April 13 – June 6, 2019
On April 13th, the renovated Foundation Center for Contemporary Art M17 opens a sculpture project "Reforming the Space", featuring works by famous Ukrainian artists Nazar Bilyk, Olexiy Zolotarev, Sergiy Petlyuka, and the star of the world sculpture Jaume Plensa, whose works are presented all over the world: in the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Art Gallery Tate in Liverpool, the New York Museum of Contemporary Art and many others.
"The project Reforming the Space aims at using contemporary art sculptures and installations to show the way artists see today reforms in the surrounding space," says the project supervisor Kateryna Rai. – It’s not only about the territory of the city where they are located, but also about the metaphysical, personal space, the space between man and nature, man and the universe. The artists explore how political, geopolitical, cultural and social changes affect the global dynamics."
In addition to the exhibition, during several days there will be held meetings and lectures with the leading world experts in the field of sculpture: representatives of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Mario Merz Foundation in Turin and the London Sculpture Project "Sculpture in the City." Every single thing so that Ukrainian artists and visitors of the Forum could have an opportunity to learn more about the world art, to see the works of modern sculpture, as well as to exchange experiences and improve the city space of Kyiv with the help of sculpture. The special event - The Sculpture Forum - will be held within the project.
"We wish that people would speak more often about Ukrainian artists on the international arena. We want to harmonize the interaction of public space and sculpture, - says the director of the Center for Contemporary Art M17 Nataliia Shpytkovska. "That’s why we are organizing a Sculpture Forum with the participation of Jaume Plensa and the leading experts in the field of sculpture and architecture, so that they would become acquainted with the contemporary Ukrainian art and our city, and would be able to feel it, understand it and help us to develop it. After all, the support of intercultural dialogues and cultural diplomacy is a way to form the European society and improve the surrounding space."
Center for Contemporary Art M17, 102-104 Antonovycha Street.
The project is implemented with support of the Adamovskiy Foundation.Official partner of the project - ArtCult Foundation.
