In this episode of the Ukrainian Art Dispatch, we bring you to Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine. Here, the Yermilov Center is hosting a major exhibition that presents a profound conversation between two visionary artists of our time. Emerging from vastly different sociopolitical backgrounds and cultural environments, Boris Mikhailov and Wolfgang Tillmans share a deep kinship: a commitment to photography as a means to explore the intersection of the personal and the political, and to capture the essence of a place and a moment in time.
 
"Pairs Skating: Wolfgang Tillmans and Boris Mikhailov" is curated by Tatiana Kochubinska (art historian and independent curator) & Maria Isserlis (senior museum curator, art historian, and cultural manager). We sat down with Tatiana and Maria to discuss their project and the challenges their team had faced while putting together the exhibition in a city close to the frontline.

The podcast is hosted by Iya Stepanyuk, an art journalist and editor of [esthète] Gazette, an independent art newspaper based in Lviv, Ukraine, and Ihor, who operates Nomadische Boekenplank, an art media project focused on Ukrainian art and culture based in Amsterdam.

More about the exhibition

In this episode, we invite our listeners to Amsterdam, where one special project was unveiled in the end of February. We will be talking about the group exhibition INTERWOVEN, which gathered together artists from Ukraine and the Netherlands. INTERWOVEN was a complex show with many tightly-knit stories within one relatively modest exhibition space.

Ihor will tell us all about it, reporting from the actual grounds of the event with the comments from the curator & the artists: Ivanna-Nikol Posobchuk, Natalia Grezina, Anna Kakhiani, Christian van der Kooy. 

Ukrainian Art Dispatch is a podcast that shares stories from the forefront of the Ukrainian art scene. We discuss major events and significant exhibitions taking place both in Ukraine and around the world. Each fortnight, we’ll bring you news and insider insights featuring special guests and experts. 

The podcast is hosted by Iya Stepanyuk, an art journalist and editor of [esthète] Gazette an independent art newspaper based in Lviv, Ukraine, and Ihor, who operates Nomadische Boekenplank, an art media project focused on Ukrainian art and culture based in Amsterdam. 

More about the exhibition 

ARTISTS:
Alex Blanco
Anna Kakhiani
Anna Sydorenko
Annemarieke van Peppen
Barro Donker
Christiaan Bastiaans
Hanna Aleksieieva
Jacob van der Zwan
Christian van der Kooy
Max Hikm
Natalia Grezina
Olesya Bachynska
Olexandr Pinchuk
Olga Tykhonova

Tinca Veerman
Yuliia Elyas

Curator: Ivanna-Nikol Posobchuk

In our first episode, we will talk about the exhibition, which is currently on display at the Ukrainian Museum in New York and showcases the works of the avant-garde female artist Alexandra Exter. The exhibition name is ALEXANDRA EXTER: THE STAGE IS A WORLD
 
Later in the episode, we hear from Peter Doroshenko, the director of the Ukrainian Museum in New York. Mr. Doroshenko will give us an insider's perspective on how this project came together, why it's essential for the art world, and the Ukrainian Museum's major plans for 2025.
 
Ukrainian Art Dispatch is a podcast that shares stories from the forefront of the Ukrainian art scene. We will discuss major events and significant exhibitions taking place both in Ukraine and around the world. Each fortnight, we’ll bring you news and insider insights featuring special guests and experts.

The podcast is hosted by Iya Stepanyuk, an art journalist and editor of [esthète] Gazette, an independent art newspaper based in Lviv, Ukraine, and Ihor, who operates Nomadische Boekenplank, an art media project focused on Ukrainian art and culture based in Amsterdam.