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NonStopMedia is a Biennale international festival held in Kharkiv since 2003. The Festival includes a competition program for young artists, an educational platform in the field of contemporary art and a broad programme of satellite events.

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MOMENTUM’s Director, Rachel Rits-Volloch, sits on the jury of NonStopMedia Festival VIII.

This year’s Festival Winner is:
Oleksii Tovpyha, Yolka (The Christmas Tree)

A 5-channel synchronised installation of monitors placed around a christmas tree, each presenting, in sequence, excerpts from the New Year’s addresses of all of Ukraine’s Presidents since independence. The presidential speeches, taken from the first or last years in office of each Ukranian President, are edited in such a way as to create humorous narratives reflecting on the question, what has changed in Ukranian society – especially in its representation of power and political rhetoric – since independence?

Oleksii Tovpyha Bio:
Born 1990 in Kharkiv. Educated as a mathematician.

And the Runner-Up is:
Alekseienko Mykhailo, The Road Home

Artist Text:

This work doesn’t need description. The viewer is given complete freedom in interpretation. The project “The Road Home” consists of two parts: 1. The main video (the artist’s return home); 2. Additional three-channel video (Homecoming stranger observed by 3 artists, documenting the process).

Alekseienko Mykhailo Bio:

Born 1989 in Kiev. 2013 graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kiev). Member and one of the founders of group «JOD» (2013) and art squat “Hayat” (2011). Member KYIV AIR (artist-in-residence in 2013) the first Kyiv residence for young artists. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2015). Gaude Polonia scholarship holder (2016). Lives and work in Kiev.

Solo Exhibitions:
2015 «Endless project» Mala Galereya (Small Gallery) of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 «Freebiel» art squat “Hayat”, Kiev.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016 «Art Under Fire» Silent Barn Gallery, New York, United States.
2015 «Shelter» The Window, Paris, France. 2015 «Rock Paper Scissors» Le Générateur, Paris, France.
2014 «COLLECTIVE MEMORY TRACES» [.BOX] Videoart project space, Milan, Italy. «IX ART-KYIV Contemporary 2014» ” Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. «GogolFest 2014», Kiev, Ukraine. «Postcards from Maidan» Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. International Video Art Festival “NOW&AFTER’14”, “MEMORY MIGRATION”, State Museum of GULAG, Moscow, Russia. «View of the Crimea», Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. «THE SHOW WITHIN THE SHOW» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. «NEW UKRAINIAN DREAM» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. «Solving the problem» Mala Galereya (Small Gallery), Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 «M. N. P.» (Museum of nonexistent objects), Odessa, Ukraine. «Book Arsenal» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2012 «Urban SHIT» Kiev, Ukraine. «Book Arsenal» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 All-Ukrainian Biennial of Graphic IM. G. Yakutovych, CHA, Kiev, Ukraine.
2009 Triennial Graphics, CHA, Kiev, Ukraine.
2008 All-Ukrainian Biennial of Graphic IM. G. Yakutovych, CHA, Kiev, Ukraine.

Awards:
2014 International Festival of Video Art “NOW & AFTER ’14” (Special Prize).
2011 Academic drawing competition in Kharkiv (III place).
2010 Picture contest Eleva (III place)
 

For NonStopMedia Festival VIII Education program, Rachel Rits-Volloch delivered a lecture entitled:

Hero Mother, Hero Artists, and Heroic Curators:
Building an Independent Art Space, A Case Study

ABSTRACT:

MOMENTUM is a non-profit platform for time-based art, active worldwide since 2010, with headquarters in Berlin at the Kunstquartier Bethanien Art Center. Working on a model of international partnerships and cooperations, MOMENTUM’s program is composed of local and international Exhibitions, Artist and Curator Residencies, Video Art in Public Space Initiatives, a Performance Program and Archive, an Education Archive, and a growing Collection.

HERO MOTHER: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism is the ironic title of MOMENTUM’s most recent show, an international exhibition of 30 women artists from 20 countries, focusing on the role of gender, citizenship, nationalism, migration and personal freedom, as well as relations between artists and state structures. The scale and impact of this show, like so many other major international projects leading up to it, makes it difficult to imagine that MOMENTUM is not a Kunsthalle, but rather an independent art space with a permanent staff of only two people and no institutional funding or steady sponsorship.

So how do we do it all? Looking back at the 6 years of MOMENTUM’s existence, this talk is a tribute to the many artists, curators, and institutions which have enabled great art to happen against all odds by heroically sharing time, resources, and ideas. This talk is an acknowledgement of the power of cooperation in an age of competition for scarce resources. It is a recognition of what can be achieved through naiveté, inspiration, and a little bit of insanity.

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