2022年2月24日，筆者本來以為又是平常的 一天，怎料如常打開社交媒體之後便發現普 京已經向烏克蘭宣戰，並派兵全面入侵，試 圖以最短時間吞噬烏國。一年後，戰爭不幸 地依然持續，亦沒有停火的跡象。從事藝術 行業的筆者過去不禁自問:藝術到底在世界 戰火不熄的時刻有何作用?藝術無法轉化成 支持前線的資金或物資;同時，在局勢緊張 之際以藝術表達和平的理念又會被視為不切 實際。不過正因為俄烏戰爭，藝術圈過去一 年開始正視並留意中東歐的當代藝術家;國 際藝術界積極地以不同商業和美術館展覽延 續烏克蘭文化，為藝術家爭取更多機會，將 他們的藝術品化為支持家國的動力。

Vogue Hong Kong

This special duo exhibition is the first-ever exhibition in Hong Kong by Ukrainian artists displaced by the war. Featuring Artem Volokitin and Maria Kulikovska, "Resilience: Voices of Ukraine" offers visual representations of the warfare's lasting impact on ordinary Ukrainians.

Double Q Gallery is honoured to present 'Resilience: Voices of Ukraine', an exhibition dedicated to two contemporary Ukrainian artists displaced by the war, Artem Volokitin and Maria Kulikovska. The exhibition offers visual representations of the warfare's lasting impact on ordinary Ukrainians and highlights how the two artists have built resilience through the act and process of artistic creation. Both artists have fled their countries since the war started in Ukraine in March 2022. Kulikovska and Volokitin, like so many other Ukrainians, found themselves needing to start a new life from scratch. This exhibition can be seen as an organic part of that new start as it has developed and accompanied the artists throughout the last twelve months. Although working on an exhibition in the face of such struggles seemed nonsensical at times, it actually ended up giving them hope. This exhibition is about that hope and what art can give to the artist, and now to you, the visitor.

Double Q Gallery is honoured to present 'Resilience: Voices of Ukraine', an exhibition dedicated to two contemporary Ukrainian artists displaced by the war, Artem Volokitin and Maria Kulikovska. The exhibition offers visual representations of the warfare's lasting impact on ordinary Ukrainians and highlights how the two artists have built resilience through the act and process of artistic creation. Both artists have fled their countries since the war started in Ukraine in March 2022. Kulikovska and Volokitin, like so many other Ukrainians, found themselves needing to start a new life from scratch. This exhibition can be seen as an organic part of that new start as it has developed and accompanied the artists throughout the last twelve months. Although working on an exhibition in the face of such struggles seemed nonsensical at times, it actually ended up giving them hope. This exhibition is about that hope and what art can give to the artist, and now to you, the visitor.

兩位因戰爭而流離失所的當代烏克蘭藝術家 Artem Volokitin 及 Maria Kulikovska 一直以藝術支持他們的祖國，Double Q 畫廊在「堅韌：烏克蘭之聲」展覽中將其作品介紹給香港觀眾。藝術家透過光線的折射、水彩畫中的動態筆觸和陶瓷的柔韌感表達他們的情感及痛苦。展覽展示了藝術家儘管面對戰爭的挑戰，依然堅持創作，盡顯堅韌一面。（圖：Artem Volokitin 於 2022 年創作的《Multiple Refraction》，作品以激烈的爆炸場面回應充斥烏克蘭的暴力。）

It is an exhibition about trauma and war, but to say it's only about that would be wrong and diminishing. It is an exhibition about overcoming and hope, but to say it's only about that would be incorrect and naive. It is an exhibition about trauma and pain, fear and despair, strength and resilience, life and light. Because life will win over death, and light will win over darkness. Stand with Ukraine.

In der modernen ukrainischen Kunst nimmt die Arbeit von Künstlerinnen einen herausragenden, wenn nicht sogar führenden Platz ein.
Acht Künstlerinnen in Karlsruhe zusammen zu bringen, ist der Stadt Karlsruhe, dem Innovationsfonds Baden-Württemberg und der SV SparkassenVersicherung zu verdanken, die die Ausstellung „In diesem Augenblick meines Lebens" ermöglichen.

On April 14, the opening of the exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art ART ON THE BATTLEFRONT, which the editors of Ukrainian Vogue initiated, took place in Vienna — in the space of the Künstlerhaus.

Деколонізаторські практики, які на часі, ситуація у окупованому Криму, досвід співпраці з іноземними мистецькими інституціями, думки щодо політики меморіалізації та місць пам'яті після перемоги та уроки перебування на резиденції у Фінляндії.

Maria Kulikovska is an internationally acclaimed multimedia artist, political performer, architect and lecturer. Or perhaps with the following: Maria Kulikovska is always herself. Through her art, she reveals her deepest feelings about the most human and the most inhuman things. She is independent because she faces the truth, shame and her issues. In doing so, she challenges us, using all means at her disposal to make it clear that art is political.

The DTF Magazine contacted Maria via Zoom to ask about some of the components of her art: about the influence of her profession as an architect on her artworks and the content of her role as a pro-russian journalist in «The Forgotten», about the significance of the number 88 in her performances and the use of flowers as a symbol of the fragility of life in her sculptures.

The emergency for solidarity in response to the ongoing war waged by Russia reveals the real meaning of things, and the value of words and ideas. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the self-organized Ukrainian institutions – such as volunteering organizations, international culture foundations, and networking initiatives with their effective strategies of resistance, have tested the existing institutions of collaboration, and proven that many common ideas on dignity, conflicts, and peacekeeping have been far from real humanity or justice.

Born in 1988 in Kerch, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. She is a multimedia artist, architect, actionist-performer, researcher and lecturer. Maria received a master's degree at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv (2013) and she also has a second master's degree at Konstfack University, Stockholm. She lives and works in Kyiv and Stockholm in exile. After Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in spring 2014 the artist never went back to her native city.

"Друга втеча" — наш спецпроєкт, присвячений людям, які вдруге вимушені тікати від війни. Про свій досвід наші герої – серед них художниця родом з Криму Марія Куліковська, дизайнер з Грузії Лаша Мдінарадзе та директорка з комунікацій компаніі СКМ, донеччанка Наталія Ємченко — говорять відверто й чесно, з великою любов'ю до свого дому, який їм довелося тимчасово залишити.

Im Rahmen ihrer Ausstellung „My Body is a Battlefield" – zeigt Maria Kulikovska die Performance „Lustration / Ablution No.5".

Already before the war, the Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska dealt with the social tensions of patriarchal systems dominated by homophobic autocrats and the queer understanding of the roles of people who live in such political systems from a feminist perspective.

На стінах невеликої затишної студії Марії багато малюнків, на підлозі лежать силіконові форми тіла художниці, за якими вона відливає свої скульптури.

Перформерка та експертка конкурсу МУХі – про те, як у перформансі прожити власний біль, чому перед камерою легше стріляти «в себе», та чому роботи українських митців погано продаються за кордоном

У новому епізоді #ЩАЦpodcast відверта розмова з Марією Куліковською, про те, як з'явиласась її перша перформативна скульптура-відбиток власного тіла, про різницю навчання в київській Академії та Швеції, про кордони, межі, тілесність, філософію, концептуальну складову її діяльності та багато-багато іншого. Вмикайтеся в мистецькі інсайти!

As Russian bombs fall and people flee Ukraine, new art is expressing steely determination and the survival of the spirit. Author - Svitlana Biedarieva, 2022. Financial Times

This text analyses the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on Ukrainian art and features interviews with five Ukrainian artists: Alevtina Kakhidze, Maria Kulikovska, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, and Piotr Armianovski. The artists speak about their experiences of displacement and migration following the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of parts of Donbas in 2014 as well as their premonitions of the full-scale Russian invasion that was to come. Author - Svitlana Biedarieva, 2022. October

An Eastern Europe art researcher interviewed two artists - Maria Kulikovska and Zhanna Kadyrova, who were active in Kyiv before Russian war again Ukraine from 24 February, 2022. About their main art projects and their position in contemporary Ukrainian art community you can read in this article. Tokyo Art Beat

STIR stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and brings you some visceral words from Dancing in Odessa, a book that articulates the land's timeless culture and essence: Ilya Kaminsky's accounts evoke Ukraine's spirit of resilience

This essay explores activist art resistance against this simulation. Specifically, I discuss three art projectsthat werestaged during the first, mostviolent year of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: Mariia(Maria)Kulikovs'ka's performance at "Manifesta 10"in St.Petersburg, Serhii Zakharov's guerrilla installations on the streets of occupied Donetsk, and Izolyatsia's#onvacation occupation of the Russian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Author - Nazar Kozak, 2022

More than 40 Irish and Ukrainian artists have given artworks to an online auction this weekend to help Unicef's appeal to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. Author - Patrick O'Donoghue, 2022. Sunday Times

The director of Neue Nationalgalerie speaks to frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin about Just Stop Oil, Ukraine, and the future of Berlin

Performancekonstnären Maria Kulikovska: "Om vi överlever kommer konsten att bli viktig igen". Den Krim-födda konstnären Maria Kulikovska är internationellt känd för sin politiska performancekonst. Nu är hon på flykt i västra Ukraina med sin 6 månader gamla dotter

STIR stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and brings you some visceral words from Dancing in Odessa, a book that articulates the land's timeless culture and essence: Ilya Kaminsky's accounts evoke Ukraine's spirit of resilience

Ukrainians across the country try to live life as normal while they prepare for war against Russia alone, reports Tom Mutch from Kyiv, February 2022. Byline Times

Ukrainian fashion designer Polina Veller shows her military collection on the sculptures from ballistic soap made by Maria Kulikovska during Ukrainian Fashion Week. TCH review

Newspaper clipping about "Flowers" exhibition and Maria Kulikovska's performance during its opening. Article's author - Genadiy Nazarov. Rabochaya Gazeta. November 13, 2020

Essay reveals the theme of responsibility of artist, curator and customer during the creation of art for public space and tries to analyze the role of sculpture in it, based on examples of works by contemporary artists all over the world. Author - Natasha Nagaewska, art historian and critic. With the support of Kaniv International Sculpture Symposium. 2021

The article is devoted to the topic of illuminating the image of a woman in the works of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska. Based on the analysis and systematization of scientific and journalistic sources, the specifics of contemporary art in Ukraine were described, which raises sociologically important topics in aspects of female imagery and corporeality in various arts, authored by Maria Kulikovskaya, namely: video art, sculpture, drawings and performative practices. Author - Tetiana Melnik. 2020

Наприкінці 2020 року в Щербенко Арт Центрі відбулася виставка «Від акції до перформативної скульптури: Марія Куліковська», де була презентована ретроспектива творів української художниці. Це есе - спроба побудувати цілісний наратив на основі динамічної та множинної практики художниці, в основі чого – співвідношення різних шарів та аспектів проблеми тіла і тілесності: тіла жіночого, архітектурного і політичного в історичній перспективі та сучасному філософському і художньому прочитанні. Авторка - Євгенія Буцикіна. 2021

Журнал Vogue UA при поддержке Symbol выпустил книгу Ukrainian Women in Vogue. Она посвящена украинским героиням, которые появлялись на страницах нашего журнала. Модели и художницы, писательницы и спортсменки, музыканты и дизайнеры, балерины и основательницы благотворительных фондов. Каждая из них – сильная личность, которая имеет свой стиль, вдохновляет собственным примером и достойно представляет Украину на международной арене.

Художница Мария Куликовская о галереи Garage 33, конфликтах и самотерапии специально для Harper's Bazaar. Авторка - Ольга Безнос. 2020

В интервью HDFASHION Мария Куликовская поделилась своими размышлениями о современном искусстве в Украине и мире, главных качествах художника и картинах, которые мечтает иметь в своей коллекции.

Украинская художница Мария Куликовская взаимодействует с телесными формами, превращая их в архитектурные произведения. Сейчас Маша работает не только над персональными произведениями, но и над арт-платформой Garage33 Gallery-Shelter совместно с архитектором-инженером Улегом Винниченко. Следить за размышлениями и художественной деятельностью Куликовской можно в Instagram. А вместе с тем – и за любимыми профилями Марии, выборкой которых она поделилась с Harper's Bazaar Украина.

Музейная биеннале Красноярска. Автор - Сергей Ковалевский.

...I grew up in the steppe Crimea, where pure freshwater is the greatest treasure, especially in the summer, when the arid marine steppe, almost deserted climate burned and dried out the only channel through which freshwater...

I am an artist; but I was trained as an architect and still, throughout my practice and difficult path as an artist, I return to architecture, invariably using skills of designing and 3D spatial thinking obtained through my years of studying...

This text was written by Maria Kulikovska initially in Russian – the author's first language from birth in a former empire. They/She emphasize(s) this fact in order to draw attention to the complex ambiguity of their/her situation, and the need to construct an authentic identity in post-imperial conditions. They/She believe(s) that the first step towards de-colonization is recognition of empire itself, and thereby to transcend and replace the terms and premises of the prior imperial language.Translation assistant – Brian Hatton, art / architecture historian and critic.

Catalogue of micro salon that took place at CFHILL gallery, September 3
— October 1, 2021. The exhibition was co-curated by Peter Gerdman & Aleksandar Stojanovski.

Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma accompanying these events. Author argue that artists who incorporate destruction within their artistic practise channel the energy from Ukraine's turbulent context in order to propose alternative possibilities for the present and future based on empathy, empowerment, and solidarity. Author - Kalyna Somchynsky. 2020

У даній роботі розглянуто творчість української мисткині-переселенки з Керчі (АР Крим) через поняття індивідуальної травми. Мисткиня з 2013 року не має можливості повернутися до рідної землі, що значно вплинуло на вектор її творчих робіт та перформансів. Авторка - Анна Філіппова.

Presentation of Ukrainian project of series of exhibitions, which took place in different cities of Ukraine and the aim of which was to collect the unique collection of art pieces that popularize reading.

Exhibition of Ukrainian and Polish art. Curators: Alisa Lozhkina, Ewa Sulek The show was held in Mysterskyi Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Dworcowa Gallery (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2017. It featured the works of 60 artists.

Bildmuseet has a long tradition of hosting the exhibition of the graduating master class from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. This year's exhibition is titled Cultural Capital and shows work by fourteen Master of Fine Arts graduates under professor Florian Zeyfang.

The book Permanent Revolution by leading Ukrainian curator and author Alisa Lozhkina will be released in English in November 2020. The volume surveys the history of Ukrainian art, highlighting the key points, actors, and phenomena across 550 pages and 480 illustrations.

25 Ukrainian female artists will showcase their vision of a contemporary woman and her role in society. In the project, artists mock established stereotypes of men's and women's expectations from each other in a relationship and contemporary life. Gender equality and social discrimination of women continue spurring discussions all over the world, and these issues are directly connected to steadfast gender stereotypes coming from both sides.

About art residencies, education programs, international collaborations and other art projects that took place through IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives in 2012.