Status active Venue Zolotiy Bereg | ||
Frequency annually (May, September) Location(s) Biruchiy Island, Azov Sea | ||
Biruchiy contemporary art project (Ukrainian: Міжнародний симпозіум сучасного мистецтва «Бірючий», [miʒnɑˈrɔdnɪj sɪmˈpɔzium suˈt͡ʃɑsnɔɦɔ mɪsˈtɛt͡stβ̞ɑ biˈrut͡ʃɪj]) is a leading event of contemporary art in Ukraine. It was founded in 2006 by the civic organization Association of Contemporary Art Researchers. The project is held annually in May and September on the Biruchiy Island, located in the Azov Sea. Since 2015, its geography has expanded to other regions of Ukraine. Ten seasons of Biruchiy contemporary art project were attended by 153 artists and 9 art groups from 11 countries. Since 2014, a part of participants goes to Italy.
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Project Background
The project was founded by the art worker Gennadiy Kozub, the art patron Mykola Barzion and the artist Volodymyr Gulich. Biruchiy Island (Zolotiy Bereg recreation camp), which is far away from civilization, was chosen to be the project art residency. Artists came to Biruchiy for two weeks in September. Since 2014, two-week gatherings have been held also in May.
"Biruchiy-013" was visited by Sotheby's representatives, who purchased several painters' works. The residency was also visited by Massimo Melotti, an external relations specialist from Castle of Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Turin, Italy).
In 2013, RESÒ-Lab was initiated in collaboration with RESÒ International Art Residency Program in Piedmont (Italy). It is a long-term participant exchange project between Biruchiy and leading Italian art foundations. In 2014, due to the war in Eastern Ukraine, RESÒ delayed Italian artists' coming to Biruchiy. Nevertheless, in November 2014, Vitaliy Kokhan, Ivan Svitlychniy and the curator Sergiy Kantsedal invited by RESÒ, visited the residency of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy), as it was previously agreed.
In autumn 2015, RESÒ sent to Biruchiy a delegation of artists from Italy, headed by Massimo Melotti. Biruchiy became the filming location for a film by Italian film directors Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio, who arrived at the island immediately after participating in Venice International Film Festival.
In 2015, the Open Group carried out an international performative project "1000-km view". Riding a catamaran, the participants covered 1000-km distance of "Open Gallery" from the Stryi River to Biruchiy Island. The new project of Biruchiy was developed as collaboration between curator Irina Leifer (Amsterdam) and Mariya Lanko and Lyzaveta German's team (Kyiv), Open Ateliers Zuidoost (Amsterdam) within Tandem Ukraine program (an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation and MitOst).
Irshansk
19 July 2015 is the starting point of an art intervention of Biruchiy contemporary art project, which expanded the geography of its residence. The first art delegation was welcomed by Irshansk, where a two-week project "Irshansk. Recreation" was carried out. The exposition embraced the urban space and natural landscapes. The project is aimed at promoting cultural decentralization of the country. The curator of the project is Nataliya Matsenko.
The project themes and curators
Project commissioner Gennadiy Kozub (since 2006).
Participants
Ukraine — Inara Bagirova, Olga Berezyuk, Kateryna Berlova, Nazar Bilyk, Kateryna Buchatska, Mykhailo Deyak, Anatoliy Fedirko, Nataliya Filonenko, Lyzaveta German, Kseniya Gnylytska, Zakentiy Gorobyov, Anna Gydora, Illya Isupov, Zhanna Kadyrova, Sergiy Klepach, Mykyta Kravtsov, Valeriy Kumanovsky, Mariya Lanko, Anton Logov, Maksym Mamsikov, Oleksa Mann, Nina Murashkina, Mariya Pasichnyk, Viktoriya Perevoznikova, Yuri Pikul, Viktor Pokydanets, Oleksandr Roitburd, Denys Ruban, Oleksiy Sai, Andriy Siguntsov, Gnat Solomko, Yuri Solomko, Vasil Tatarsky, Oleg Tistol, Valeriya Trubina, Myroslav Vaida, Anna Valieva, Petro Vladimirov, Glib Vysheslavsky, Alina Yakubenko, Yuri Yefanov, Andriy Zelinsky, Oleksandr Zhyvotkov, Ujif_notfound /Georgiy Potopalsky/, GAZ group /Vasil Grublyak, Oleksiy Zolotaryov/ (Kyiv); Mykola Matsenko, Volodymyr Yakovets (Cherkasy); Mykyta Shalenniy (Dnipropetrovsk); Anatoliy Tatarenko (Donetsk); Irina Antonyuk, Vasil Antonyuk, Vitaliy Kokhan, Tetyana Malynovska, Roman Mikhailov, Roman Minin, Olena Polyashchenko, Oksana Solop, Larysa Stadnyk, Andriy Stogniy, Ivan Svitlychniy, Artem Volokitin, Oleksiy Yalovega, Sviter group /Lera Polyanskova, Maksym Robotov/ (Kharkiv); Nataliya Astasyeva-Blok, Totem group /Stas Volyazlovsky/ (Kherson); Yevgen Koroletov, Anton Lapov (Luhansk); Yuri Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Yuri Koval, Viktor Lavniy, Oleksandr Matvienko, Stanislav Turina, Anton Varga, Sergiy Yakunin (Lviv); Inna Bobrova, Yakiv Bulavytsky, Andriy Chepurko, Oleksiy Markitan, Rustam Mirzoev, Yulia Mirzoeva, Dmytro Moldavanov, Taras Zaviruykha (Mykolaiv); Oleksiy Chipigin, Dmytro Dulfan, Igor Gusev, Stepan Ryabchenko, Nata Trandafir, Albina Yaloza, Apl315 /Glib Sharoglazov/ (Odesa); Oleksandr Shirokov (Sevastopol); Anna Bekerska (Simferopol); Sergiy Dubovets, Vadim Kharabaruk, Mykhailo Khodanych, Ivan Nebesnyk, Marsel Onysko, Robert Saller, Nataliya Shevchenko, Andriy Stegura, Nataliya Tartay, Ruslan Tremba (Uzhgorod); Anna Bykova, Nastya Loiko, Andriy Orlov, Anastasia Skorikova (Yalta); Marta Berezhnenko, Volodymyr Borodin, Volodymyr Gulich, Yevgen Kompaneychenko, Olga Kyrychenko, Vsevolod Medvedev, Gennadiy Nikitin, Dmytro Tsipunov, Zheton group /Yevgen Fomenko, Anton Lisikov/ (Zaporizhia); Art zebs group /Volodymyr Gulich, Nastya Loiko/ (Yalta, Zaporizhia); Syny Morya group (Sons of the Sea group) /Illya Isupov, Oleksandr Matvienko, Marsel Onysko, Andriy Stegura/ (Kyiv, Lviv, Uzhgorod).
Ukraine / Netherlands — Open Group (Vidkryta grupa) /Arthur van Beek, Yuri Biley, Jesper Buursinkk, Lyzaveta German, Sergiy Klepach, Pavlo Kovach, Valeriy Kumanovsky, Mariya Lanko, Irina Leifer, Stanislav Turina, Anton Varga/ (Kyiv, Lviv, Amsterdam).
Austria — Anna Ermolaeva, Scott Evans, Rita Novak (Vienna). Czech Republic — Alice Nikitinová (Prague). France — Sandy Brishler (Paris). Germany — Igor Zaidel (Berlin). Israel — Vladimir Brodetsky (Tel Aviv). Italy — Valerio Manghi, Nataliya Polunina, Gianluca de Serio, Massimiliano de Serio, Alessandro Sharaffa (Turin). Netherlands — Arthur van Beek, Jesper Buursinkk, Irina Leifer (Amsterdam). Russia — Vladimir Arkhipov, Victoria Begalskaya, Sergey Bratkov, Dmitry Bulnigin, Yulia Gnirenko, Rada Ivanova, Boris Kashapov, Arkady Nasonov, Maximilian Roganov, Yuri Shabelnikov, PG artistic group and artistic groups of the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia /Dmitry Fedorov, Svetlana Isayeva, Zinaida Isupova, Vadim Kolosov, Denis Tikhomirov, Oleg Ustinov, Andrew Zhandarov/ (Moscow); Tatiana Polyashchenko (Novorossiysk). Switzerland — Ronald Ross. United Kingdom — Pavlo Kerestey (London).
Publishing activity
The project catalogues are published annually (7 catalogues were published by 2015).
Biruchiy contemporary art magazine has been published since 2014. It is a quarterly magazine with 5 issues published by 2015. Its editor-in-chief is Maksym Dobrovolsky, the managing editor is Gennadiy Kozub. It is a full-color periodical of 68-104 pages, published in Russian and Ukrainian, having a run of 5000 copies, covering contemporary art.
Literature
- Бирючий 006. [Запорожье, 2007]. [48] с. (Russian)
- 2 Международный симпозиум современного искусства «Бирючий 007» или «Хиппи Е». 7.09 – 16.09 2007 г.. [Запорожье, 2008]. [52] с. (Russian)
- Третий Международный симпозиум современного искусства «Бирючий 008». «Хто ти Е», 4.09 – 13.09 2008. [Запорожье, 2008]. [48] с. (Russian)
- Biruchiy 009. Contemporary art. [Запорожье, 2009]. [52] с. (Russian)
- Biruchiy 012. Contemporary art project. As a part of Art Kyiv Contemporary 2012. Kyiv, November 1–18, 2012. [Kyiv] : Art Publishing Studio, 2012. 188 p. (Russian) (English)
- Biruchiy contemporary art project 013. The habitable zone. [Kyiv : Art Print Studio, 2013]. 224 p. (Russian) (English)
- Biruchiy contemporary art project 014. [Kyiv : Huss, 2015]. 254 p. (Ukrainian) (English)