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November 1, 2011 in Mystetskyi Arsenal is opening the sixth edition of ART KYIV contemporary art
fair. ART KYIV contemporary is the largest project in Ukrainian art scene, which aims to present high
quality contemporary art in collaboration with the best galleries from Ukraine and internationally.
This year about 30 contemporary art galleries from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France and Switzerland
present their exhibitions at the art-fair.
In 2010 a record number of art-lovers – about 35 thousands were welcomed to the fair. Therefore ART
KYIV contemporary 2011 was planned with the aim to enrich the experience and knowledge of its
visitors about contemporary art processes and pays a lot of attention to the parallel program.
The sixth ART KYIV contemporary presents an increased number of special projects which are
organized in collaboration with prominent international art institutions in Japan, Germany,
France and Poland.
The format of the special program generates a special environment for experiments and research of
theoretical component of contemporary art scene.

Sensation of ART KYIV contemporary-2011:
1. Japanese Platform
Mystetskyi Arsenal is honoured to present a comprehensive exhibition by six Japanese artists – THE
GROUP 1965: Aida Makoto, Parco Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Oscar Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Arima
Sumihisa, - which was successfully presented in Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Japanese artists are united not by common art program, but only the common "spirit of time" that
corresponds to their year of birth - 1965. In allusions to the global art trends and the reminiscences of
the traditional pop-culture artists showing new Japanese identity.
The exhibition consist of completely different in style and expression manner painting, photography
and videoworks, and a unique installation Nagoya, which reproduces the model of Japanese public
housing. Japanese artists will present a series of performances, lectures, workshops, and special
karaoke program for children at the exhibition.
2. Special Program: East European Resonanse
Outstanding Polish curator Monika Szewczyk and Polish Institute in Kyiv will present in Mystetskyi
Arsenal the third edition of the project "Journey to the East", which is under the state Polish EU
Presidency Cultural Program.



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The project involves artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, as well as
Ukrainian artists Anatoly Belov, Alevtina Kakhidze, Yaroslava Maria Khomenko, Vladimir Kuznetsov,
Stas Volyazlovsky, TanzLaboratorium group.
Artists explore key motif which forms connections between people and is an alternative to the
authority of power or economic capital. This motif is the phenomenon of love in different unexpected
artistic forms.


3. Ukrainian crew’s sea journeys filmed by French artist Marie Reinert
French artist Marie Reinert is an expert in infiltration. She erects sandcastles in building sites and
breaks into corporate headquarters to derail the machine. Curated by Florence Ostende (Dallas
Contemporary), Reinert's first solo exhibition in Ukraine is part of the Special Projects section of ART
KYIV contemporary 2011.
Marie Reinert's new site specific project for the Mystetskyi Arsenal is the result of her research on the
industrial context of Kyiv in dialogue with the screening of her latest film Roll On, Roll Off (2010). Over
the course of more than a year-and-a-half, Marie Reinert went to Marseilles to film a Ukrainian crew’s
sea journeys on a boat belonging to the shipping company Marfret. ‘I didn’t want to show the sailors as
we expect them to be at work’, she says. ‘I was more interested in these fragmented bodies inside the
boat. There are no outside shots. In Roll-On, Roll-Off, you get into the machine, into the unit. It’s a
piece in praise of the motor!’


4. Ukrainian project
The curator of Mystetskyi Arsenal Oleksandr Soloviov presents the special project “Back entrance to
the museum” by prominent artist Ilya Chichkan in collaboration with young graffiti artist PSYFOX. This
project is a unique exploration of the boundaries of contemporary exhibition space. It raises the
question of the specificity of various media and artistic practices and allows to reweal this collage
dialog in extra expressive, dynamic form.
In the program of fair there are lectures and educational programs for adults and the youngest visitors,
a series of performances from Ukrainian and Japanese artists, a film screenings about art, seminars
and workshops from gallery owners and art experts.
This year ART KYIV contemporary is covered by the best Ukrainian and foreign publications. Also the
event is covered by 15 famous international publications, which spesifically came to the opening
of ART KYIV contemporary: Financial Times, Daily Express, The Times, Canvas, Frieze Magazine, DaMn
Magazine, Garage Magazine, FlashArt Magazine, Domus, PROSPECT, WALLPAPER, Daily Mail.


ART KYIV contemporary 2011
The annual international art-fair ART KYIV contemporary was founded in 2006. Project Author and
Project director is Nataliia Zabolotna. From 2006 to 2009 ART KYIV contemporary held in "Ukrainian
House" ("Ukrainskiy Dim").
Since 2010 the annual international art fair ART KYIV contemporary takes place in the Museum
complex "Mystetskyi Arsenal". This year it is occupying a space of 7000 sq.m. Last year the project
attended over 35,000 visitors per week. The number of visitors on the opening day was a record and
reached 6000 people. The exhibition showed works of over 200 artists, 80% of which were Ukrainian
artists, 30 galleries exhibited their artworks, a special project "Collections" presented artworks from 13
private collections, 38 artists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, France took part in special
projects StreetArtProject and Contemporary Video.
International Round Table "Museum in the Contemporary Context” was a special event of 5th ART KYIV
contemporary. The directors and curators of international art institutions participated in the
discussion: Valerie Hillings (Guggenheim Museum, New York), Peter Noever (MAK Museum, Vienna),
Victor Miziano (President of the International Foundation Manifest), Aleksandr Borovsky, Olesya
Turkina (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg), Josef Backshtein (Moscow Biennale commissioner), Gregor
Jansen (Düsseldorf Kunsthalle), Rolf Lauter (Swiss Art Foundation, Karlsruhe), Anna Gor (Arsenal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod), Manu D. Park (Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul).


Press-conference participants:
Anna Lazar – Deputy Director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv.
Francky Blandeau – Executive Director of the French Institute in Ukraine.
Miki Okabe – Deputy Director of the Japan Foundation, Tokyo.
Nataliia Zaboltna – General Director of Mystetskiy Arsenal.
Alexander Solovyov – Deputy Director of Mystetskiy Arsenal.
Alisa Lozhkina – Editor-in-chief of ART UKRAINE magazine.
Olga Viieru – Deputy Director of the charity fund «Mystetskiy Arsenal».


ART KYIV contemporary works for visitors November 2-12, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m, November 13 – 11 a.m. – 6
p.m.
Mystetskiy Arsenal, St. Lavrska 12, Kyiv, 01010




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