Art residency of Young curators from Belarus and artists from Ukraine in Poland

Olga Rybchinskaya

Curator, art critic, researcher
Collaborates with National Art Museum of Belarus, Contemporary Art Gallery “Ў”, Minsk (Belarus), Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (Poland), Georgian National Museum, Goethe Institutе in Minsk (Belarus), Contemporary Art Study Center (EHU) Vilnius (Lithuania) etc.
Head of exhibition department at the Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus. Research interests include: history of the non-official Belarusian art of 1980th and 1990th in the all-European context. Author of a number of analytical articles on the problematization of Belarusian contemporary, non-official and official art and art scene. Initiator and curator of a number of Belarusian and international art projects: “Going Public – On the Difficulty of a Public Statement”, “Belarusian avant-garde art of 1980s-1990s”, “Belarusian climate. Retrospection”, “War Witness Archive” etc.
Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus

Hanna Samarskaya

MA, Visual and Cultural studies (EHU / Vilnius, 2011).

Art-critic, independent researcher and project manager in the field of culture. From 2013 hold a position of project coordinator at Museum of Modern Fine Art (Minsk, Belarus), mainly responsible for the development of education and event-sector.

Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva

artists / Kyiv, Ukraine

Yulia Kostereva – born in 1973 Kharkov, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine, studied Art at the Industrial Art School Abramcevo, Russia, the state art school and the Art Industrial Institute, Kharkiv, and Graphic art in the interdisciplinary postgraduate program at the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine.

Yuriy Kruchak – born in 1973 Poltava, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine, studied at the Poltava Fine Arts School, the Kharkiv State Fine Arts School, the Kharkiv Art Industrial Institute, and did a postgraduate course at the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv.

In 1999 they founded the artistic platform “Open Place”. It is directed to extension of creative research and to establishment of the links between art process and the different layers of modern society. Art is understood as a space of intersections of artistic social and political processes. The platform seeks to provide both the artist and the viewer with a specific form of equality and liberation. Open Place strive to extend the borders of influence of art, and  to engage the new groups of people  to creative process, through the interdisciplinary projects, as well as to establish a fruitful dialogue between society and those who creates art.