Still Happening is an art project initiated by Masha Vainshtein with the support of Kupfer and Pushkin House. Its aim is to raise funds and support Ukrainian artists by bringing together artworks by Ukrainian and Russian creators.
The name Still Happening draws the attention of a distanced public to the fact that the horror of the war is far from over.
The project will consist of an online viewing room, launching on 26 July, exhibiting works by a variety of artists of Ukrainian and Russian origins, united by their duty to speak out openly against the war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The online exhibition will be accompanied by an event hosted by Pushkin House on 26 July at 8 pm. The event will act not only as a platform to display and sell works, but also to provide a space for artists to speak out candidly about their art, experience or personal identity during this horrific time.
All profits from artwork sales will go towards charity.
This is an in-person event.
This event is part of our Young Pushkin House programme and supports its members in realising their ideas. Young is our special meet-up space and programme open for people aged 18-26.
Image: Ivan Oliinyk, "war series", pencil on paper, 2022
LIST OF ARTISTS
Fedora Akimova
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov
Ivan Oliinyk
Maria Agureeva
Maria Cohen
Mikhail Bozanovski
Polina Osipova
Yelei Parashutov
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Fedora Akimova (b. 1987, Kyiv, Ukraine, now based in Tbilisi) @fedora_akimova
Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist specialising in installations, videos and objects. She was born in 1987 in Kyiv, where, after receiving her first degree in Printing and Graphics, she began her creative career as an illustrator.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov (b. 1989, Moscow, Russia, based in NYC) @fedotovfedorov
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov is a queer artist based in New York, who explores the theme of relationships between man, nature and gender. Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov works with the theme of the “other”, self-identity, ecology and foreignness in reflecting on the processes of distance production in society, as well as in nature, gender, and the body. The artist deconstructs human attitudes to nature by presenting closed ecosystems as models of power structures and ways of scientific and museological collection/classification.
Maria Agureeva (b. 1985, Ukrainian/Russian) @tripura_maha
Maria Agureeva is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital art, sculpture, installation, performance. Using various media tools, Maria explores the relationship between the global body of humanity and the body of nature, and explores the future human body as an inextricable link with nature, as a single matter.
Mikhail Bozanovski (b. 1998, Berlin) @chemicalcucumber
Mikhail's body of work centres in and around action-based processes. He navigates his practice through the exploration of digital mediums (augmented reality, video, audio), in conjunction with physical processes (painting, performance, installation). His work attempts to facilitate a shaping of the intangible, revealing the in-betweenness of the present moment. He aims to capture, extract and illuminate these invisible, omnipresent relationships that we are subject to. Through looking at dichotomies of the biotic & abiotic (the lived & unlived), Mikhail uses the natural as a means of coming to terms with the technological.
Ivan Oliinyk (b. 1995, Odessa, Ukraine) @sourse.of.love
Ivan has been creating art his whole life. His practice combines his love for architecture, graffiti and music, transforming it into naïve yet bold, vivid and poetic works.
Maria Cohen (b. 1989, Moscow, Russia) @mari_cohen
Maria is a self-taught painter, writer, researcher and curator living and working between London and Moscow. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts, where she gained an MA in Fine Art Painting in 2021. Her rabbit symbol acts as an alter-ego, an ambiguity of human nature.
елей парашютов (Yelei Parashutov) (b. 2001, Luhansk, Ukraine) @awyersuprememind
Oleksandr (under the pseudonym of елей парашютов) is a young Ukrainian artist whose practice revolves around digital art. His works are filled with bold colours, and often illustrate very personal moments or comment on global conflicts. елей often accompanies his art with his own texts – poetry or prose.
Polina Osipova (b. 1998, Chuvashia, Russia) @polinatammi