Young Blood Initiative

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Since launching in 2014, Young Blood Initiative has brought to the public 10 showcases themed around current affairs, fusing different creative disciplines.

We organise art exhibitions, live art events, lectures and public interventions. YBI is a socially conscious organisation. In the past we have brought art and performances to the home of the disabled; and in 2019, we curated “Be Water” event, fundraising for the democratic movement in Hong Kong, collecting more than £2000 within one day through theatre performances, exhibitions and an art market. We would like to contribute more to our society with art! Currently Young Blood Initiative operates in Amsterdam, London and Berlin. We have collaborated with art organisations from South Korea (International Art Making Network) and Finland (Hirvitalo), and have curated a public art project in Hong Kong in collaboration with street artist BOMS which was featured on South China Morning Post and Ming Pao Weekly.

06/06/2025

Breath. Дихання. Suum. is in Brussels 6-8/6!
We are honoured for the exhibition to be part of the European Women's Lobby general assembly 2025 ✨

04/03/2025

Our exhibition Breath. Дихання. Suum. ended with great success! It will soon be touring in other countries - we can't wait!

The exhibition was a collaboration between and ✨

25/02/2025

Izstādes nosaukums «Elpa. Дихання. Suum» apvieno vārdu «elpa» latviešu, korejiešu un ukraiņu valodās. Korejā dzīvojošā mākslinieka Jadžimas Cukasas un latviešu mākslinieka Andreja Strokina kopīgajā izstādē līdzās balss ierakstiem eksponēti desmit portreti, kuros redza...

22/02/2025

Next week will be a week dedicated to the 3rd year anniversary of the Ukrainian invasion. As our exhibition is reaching the end, on 27 Feb at 18:00, we will be having a Ukrainian concert by the vocal ensemble DIVCHATA.ua, which unites Ukrainian women who found a new home in Riga. Entry is free ✨

There will be kombucha, sponsored by

See you there!

Photos by Maxim Shesterikov

12/02/2025

Without the trust of Natalia, Natalia, Kristina, Olga, Maria and Mariia, this project would never have been complete!

You can still hear their stories till 28/2🎧
Exhibition opens daily 12:00-18:00.

Portraits by Andrejs Strokins
Photo documentation by Maxim Shesterikov

10/02/2025

Some highlights from our opening last Thursday 🔥Thank you for joining us, we had a blast!

The exhibition is still on! It's open daily 12:00-18:00 till 28/2 ✨

Photo by Maxim Shesterikov

09/02/2025

Andrejs Strokins - the photographer behind the stunning Ukrainian portraits 🔥

Photo by Maxim Shesterikov

29/01/2025

Another photography work on our poster is the portrait of Mun Pil-gi (1925 – 2008) Yajima Tsukasa taken in 2005.

Born as a girl, Mun Pil-gi’s father did not allow her to go to school. From the age of nine, she kept the house, farmed, picked cotton, turned the spinning wheel and weaved. A Korean man working as an agent for the Japanese military in her village promised to send her to a place where she could study and make money. As she had a big desire to study, she secretly left her parents and followed the agent. It was in 1943, at her age of eighteen. From then, her life as a sexual slave of the Japanese military started at the Changchun “comfort station” in Manchuria. Right after the surrender of Japan, the Soviet military marched in and forced sexual slavery; but Mun Pil-gi secretly ran away and finally arrived at Seoul after walking day and night from Manchuria through Pyeongyang and Gaeseong. In 1992, after she heard the testimonies of the elderly survivors of the Japanese military sexual slavery on television, she courageously brought out her fateful experiences in front of the public with dignity.

Mun Pil-gi was a quiet woman with a charming mild smile. Only a few years ago, she sang with such joy that people even said, “Singing means Mun Pil-gi”. This song is one of her favorites, which she sang in a soft and low voice, lying on her side while saying that she has no more energy to sing.

See and hear her at Breath. Дихання. Suum. opening on 6 Feb at 18:00 at Latvijas Mākslinieku savienības galerijā, 11. novembra krastmalā 35, Rīga alongside portraits by Andrejs Strokins!

23/01/2025

One of the photos on our poster - the portrait of Mariia Khudiakova taken in the .lv by Andrejs Strokins.

"...I wanted them to come out and say that it was all a joke and that they were alive", she said in the audio recording.

Listen to the rest and see this in real life on 6 Feb 2025 at 18:00 at Latviesu Mākslinieku Savieniba (11. novembra krastmala 35, Rīga)

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Amsterdam

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http://www.youngbloodinitiative.org/

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