Cultural Forum “SlobodaKult”. Program in the ILKO Gallery

As we announced, the most interesting socio-cultural projects and phenomena of Slobozhanshchyna will be presented on May 15-29 in Uzhgorod and Mukachevo at the "SlobodaKult" multidisciplinary forum. Many of the "SlobodaKult" events will be held in the ILKO Gallery.

100 events in two weeks (entrance to all events is free), about 150 participants and one and a half years of preparation – this is the forum in figures.

Since the invention of cinema, documentary films for Kharkiv directors have been the main way of showing those aspects of life that could have remained unnoticed or disappeared from memory without their cameras. Kharkiv directors were discovering the mysteries of life through the cinema, investigating, recording the fragments of history. Chronicles of life, names and events of importance for Kharkiv, for art, for history, for the memory of all Ukraine, are presented in the film program of the forum "SlobodaKult".

Curator:

Oksana Koklonska (Kharkiv) – director, curator, art director. Founder of the Academy of Visual Arts Kharkov.

May 20, Sunday

13:00. Curator tour of the "SlobodaKult" exhibition by Oksana Barshynova. ILKO Gallery

14:00. Lecture by Igor Manko "Kharkiv School of Photography: From Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics". ILKO Gallery

The lecture "Kharkiv School of Photography: From Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics" covers more than 40 years of existence of this phenomenon in the history and present-day photographs of Kharkiv.

May 23, Wednesday

18:00. Film "Vagrich and the Black Square". ILKO Gallery

Year: 2014

Country: USA, Ukraine

Genre: documentary film

Duration: 81 min.

Director: Andriy Zahdansky

Director of photography: Volodymyr Huyevsky, Andriy Zahdansky

Film company: Z Films LLK, MaGiKa Film

"Vagrich and the Black Square" is a full-length documentary about the artist-conceptualist Vagrich Bakhchanyan.

May 24, Thursday

15:00. Lecture by Serhiy Bratkov "Kharkiv art scene in the 1990s". ILKO Gallery

17:30. Film "Rain Project". ILKO Gallery

Year: 2016

Country: Ukraine

Genre: documentary short

Duration: 23 min.

Director: Oleg Chorny

Producer: Svitlana Zinovieva

Spotlight Gold Award at the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards in Atlanta, USA

18:00. Meeting with Hamlet Zinkivsky. ILKO Gallery

Hamlet Zinkivsky (Kharkiv) is one of the most famous contemporary artists, author of graphic works, installations, performances, objects.

May 27, Sunday

16:00. Curator tour of the "SlobodaKult" exhibition with Dmytro Holets. ILKO Gallery

18:00. Film "Designer Vasyl Yermilov". ILKO Gallery 

Year: 2014

Country: Ukraine

Genre: documentary

Duration: 59 min.

Director: Oksana Koklonska

Camera: Denis Fesenko

Editor: Oleksiy Sobolev

An essay on the great avant-garde artist Vasyl Yermilov.

The full forum program is available here.