exhibition ‘Museum and Contemporary Art’ at the Y. Bokshay Art Museum, curator Volodymyr Dehtiariov, initiated by the PopTrans group, accidentally captures a performance by artist Natalia Shevchenko. As a means of visual documentation, the recording allows us to preserve and, in a certain way, convey the performance as a work of art that, by its nature, exists within a specific time frame.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project and Natalia Shevchenko’s participation are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

Image in the poster: Natasha Shevchenko, ‘Klubok,’ performance documentation, frame from video by O. Sabov, provided by P. Kovach. In the image from left to right: P. Bedzir, N. Shevchenko, I. Semen; in the background in the middle – V.Terentyev (Breck). From the exhibition: “Museum and Contemporary Art”, curator Volodymyr Dehtiariov, Y. Bokshay Transcarpathian Art Museum, 1998.

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present STVORINNYA GROUP, participants of the residence in July-September 2025, in the Swedish-Ukrainian project Community of Communities.

STVORINNYA GROUP – Maria-Gabriella Fediaieva, Masha Pelishenko, Vitalina Boikiv, and Svitlana Zapryliuk form a new-generation art collective. The collective was established in 2023 in Uzhhorod, Transcarpathia, where its members live and work. Together, they experiment with painting, graphics, installation, media art (new media), and performance. What unites them is a shared desire for personal expression.
The collective develops both individual and social themes, engaging with issues of identity, the human being in society, and inter-social and inter-gender relations, among others. They also address urban challenges: in the performance Overlapping the Uzh River (2024, Uzh River, Uzhhorod), the artists critically opposed the illegal development of Uzhhorod and the destruction of architectural heritage by developers.
In their first exhibition Maruda (Red Bar Yama, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod), the group presented their personal stories as distinct “narrative objects” – the problems they wished to raise, the concerns of each member, and their self-explorations of war, childhood, memory, trauma, lived experiences, and processes of becoming. Maria-Gabriella Fediaieva, Masha Pelishenko, Vitalina Boikiv, and Svitlana Zapryliuk are also part of the formation Nemozhlyvo povtoryty (“Impossible to Repeat,” new media) and of Photinus Studio. The members of the collective currently study at the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions. Participation in the STVORINNYA GROUP is part of the cooperation with the Transcarpathian Art Academy.

The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project and STVORINNYA GROUP’s participation are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present the participant Natalia Shevchenko in July-September, 2025, in the Swedish-Ukrainian project Community of Communities

Natalia Shevchenko (b. 1982) is an artist from Uzhhorod. She studied at the A. Erdely College and the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts in Uzhhorod. In the late 1990s, she joined the art group Poptrans, one of the first in Ukraine to combine conceptualism with pop art. The members experimented with postmodern forms, rejecting modernist conventions – which distinguished them in the Ukrainian art scene of that time.
Beginning with collective practice, Natalia gradually developed her own artistic language, marked by consistency and depth. Her paintings are characterised by deliberate plasticity and the symbolism of images, while the compositions often resemble film stills. Her visual thinking is close to that of a director: every detail contributes to the overall impression.
For Shevchenko, the line is the principal tool – one she transforms according to her idea. In her graphic works, there is no randomness: they are complete and precise, often bordering on decorative art in their exacting execution.
In her art, Shevchenko reflects on the pressures faced by individuals in the contemporary urban environment. The central themes of her work are women’s rights, freedom of expression, and the role of women in both art and traditional society. A special place is given to children’s role-play as a way of grasping and mirroring reality – a tool through which the artist explores social roles, cultural codes, and the deep mechanisms of identity formation.
Biographical text: Ivan Nebesnyk

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the Community of Communities project and Natalia Shevchenko’s participation are funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

Photo credit in the poster: VDK

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available / “Community of Communities” / Ya1 PRODUCT are pleased to present the 8th edition of the SYNII project curated by Andriy Stegura. The long-term SYNII project was launched in 2016 by Andriy Stegura and Ya1 PRODUCT. To date, the SYNII project has produced 8 art books featuring original works by around 60 artists from many countries around the world.

Curator: Andriy Stegura
Participants:
Anastasia Budnikova
Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Natalia Lisova
Oleksa Mann
Viktor Pokydanets
Oleg Putrashyk
Petro Ryaska
Andriy Stegura
Maryna Talutto

6 p.m., August 25, 2025, Orangery, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), and facilitate the development of artistic-cultural institutions.

This presentation of the SYNII project is part of Andriy Stegura’s participation in the Community of Communities project. SNRA is one of the partners in this project, which is funded by the Swedish Institute in the frame of its Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

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FRANCEKARPATTIA
Philippe Marcus
18:00, August 21, 2025, Double room studio, Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, Uzhhorod.

Philippe Marcus proposes a moment to share his research and experience of his stay at the SNRA residency in the region of Trancarpatia, Ukraine. Since his arrival, the double studio has been a place dedicated to work, and he will presents the wall paintings he realized specially for this space, and the ink drawing serie that he started here. The presentation will also feature a time, in visio, with the Ukrainian artist Misha Zavalnyi, now living in France with which he’s actually working on a book composed of texts and pictures to share their opposite but complementary experience of this particular august month 2025.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The SNRA residency program, the Philippe Marcus’s participation and his project were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present an Art Conversation with Alicia Zaton, Léa Mercier, Philippe Marcus

at 6:00 PM, August 12, 2025 in the Conference Hall of the Intourist-Zakarpattya Hotel, Uzhhorod.

Alicia Zaton works around the animism of matter, filling her sculptures with secrets and stories. Her work is close to the body, its sensations and gestures. An architecture of intimate spaces, lived in by fluids, objects, materials and memories (wax, mirrors, tiles, latex, ceramics, archives). Her empirical research is shaped by her Polish origins and – more recently – by the search of femininity as an ancestral, hybrid and political body. A form of spirituality combining fragments of christian religion, alchemy, feminism and witchcraft.

Léa Mercier is a visual artist and independent photographer who lives and works in Paris. She creates “photographic objects” that dissect the processes of image production to offer alternative perceptions and uses, in installations that take into account the viewer’s presence and the exhibition space.

Philippe Marcus, artist and curator, practices mural painting, drawing, and writes poetry. He talks about the complexity of things and reality, exposing it to hesitation.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.
The SNRA residency program and the participation of Alicia Zaton, Léa Mercier, Philippe Marcus were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

ALICIA ZATON participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in August-October, 2025

Alicia Zaton works around the animism of matter, filling her sculptures with secrets and stories. Her work is close to the body, its sensations and gestures. An architecture of intimate spaces, lived in by fluids, objects, materials and memories (wax, mirrors, tiles, latex, ceramics, archives). Her empirical research is shaped by her Polish origins and – more recently – by the search of femininity as an ancestral, hybrid and political body. A form of spirituality combining fragments of christian religion, alchemy, feminism and witchcraft.

Born in France in 1989 Alicia Zaton was graduate in 2014 from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy. Alicia Zaton’s work crosses different timeframes and materials. Sculpture, installation, scenography and photography. She develops an empirical, intuitive and sensitive relationship with matter. Her research has led her to discover a variety of techniques, including glassblowing, metallurgy and molding. Since 2014, her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in galleries, institutional and alternative spaces. She also participated in some group shows in Paris, Berlin, Krakow and Tcheque Republic. For several years now, she has been developing scenography work in collaboration with dancers, with an organic feel, working with matter, ice and fluids. She is involved in the creation and development of DOC! in Paris since ten years, where she organise with her collective various events like talks, exhibitions, projections or concerts.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Alicia Zaton’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

www.aliciazaton.com

MARCUS PHILIPPE participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in August-October, 2025

Je ne suis pas assez mort
Ni assez important pour
Écrire la biographie d’un artiste
Dont je ne sais plus
Si c’est moi ou quelqu’un d’autre

Je suis arrivé hier, ici.
En serrant les fesses à la frontière
Dans cet ailleurs, ce pays bleu et jaune
Où il ne devrait pas y avoir de rouge
Alors j’ai mangé des myrtilles
En attendant Petro

Puis j’ai regardé le ciel
Depuis l’hôtel dont les murs parlent
Longtemps, en me demandant
Ce qu’il pouvait bien y avoir de si différent
Pour que certains veuillent y faire tomber
Des bombes, comme la pluie.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Marcus Philippe’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

BARBARA LE BÉGUEC FRIEDMAN participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in July-September, 2025

Barbara Le Béguec Friedman (born 1982) is an artist based in Perpignan, France. Barbara practices visual and performance art. In 2005, she started exploring the dialogue between inner and outer landscapes through mediums such as drawing, video, sound, installation and photography. From 2010 to 2017 she focuses her research on the confrontation with otherness. Her work questions the idea of labelling and the impermeability of the boxes in which we try to evolve. The notion of paradox is deeply present in her work, through the ideas like : nothing exists without its opposite, absence is a form of presence or every boundary is also a meeting point… ideas she often used as a way of questioning, of challenging once again what appears to be a single fixed reality.

She participated in the Festival FNAF, Prague (Czech Republic) in 2023 ; SITE site responsive performance art interventions, Upper Culand Pit, Burham (UK) in 2022 ; 6th edition of the International Performance Festival CORPOREA, Zacatecas (Mexico) in 2020 ; the IMAF Festival, NoviSad(Serbia) in 2019; the 1st MHPAB Morni Hills Biennial of Performance Art, Kurukshetra & Chandigarh (India) in 2016; the 15th International Performance Art Festival OPEN and at the international performance art tour ARTNOW LiveTour| from Beijing to AnYang, Beijing (China); the MPA-B 2012 & 2015| Performance Art Month – Berlin ; AFIAC 2015 ‘Des artistes chez l’habitant’ 16th edition, Fiac (France) and the NUIT BLANCHE 2013 | 5th edition of the FRASQ, Paris (France).

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Barbara Le Beguec Friedman’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present the participant of the residence Johana Kotišová in June-August, 2025.

Johana Kotišová is Assistant Professor in Documentary and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam. She has a background in journalism, social anthropology, and sociology. Johana’s research interests include crisis and conflict documentation, creative professionals’ safety, emotional labour, and mental well-being. Her work has been published in journals such as Journalism, Digital Journalism, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journalism Studies, and European Journal of Communication. She is also the book reviews editor of Media, War and Conflict. Besides her academic work, Johana occasionally writes journalistic stories and works with creative professionals as a mental well-being counsellor.

The project I work on at Sorry No Rooms Available focuses on creative professionals who document war crimes. It explores the many complexities and potential points of friction involved in war crime documentation: combining journalistic practices with legal and criminal standards and discourses, using diversity of new epistemological practices and tools, and dealing with technological and cybersecurity issues, ethical questions, and mental pressure. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ukraine and beyond and interviews with creative/media professionals, the project addresses the following questions: How do creative professionals documenting war crimes navigate differences between journalistic and legal epistemological practices and tools for gathering testimonies and visual material? How do they integrate new roles, norms, values, concepts in their creative professional identities? How do they rethink and reshape their relationships to and boundaries with criminal and legal institutions?

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Photo credit in the poster: Markéta Šindlerová

Sorry No Rooms Available residence
Community of Communities project
Andriy Stegura – Schedule of movements. A talk about samizdat in Uzhhorod 1989-2025.
18.00, June 6, 2025, Double Room 1114, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel

Andriy Stegura was born in Zaporizhzhia in 1969. In 1984-88 he studied at the Uzhhorod School of Applied Arts. Since 1996, he has been a member of the art group Poptrans. Co-founder of the YA1 PRODUCT publishing house, which has been creating and popularizing self-publishing as a work of visual art practices since 1989.

The first issue of YA1 PRODUCT in 1989 was published in 10 handmade copies (ink, pen). The next editions of Ya1 PRODUCT were published in 1996 (2nd issue), 1998 (3rd issues). At the same time, Andriy Stegura, co-authored by Vadym Harabaruk, Marcel Onysko, and Robert Saller, published many other samizdat publications with a total circulation of 26 products to date. In particular, in 1997 “Forest Song”, in 1999 “36 Parts of the Body” and “Siyaya”, in 2000 “The Gift” (100 copies). From 1998 to 2001, there was a joint workshop on Shumna Street where they kept “Onboard Diaries” based on the principle of a ship’s logbook. “They were these stitched white sheets with an original cover with a title. Anyone could write what they wanted and whenever they wanted, including the guests of the workshop. As soon as one diary ended, the next one started. No pauses))”.

In 2016, he launched the long-term project SYNII. At the moment, the SYNII project has realized 7 art books with original works by about 50 artists from many countries.

Andriy Stegura lives and works in Uzhhorod.

The Community of Communities project—including Andriy Stegura’s participation—is implemented thanks to grant support from the Swedish Institute’s Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present the participant Andriy Stegura in April-June, 2025, in the Swedish-Ukrainian project Community of Communities

Andriy Stegura was born in Zaporizhzhia in 1969. In 1984-88 he studied at the Uzhhorod School of Applied Arts. Since 1996, he has been a member of the art group Poptrans. Co-founder of the YA1 PRODUCT publishing house, which has been creating and popularizing self-publishing as a work of visual art practices since 1989.

The first issue of YA1 PRODUCT in 1989 was published in 10 handmade copies (ink, pen). The next editions of Ya1 PRODUCT were published in 1996 (2nd issue), 1998 (3rd issues). At the same time, Andriy Stegura, co-authored by Vadym Harabaruk, Marcel Onysko, and Robert Saller, published many other samizdat publications with a total circulation of 26 products to date. In particular, in 1997 “Forest Song”, in 1999 “36 Parts of the Body” and “Siyaya”, in 2000 “The Gift” (100 copies). From 1998 to 2001, there was a joint workshop on Shumna Street where they kept “Onboard Diaries” based on the principle of a ship’s logbook. “They were these stitched white sheets with an original cover with a title. Anyone could write what they wanted and whenever they wanted, including the guests of the workshop. As soon as one diary ended, the next one started. No pauses))”.

In 2016, he launched the long-term project SYNII. At the moment, the SYNII project has realized 7 art books with original works by about 50 artists from many countries.

Andriy Stegura lives and works in Uzhhorod.

The Community of Communities project—including Andriy Stegura’s participation—is implemented thanks to grant support from the Swedish Institute’s Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

The Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present the continuation of long-term Swedish-Ukrainian cooperation with the Community of Communities project, 2025-2026

Community of Communities is a Swedish-Ukrainian cooperation project being carried out in 2025-2026 by five cultural organizations. The project partners are: Sorry No Rooms Available (Zakarpatska Oblast, Ukraine), Baltic Art Center (Gotland, Sweden), Milvus Artistic Research Center (Skåne, Sweden), the Center for Neurodiverse and Neurotypical Artists (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Urban Re-Public (Kherson Oblast, Ukraine). Urbonas Studio (Lithuania/USA) is following the project as external advisors.

Community of Communities is catalyzing social transformation in Ukraine by supporting professional development on the rural, regional, and national levels. The project is focused on strengthening cultural institutions and cultural heritage. The title quotes Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian public intellectual who has referred to his home country as a “community of communities,” forged by centuries of creative resilience.

Community of Communities (2025-2026) is a continuation and development of the Swedish-Ukrainian project KINDLING – REFORM – (2022-2023). The project is funded by the Swedish Institute’s Ukraine Cooperation Programme.

Acceptance of applications

The Residence of Contemporary Art Sorry No Rooms Available has opened the acceptance of applications for participation from artists with their own or external support

The residence program Sorry No Rooms Available for 2024-2025 aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage, the development of artistic and cultural institutions and, in particular, project – educational programs. The proposal for projects at the residence is to create a contextual project with the above-mentioned topic in the city of Uzhhorod or the region. As a result, an exhibition (project, performance, work, etc.), an artistic talk and a lecture (lecture or workshops) are possible…

Sorry No Rooms Available is an international residence of contemporary art that creates conditions for artistic practice and the stay of participants in the artistic and cultural environment of Uzhgorod and Transcarpathia. The residence of SNRA is located in the hotel complex Intourist-Zakarpattia, in the city of Uzhhorod. Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia is a place that combines an architectural phenomenon, a social context, a cultural section and a historical narrative. The SNRA Residence draws attention to the critical role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war.

Resources provided
Accommodation: residential room: room about 20 square meters. leased by the SNRA residence in the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel. If necessary, a studio of about 18 square meters. Access to a shared Double Room studio, about 30 square meters.
The residence provides: organizational and media support, etc.

To apply
For the application, it is suggested to send the following information: bio, cv, artist statement, portfolio (Possible link to a web resource, if available), description of the project for the residence (if available), recommendation (if available).

Please send your application with the subject line: “Application with own financial support” to the email address: snralobby@gmail.com

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
Elena Subach
Photography as testimony and search
18:00, 16.05.2025, Double Room 1114, Intourist Zakarpattia Hotel

I invite to an open conversation where I will share my own experience of working with photography in the context of the great war – how my practice has transformed, what I have faced, and why it is sometimes important not to have answers right away.
We will talk about how photographic thinking changes in times of instability, how to find a form for vulnerable topics, and what it is like to be an artist in a time when reality is often stronger than any metaphor.

We will also touch upon the question of the boundaries and status of photography:
Is it a contemporary art today?
And how to combine documentary with artistic expression?

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Elena Subach’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Mariia Luiza Filatova
Painting in the greenhouse
17:00, 02.05.2025, Orangery of the Intourist Zakarpattia Hotel

“I can write, it just always seems that I have no desire to speak…”

Mariia Luiza Filatova was born in Zaporizhzhia. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Works mainly with oil painting. After the start of a full-scale invasion, the main subject of the artist’s works becomes the landscape of her native city, brought to the status of a sign. In 2022 and 2023, the artist spends a long time in Japan on an art residency, this experience establishes in her works the inherent meditativeness and tendency to simplify the form.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the participation of Mariia Luiza Filatova, her exhibition were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The residence Sorry No Rooms Available, Transcarpathian Academy of Arts, Photinus are pleased to present a group exhibition “…and what else do I know to say?”, the formation “Nemozhlyvo povtoryty”,

18:00, April 26 – April 29, 2025 in the Orangery and Conference Hall of the Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel,

“…but what else do I know to say?” is an exhibition of the “Nemozhlyvo povtoryty” formation, which was formed as part of a new media course in cooperation with Photinus x TAA,

is not a reconstruction of a disappeared village.
It is neither a museum nor a testimony.
It is an attempt to feel
and practices of body-consciousness?
an attempt to feel how something lives, decomposes,
how something sprouts,
to feel something?

Curator: max robotov

Participants:
vitalina boikiv
svitlana zapryliuk
maria pelishenko
anastasia kostiv
luiza andrus
zhenia futor
maria gabriella fediaeva
maria efimova

support – yulia khomenko

“Nemozhlyvo povtoryty” works with new media,
We are a new formation of artists united by a common desire for experimentation and interaction.

The SNRA residence program, Max Robotov’s participation, and the group exhibition “…what else do I know to say?” were realized thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts) and the co-support of the Kyiv Biennale.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
April 22, 2025, from the results of the workshop:
Performance: body, place, time
The beginning on the embankment near the Philharmonic at 17.00

Curator:
Yaryna Shumska

Participants:
Anastasia Kostiv
Vlada Bumbak
Natasha Shevchenko
Tetiana Redko

In a time of destruction, uncertainty and constant threats, values are changing. Materiality is being undermined by reality every day, and the ephemerality of performance becomes an even more expressive living sign for the “now”. Presence, which we constantly talk about in performance art, is now taking on a sacred meaning because it is about life. Energy, color, temperature as a sign and evidence of “being”. And we come back to the body. The wounds and vulnerability of the body, the physical, mental, historical, and memory body. “Camouflage has become a layer that sticks to the body, it has become a ‘mental tattoo’-you can try to remove it, erase it, but it will leave a trace.”
The fluidity and impermanence of the performance as a lighthouse light. The message has been sent.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the Yaryna Shumska’s participation and her project were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo credit in the poster: Natasha Shevchenko

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Tomáš Vobořil
Sound Performance
Listening to the Hotel Zakarpattia
18.30, April 21, 2025, Double room 1114, hotel Intourist Zakarpattia

Text by the author:
“Sound performance from field-recordings taken in the Hotel Zakarpatja and close surroundings mixed with live improvisation on instruments.”

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Tomasz Woborzyl’s participation in the SNRA residence program was made possible by his individual financial co-support from SGS FAMU – Student Grant Competition for Artistic Research

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Tomáš Vobořil
Project presentation
The Subcarpathian Ruthenia context in itself
18.30, April 16, 2025, Double room 1114, hotel Intourist Zakarpattia

The artistic research project is based on research of archival materials (films, photographs) from the period 1919-1939 from the area of Transcarpatia and filming with witnesses and archivists in Ukraine. The aim of the project is to subject the archival film prints and photographs from the Czechia, Slovakia and Ukraine to a postcolonial reading, cataloguing and making them available (in the process of repatriation).
Central European countries such as Czechia are marked with the term colonial exceptionalism, which means that even though the countries didn’t have any colonies they still benefit from the global colonialism economically and culturally. The main question of the project is if we could see some resemblance of colonialist practices also in the short period of time when Subcarpathian Ruthenia was part of Czechoslovakia in 1919–1939.
The research project has already started with the interpretation of the photographic and ethnographic work of well-known Czechoslovak ethnographer Vojtěch Suk, however the main focus of the research nowadays is on the archival film prints, amateur and experimental filmmaking.

Tomáš Vobořil is an artist, photographer, filmmaker and film programmer from Prague (Czechia). He received bachelor degrees from Film Theory and History and also from Photography in Prague where he currently studies at Centre of Audiovisual Studies (FAMU). His focus is primarily in analog photography and film, experimental filmmaking, socially engaged art, archival practices, sound art and postcolonial studies. He is a programme director of the Marienbad Film Festival (CZ) which focuses on experimental filmmaking and he is a member of industrial techno, dark-wave band OŁM and performative-poetic group STVO.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Tomasz Woborzyl’s participation in the SNRA residence program was made possible by his individual financial co-support from SGS FAMU – Student Grant Competition for Artistic Research

Photo credit in the poster: From photografic archive of ethnographer Vojtěch Suk, Ownership of the Archive of Antropology Institut at Masaryk University in Brno

Tomáš Vobořil, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in April, 2025

Tomáš Vobořil is an artist, photographer, filmmaker and film programmer from Prague (Czechia). He received bachelor degrees from Film Theory and History and also fromPhotography in Prague where he currently study at Centre of Audiovisual Studies (FAMU). His focus is primarely in analog photography and film, experimental filmmaking, sociallyengaged art, archival practices, sound art and postcolonial studies. He is a programme directorof the Marienbad Film Festival (CZ) which focus on experimental filmmaking and he is a member of industrial techno, dark-wave band OŁM and performative-poetic group STVO.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

Tomasz Woborzyl’s participation in the SNRA residence program was made possible by his individual financial support from SGS FAMU – Student Grant Competition for Artistic Research

Elena Subach, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in April-May, 2025

Elena Subach (1980) is a Ukrainian visual female artist originally from Chervonohrad, she currently lives and works in Lviv. Her artistic practice focuses on the exploration of memory, space, religion, tradition, the construction of history, and the consequences of the Soviet colonial past. She works with themes of the fragility of human bodies, death and war.

In her work, Elena often refers to liminal spaces as a visual metaphor for the internal state of a person experiencing change, loss or rethinking of experience. She works with photography and collage as a means of archiving and reconstructing memory, combining staged and documentary images.

Elena’s photographs have been published in numerous media, including the British Journal of Photography, Weltkunst, Vogue Poland, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and many others. She has received a number of awards, including the New East Photo Prize from the Calvert Foundation (2016), the Future Talents nomination (2019) and the Gaude Polonia scholarship (2019). Her work has been presented at international exhibitions, including Nordic House in Reykjavik, Photo Elysée Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Kunstforum Wien in Vienna, Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, Willy Brandt House in Berlin, the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the Tycho Brahe Museum in Vienna, Sweden. In the fall of 2022, the British publishing house Besides Press published Elena’s book Hidden.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Elena Subach’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo in the post provided by the author

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Silence of the Muses, or what I did in 2022-2024

I invite to a meeting where I will talk about my works of 2022-2025 and the initiatives I participated in. In particular:
“Open Workshop” in the Lutsk Art Gallery – a social practice of free art classes for everyone, including children and IDPs. Methods of documenting volunteer movements are my personal experience. An archive of gestures of solidarity and public social acts. Ways to talk about “our war” in Ukraine and in the world. An inner duty to include oneself in the “social”. How can an artist be useful in times of war?
You are welcome – we want to hear your thoughts and stories about art, documenting, war, fears, inspiration, communities, and our present.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Academy of Arts
Yaryna Shumska – Workshop. Performance: body, place, time

In a time of destruction, uncertainty and constant threats, values are changing. Materiality is being undermined by reality every day, and the ephemerality of performance becomes an even more expressive living sign for the “now”. Presence, which we constantly talk about in performance art, is now taking on a sacred meaning because it is about life. Energy, color, temperature as a sign and evidence of “being”. And we come back to the body. The wounds and vulnerability of the body, the physical, mental, historical, and memory body. “Camouflage has become a layer that sticks to the body, it has become a ‘mental tattoo’-you can try to remove it, erase it, but it will leave a trace.”
The fluidity and impermanence of the performance as a lighthouse light. The message has been sent.

During the workshop:
– We will explore the influence of the body on public space and vice versa through individual and group work;
– analyze presence as a state and a sign it creates;
enrich personal research, develop our own ideas into a project;
– artistic work in different spatial environments to create final performances;
– getting to know the work of contemporary artists and groups, learning about performance festivals and events in Ukraine and abroad.

The workshop consists of two parts:
Part 1:
– 3 days, 3 hours each, on April 11-15, 2025. Theory and practice.
Part 2:
– 4 days of 3 hours + 1 day of public performances, April 22-24. Practice, research of different spatial environments, creation of final works.
Number of participants: max. 12 people.

A detailed schedule of each part will be provided to the participants before the start of the workshop. It will include daily three-hour meetings, theoretical lectures, practical exercises, individual and group work, analysis of the work of contemporary artists and groups working in the field of performance art. The second part will also involve the preparation and delivery of public performances.

The schedule can be adjusted according to the needs and wishes of the participants. Participation in the workshop requires attendance at each meeting, active work, initiative and readiness for experiments.

Registration for the master class is open until April 9, 2025 by email: snralobby@gmail.com
With the subject line: “Workshop. Performance: body, place, time”

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Yaryna Shumska’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Yaryna Shumska, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in March-April 2025

Yaryna Shumska was born in 1989 is a visual artist, performer, curator and lecturer based in Ukraine. Her art and research practice focuses on the concept of presence expressed through the body and the visual sign it creates. It is about presence as a manifestation of the “here and now”, the spoken and unsaid, what we say out loud and what remains between the lines. In her practice, she uses performance, painting, installation, photo and video documentation as media. Graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts (monumental painting). She was a grant holder of the “Gaude Polonia” scholarship program of the Minister of Culture of Poland. Yaryna is an author of solo exhibitions and art projects in Ukraine, Poland, and Spain, a participant in numerous exhibitions, performance art festivals, and conferences in Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Norway, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Thailand, Canada, USA etc. She is a co-organiser and co-curator of the “School of Performance” (2019), “FNAF in Lviv” in the framework of the International festival “Days of Art Performance in Lviv” (2024), online residency ¨At the place¨ and ¨Performance Archiv. Ukraine¨ (2020).
Her recent works were presented at Venice International Performance Week VIPAW (Venice, Italy), Arctic Action (Svalbard, Norway).

For more detailed information about Yaryna Shumska’s works, visit her website: www.yarynashumska.com

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Yaryna Shumska’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Trailer to the premiere of Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s documentary audio play «Buckwheat with Meat» from «Anthology of Ukrainian Kitchen 2022-2024»/
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available,
Transcarpathian Academic Regional Puppet Theater BAVKA.
8 Teatralna Sq., Uzhhorod
19.00, March 5, 2025

The residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present the premiere of Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s documentary audio play «Buckwheat with Meat» from «Anthology of Ukrainian Kitchen 2022-2024» at the Transcarpathian Academic Regional Puppet Theater BAVKA.
At the address: 8 Teatralna Sq., Uzhhorod
19.00, March 5, 2025

Characters:
Volunteers from Kyiv, Rzhyshchiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, volunteer group “Borsch for the Armed Forces”, “Olshanytsia borshch cooks”, “Union of Participants, Veterans, Disabled ATO and Combatants” (SUVIATO), dozens and hundreds of known and unknown heroes and heroines of the home front.
Music: Maryana Klochko.

«Anthology of Ukrainian Kitchen 2022-2024 and 2025» is a documentation of life stories, experiences and acts of solidarity, selected on the basis of materials from the Ukraine War Archive and personal video and audio recordings by the artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov.
The audio play is an artistic form that the author uses to tell the story of the phenomenon of Ukrainian volunteerism. This phenomenon takes on the shape of a great story, a legend, transforming later into myths and fairy tales.
The audio play will be broadcast in Ukrainian with SDH subtitles (adapted for the deaf).
The audio play was created in 2024 as part of the interdisciplinary art program DOCU/SYnthesis, 21 Docudays UA.

The SNRA residency program, the Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s participation and the premiere of V. Kuznetsov’s documentary audio play «Buckwheat with Meat» were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The entrance is free

Volodymyr Kuznetsov, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-March 2025

Volodymyr Kuznetsov was born in Lutsk, lives and works in Kyiv and Rzhyshchiv. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions and residency programs in Ukraine and abroad. In his work he explores the aesthetics of everyday practices and the presence of the archaic in the present. Volodymyr considers memory as a type of experience and generates new concepts through personal and collective knowledge. He is a co-founder of the R.E.P. group, a participant in self-organized initiatives and assemblies of the Maidan and post-Maidan.
Author’s page: volodymyrkuznetsov.com

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Max Robotov, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-April, 2025

Max Robotov was born in 1982 in Luhansk.
In 2005, Max graduated from the National Aerospace University named after M.E. Zhukovsky KhAI in Kharkiv. He practices working with new media and sound art.
In 2008, together with Lera Polianska, founded the SVITER art group.
In 2009, they founded and curated the CEC creative and exhibition center in Kharkiv, and in 2013 they also co-founded the Shukhlyada exhibition space, an online curatorial platform. In 2018, Max, together with Lera Polianska and Ivan Svitlychnyi, opened the Photinus school on the basis of their own studio, aimed at developing new media art in Ukraine.
Max has been a member of the Institute of Unstable Thoughts since 2015. In 2017, he participated in the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Parliament project, Ukrainian Pavilion.
In 2018, he participated in the transmediale Vorspiel 2018 festival.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the Max Robotov’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts). And the Visual Culture Research Center together with the Kyiv Biennale.

The photo in the post was provided by Max Robotov

Unfinished unfinished buildings
Oleh Perkovskyi
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Korydor gallery
18.00, January 16, 2024

The residence Sorry No Rooms Available and the Korydor Gallery are pleased to present the project and exhibition “Unfinished unfinished buildings” by Oleg Perkovsky, which was supposed to be presented on July 10, 2024 at the Korydor Gallery, but due to Oleg’s mobilization to the ranks of the National Guard on July 9, 2024, the exhibition “Unfinished unfinished buildings” was postponed to the present occasion.

“Stories do not end, or are complete in their incompleteness, but Oleg Perkovskyi presents unfinished buildings as completed, or rather perfect works of art of an architectural structure, which in particular integrates the reinforced concrete object of unfinished construction into visual art. The “brutalist” unfinished buildings that we see mostly in the urban landscape contain a lot of information, including the imprint of historical time, which conveys the political, economic, social and other crises. Recalling the work of the architect, which is part of the economic and non-legal system of developers, and the system of “urbanization” itself, which is expanding thanks to unfinished buildings, the author presents the world as a Great Unfinished Building that is constantly not being completed.”
Petro Ryaska

“After the full-scale russian invasion, one part of the construction projects remains unfinished, while the other part, turning into a mixture of construction dust and missile fragments, disappears. The column of unfinished construction is tilted and turned into a notebook with notes on the likelihood or impossibility of the appearance of a future building designed in the recent past.”
Oleg Perkovskyi

Oleg Perkovskyi’s project “Unfinished unfinished buildings” was created by him on a scholarship from the MOCA NGO/UEAF – in partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and co-supported by a grant from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Poster design credit: Oleg Perkovskyi

HOC EST CORPUS MEUM
Pavlo Kovach
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, December 26, 2024 – January 26, 2025,
Double room 1114, Intourist Zakarpattya Hotel, Uzhhorod

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present a personal project and exhibition of Pavlo Kovacs (jr) “HOC EST CORPUS MEUM”, which means “this is my body”. Pavlo’s artistic project “HOC EST CORPUS MEUM” reflects on his experience of serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which he joined in July 2023.

Pavlo Kovach, born in 1987, works in Lviv, studied at the Uzhhorod Art School named after A. Erdeli and the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Co-founder of the art spaces Detenpyla gallery and Efremova26 gallery, and a co-founder and member of the Open Group art collective. In his artistic practice, Pavlo creates heteronyms based on real and fictional life stories, fills the life of a fictional character with stories, artifacts, and works of art created or possibly created by this character.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the participation and exhibition of Pavlo Kovach were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

My secret garden
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life
Group exhibition
Participants:
Ksenia Platanova
Viktor Pokydanets
Jan Potrohosh
Oleg Putrashyk
Andriy Stegura

16.00, December 3 – 15, 2024, Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, 33a Kapitulna St., Uzhhorod

“The oak trees planted by Andrii, were grown from acorns, the pear, the apple trees, were tended and grafted together by friends, the sycamore and walnut trees were planted by Viktor, each tree on its own stone. The labyrinth grew around a wild pear tree, a sycamore so perfectly shaped that it seems to be painted. Tall oaks like two people, a small oak like a person, a desire to be with them, my soul is torn, I didn’t think I would disassemble a labyrinth made of stones that people brought from all over the world with my own hands, a desire to save the trees, Oleh is silent about what worries him, what is difficult to talk about, to hide, what cannot be talked about.
“My Secret Garden” is a story about a secret and creative garden on the outskirts of Perechyn, about the interaction of a group of artists and friends and their place of strength, about difficult times, about how they lived and listened to music together from which they took”.
Text: Petro Ryaska

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational program is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleksandr Liapin were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Poster design credit: Oleg Perkovsky

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleksandr Liapin
Lecture on the history of naive art
October 29, 16.30 – Naive body
November 20, 16.30 – Contemporary world naïve art: the charm of uncomplicated simplicity
November 22, 16.30 – Contemporary Ukrainian naïve art
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, 33a Kapitulna St., Uzhhorod

An introductory series of 3 lectures by Oleksandr Liapin on contemporary Ukrainian and world naïve art, its place in the context of contemporary art and its influence on artistic processes. On November 20, the lecture “Contemporary World Naïve Art: The Charm of Uneasy Simplicity” will be held. The lecture is dedicated to the history of naïve art in different countries of Europe and America. We will talk about how non-professional artists embody in their works deep feelings, childlike spontaneity and richness of cultural traditions and about the attitude of the state and cultural institutions to them. The lecture will take place at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational program is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleksandr Liapin were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The poster uses an image from Sasha Klitina’s work.
The poster design credit: Oleh Perkovsky

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleksandr Liapin
Lecture on the history of naive art
October 29, 16.30 – Naive body
November 20, 16.30 – Contemporary world naïve art: the charm of uncomplicated simplicity
November 22, 16.30 – Contemporary Ukrainian naïve art
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, 33a Kapitulna St., Uzhhorod

An introductory series of 3 lectures by Oleksandr Liapin on contemporary Ukrainian and world naïve art, its place in the context of contemporary art and its influence on artistic processes. On November 20, the lecture “Contemporary World Naïve Art: The Charm of Uneasy Simplicity” will be held. The lecture is dedicated to the history of naïve art in different countries of Europe and America. We will talk about how non-professional artists embody in their works deep feelings, childlike spontaneity and richness of cultural traditions and about the attitude of the state and cultural institutions to them. The lecture will take place at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational program is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleksandr Liapin were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The poster uses an image from Grandma Moses’s work.
The poster design credit: Oleh Perkovsky

Naive notnaive
Group exhibition
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life
Curator: Oleksandr Liapin
16.00, November 15 – December 2, 2024

Participants of the exhibition:
Fedir Babynets (from the museum collection)
Yosyp Muskur (from the museum collection)
Olena Alyabieva
Illya Brovdi
Andrii Voropai
Andriana Danyliuk
Serhiy Kolodnytskyi
Marsel Onysko
Lyubov Matiko
Robert Petrychko
Andriy Pylyliuhin
Tatiana Redko
Olena Sidak
Victoria Slokva
Anastasia Tymchenko
Kateryna Tuz
Olesia Ulybina
Olha Yanovych

Text by curator Oleksandr Lyapin:

The title of the exhibition is “Naïve is not naïve” because it is naïve in form, but global in content. The exhibition is one of the results of the research program on naïve art of Transcarpathia, supported by the art residence “Sorry, no rooms”. Its goal is to show the diversity of this powerful art movement in the region and the dynamics of its development. In the course of the work, we only managed to emphasize some of them in order to outline further research paths. Due to the fact that most artists are not members of official creative unions and do not lead an active public life, it was radically difficult to find them. Sometimes we just asked sellers in coffee shops, and even taxi drivers helped us. That’s how we found landscape painter Stas Andrievsky, who organized an exhibition and sale of paintings right on the street, artist, restaurateur, gallery owner, film buff Serhiy Kolodnytsky, and muralist Kateryna Tuz. We contacted 106-year-old artist Ilya Brovdi from the village of Kolchyno. The local visionary artistic community was enriched by artists who were forced to come here since the beginning of the full-scale war. Anastasia Tymchenko lived in Mariupol. Olena Alyabieva came from Kharkiv.
In creating the exhibition, we tried to show not only the diversity of styles and techniques, but also the dynamics and directions of development of the art of auto-didacts. We also tried to emphasize their peculiar artistic and philosophical power. Thus, in naïve art, the very act of transmitting an internal state, an experience, the very desire to express oneself without filtering, a kind of intention, a peculiar form of conceptualism, is valuable.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the group exhibition and Oleksandr Liapin’s participation were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

We are grateful to the participants, the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, the Man family collectors, and Ihor Lutsenko for their assistance and providing Artworks for the exhibition 🙂

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleksandr Liapin
Lecture on the history of naive art
October 29, 16.30 – Naive body
November 20, 16.30 – Contemporary world naïve art
November 22, 16.30 – Contemporary Ukrainian naïve art
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, 33a Kapitulna St., Uzhhorod

An introductory series of 3 lectures by Oleksandr Liapin on contemporary Ukrainian and world naïve art, its place in the context of contemporary art and its influence on artistic processes. The first lecture, “Naïve Body”, on October 29, will tell about the artists of autodidacts, about one’s own and other people’s Body. Desired and unwanted. All lectures will be held in the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational program is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleksandr Liapin were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Natalka Diachenko
Genesis of expeditionary practices of the art initiative DE NE DE: video screening and discussion
18.00, October 25, Double Room 1114, Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Uzhhorod

Natalka is a documentary photographer, video maker, and researcher. Since 2016, she has been a participant of the DE NE DE art initiative and co-founder of the NGO Museum Open for Renovation. In her local history practice, she uses the methods of psychogeography and reading the city/location during Flaneuring, and the collected materials serve to create an archive of cultural heritage and author’s video essays. One of the latest participatory projects created in collaboration with @Dana_Brezhneva – “Photos Atelier of Wonder by Dana and Natalka” is a reflection on the full-scale aggressive russian invasion of Ukraine.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational program is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Natalka Diachenko were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Poster design credit Oleh Perkovskyi

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Dana Brezhnieva & Natalka Diachenko
Photos Atelier of Wonder by Dana and Natalka,
Workshop on the skills of using a personal cosmetic bag and the basics of posing for the camera
13.00, October 19, 2024, at the premises of the Center “I am Mariupol”, Kapushanska St., 2, Uzhhorod

On September 19, at 13:00, at the I Am Mariupol Center, a workshop will be held by the participants of the Sorry No Rooms Available residence Dana Brezhnieva and Natalka Diachenko on the skills of using a personal cosmetic bag and the basics of posing for the camera. At the workshop, we will analyze each participant’s cosmetics for the necessary products, recommend what is best to choose according to the personality color type, face shape and skin quality. Also, a professional photographer will tell you how to control the pose and light during a photo shoot to emphasize the best features and hide flaws. The authors of the workshop spend a month in Uzhhorod with the project “Photos Atelier of Wonder”, within the framework of which they make makeovers and portraits of IDPs, volunteers, military and local residents at the Intourist-Zakaraattya hotel. Participation in the workshop is free, but limited to 10 places, so it is subject to prior registration by calling 095 270 55 48. You should bring your personal cosmetics and clothes in which you will feel comfortable being photographed. We are waiting for you!

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.
The SNRA residency program, the participation of Dana Brezhnieva & Natalka Diachenko and their project were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Credit for poster design by Oleh Perkovsky

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Leonid Marushchak – The Soviet Pieta
Moderator: Dana Brezhnieva
Lecture
Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life,
17.00, October 17, 2024, 33a Kapitulna st., Uzhhorod

A lecture by Leonid Marushchak “The Soviet Pieta”. The author explores the origins of the memorial tradition of the tragic pages of Ukrainian history in the twentieth century and its layering in time and space on the example of a monument in Vynohradiv, Zakarpattia region.

Leonid Marushchak, historian, co-founder of the NGO Museum Open for Renovation.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the participation of Dana Brezhnieva and the lecture of Leonid Marushchak were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Oleksandr Liapin, participant of the residency Sorry No Rooms Available in October-November, 2024

Born in 1956 in the village of Novove near Boyarka, Kyiv region. In 1982 he graduated from the Horky Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute. He lives in Kyiv. An artist, curator, researcher of contemporary Ukrainian photography and folk non-traditional art, teacher at the School of Contemporary Art. One of the curators of the Naïve Art Festival (2020). Since 2009, I have been researching non-traditional folk art, known as naïve art, art brut, insider art, art of autodidacts, art of outsiders, singular art, primitive art, etc. Interpreting naïve art as a holistic phenomenon will help to understand the interactions between artistic culture and social life. Nowadays, there are many female combatants among the artists of this trend, and they have a need for a life-saving artistic expression. Naïve art is an expression of the national mood, worldview trends, and political experiences. Thus, by studying the artistic aspect of naïve art, one can decode it.

Unfortunately, not a single contemporary naïve artist from Transcarpathia in general and Uzhhorod in particular is known to the general public. There are no names of contemporary Transcarpathian naïve artists in the encyclopedic edition “Ukrainian Naïve Art of the XX-XXI centuries” (2020). During the residency, I plan to conduct research in the field of contemporary naïve art of Uzhhorod, introduce new names into scientific circulation, as well as into the context of contemporary Ukrainian art, prepare articles about Uzhhorod (Transcarpathian) naïve, organize an exhibition of works by these artists, and possibly make a joint project with them in the studio.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleksandr Liapin were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo credit Hanna Voitenko

Natalka Diachenko, participant of the Sorry No Rooms Available residence in October 2024

Natalka is a documentary photographer, video maker, and researcher. Since 2016, she has been a participant of the DE NE DE art initiative and co-founder of the NGO Museum Open for Renovation. In her local history practice, she uses the methods of psychogeography and reading the city/location during Flaneuring, and the collected materials serve to create an archive of cultural heritage and author’s video essays. One of the latest participatory projects created in collaboration with @Dana_Brezhneva – “Photos Atelier of Wonder by Dana and Natalka” is a reflection on the full-scale aggressive russian invasion of Ukraine.

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Natalka Diachenko were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence is pleased to present the participants Dana Brezhnieva and Natalka Diachenko with the project “Photo Atelier of Wonders by Dana and Natalka” in the October 2024

The project Photo Atelier of Wonders by Dana and Natalka was first realized in the town of Yasinia, Transcarpathia, as part of the Fantasery Festival in 2023. The project was conceived as a migratory initiative following the centers of Ukrainian refugees who had to leave their homes due to the full-scale aggressive russian invasion, relocating to relatively safer parts of their country and the world. Over the past year, the project’s target audience has expanded to include volunteers, veterans’ wives, military personnel, and anyone who wishes to take advantage of the unique opportunity to visit the photo studio in exchange for a donation to the Armed Forces. Dana and Natalka provide makeup, hairstyling, and photo portraits, and through a written survey, they conduct an interdisciplinary study of participants’ attitudes toward their appearance, including attempts to trace changes related to forced displacement, loss of homes, and loved ones.
Dana Brezhnieva, a psychologist by education, has been taking an eighteen-month course in trauma psychology and PTSD since the onset of the full-scale war. She is an independent curator and activist. Natalka Dyachenko is a photographer and researcher of Ukrainian regions. The authors of the project are also co-founders of he NGO Museum Open for Renovation, which has been working on the modernization of the Ukrainian museum system since 2015, and they are active participants in the art initiative DeNeDe.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the participation of Dana Brezhnieva & Natalka Diachenko and their project were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

They were here
Art group They
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, September 28, 2024
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Group text:

“Everything that is about to be said is already in the past. All that the artist wants to show us is what he has already done, what will create his history, the history of his personal project, what he presents as a gift to Eternity with a sense of great secrecy. But we have already started talking about plans for the future. There is a common question at the end of all interviews. It’s a sticky, obsessive desire to somehow stay in eternity, to cling to something, to something. Or maybe you could just ask someone to throw you out to sea when the time comes, so that only the fish would know that you existed (that you was). This idea is very intoxicating with its poeticism, the feeling of being involved in something almost imperceptible, and attracts with the prospect of dissolving into the great and again eternal. But what is this fuss about inscriptions on the land for? Why do we constantly read these extremely important messages for someone like: “Vasya was here”? What do they tell us? Were they here? They want someone to know about them, to remember them. But why? No one knows who this Vasya is. Sometimes there is still a date. Maybe the person plans to return to this place from time to time. “I came under this tree,” reads one of the inscriptions carved into the bark of a tree on Pohulanka in Lviv. In the end, it is clear that this is about memory.

Ruslan Tremba and Oleh Suslenko formed the art group They, which in fact has always existed, but Oleh and Ruslan just didn’t know it. On August 1, 2024, they found out that they were They: an art group consisting of two artists with a wandering artistic orientation. It must be said that, in addition to another step towards finding themselves in time and space, Ruslan and Oleh are quite interesting, talented, hardworking, intelligent, sensitive, skillful, beautiful, creative, resourceful, funny, sometimes sad, sometimes emotional living people. Each of them has done a lot to make this true, but at the same time, many in the contemporary Ukrainian art industry can confidently say that no, they haven’t. And they would be very close to the truth. Today, they are: Oleh Suslenko and Ruslan Tremba multiply their efforts by two in an attempt to understand where they came from and what they came with. The artists’ joint project They Were Here, which they present at the residency Sorry, No Rooms Available at the Zakarpattia Hotel, is another answer to a homework assignment that each of the participants asked themselves instead of the teacher. What did you do when you were at the SNRA residency? What you did in these two months. What they did when they were here”.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the project and the participation of the Art group They were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)
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Photo credit in the poster: Gertruda Meyer

News of Transcarpathia
Oleg Kharch
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
September 26, 2024
Room 1416, Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel

Personal exhibition of Oleg Kharch

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program, the project and the participation of Oleg Kharch were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleg Kharch – Fakemet and others
18.00, September 6, 2024
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

We perceive a lot of information every day, without always checking its validity. We are used to believing everything we are told on TV and on the Internet, or simply even on the street. We ourselves are carriers of fakes when we do not check what is happening everywhere. The installation (video work) gives us the right to choose whether to believe what we were told or to find additional information, to check what was said, to rethink every word. Only when we learn to perceive information correctly, we will be able to survive in the conditions of fakes that are constantly surrounding us.

Only now, my re-evaluation has gained completeness, or at least the illusion of awareness of the scale of the historical catastrophe on a personal level, an internal family drama and as a whole for our national Ukrainian and human identities. Reflections (also in a parallel way) on what was experienced by my generation, born in the 60s, in relation to the traditions from earlier generations, parents and even grandfathers are more difficult, this is not my achievement. The experience of the Soviet era is traumatic, negative and personal. In art, visual objects of the Soviet era and textual content are always overt or hidden sarcasm. In particular, in the presentation “Fakemet and other”, I plan to show a video inspired by the experience of serving in the ranks of the army at that time, in which I implement the material of cultural heritage, raising the critical issue of trauma memory. Turning to facts from the pre-Soviet past, or even mythology, is an attempt to reinterpret historical heritage. Which is my artistic expansion.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational art program of the SNRA residence is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleg Kharch were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

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Image in the poster: Oleg Kharch, video performance “Fakemet”, 2019

Ksenia Platanova, participant of the residency Sorry No Rooms Available in September, November, December, 2024

Female Artist Ksenia Platanova was born in Zaporizhzhia. After the full-scale invasion, she moved to Uzhhorod. She works in the genres of sculpture, installation, and photography. The main materials she uses in her works are clay, plastic, textiles, metal and food. Mixed techniques evoke mixed feelings. This is what the artist seeks when working with such topics as taboo and sexuality. “Everything I do is a reaction to events that have happened or are happening. By creating sculptures and objects I get rid of traumatic experiences. Vivid images give me the opportunity to plunge into a fictional parallel world.” “I consider frank conversation and collaboration with talented people to be the most valuable gift. It inspires and fills my life with meaning.”

The SNRA residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Ksenia Platanova were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Lizaveta German – Curate with love: challenges and adventures of Ukrainian female curators
18.00, August 30, 2024
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

“Why is curatorship a difficult, but genuinely interesting professional path in Ukraine? How to open a modern gallery in a country where “there is no market”? What exhibitions did the audience need during the Great War? During the meeting, Lizaveta will share her multifaceted experience of ten years of independent curatorial practice together with Maria Lanko; will talk about the work of The Naked Room gallery and the challenges of producing the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which opened on the second month of a full-scale invasion; will show his favorite projects and explain how Uzhhorod is related to all this.”

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Lizaveta German were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Lizaveta German, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in August 2024

Lizaveta German is an art historian, researcher, and curator. Since 2014, she has been working with Maria Lanko on curatorial and educational projects. In 2018, they co-founded The Naked Room gallery in Kyiv, and in 2022 co-curated the National pavilion of Ukraine at the Venice Biennial. Inspired by their first field trip to Uzhhorod in 2014 as well as by the local art scene, Lizaveta and Maria started their curatorial journey and, in particular, launched media platform Open Archive. Lizaveta’s research interests include the art of the Sixties and the history of curatorial practices in Ukraine and internationally. In addition to programming and daily tasks at The Naked Room, Lizaveta is currently working on a book of interviews about exhibitions and institutions in Ukraine during the full-scale war. She also dreams of completing, in collaboration with the artist Lucy Ivanova, a comic book about her experience of combining curatorial work and raising a baby. Lizaveta lives in Kyiv, where she just returned after a 2-year temporary stay in Vienna.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational art program of the SNRA residence is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Lizaveta German were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)
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Photo credit in the post: Kinder Album

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleh Suslenko
August 16, 18.00 – Presentation of the experience of the “Tse Gallery”
August 17, 11.00-14.00 – (offline) Workshop, surrealism and poetry
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

In the residency program of the Art Group THEY, member of the group Oleg Suslenko will talk on August 16 about the creation and successful work of the student experimental platform of contemporary art “Tse Gallery”. About how to organize and launch a digital independent startup project within the framework of the current Ukrainian educational situation, fill it with meaning, hold exhibitions, promotions, performances and simply enjoy artistic practices without breaking away from the educational process. And on August 17, a workshop on the topic of surrealist poetry will be held with Oleg Suslenko. We invite you to cooperate. See you soon.

For the Desirer to participate in the artistic workshop on the topic of surrealist poetry on August 17, please send a letter of confirmation to the email address: snralobby@gmail.com with a brief information about yourself and the subject of the letter “Workshop, surrealism and poetry”.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions. The educational art program of the SNRA residence is created in partnership with the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of the Art Group THEY were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Oleh Suslenko – About his own artistic experience and practices of the Kruzhka Esmarkha group
18.00, August 15, 2024, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

In the residency program of the Art Group THEY, member of the group, artist, teacher of the Lviv National Academy of Art, curator of the student experimental platform of modern art “Tse gallery”, Oleg Suslenko will talk about his experience of interaction with modern Ukrainian art over the past 25 years of active life in it, about life in art in general and with art within itself. Also, Oleg Suslenko will give a detailed historical assessment of the activity of the Kruzhka Esmarkha art group. The Kruzhka Esmarkha art group was founded on May 1, 2009 (members: Viktor Melnychuk, Ivan Nebesnyk, Ruslan Tremba, Oleg Suslenko and special guest Mykhailo Khodanych). In this composition, the Kruzhka Esmarcha existed for 15 years. During this time, KE held 9 exhibitions, and the group also participated in the organization of other projects. See you soon.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of the Art Group THEY were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo in the poster was provided by O. Suslenko: Exhibition “Nocturnes and miniatures”, Korydor gallery, Kruzhka Esmarkha with special guests Vadym Kharabaruk and Mykhailo Khodanych. ErotArtFestival “March Cats”, 2013, Uzhhorod

Art group THEY, participants of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in August – September 2024

Members of the Kruzhka Esmarkha art group Ruslan Tremba and Oleg Suslenko announce to everyone who reads this message that on August 1, 2024 they will leave the Kruzhka Esmarkha art group and form a new art group They. The newly created art group They consists of the following members: Ruslan Tremba and Oleg Suslenko. The Kruzhka Esmarkha art group was founded on May 1, 2009 (members: Viktor Melnychuk, Ivan Nebesnyk, Ruslan Tremba, Oleg Suslenko and special guest Mykhailo Khodanych). In this composition, the Kruzhka Esmarcha existed for 15 years. During this time, KE held 9 exhibitions, and the group also participated in the organization of other projects. Since 2018, i.e. the last 6 years, there has been one long continuous pause in the group’s activities. Unable to continue observing the total silence regime, Ruslan Tremba and Oleg Suslenko made a difficult but necessary decision: to leave the Kruzhka Esmarcha art group and announce this step publicly at the “Sorry, no rooms available” art residence. Immediately, starting on August 1, Oleg Suslenko and Ruslan Tremba will start work on a new joint project as part of the newly formed art group They at the “Sorry, no rooms available” art residency, which will be presented in two months, i.e. after the end of their stay at the residency. During these two months, there will be lectures, an artist talk, and discussions. We invite everyone to the table.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of the Art Group THEY were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Oleg Kharch participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in August – September 2024

Oleg Kharch was born in the city of Sumy in 1963. From 1980 to 1985 he studied at the Faculty of Construction Technology in Dnipro (then the Dnipropetrovsk Engineering and Construction Institute). 1981-83 studied at the art studio of Stanislav Cherevko in Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). In my naively surrealist works, I highlight a parallel reality that constantly gravitates towards the deconstruction of current historical events, both in the personal life of an average Ukrainian (me) and in the socio-political theater (conditional society). Thanks to the texts-images, I have the opportunity to narrow the field of the viewer’s imagination, thereby achieving the maximum sharpness in the ideological expression and bringing the concept to an almost grotesque (where comedy, sarcasm or irony is present) degree of the angle of view of the consumer of the fruits of my efforts. Thematically, it can be personal history, socio-political upheaval, historical mythology, human impact on the environment.

Oleg Kharch is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working in the figurative direction of current art. The New naive (or as noted by the art critic and historian Oleh Sydor-Hibelinda – quasi-naive), which was manifested in the artist’s work with quotations from the post-conceptual era in various modern techniques. His art is immersed in paper collage, assemblage, traditional painting, and street projects. Also in digital art, video works, installations, performative practices and various internet media. Oleg raises the question “Who are we, where are we from and where are we going?”.

Over the years, the artist has participated in numerous (over 60) personal and group exhibitions, including in such important institutions: the 4th and 5th Odesa Biennials, KYIV ART WEEK 2019 in Ukraine, as well as Portugal – XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, USA – Art Museum of Torrance and Italy “Ukraine: Stories. Contemporary artists”, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome. The author’s works are in the Kmytiv Museum of Fine Arts named after Y. D. Bukhanchuk, Imago Mundi Collection owned by the Italian collector Luciano Benetton, and the painting “Renovation – state of mind” from the series “This is how they earn” is part of the Mystetskyi Arsenal museum collection. The author’s handwritten book of the artist “Watna Accounting” from November 2023 was acquired in the collection of manuscript collections of the Library of the Princeton University of the State of New Jersey.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Oleg Kharch were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

A conversation about the landscape
Mariia-Luiza Filatova
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, July 31, 2024
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia, Uzhhorod

Mariia-Luiza Filatova works mainly with oil painting. After the start of the full-scale invasion, the main subject of the artist’s works is the landscape of her native city of Zaporizhzhia, brought to the status of a symbol. In 2022 and 2023, the artist was in Japan for a long time at the AT ARTS art residency in the city of Azuchi, located in the Jogon-in temple, this experience confirms the meditativeness and tendency to simplify the form inherent in her works.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Mariia Luiza Filatova implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Mariia Luiza Filatova, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in July 2024

Mariia Luiza Filatova was born in Zaporizhzhia. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Works mainly with oil painting. After the start of a full-scale invasion, the main subject of the artist’s works becomes the landscape of her native city, brought to the status of a sign. In 2022 and 2023, the artist spends a long time in Japan on an art residency, this experience establishes in her works the inherent meditativeness and tendency to simplify the form.

The SNRA residency program draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war, aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), development of artistic-cultural institutions.

The SNRA residency program and the participation of Mariia Luiza Filatova were implemented thanks to grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo credit in the post Eleonora Mosina

We share the wonderful news, Sorry No Rooms Available residence has received a Grant of financial support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris in 2024! 🙂

We share the wonderful news, Sorry No Rooms Available residence has received a Grant of financial support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris in 2024! 🙂

The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/) is one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France. It promotes the protection and illustration of France’s artistic heritage, as well as its development, while respecting the pluralism of expression. To fulfill its mission of helping creativity, The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris sponsors and supports artistic projects in various forms. In the conditions of the war in Ukraine, the Academy decided to allocate emergency funds to help Ukrainian artists.

Sorry No Rooms Available is an international residence of contemporary art that creates conditions for artistic practice and the stay of participants in the artistic and cultural environment of Uzhgorod and Transcarpathia. The residence of SNRA is located in the hotel complex Intourist-Zakarpattia, in the city of Uzhhorod. Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia is a place that combines an architectural phenomenon, a social context, a cultural section and a historical narrative.

The program of the Contemporary art residency Sorry No Rooms Available for 2024-2025 supported by The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts), the program aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage, development of artistic and cultural institutions and in particular, project-educational programs. The proposal for projects at the residence is to create a contextual project with the above-mentioned topic in the city of Uzhhorod or the region. As a result, an exhibition (project, performance, work, etc.), an artistic talk and a lecture, or a workshop are possible…

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available thanks a lot to The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts) for a Grant support in 2024! :-))

Thanks to Nikita Kravtsov for the recommendation and professional support! 🙂

Unfinished unfinished buildings
Oleh Perkovskyi
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Korydor gallery
18.00, July 10, 2024

“And then the monks said:
Take a good look at the horses. Now they are frozen. But as soon as the horses move, one empire will die.”
“Horses of St. Mark, or a novel about Troy” – Mylorad Pavych

“After a full-scale Russian invasion, one part of the construction projects remains unfinished, and the other, turning into a mixture of construction dust and rocket fragments, disappears. The column of unfinished work is tilted and turned into a notebook with notes on the probability or impossibility of the appearance of a future structure designed in the recent past” – Author’s text

“Stories do not end, or are completed in their incompleteness, but Oleh Perkovskyi presents unfinished works as completed, or more precisely, consummate works of art of an architectural structure, which, in particular, integrates the reinforced concrete object of unfinished construction into visual art. The “brutalist” unfinished buildings that we observe mostly in the urban landscape, in particular the imprint of the historical time, which conveys the political, economic, social crisis and more. Recalling the work of the architect, whose work is in the economic and not the legal system of developers, and the system itself of “urbanization” that is expanding due to unfinished buildings, the author represents the world as a Great unfinished building, which is constantly not completed perfectly” – Text by Petro Ryaska

Oleg Perkovskyi’s project “Unfinished unfinished buildings” was created by him on a scholarship from the MOCA NGO/UEAF – in partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Andrea Kalinová – Artist talk
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, June 21, 2024
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia, Uzhhorod

Andrea Kalinová studied at the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. She finished her doctoral studies at the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia of the Academy of Fine Arts with her dissertation work Artistic Strategies as Methods for Support and Protection of Endangered Architecture. She is a member of the artist group Abandoned (re)creation and the non-profit organization Jaromír Krejcar Society, which aim at the retrieval of the Machnáč Sanatorium in Trenčianske Teplice about which she completed the documentary film Off Season in 2018. Her first feature film The Last Inhabitants of Friendship Sanatorium is currently in post-production, which talks about the survivors of the Abkhaz-Georgian war that lived in the previous sanatorium in the spa town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.

Andrea Kalinová’s residency and project are individually supported by the state funds of the Slovak Republic provided by the Slovak Arts Council

Andrea Kalinová participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in June 2024

Andrea Kalinová studied at the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. She finished her doctoral studies at the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia of the Academy of Fine Arts with her dissertation work Artistic Strategies as Methods for Support and Protection of Endangered Architecture. She is a member of the artist group Abandoned (re)creation and the non-profit organization Jaromír Krejcar Society, which aim at the retrieval of the Machnáč Sanatorium in Trenčianske Teplice about which she completed the documentary film Off Season in 2018. Her first feature film The Last Inhabitants of Friendship Sanatorium is currently in post-production, which talks about the survivors of the Abkhaz-Georgian war that lived in the previous sanatorium in the spa town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.

Andrea Kalinová’s residency and project are individually supported by the state funds of the Slovak Republic provided by the Slovak Arts Council.

https://andreakalinova.net

Acceptance of applications

The Residence of Contemporary Art Sorry No Rooms Available accepts applications from Ukrainian artists to participate in the 2024-2025 residency program

The residence program Sorry No Rooms Available for 2024-2025 aims to implement institutionally critical projects related to cultural heritage, the development of artistic and cultural institutions and, in particular, project – educational programs. The proposal for projects at the residence is to create a contextual project with the above-mentioned topic in the city of Uzhhorod or the region. As a result, an exhibition (project, performance, work, etc.), an artistic talk and a lecture (lecture or workshops) are possible…

Sorry No Rooms Available is an international residence of contemporary art that creates conditions for artistic practice and the stay of participants in the artistic and cultural environment of Uzhgorod and Transcarpathia. The residence of SNRA is located in the hotel complex Intourist-Zakarpattia, in the city of Uzhhorod. Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia is a place that combines an architectural phenomenon, a social context, a cultural section and a historical narrative. The SNRA Residence being an international residency continues to host Ukrainian artists after the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, after February, 2022, draws attention to the critical role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war.

The residency program Sorry No Rooms Available for 2024-2025 for Ukrainian artists is supported thanks to a great Grant support of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Resources provided

Accommodation: residential room: room about 20 square meters. leased by the SNRA residence in the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel. If necessary, a studio of about 18 square meters. Access to a shared Double Room studio, about 30 square meters.

The residence provides: per diem, funds for materials, travel expenses, organizational and media support, etc.

To apply

For the application, it is suggested to send the following information: bio/cv, artist statement, portfolio (can additionally link to a web resource, if available), description of the project for the residence (if available), recommendation (if available).

Email address for application: snralobby@gmail.com

Пам’ятна записка / Pro memoria:
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available

16.00, April 26, 2024, Transcarpathian Regional People’s Museum of Architecture and Life
Curator: Petro Ryaska
Participants: Sashko Dolhyi, Olena Kurzel, Oleh Perkovskyi, Karina Synytsia, Dmytro Soloviov

16.00, April 26, Dmytro Solovyov – Modernism of Uzhhorod. An inconvenient heritage, Transcarpathian Regional People’s Museum of Architecture and Life
18.00, April 26, Olena Kurzel – Voids and emptiness, Korydor gallery
20.00, April 26, Karina Synytsia – I hope the sky will not fall on the sea, Room 1416, Intourist-Zakarattia hotel

What should be the role of culture and art during the Russian-Ukrainian war, when there are many millions of forcibly resettled Ukrainian citizens, when cities in Ukraine disappear as a result of Russian bombings, Ukrainian culture and people are destroyed, the question of life and, in particular, places of residence is raised in some vague but important form of aspiration. The project includes attempts to understand the history of urban planning and state-building aspects through art, images of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In particular, what to do with the cultural heritage, which was built during a traumatic period in the history of Ukraine. Does this legacy have historical, cultural and economic value? How to look at architecture and whether architecture and monuments can speak for themselves, remaining a witness to history. The attempt of cultural intervention of traumatic historical and cultural objects in the modern humanistic context makes it possible to create a museum of history. Preserve the value of the critical memory of history and deprive the material cultural visual heritage of the propaganda content of the colonial imperial past. The project raises the difficult question of how to look at the history and preservation of cultural heritage from a historical, social, and cultural point of view from the perspective of the reality of today’s military expansion of russia against Ukraine.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Пам’ятна записка / Pro memoria:
Dmytro Soloviov
Modernism of Uzhhorod. An inconvenient legacy
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Curator Petro Ryaska
Transcarpathian Regional People’s Museum of Architecture and Life,
16.00, April 26, 2024
In the program (re)connection UA 2023/24

An inconvenient legacy
Dmytro Solovyov

I have spent the last two months researching the architecture of Uzhhorod the second half of the 20th century – the time when Uzhhorod became part of Ukraine. At that time, modernism reigned throughout the world, and Uzhhorod had two stages of construction in this style – Czechoslovak modernism and Ukrainian Soviet modernism.
Czechoslovak heritage is respected in Uzhhorod. It is loved, research projects are dedicated to it, and books are published about.
What cannot be said about the Ukrainian architecture of the Soviet period. Many Ukrainians often do not understand it, actively stigmatize it and even reject it as foreign. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the systematic destruction of our heritage should have united Ukrainians around it, but the opposite happened. We branded the Ukrainian Soviet heritage as hostile and began to actively destroy it, actually helping the russians in this. And forgetting that this architecture and mosaics were created by Ukrainians, professional architects and artists who tried to create a comfortable and aesthetic urban environment. On the other hand, the modern dictatorship of developers, for whom the only goal is profit, which turns our cities into solid ghettos from the gas block, confuses few people.
Will we have time to accept and make sense of our uncomfortable legacy before we destroy it completely?
Photographs of modernist architecture of Uzhhorod from 1960-1980, presented at the exhibition, demonstrate the synthesis of ultra-modern features of world modernist architecture and elements of folk architecture and folk art of Ukraine, imprinting the identity of Transcarpathia in the 20th century.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence project is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Voids and emptiness
Olena Kurzel
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
4 p.m., Korydor gallery, 7a Dobosha St., Uzhhorod

Author’s text:
“War haunts everywhere, it prevents one from fully living and functioning. Due to stress, burnout occurs, the desire to communicate, interact with people, and do anything disappears. An emotional pit appears, from which it is difficult to return to a normal state. There are gaps that cannot be filled. The exhibition presents stitched objects, which became for the author an attempt to rethink the medium with which she worked in childhood, through the realities of today. Each of the works is an imprint of processes and feelings that have become an integral part of everyday life – the need to communicate, be active, act. During the two years of russia’s full-scale invasion to the territory of Ukraine, it is becoming increasingly difficult to hold on and not be weak and vulnerable. The exhibition space is a manifestation of weakness, a kind of shell where chaotic feelings are mixed.”

Continuing to host Ukrainian artists after the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the SNRA Residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war. Performing the function of the residence, which takes place in the brutalist, architectural hotel complex of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, raises the issue of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Preserving the value of critical memory of history.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence project is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Dmytro Soloviov
Modernism of Uzhgorod,
Excursion,
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
12.00 – 15.00, April 20, 2024, Uzhhorod
The beginning is near the building of culture of trade unions on Ruska Street

Continuing to host Ukrainian artists after the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the SNRA Residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war. Performing the function of the residence, which takes place in the brutalist, architectural hotel complex of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, raises the issue of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Preserving the value of critical memory of history.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Pro memoria

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Transcarpathian Regional People’s Museum of Architecture and Life, 4 p.m., April 19, 2024,
Curator: Petro Ryaska
Participants: Sashko Dolhyi, Olena Kurzel, Oleh Perkovskyi, Karina Synytsia, Dmytro Soloviov

What should be the role of culture and art during the Russian-Ukrainian war, when there are many millions of forcibly resettled Ukrainian citizens, when cities in Ukraine disappear as a result of Russian bombings, Ukrainian culture and people are destroyed, the question of life and, in particular, places of residence is raised in some vague but important form of aspiration. The project includes attempts to understand the history of urban planning and state-building aspects through art, images of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In particular, what to do with the cultural heritage, which was built during a traumatic period in the history of Ukraine. Does this legacy have historical, cultural and economic value? How to look at architecture and whether architecture and monuments can speak for themselves, remaining a witness to history. The attempt of cultural intervention of traumatic historical and cultural objects in the modern humanistic context makes it possible to create a museum of history. Preserve the value of the critical memory of history and deprive the material cultural visual heritage of the propaganda content of the colonial imperial past. The project raises the difficult question of how to look at the history and preservation of cultural heritage from a historical, social, and cultural point of view from the perspective of the reality of today’s military expansion of russia against Ukraine.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

I hope the sky will not fall on the sea
Karina Synytsia
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, April 16, 2024
Room 1416, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia
In the program (re)connection UA 2023/24

Author’s text:
“When the sea dried up, deposits of rock salt and gypsum settled there. But after millions of years, underground water out of anger came to the surface to crush these treasures. Voids and sinkholes formed in their place, and the stench gradually began to smell of melt water and underground brines…”
The reference point for the wall painting made in the small hotel room of “Intourist-Zakarpattia” were two things: the canons of the Christian church fresco and the painting dioramas in the natural science museum.
The story in the painting begins with the story of the dry Perm Sea, the bottom of which today is salt deposits under a multi-meter layer of soil. The formation of humanity and the birth of mining are closely intertwined with the reflection on the last book of the New Testament – Revelation of John the Baptist (Apocalypse). The cycle of life from the birth of civilization to its total destruction looms large in this intimate space, just as constant thoughts of horror and danger coexist alongside the ordinary course of life with its everyday problems and joys. The project tells about the daily experience of war, with an expositional emphasis on the difficult process of falling asleep, panic attacks and insomnia experienced by the traumatized.“

Continuing to host Ukrainian artists after the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the SNRA Residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war. Performing the function of the residence, which takes place in the brutalist, architectural hotel complex of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, raises the issue of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Preserving the value of critical memory of history.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Between the Hammer and the Anvil: The Legacy of Modernism in Wartime
Dmytro Soloviov
Lecture
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, April 10, 2024,
Conference hall of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel,
In the program (re)connection UA 2023/24

Author’s text:

“The legacy of modernism is the most controversial in Ukraine, in particular because it fell entirely to the times of the Ukrainian SSR. Even before the full-scale invasion, it was quite a challenge to work with, but now both the stigmatization of the heritage and its defenders and the pace of destruction have reached a peak. The illegitimate president of russia, v. putin, brazenly declared that the entire legacy of the Soviet era belongs to russia, and many Ukrainians willingly agree with him. But isn’t it in vain? At the lecture, we will talk about the value of the heritage of Ukrainian modernism, the difficulties with its perception, and who benefits from its destruction. And will we be able to save something from the hammers of Ukrainian officials and “activists” in the fight against “Sovietism” and the anvil from russian missiles”

Continuing to host Ukrainian artists after the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the SNRA Residence draws attention to the role of culture and art during the russian-Ukrainian war. Performing the function of the residence, which takes place in the brutalist, architectural hotel complex of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, raises the issue of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Preserving the value of critical memory of history. Search for a cultural and humanistic museum of the history of traumatic historical and cultural objects.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Oleh Perkovskyi – Drawwaterflowers
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
16.00, April 5, 2024, Glass Space (Greenhouse), Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel

Author’s text:

This is, to some extent, an escapist project, work on which continues during the war of russia against Ukraine, at a time when almost all artistic plots are permeated by war.
Drawing landscapes from the labels of mineral waters of Transcarpathia refers not only to the relative peace in this region of Ukraine, but also to the loss of a significant part of the natural landscape and fauna of the North, East and South of the country.
The virtual world of mineral water labels transports us to an idyllic pre-war state, and the tension appears along with the realization that Ukrainian nature continues to be destroyed by russian war missiles and risks continuing its existence only in various images.
Concrete drawings of landscapes have a horizontal, which, unlike the vertical, still cannot provide absolute peace.

Oleg Perkovsky’s residence and his exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
Museums for Ukraine
TBA21
Private supporters through the SNRA residence Patreon

The landscape of the city as a silent witness
Karina Synytsia
Presentation of practice
Sorry No Rooms Available residence
18.00, March 14, 2024

In the space of the large restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel

Karina Sinytsia: “A story about the human (common or individual) through the landscape, which we are already tired of”.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Utopia in the state of war
Sashko Dolhyi
Lecture
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, February 22, 2024,
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

The utopian dream in the conditions of war survives and transforms, reflecting profound changes in society and its values. This process of transformation allows society not only to adapt to new conditions, but also to use these challenges as an opportunity to create a more deeply thought-out and sustainable future. Utopian ideals evolve with a changing society to remain relevant and inspiring.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Dmytro Soloviov, participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-April 2024

Dmytro Soloviov is a Zaporizhzhia-born and Kyiv-based independent Ukrainian architecture photographer and researcher. He is dedicated to documenting and analyzing late Modernist art and architecture in Ukraine through his project “Ukrainian Modernism” https://www.instagram.com/ukrainianmodernism

His lifelong mission is to preserve modernist heritage and promote its value. His research work is widely documented and presented in numerous publications to an international audience, including through his project page on Instagram @ukrainianmodernism. Over the years, the project page “Ukrainian Modernism” has turned into an important platform that raises issues of preserving Ukrainian cultural heritage. As part of his project, Dmytro campaigns for the protection of significant modernist buildings and artworks, conducts architectural tours and lectures based on his research, and organizes monumental art restoration projects.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Image in the post: Dmytro Soloviov in his natural habitat

Sashko Dolhyi participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-April 2024

Sashko Dolgyi
Lysychansk – Chasiv Yar – Sumy – Kyiv –
Researcher, artist, documentarian.

Curator of contemporary art exhibitions. Organizer of musical events. Participant of national and international exhibitions, projects, residencies, biennials. Researcher of the topic of social evolution through utopian visions and the influence of public spaces on the level of tension in society.

Statement

He still believes in the power of art as a tool for social change, although he knows it is a hopeless self-delusion, he still makes sense of the modern world through various media, his naive goal is still to create a dialogue between art and the viewer, expanding the limits of usual perception and attracting person to discuss current social issues.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Karina Synytsia participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-April 2024

Was born in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region in 1999. Lives and works in Kyiv. The female artist works with the medium of painting and the practice of collage, animation. In her works, the artist depicts architectural structures and structures, as well as landscapes, where she emphasizes the emptiness, hollowness and decay of these spaces. However, architectural elements in the works of the author appear as decorations of the urban space. Because in the center of the works, a thematically and figuratively significant place is occupied by the manifestation of human feelings, emotional states and social aspects of life.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime

#reconnectionua

Olena Kurzel participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available in February-April 2024

She was born in Yuzhnoukrainsk, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine in 2000.

From 2012 to 2019, she studied at the State art secondary school named after T. Shevchenko, faculty of painting, Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2023, she graduated in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, majoring in easel painting.

Today she lives and works in Kyiv.

Olena works with painting, embroidery, small plastic, video, photo, installation.

The central themes of her work revolve around the concepts of forgetting, loneliness, self-identification and the reconstruction of forgotten images.

Participated in the projects: “Why does water dream?”, Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2023; “Periphery of Peace”, DIM Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2023; “Individual Variability”, Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023; “When storms find silence” as part of the project Her gaze, an online laboratory, supported by the Eastern Partnership Program of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Gallery Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2023; “Merging the versions: unveiling traces”, Vienna, Austria, 2023; “Between you and us: an attempt at translation”, Chemnitz, Germany, 2023; “Forms of presence”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023; “What can be lost, what can be saved”, as part of the “Nearby” festival, Odesa, Ukraine, 2023; “Stay” as part of the “NULLA” project, with the support of the Rhizom gallery, Graz, Austria, 2023; “Space around, space in me”, gallery of the “Korners” Auction House, Kyiv, 2021.

Sorry No Rooms Available Residence is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 program, implemented by the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and financed through the UNESCO Emergency Heritage Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 program is aimed at restoring ties between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as actors in preserving the cultural identity of Ukraine, implementing new approaches to the culture of memory, strengthening the stability and adaptability of institutions, communities, artists to the challenges of wartime.

#reconnectionua

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present the participants in February – April, 2023:

Olena Kurzel
Karina Synytsya
Dmytro Soloviov
Sashko Dolhyi (in the past Sasha Dolgiy)

Sorry No Rooms Available residence project is supported as part of the (re)connection UA 2023/24 programme, implemented by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) NGO and Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) in partnership with UNESCO and funded through the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund.

The (re)connection UA 2023/24 aims at fostering the reconnection between artists and their audiences, supporting artists as champions for preserving Ukraine’s cultural identity, introducing innovative strategies for memory studies, and strengthening resilience and adaptability among institutions, communities, and artists during the time of war.

#reconnectionua

Acceptance of applications
The Sorry No Rooms Available residence accepts applications from Ukrainian and foreign artists to participate in 2024.

Sorry No Rooms Available is an international contemporary art residency that creates conditions for artistic practice embedded in the artistic and cultural environment of Uzhhorod and Transcarpathia. In return, residents commit to the production of a contextual project/exhibition in the city of Uzhhorod or in the surrounding region, as well as their choice of an artist talk, lecture/workshop, etc. Residence SNRA is located in the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel in Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

Resources provided
Accommodation: residential room: room about 20 square meters. leased by the SNRA residence in the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel. The studio about 18 square meters. Access to a shared Double Room studio, about 30 square meters.
The residence provides: per diem (and, if possible, an honorarium), funds for materials, travel expenses.

To apply
For the application, residency requires sending the following information: Bio/cv., Artist statement portfolio (+ you can also link to the web resource, if any). Project description for the residence (if any).

Coordinator of the residence Petro Ryaska
+380673947364
wybachtenomeriwnemaye@ukr.net
sorrynoroomsavailable@gmail.com

Museum thing (I’m at home)
Ruslan Tremba
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
December 22, 2023, Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Ruslan Tremba’s residency and exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
MOCA NGO UEAF
Museums for Ukraine
TBA21

In contradiction to itself
Dobrynya Ivanov
Curator: Petro Ryaska
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, November 29, 2023, Room 1416, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Dobrynya Ivanov’s residence and his exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Drawwaterflowers
Oleg Perkovskyi
Curator: Petro Ryaska
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, November 29, 2023, Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Oleg Perkovsky’s residence and his exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Halyna Hleba – a lecture-workshop with an analysis of a typical grant application and how to fill it out

Halyna Hleba – a lecture-workshop with an analysis of a typical grant application and how to fill it out
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18:00, November 20, 2023, Double Room, hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Description:
Halyna Hleba, a participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available, will hold a workshop-lecture on writing and preparing a typical grant application or participation in an exhibition project based on the analysis of previously sent CV and Portfolio samples from artists and photographers.

Halyna Hleba is an art critic, author of articles on Ukrainian art and photography, curator of exhibitions, researcher of Ukrainian art and photography of the second half of the 20th century. She was the curator of the Ukrainian art collection of the Grynyov Art Foundation (2016-2018). She worked at the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre (2017-2022). She was the guest editor of the magazine about Ukrainian photography Saliut Magazine (2020-2022). Collaborates with the educational platform “Cultural Project” as a lecturer on Ukrainian and world art (since 2016). Co-curator and graduate editor of the “Wartime Art Archive” from the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” (since 2022), co-curator of the exhibition project “How are you? Exhibition and discussion” (2023).

Halyna Hleba’s residency and workshop were made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Kyiv Biennial “Where are we now, after all these endlessly repeated words?” – Curatorial tour on November 16, 2023

We are incredibly happy to announce that the exhibition “Where are we now, after all these endlessly repeated words?”, which is being held at the Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel as part of the Kyiv Biennale together with the Sorry No Rooms Available residence, has been extended. The exhibition will be on view on November, 16th – from 4 to 8 PM.

On this day, the curatorial guided tour by Petro Ryaska and Daria Shevtsova will be held. Start at 7 PM on the first floor of the hotel.

Project Website of Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Artist: Oleg Perkovskyi
Website editor: Petro Ryaska
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
19.20, November 9, 2023, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Oleg Perkovskyi’s residence and the project of create the website of the SNRA residence became possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Dobrynya Ivanov
Graphic series and two videos
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, November 8, 2023, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Dobryna Ivanova’s residence was made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

CV/Portfolio review for artists
Halyna Hleba

CV/Portfolio review for artists
Halyna Hleba
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18:00, November 20, 2023, Double Room

Description:
Halyna Hleba, a participant of the residence Sorry No Rooms Available, will conduct an educational CV and Portfolio review for artists and photographers, as well as a workshop-lecture on writing and preparing a typical application for a grant or participation in an exhibition project.
If you want to participate in the review and receive comments or advice on the design and filling of your CV and Portfolio – send the collected materials in pdf format by November 15 to the e-mail: sorrynoroomsavailable@gmail.com with the subject line “for CV/Portfolio review”.
Analysis and analysis of CV and Portfolio will take place individually, the time and date will be announced separately.

On November 20, at 18:00, 2023 an open lecture-workshop will be held with an analysis of a typical grant application and how to fill it out.

Halyna Hleba is an art critic, author of articles on Ukrainian art and photography, curator of exhibitions, researcher of Ukrainian art and photography of the second half of the 20th century. She was the curator of the Ukrainian art collection of the Grynyov Art Foundation (2016-2018). She worked at the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre (2017-2022). She was the guest editor of the magazine about Ukrainian photography Saliut Magazine (2020-2022). Collaborates with the educational platform “Cultural Project” as a lecturer on Ukrainian and world art (since 2016). Co-curator and graduate editor of the “Wartime Art Archive” from the NGO “Museum of Contemporary Art” (since 2022), co-curator of the exhibition project “How are you? Exhibition and discussion” (2023).

Halyna Hleba’s residency and workshop were made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Ute Kilter: How to get up from the knees?
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, October 25, 2023,
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia, 5 Kyryla and Myfodia square

CV Ute Kilter
for the project sorrynoroomsaviable Uzhgorod’23
it’s written:
art critic
TV star
performer
actress
That is, I am an art critic, I was a TV star, but I remain a performer and actress “by life” = that is, by my very essence. Starred in 7 films by Kira Muratova, had “friendly, family ties”.
After studying in Berlin, implemented projects in Odessa, such as “Bathyscaf”, “Batyscaf-2” and others, performed as a video-dance performer in Ukraine, Europe (Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna). Twice represented Ukraine in the “Cultural Capitals of Europe”. And in the city of Linz, the activities of our “Level 14” League were exhibited at the huge “Bathyscaf”. Although I still see the performance of “Knee” as the most important!
But my property is the ARCHIVE of modern Ukrainian art of 1990-2017.

The Ute Kilter residency was made possible by the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Ute Kilter participants of the Sorry No Rooms Available residence in October 2023

CV Ute Kilter
for the project sorrynoroomsaviable Uzhgorod’23
it’s written:
art critic
TV star
performer
actress
That is, I am an art critic, I was a TV star, but I remain a performer and actress “by life” = that is, by my very essence. Starred in 7 films by Kira Muratova, had “friendly, family ties”.
After studying in Berlin, implemented projects in Odessa, such as “Bathyscaf”, “Batyscaf-2” and others, performed as a video-dance performer in Ukraine, Europe (Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna). Twice represented Ukraine in the “Cultural Capitals of Europe”. And in the city of Linz, the activities of our “Level 14” League were exhibited at the huge “Bathyscaf”. Although I still see the performance of “Knee” as the most important!
But my property is the ARCHIVE of modern Ukrainian art of 1990-2017.

The Ute Kilter residency was made possible by the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

The photo in the post is from the Ute Kilter archive

Where are we now, after all those endlessly repeated words?

Sorry No Rooms Available

08.10.2023 – 12.11.2023

Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel, Ploshcha Kyryla I Mefodiya, 5, Uzhhorod, Ukraine

Curators: Petro Ryaska, Daria Shevtsova

Artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Luka Basov, Katya Buchatska, Danylo Halkin, Nikita Kadan, Maksym Khodak, Oleksa Konopelko, Sasha Kurmaz, Natalia Kushnir, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, Patrycja Plich, Olena Pronkina, Vasyl Tkachenko, Marharyta Zhurunova and Bohdan Lokatyr, Anna Zvyagintseva

In the wake of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes, fleeing cities under constant shelling and threat of occupation, and artists were no exception. As a response to these urgent challenges, cultural institutions had to rethink their own purpose and redirect institutional resources in order to help. Residencies have played a significant role among these places, and have developed into dynamic shared spaces for collaborating practices and reflection, and, more importantly, spaces for mutual care. Considering the new circumstances, the residency Sorry No Rooms Available, held at the Intourist-Zakarpattia Hotel in Uzhhorod, at some point became a shelter and a potential further transition point to safer locations for a substantial part of the Ukrainian artists and cultural workers. Back then, the name of the residency, which comes from a phrase that would commonly be heard at the concierge desk in the 1980s when the hotel was at its peak, marked the traumatic experience of thousands of people forced to seek new places to live.

The exhibition Where are we now, after all those endlessly repeated words? takes its starting point from the Emergency Residencies for artists and art professionals from Ukraine, held in 2022 and aimed to support the Ukrainian cultural community. Bringing together works of its participants with practices of other Ukrainian artists, the exhibition intertwines personal stories and shared experiences of living through the war, while undergoing loss of home and forced relocation. Delving into the concept of a hotel as a temporary transit space, where anticipation and uncertainty imperceptibly alter it into a state of limbo, it suggests a journey through the spacious halls, abandoned hidden spots, and lonesome apartments in an attempt to reveal and reconsider the traces war has left in our history and in our lives. How do we imagine our return to previous plans and dreams, and when does the future we are constantly recalling in our conversations start?

The exhibition is part of the Kyiv Biennial 2023. Kyiv Biennial is an international forum for art, knowledge, and politics that integrates exhibitions and discussion platforms. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersection of the humanities, socially engaged art, and political activism in order to reflect on the crucial issues of the contemporary world. The Biennial is organized by the Visual Culture Research Center.

Kyiv Biennial 2023 is held in partnership and with the support of: Asortymentna Kimnata, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Department for Cultural Affairs of the City of Vienna, Dovzhenko Centre, ERSTE Foundation, Foundation for Arts Initiatives, Galeria Labirynt, Goethe-Institut, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), L’Internationale, M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Museum Crisis Center, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Other Edges project (hablarenarte, KAIR, MeetFactory, Visual Culture Research Center), Sigrid Rausing Trust, Sorry, No Rooms Available, tranzit.at, tranzit.org (Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Cluj, Iași, Prague, and Vienna), and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Opening times:

October 8 – 17:00-19:00

October 9 – 16:00-19:00

In the period from October 10 to November 12, the exhibition is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 16:00 to 19:00, as well as by individual agreement. You can arrange a visit in private messages on the page of the residence “Sorry No Rooms Numbers” or by phone +380673947364.

to stay can not flee
KAR
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, September 29, 2023,
Double room 1114, number 1420, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

KAR = to stay can not flee + I love Kherson Kherson loves me + [30+62] + ultraviolet I’m not there = 28.09.2023

The KAR residency and exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

In search of the ideal settlement:
Serhiy Dyachenko – Olvia and urban utopias
Presentation
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available in partnership with Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center
Kindling – Reform –
Curators Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska
4:00 p.m., September 10, 2023, 33a Kapitulna St., Uzhgorod,
Transcarpathian Museum of Architecture and Life

The “Kindling – Reform -” project, the residence of Serhiy Dyachenko, the presentation became possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

In search of an ideal settlement
Kindling – Reform –
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available together with Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center
Curators Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska
Transcarpathian Regional People’s Museum of Architecture and Life,
33a Kapitulna St., Uzhgorod
16.00, August 30 – September 10, 2023

Participants:
Open Group, Danylo Halkin, Kseniya Hnylytska, Sofiya Doroshenko, Sasha Dolhyi, Serhiy Dyachenko, Nikita Kadan, Yulia Manukyan, Pavlo Makov, Jakopo Natoli, Yevhen Nikiforov, Oleg Perkovskyi, Anton Sayenko, Studio 12345678910, Yaroslav Futymskyi, Alina Yakubenko, KAR

In the just ideological work of Plato “The State” in the tenth book:

“Art and the perfect state are considered. Things in the world that art imitates are imitations of things themselves, so the artist is a creator of ghosts far from reality. An imitator artist does not know the true properties of objects, in his work he relies on the contradictory perception of the soul; art has no criteria of true and false. Art deals with the ignoble, helping it to overcome the intelligent. Therefore, in a perfect state, poetry should be only in the form of hymns to the gods and praise to virtuous people.” (from Wikipedia)

An artistic historical journey in search of a perfect and utopian town and village settlement. Perhaps similar to the worlds of Dante’s journey Divine Comedy, utopia is hell, an ideal settlement is paradise, and purgatory is a city with an unclear definition. From the history: Ideal Miletus, Plato’s ideal city, Piero della Francesca’s ideal city, Leonardo’s ideal city, utopian ideas about building an ideal city of the 18th century, the Garden City of the 20th century, Le Corbusier…, the capital of Brazil, utopian experimental demonstration villages of the USSR, the Soviet model of industrialization and urbanization, etc.

An attempt to review settlement patterns from the general to the detailed, both historically and socially and culturally. A critical contemplation of history from the perspective of the reality of the russian-Ukrainian war with the relevance of (re-)building the cities of Ukraine, drawing attention to the restorative immunity of the trauma of war in the world experience of wars.

The exhibition demonstrates a range of methods for engaging with urban-type built environments, recognising that each city is a) unique and b) always changing, as well as c) that different circumstances give rise to different approaches. Featured works focus on ‘small’ details and ‘large’ visions, looking from above, below, in-, and outside their chosen settings and subjects. Drawing on Sorry No Rooms Available’s network of collaborators from across Ukraine and the international community, the exhibition includes projects that address Uzhhorod as well as those related to phenomena in other locales, such as Dnipro and the semi-fictional Svetlograd. Some of the projects are archival and others are new and/or are being presented for the first time. In situating distinct works in correspondence with one another, the show purports to spark critical discussions about authorship and agency in the city.

The exhibition is staged at the Museum of Architecture and Life in Uzhhorod, an institution that was founded during the Soviet period, which includes a collection of architectural models and aims to portray different ways of being in Zakarpattia, and in Ukraine more generally. This will be the second exhibition that Sorry No Rooms Available realizes at the Museum. The exhibition thus represents a continuation of the residency center’s ambition to nurture relationships with other artistic and cultural institutions in Uzhhorod.

About a partnership between Sorry No Rooms Available (SNRA), Baltic Art Center (BAC, Visby, Sweden), Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC, Knislinge, Sweden), and soma.majsternia (Lviv, Ukraine). The project furthers collaboration between SNRA, BAC, and MARC, which has been ongoing since 2020, and expands to include soma.majsternia, who bring their own expertise in performative practices. Together, the group will work on Kindling (from the English term for ‘fire starters’), a research project and dialogue between small and medium-size arts platforms operating in regional and rural areas.

Kindling proceeds on the conviction that residencies proverbially ‘light a fire’ in the communities they are situated in through their support of socially engaged artistic practices. The project takes the form of residencies with associated public programming. Each Kindling partner designs their own conceptual frame, customizing the project for their respective organization.

The “Kindling – Reform -” project became possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

Sincere thanks to The Naked Room gallery for providing the works of Kseniya Hnylytska and Pavlo Makov for the group exhibition

Oleg Perkovskyi – Talk about two projects: Synchronize the present and In Memoriam
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, August 24, 2023, Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Talk about two projects: Synchronize the present (2018) and In Memoriam (2019). The first is based on the incomplete construction of Uzhhorod in 2017-2018, the second is the process of destroying Soviet-era mosaics in Lviv as of 2019

Thanks to the support of
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

The third urban-drift through the city of Uzhhorod:
IN SEARCH OF THE CITY CENTER
Project “City of VS Utopia”, Serhii Dyachenko – Yulia Manukyan
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available, Kindling – Reform – program

In partnership with the Swedish residencies Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center. Supported by the Swedish Institute, the European Cultural Foundation and The Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris.
Curators: Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska
18:00, August 18, 2023, meeting opposite the entrance to the castle on Kapitulnaya Street

Urban-drift through the city
Over the course of Uzhhorod’s long existence, compelling ideas for its development arose. Some of them were implemented fully, others were partially realized, and still more have been distorted beyond recognition. Let’s t engage these ideas during our walks.
The first walk will take place on August 4 at 4:00 p.m, beginning from the Zakarpattia Hotel. City researchers Serhii Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan, members of the Urban Re-Public organization, will lead the walk.

The “Kindling – Reform -” project and the residence of Serhiy Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan became possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

Maria Lanko, participant of the Sorry No Rooms Available residency in August, 2023.

Almost 10 years ago, in the winter of 2014, it was in Uzhhorod that Lizaveta Herman and I began our curatorial journey. Then we came at the invitation of the members of the Open Group to explore the art scene of Transcarpathia and Lviv.

It was the experiences of that trip that became the basis for my/our further work, and the relationships with the artists we met here were decisive. We marked them with “tags”: creating communities, temporality, informal galleries, everyday life, private, etc. But also – Petro Ryaska, Pavlo Kovacs J., Stas Turina, Anton Varga, Yura Biley…

Today, when there is less and less certainty in artistic practices, I am here again to check where it all is, where we all are.

The mood of the pre-iPhone era sponsored by Liza German’s Nokia.
The results of the research can still be traced at openarchive.com.ua
Maria Lanko, curator, co-founder of The Naked Room gallery.

The Maria Lanko residence was made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Urban – Drift through the city: Small and Big Halahov in the structure of the city
Serhiy Diachenko – Yulia Manukian
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available, Kindling – Reform – program
In partnership with the Swedish residencies Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center. Supported by the Swedish Institute, the European Cultural Foundation and The Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris.
Curators: Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska
16:00, August 11, 2023, meeting on Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Square, near the flagpole

Urban drift through the city
Over the course of Uzhhorod’s long existence, compelling ideas for its development arose. Some of them were implemented fully, others were partially realized, and still more have been distorted beyond recognition. Let’s t engage these ideas during our walks.
The first walk will take place on August 4 at 4:00 p.m, beginning from the Zakarpattia Hotel. City researchers Serhii Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan, members of the Urban Re-Public organization, will lead the walk.

The “Kindling – Reform -” project and the residence of Serhiy Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan became possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

Urban drift through the city
Serhiy Diachenko – Yulia Manukian
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available, Kindling – Reform – program
In partnership with the Swedish residencies Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center. Supported by the Swedish Institute, the European Cultural Foundation and The Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris.
Curators: Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska
16:00, August 4, 2023, meeting near the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel

Urban drift through the city
Over the course of Uzhhorod’s long existence, compelling ideas for its development arose. Some of them were implemented fully, others were partially realized, and still more have been distorted beyond recognition. Let’s t engage these ideas during our walks.
The first walk will take place on August 4 at 4:00 p.m, beginning from the Zakarpattia Hotel. City researchers Serhii Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan, members of the Urban Re-Public organization, will lead the walk.

The “Kindling – Reform -” project and the residence of Serhiy Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan became possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

Serhiy Dyachenko – Yuliya Manukyan, participants of the Sorry No Rooms Available residence, program “Kindling – Reform – ” in July – August, 2023.

Yuliya Manukyan and Serhiy Dyachenko are the founders of the NGO “Urban Re-Public” (Kherson), which focuses on the development of cities and public spaces in a broad sense, considering historical parts of cities as spaces of their identity. Recently, research has been conducted on the period of modernism in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Romania.

As part of their previous participation in the residence “Sorry, no rooms available” (Uzhhorod), Serhiy Dyachenko and Yuliya Manukyan delivered a presentation on Kherson modernism and conducted field research into Uzhhorod modernism, with heightened attention paid to the urban planning innovations of the 1930s and their relevance for the current urban situation. In the process, they developed a series of recommendations for future development.

Yulia Manukyan is a journalist (culture, art, urbanism), curator of art and urban projects, expert of the Museum Council of the NGO “Museum of Modern Art in Ukraine”, and laureate of the Vaclav Havel Prize for Human Rights 2023.

Serhiy Dyachenko is a researcher of architecture, a member of the Ukrainian National Committee of ICOMOS, a member of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, and an expert in museum affairs.

The residences of Serhiy Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan were made possible thanks to the support of:
The Swedish Institute
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation
Baltic Art Center
Milvus Artistic Research Center

There was a story
Presentation videos and movies
Residence Sorry No rooms available
Korydor Gallery, 6 p.m., July 27, 2023
Curator Natalia Lisova

Participants: Vitalina Boykiv, Habriel Buletsa, Sofia Golubeva, Svitlana Zaprylyuk, Raivis Kapilinskis, Anastasia Kolibaba, Kus Istvan, Natalia Lisova, Inna Lukyanets, Maryna Malyutina, Mykhailo Melnychenko, Maria Pelishenko, Viktor Pokydanets, Petro Ryaska, Andriy Stehura, Robert Saller, Habriela Fedyaeva, Pavlo Fuley, Vadym Harabaruk, Nataliya Shevchenko

During the duration of the group exhibition “There was a story” in the Korydor gallery, the Sorry No Rooms Available residence presents a video of work from the collective project “artistic activities in the environment: LENDART EXERCISES”, curated by Nataliya Lisova. Artistic actions took place every Saturday continuously from May 27 to June 24, 2023 at predetermined locations, namely: on the banks of the Quarry reservoir, on the shore of Lake Tsegelne, in Bozdos Park, on the Botanical Embankment and on the Independence Embankment of the Uzh River.

The group exhibition “There was a story” is ongoing and is open to the public in the Korydor gallery.

Natalia Lisova’s residence and the Group Exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Partnership: Korydor gallery

Photo credit Petro Ryaska. The photo was taken during the collective project “Artistic activities in the environment: LENDART EXERCISES” on the Botanical Embankment in Uzhhorod, June, 2023.

Monologue of KAR
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18:00, July 28, 2023, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Presentation of the practice, meeting and conversation with the participant of the SNRA residency, Kherson artist KAR.

KAR is an female artist from Ukraine. The coordinates of the work are 46.6558 north latitude and 32.6178 east longitude. In her works 2018-2021, KAR explores the terminological bottom of art (beauty=art=Kherson / subject of free pleasure=art=Ukraine), based on real events, combining the researched into samizat. On February 24, 2022, it captures the anti-metaphorization of the redemption of occupation art in Kherson during the full-scale act of russian invasion of Ukraine. “Zetivshchyna” seeps into the graphics, ceramics, textiles, collages of KAR’s thoughts, which the artist destroys before leaving on November 1, 2022, transporting the still-living art from occupied Kherson to the occupied Left Bank “by pieces of memory.” On February 10, 2023, the previously fixed objects-clapsticks pass the stage of border scanning for “basement” in the direction of Crimea — russia — Belarus — Latvia — Lithuania — Poland — Ukraine — Moldova. On February 21, 2023, KAR, immersed in Oberliht, decides to reproduce pieces of the work in “Staying You Can’t Run Away”, which were destroyed during the crossing of the Dnipro during the crossing to nowhere… On May 20, 2023, in Joensuu, the artist begins to create a new series of graphics “I love Kherson. Kherson loves me.” June 30, 2023 KAR goes to Uzhgorod to “Sorry, No Rooms Available”.

The KAR residency was made possible by the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation

Alina Yakubenko – The Adventure of a russian soldier
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
July 10, 18.00, 2023,
Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

In the drawings and works, the Kyiv female artist Alina Yakubenko critically and ironically examines the aggressive and brutal actions of “peaceful” russians with weapons in their hands in Ukraine. Who in the Second Series, after the russian-Chechen and russian-Sakartvelo wars, continued to kill and rape in Ukraine under the guise of the adventures of a russian soldier who accidentally got into Ukraine.

Alina Yakubenko’s residency and exhibition became possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation – Ukraine edition of the Culture of Solidarity Fund
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Poster credit: Attila Hazhlinski
Image credit in the Poster Alina Yakubenko – drawing from the series “The Adventure of a russian soldier”

Impartial space
Natalia Lisova
Exhibition
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, July 5, 2023,
The space of the large hall of the former restaurant of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel

Author’s text:
The Imparted Space project is an attempt to archive the subtle matter of the space of the Zakarpattia Hotel as a gesture of faith, love and hope for the impossible reincarnation of lost well-being and serenity in its past state.
At the same time, it is a study of space as such, which is in itself self-sufficient, valuable and at the same time ephemeral – elusive precisely for man, as a temporal/mortal being, since space and time are fundamental components of the physical world. The preservation of the places and events significant for the subject is a means of combating the transience of life.
When time control is lost due to unforeseen circumstances, the effort to return to the lost order leads to the restoration of the past way of life in order to gain a sense of stability and security in the future.
After all, time is cyclical, prosperity and decline replace each other.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Poster credit: Attila Hazhlinski
Credit of photo in the poster Nataliya Lisova – painting from the series “Unparticipatory Space”

There was a story
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
Korydor Gallery, 4 p.m., July 1, 2023
Curator Natalia Lisova

Participants: Vitalina Boykiv, Habriel Buletsa, Sofia Holubeva, Svitlana Zaprylyuk, Raivis Kapilinskis, Anastasia Kolibaba, Kus Istvan, Nataliya Lisova, Inna Lukyanets, Marina Malyutina, Mykhailo Melnychenko, Maria Pelishenko, Viktor Pokydanets, Petro Ryaska, Andriy Stehura, Robert Saller, Habriella Fedyaieva, Pavlo Fuley, Vadym Kharabaruk, Natalia Shevchenko

Sorry No Rooms Available residence presents in the Korydor gallery works of the collective project “artistic activities in the environment: LENDART EXERCISES”, curated by Nataliya Lisova. Artistic actions took place every Saturday continuously from May 27 to June 24, 2023 at predetermined locations, namely: on the banks of the Quarry reservoir, on the shore of Lake Tsegelne, in Bozdos Park, on the Botanical Embankment and on the Independence Embankment of the Uzh River

Text by Natalia Lisova:

Form is nothing but emptiness,

Emptiness is nothing but form.

Everything visible is empty.

The Heart of Irresistible Wisdom Sutra, beginning 3rd century

In Eastern wisdom, emptiness is perceived in a positive sense as a space that can be filled, a place to add something, while a filled form makes this process impossible and is complete in its development. The study of local territories by the participants of the exhibition by observing, identifying and emphasizing the special features of the local landscape, trying to feel its context, history, finding harmony in the process of artistic actions in the environment, revealing its potential, is an attempt to find and fill the empty places of picturesque corners of Uzhgorod with their own creative interaction with him. At the same time, the demonstration of artistic creations in the space of the Corridor gallery as a way of showing documentation is a forced condition because works of land art can exist only temporarily and are inseparable from their place of realization. In this way, the space of the gallery is actually not filled with proper Landart objects and remains free, just like the places of artistic actions, empty.

The Landart art movement originated in the United States in the late 60s of the 20th century. as a reaction of artists to environmental problems, as a protest against the consumerist society and the commercialization of art, and translated from English means “art of the earth”, creativity outside the gallery space opened a new field of activity for artists – nature. The idea of the movement was to leave the galleries and go out into the open space. Landart artists usually use natural materials: stones, trees, greenery, water in combination with artificial materials. This prevents land art from becoming part of the market system and turning into an aesthetic commodity, so in museums and galleries, land art can be seen through photo and video documentation.

Subsequently, in the 1990s, landart gave rise to a new language of creative interaction with nature in the territories of Ukraine. Domestic artists of environmental art consider the landscape as a means of self-identification and draw attention to the historical cultural space and reflect the deep-rooted mythic connections between cultural identity and natural processes. According to the artist Petr Bevza, “Ukrainian land art is characterized by “interweaving” and “adjustment”, which involves “minimum involvement of the environment as a means of activating human consciousness in the fight against the “prevailing cult of consumption (…)”, therefore Ukrainian artists define environmental art as “ the art of creating artistic images in the environment with the help of natural means, with the aim of identifying the environment as a source of eternally existing themes and ideas (…)”. Ukrainian artistic practice is aimed at removing man’s alienation from nature, realizing himself as a part of the common natural space, man’s continuous connection with the earth, the cosmos, which is the main feature of the Ukrainian mentality – love for the nature of the native land.

Natalia Lisova’s residence and the Group Exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Partnership: Korydor gallery

Poster credit: Attila Hazhlinski
Photo credit the in Poster: Maryna Malyutina

artistic activities in the environment:
LENDART EXERCISES
Curator Nataliia Lisova

PARTICIPATION IS FREE
June 24 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Embankment opposite Uzh-Venice, Uzhhorod
We will waiting for those who wish to join on June 24 at 12:00 on the embankment opposite Uzh-Venice.

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence and SNRA participant Nataliia Lisova invite everyone to implement their own creative ideas in an environment made of natural materials and to participate in a collective land art project, which is held every Saturday from May 27 to June 24 in the picturesque corners of the city of Uzhgorod. The results of the artistic research of the natural environment will be presented in the Korydor gallery at the end of June.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and the project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Alina Yakubenko and Dana Brezhnieva
Presentation of the artistic project “NaVIYane”
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
June 23 at 18:00, 2023, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

“navyyane” is a longitudinal research of the paranormal on the territory of modern Ukraine. Within the framework of the project, artists communicated with local communities, collected evidence and presented their reflections on phenomena that cannot be explained scientifically, but have become a part of the lives of Ukrainians and create the foundation of myth-making.
The members of the curatorial group will tell and show the parts of the project implemented in Poltava Oblast 2017 and Dragobrat 2018.

The residencies and presentation of Alina Yakubenko and Dana Brezhneva were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Tolk with the artist Sofia Holobuieva

Curator Dana Brezhnieva

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available

June 22 at 18:00, 2023, Double room, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

At the SNRA residence, curator Dana Brezhnieva continues her practice of finding and collaborating with young artists, so she immediately became interested in meeting the charming odessan Sofya Holubuieva. The artist had to leave her native home and moved to Berlin, where she studies, works and acts as a mouthpiece of Ukrainian culture, from where she raises funds to help Ukraine during the Russian invasion.

Sofia Holubuieva is a multidisciplinary Ukrainian female artist who is the author of paintings, graphics, performances, installations and videos. Among other topics, the artist works with the ideas of digitalization and the impact of technology on society. The history of painting and its modern functions are also a subject of her interest.

Closely connected with her family, Sofia often includes her loved ones in the process of creating projects. She focuses on the themes of her hometown and home, exploring issues of protection, limitations. She is interested in the ideas of the common and the individual, since she is a twin.

Sofia is a co-participant of the self-organized space in Berlin “UCC”, which, at first a full-scale invasion, existed as an artistic residence, gallery and meeting place for Ukrainians. During this time, the team organized many exhibitions, concerts, master classes, lectures, auctions and festivals.

Now, “UCC” is a bridge between Ukrainian artists and European institutions.

The residences of Dana Brezhneva and the presentation of Sofia Holobuyeva were made possible thanks to the support of:

European Cultural Foundation

The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

artistic activities in the environment:
LENDART EXERCISES
Curator Nataliia Lisova

PARTICIPATION IS FREE

June 17 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Embankment near the Botanical Garden, Uzhhorod
We will waiting for those who wish to join on June 17 at 12:00 on the embankment near the Botanical Garden.

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence and SNRA participant Nataliia Lisova invite everyone to implement their own creative ideas in an environment made of natural materials and to participate in a collective land art project, which is held every Saturday from May 27 to June 24 in the picturesque corners of the city of Uzhgorod. The results of the artistic research of the natural environment will be presented in the Korydor gallery at the end of June.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and the project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Pavlo Kovach (jr) about the practice of the Open Group
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available,
18.00, June 13, 2023, Korydor gallery, Pavlo Bedzir majsternia-museum, Uzhgorod

Pavlo Kovach’s (jr) residency and event were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Partnership: Korydor gallery, Pavlo Bedzir majsternia-museum

artistic activities in the environment:
LENDART EXERCISES
Curator Nataliia Lisova

PARTICIPATION IS FREE

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence and SNRA participant Nataliia Lisova invite everyone to implement their own creative ideas in an environment made of natural materials and to participate in a collective land art project.
Date: June 10 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Bozdosky Park, Uzhhorod
Those who wish to join project we are waiting on June 10 at 11:00 at the main entrance of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, or on the Bozdosky Park itself.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and the project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

artistic activities in the environment:
LENDART EXERCISES
Curator Nataliia Lisova

PARTICIPATION IS FREE

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence and SNRA participant Nataliia Lisova invite everyone to implement their own creative ideas in an environment made of natural materials and to participate in a collective land art project.
Date: June 3 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Lake Tsehelne, Uzhhorod
Those who wish to join project we are waiting on June 3 at 11:00 at the main entrance of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, or on the Lake Tsehelne side itself.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and the project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Magnetic Bandura
Sasha Dolhyi
Sound art performance,
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available,
Radio Yeden, live (the link to the broadcast will appear soon)
10:00 a.m., May 26, live broadcast, Uzhgorod

Sasha Dolhyi’s residence and project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Evolution as a method of knowledge
Sasha Dolhyi
Exhibition,
Residence Sorry No rooms available
18.00, May 26, 2023, Double room 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Evolution as a method of knowledge

Cognition is the driving force behind our meaningful existence, as a species in general and as individuals in particular. Cognition is a powerful factor that affects the properties of changes that occur with us and with the environment of our existence in time and space. Any process that we contemplate and in which we participate, knowing, and thus changing their directions, are evolutionary processes and must be considered in the general context, as the intersection of an incalculable number of facts in each of the billions of billions of moments of the present time.

At first glance, this exhibition presents seemingly unrelated statements that have different forms and different mediums. Each of these expressions is a slice of existence: a person, an animal, a place… They are an imprint of time and the processes that took place in it. All these processes have a different scale, however, they all have something more in common than gathering in one place now.

Sasha Dolhyi’s residence and project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

FRONT
Anastasia Kolibaba
Exhibition,
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
19.00, May 25, 2023,
Room 1416, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

“Front”. Illustration of the frontline life of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the war, the approach to plot construction was clearly separated. A direct documentary form without metaphors, without lyrics – art during the war turned into a form of gratitude. Image – search for understanding.

Anastasia Kolibaba’s residency and exhibition were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Serhiy Dyachenko, Yulia Manukyan
Uzhhorod Urban public space: reconstruction of development
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
16.00, May 25, 2023,
Transcarpathian Regional Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Media Library, st. Kapitulna, 33a, Uzhhorod.

The residency and presentation of Serhiy Dyachenko and Yulia Manukyan were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Serhii Dyachenko
My relation to Land-art
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, May 23, 2023, Double room – 1114, Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Serhiy Dyachenko’s residency and presentation were made possible thanks to the support of: European Cultural Foundation The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

artistic activities in the environment:
LENDART EXERCISES
Curator Nataliia Lisova

PARTICIPATION IS FREE

The Sorry No Rooms Available residence and SNRA participant Nataliia Lisova invite everyone to implement their own creative ideas in an environment made of natural materials and to participate in a collective land art project.
Date: May 27 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Quarry, Uzhhorod
Those who wish to join project we are waiting on May 27 at 11:00 at the main entrance of the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, or on the Quarry-side itself..

Natalia Lisova’s residency and the project were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Residence Sorry No Rooms Available is pleased to present the participants in April – May, 2023:

Anastasia Kolibaba
Natalia Lisova
Sasha Dolgyi
Julia Manukyan
Serhii Dyachenko

The residences of the participants were made possible thanks to the support of:
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris
European Cultural Foundation

Natalia Lisova
ABOUT OWN ARTISTIC INTERACTION WITH SPACE
Presentation
Residences Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, May 19, 2023, Double room – room 1114 (11th floor), Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, Uzhhorod

Natalia Lisova’s residency and lecture were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Image in the poster – Nataliya Lisova “The Web”, 2019. Residence “Dubky”, Odesa. Photo (fragment) Anna Taradina.

Natalia Lisova
WAR IN THE LANGUAGE OF LENDART
Residences Sorry No Rooms Available
6:30 p.m., May 11, 2023, Double room – room 1114 (11th floor), Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, Uzhhorod

With the beginning of full-scale hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, thousands of people died, were injured, lost their homes, friends and relatives. Most of the de-occupied and demined territories are still dangerous for free movement. Such places include the locations of annual Landart festivals. 2022 was a turning point for the cultural center of the country, but the artistic community full of synergy is finding new ways of creative realization.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and lecture were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Poster image: COLD WAR, Margarita Zhurunova / Bohdan Lokatyr, as part of the Assortment Room residency, 2022

Sasha Dolgyi – Man, attention and the world
Presentation,
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available 
16.00, April 22, 2023, Double room,
Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Sasha Dolhyj’s residency and lecture were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

Anastasia Kolibaba – “I think it can be about my creativity”,
Presentation-talk,
Residence Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, April 21, 2023, Double room (1114), Hotel Intourist-Zakarpattia

Anastasia Kolibab’s residency was made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

KINDLING – REFORM –

Viktor Pokydanets – сховкартон

Residences Sorry No Rooms Available / Baltic Art Center / Milvus Artistic Research Center

Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Y. Bokshay

16.00, April 20, Zhupanatska Square 3, Uzhgorod

Curators: Alex Fisher – Petro Ryaska

The personal exhibition “hidcarton” (hidden cardboard, original name: skhovkarton) presents two new series of work by Viktor Pokydanets. The show includes works from the titular series of cardboards and ros. lit. The presented art has been created by Pokydanets at the residence of Sorry No Rooms Available.

“ros. lit”, Viktor’s cultural book vandalism, is his reaction to the life he lived in a country that can be described as a disguised iceberg of Soviet Russian nationalism – an iceberg which, since 1991, began to slowly emerge from under the cold water of ‘brotherhood.’ From 2014 and after 2022, Russia stopped masking the fascion of its national culture – as a consequence of which Viktor was forced to leave his native home in order to save his life and the life of his family members. Pokydanets’ subjective “book instruction” for language reform is presented visually in response to the war started by Russia against Ukraine.

V. Pokydanets invited Uzhhorod artist Ruslan Tremba to participate in three works in the “ros lit” series to produce.

Pokydanets’ cardboards exemplify several features of his artistic practice. Works in the painting series disrupt the authority of an academic style by extending this style to cardboard—a material that is often perceived as being disposable. Further, in true Pokydanets fashion, the works draw on a range of references, including pop culture, agitprop, and suprematism. The series demonstrates the ease with which what is ‘formal’ can become ‘informal’, and vice versa.

During the exhibition, discussions about the role of contemporary art in social reforms will be raised. Pokydanets’ works make evident that, to engage in reform, one should reckon with the complexities of what happened before—the methods and motifs that were once influential. This series also suggests that ‘upcycling’ is key to effective reform; that materials which are usually put in the trash can instead be used in a different way, even transformed into a surface for expression.

Viktor Pokydanets’ residence and exhibition are part of the project Kindling – Reform program organized by Sorry No Rooms Available with Baltic Art Center and Milvus Artistic Research Center. The project is supported by the Swedish Institute, European Cultural Foundation, and The beaux-arts Academy in Paris.

Natalia Lisova
LENDART: ART BEYOND GALLERIES
Residences Sorry No Rooms Available
18.00, April 11, 2023, Double room – 1114 (11th floor), Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, Uzhhorod

The lecture will cover the following topics:
– emergence, context and definitions of landscape art
– specifics of domestic “environmental art”
– centers of land art in Ukraine

Statement:
As a practicing artist, I found myrself in the direction of land art, site-specific art, performance, installation and fine art. I am trying to reveal the following topics: The presence of the artist in the performance and the limits of the performance,
Psychology of the viewer’s perception and Form of time of space.

In creativity, I lean towards the method of observation, detection, interaction, addition and fixation of the environment. All my works reflect or contain a piece of the landscape in some way.

I put the acquired practical experience into the theory of art by researching the specifics of the formation of land art in Ukraine and work on the dissertation “Vernacular language of Ukrainian land art”. I am creating an archive of domestic
environmental art.

I consider it necessary to study and spread knowledge about the creative interaction of Ukrainian landartists with the aim of elevating the cordocentric component in modern art and outside of it, since the dialogue of man with nature is his primordial and integral part of life, which today, in the time of global transformations, needs increased attention.

Natalia Lisova’s residency and lecture were made possible thanks to the support of:
European Cultural Foundation
The beaux-arts Academy in Paris

The image in the Landart poster is the work of Oleksiy Malykh. No title. 2014. “Spring Wind” festival. Sandy shore of Lake Tyagle, Kyiv. Photo from the archive of Ksenia Malykh.