16/02/2022
Open Call
Attention, event of the year!
Lutsk will host the International Biennale of Contemporary Art.
The first Lutsk International Biennial of Contemporary Art will take place this year at the Korsakovs’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and in 10 other locations of the city. For three months − from July 16 to September 25, 2022, Volyn will meet hundreds of artists, gallery owners, art dealers, curators, art critics, art lovers from around the world at the Lutsk Biennale https: //lutskbiennale.com/
The main goal of the Biennale is to actualize important world issues via the artistic dialogue of local and global, ensuring the development of contemporary Ukrainian art and its integration into the international context. Creating a space for reflection, discussion and truth-seeking, where visitors will experience a unique aesthetic experience, gain inspiration and learn about art.
“We promote experimental formats; give artists and curators the opportunity and freedom to demonstrate their unique ideas. We want to create a space that tests, identifies and critically examines the latest trends in the art world. We are an innovative art laboratory that invents and tests the latest and most controversial aesthetic ideas,” the organizers said.
In total, the Biennale program will consist of six parts:
• Basic program.
• Parallel program.
• Special projects.
• Performance platform.
• Educational program.
• Mediation program.
The main program of the Biennale
The theme of the main program will be “Training Area”. We often talk about a training area as a place, object, or subject that is used to test something. After all, everything that is created by man should be tested, and everything that needs testing needs a training area.
On the one hand, the role of landfills in the development of civilization is invaluable, and on the other – training areas, without consent, are subjected to suffering: they are plowed with shells, trampled by shoes, littered with waste, filled with frustrations, destroyed in experiments.
There are many countries in the world that, due to various circumstances (loss of subjectivity, geographical location, national characteristics,…) have become testing areas for weapons, technology, socio-political experiments, etc. Testing is conducted by countries with stronger military, scientific or geopolitical potential.
There are successful cases, such as South Korea, but there were also Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and now it is Ukraine.
This problem is constantly growing and exacerbating, so there arise questions:
• Does anyone have the right to use someone as a traning area?
• How do training areas feel when they are used as an object completely devoid of subjectivity?
• What should be done to avoid becoming a training area?
• What can all this lead to?
• Can society do without training areas?
It is impossible to be silent about it. That is why we offer to speak about this topic in the language of art within the framework of the Lutsk International Biennale, which will permit to actualize this issue and putting it on the world agenda of global issues.
Parallel program
The events will take place in the city's museums. The themes of their exhibitions will be implemented in the context of the main idea of the Biennale and will be determined by each institution independently.
Performance platform
This provides a demonstration of a series of interdisciplinary projects aimed at developing topical theatrical and performative practices, implemented in the context of the main theme of the Biennale. The collaboration of performers and artists, composers and musicians, playwrights and dancers will create a variety of performances and performances that will provide aesthetic and intellectual enrichment of visitors.
Special projects
These will be implemented in order to reveal certain aspects of the main topic.
Educational program
This will include training and educational activities: seminars, lectures, round tables, symposia, and forums, workshops for artists, researchers, and art lovers. The program aims to provide technical and intellectual support in the context of constructive criticism, which will permit participants from different disciplines to conduct in-depth research and production in the field of art.
Mediation program
It involves the active involvement of visitors in dialogue and co-creation, which will provide them with an interesting and inspiring intellectual and aesthetic experience. Mediators will help to better reveal the themes of art projects, even for those who are far from modern art.
The event is organized by the Korsakovs’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and Lutsk City Council.
The uniqueness of this event is that today in Ukraine there is no such a large-scale world-class event that would cover so many arts and significantly contribute to putting our country on the world cultural map.
So, in February, the Lutsk International Biennale of Contemporary Art announces an open competition for participation. Applications will be accepted from February 15 to April 15, 2022.
Terms of the project exhibition: July 16 - September 25, 2022.
The panel of experts will determine the participants in all programs and projects of the Biennale based on the results of an open competition on a basis of submitted applications. The results of the open competition will be announced on April 30, 2022.
Questions about the application process can be sent to: [email protected]
Reference:
The Korsaks’ Museum of the Contemporary Ukrainian Art (KMCUA) has an area of 7,500 m2; it consists of 15 halls. In three years we have brought into action about 3,500 m2 of new space. The KMCUA collection has 4,000 exhibits. There are presented works by more than 200 prominent Ukrainian artists and more than 800 art objects. There were collected the works of art by the best Ukrainian authors of the 20th-21st centuries: painting, graphics, sculpture, installation, video art. The KMCUA collection has more than 4,000 exhibits.
The main exhibition presents works by more than 200 prominent Ukrainian authors and 800 art objects.
For three years the museum has held almost 200 exhibitions and exhibition projects. During this period, it was visited by more than 75,000 art lovers.
All details by phone or e-mail: +380661425118, [email protected]
