In addition to Kaj Stenvall‘s very popular Faces of War exhibition, the Art House Turku will also feature short summer exhibitions by Ukrainian artists and artists working at the Art House. The Ukraine Solidarity Residency Programme and some of the residency actors participating in the program cooperate in the implementation of the exhibitions. The cooperation includes, for example, AARK (Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo), which also has its own satellite space in the House.
The Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme launched in March 2022 by a group of independent art organisations offers residencies and other forms of support for Ukrainian and Ukraine-based artists and art professionals that have been affected by the war in Ukraine.
The first artists are Tania Slobodianik and Nataliia Deineka. Slobodianik’s video diary Never Again and Deineka’s collection of six works by tittle Just don’t tell me about the war are on display from 3rd to 16th of July 2023.
“Never Again is a private diary consisting of records between my mother and me, feelings, sensations and memories, a lost reality that will no longer be the same. ” says Slobodianik.
All of Deineka’s latest works are reflections on the theme of war, home, homeland, self-identity, existential searches. Artist stopped believing in pure art, art for art’s sake.
“In times of war, art cannot be outside of politics. Ukrainian art cannot be outside of war now.” says Deineka.
Other artists in July and August are Polina Choni, Annika Dahlsten, Jouna Karsi, Vlada Kupriyanova, David Muth, Oksana Mykhanko, Stanislava Ovchinnikova and Anastasiia Sviridenko.
Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme
The Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme launched in March 2022 by a group of independent art organisations offers residencies and other forms of support for Ukrainian and Ukraine-based artists and art professionals that have been affected by the war in Ukraine.
The aspirations of the collaboration are to promote solidarity by establishing sustainable support networks and finding the means for Ukrainian artists to continue their practices.
The current partners of the programme are AARK, Art Centre Salmela, Connecting Points Programme, Fairres, Goethe-Institut Finnland, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, Kristinestad Art Residency, Loviisa Art Support Association, Nelimarkka Museum, Pro Artibus, Tahmelan Huvila, The Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, The Finnish Illustration Association Kuvittajat, and Värtsilä Artist Residency.”
