Exhibition of Contemporary Art “New Space”

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On the 16th of September, Victor Pinchuk's Foundation "Contemporary Art in Ukraine" will open in Kyiv one of the biggest in the Eastern Europe centre for contemporary art - PinchukArtCentre.
PinchukArtCentre is situated in the downtown of Kyiv, in an old building on Bessarabska square. Its total surface is 2,500 square meters.
According to international and Ukrainian experts, this facility designed by the French architect Philippe Chiambaretta is unique. Its creation is the fulfillment of the promise given by the founder of the Centre Victor Pinchuk to make his best to provide in Ukraine conditions not only for exhibiting contemporary art but also for its creation.
The world culture speaks a variety of languages. One of them is the language of contemporary art. On the one hand, it does not require translation. On the other hand, this language implies getting used to it and speaking it. Impressing, sometimes shocking and even unpleasant, this language is capable of talking to a person in an unusual way about ordinary things. At the same time, it is only the contemporary art that can accept absolutely naturally the things that would seem surprising and fancy. It is always talking about future, about what is still difficult today to understand and notice.
It is right to the new space and at a new time that PinchukArtCentre opens the door. It is intended to become a cultural portal that will bring the newest art trends to Ukraine and will integrate the Ukrainian contemporary art into the worldwide cultural context.
PinchukArtCentre will be inaugurated with the exhibition entitled "New Space" (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, France, and Olexandre Soloviov, Ukraine).
The visitors of Baikal lake will have an opportunity to see the works of acknowledged international masters and contemporary Ukrainian artists such as Serhiy Bratkov, Olaxandre Gnylitsky, Olafur Eliasson, Oleg Kulik, Boris Mikhailov, Sarah Morris, Philippe Parreno, Thomas Ruff, Arsen Savadov, Oleg Tistol, Karsten Holler, Vasyl Tsagolov and others.
By opening its exhibition premises, PinchukArtCentre continues and strengthens the support for the Ukrainian contemporary art and obtains the possibility to present the most progressive and promising international art to the Ukrainian and international audience.
For the invitees, the exhibition will be open to visit from 2.00 p.m. on the 16th of September, and at 8.00 p.m. on the same day, the opening ceremony will start in the Arena complex featuring Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra (Russia) and the German band Booka Shade. A unique video show will also be presented to the visitors in which the video and the reality are combined in an unforgettable performance.
Starting from the 17th of September, the exhibition "New Space" will be open for free visiting in PinchukArtCentre.

Information

Created in 2003 on the initiative of the famous Ukrainian patron of arts Viktor Pinchuk with the ambition to promote the development of the contemporary artistic scene in Ukraine, the Foundation for Contemporary Art  organises exhibitions and creative workshops, provides grants to Ukrainian artists. Its collection composed of about 300 artworks, was presented in Kyiv several times, and introduced to the international audience in Venice in the Palazzo Papadopoli, on the occasion of the 2005 Biennale.

Web address of PinchukArtCentre: www.c-artpinchuk.org

Olexandre Soloviov, curator of PinchukArtCentre
 [email protected], tel. +38 044 490 48 06, fax +38 044 494 11 29

Contacts:

Tatiana Overina, Advisor on communications for Victor Pinchuk's Foundation,
[email protected], tel. +38 044 494 11 45, fax: + 38 044 494 11 49.   

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