Assembly Scheme

On 9 November 2023, the “Assembly Scheme” exhibition project opened at the M17 Contemporary Art Center. The exhibition is organised by the M17 CAC, Nahirna 22 NGO and Art Support Fund.

The exhibition project encompasses a permanent exposition within the stated project period, and a temporary section, as well as a series of concurrent art events.

The Assembly Scheme project focuses on the phenomenon of the Kyiv Institute of Automation. The exhibition brings together 60 artists representing a self-organised community of artists, which is a living organism that develops and transforms, triggering new ideas and reflections of the artists.

The art hub emerged spontaneously in the building of the Kyiv Institute of Automation, located at 22 Nahirna Street. Over 120 artists rented workshops within the art space of the Institute of Automation (Instytut Avtomatyky). The activity of the art hub was aimed at finding forms and means of artistic expression, developing the local art community, creative initiatives and interaction with the space of the Kyiv Institute of Automation. 

Over the years, the art space provided an environment for the constant exchange of experience between artists. Self-organised shows in the participants’ workshops were formed into the “Open Workshop Day”. The first artists joined the space back in 2016, but the community actually declared itself on 19 October 2019, when the first Open Workshop Day was launched. The pandemic has significantly affected the activities of the community. With the onset of the full-scale invasion, many artists were relocated. Instead, a residency for artists from Germany was created on the territory of the Institute. All this is an evidence of the transformation of the community, which has transcended the boundaries of a purely local phenomenon.

The exhibition at the M17 CAC has no chronological sequence and serves as a type of model for an assembly: a symbolic scheme where a set of elements, details, events, is assembled in the viewer’s perception into a coherent structure.

The exhibition on the ground floor of M17 will feature artworks by the following artists:

Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Maksym Mazur, Sabina Magnitofon, Molly Route, Sana Shakhmuradova, Oleksandr Morhatskyi, Natalia Kolesnyk, Maria Vlas, Oleksandr Meleshko, Yulia Boychuk, Roman Pedan, Olha Zaremba, Maria Drobot, Vladyslav Riaboshtan, Nazar Ivaniuk, Kristina Zakharchuk, Olena Shtepura, Lida Moroz, Leonid Kholodnytskyi, Zakhar Shevchuk, Ihor Seliemieniev, Lisnyak Zhenya, Anya Naduda, Halya Andrusenko, Dziuba Radyslav, Yehor Antsyhin, Anya Luhovska, Yulia Petrova, Vitaliy Kokhan, Olena Pronkina, Halyna Abramova, Marta Nyrkova, Polina Shcherbyna, Andriy Davydenko, Masha Leonova, Elis, Yura Pikul, Anton Sayenko, Serhii Kondratiuk, Natalia Kurnosova, Yuliia Kyrychenko, Liza Zhdanova, Mykyta Hladkykh, Lana Kyryliuk, Maria Matiienko, Tania Kornieieva, Olya Moskovchenko, Andriy Naboka, Ruslan Ivashchenko, Vlad Filonenko, Dmytro Tarasenko, Ellina Іva, Anna Mirbach, Zhenya Lisnyak, Sasha Mazurok.

Curatorial team: Svitlana Ahranovska, Yura Bolsa, Oleksandr Bohomaz, Nikita Vlasov, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Maksym Mazur

Administrative team: Marta Nyrkova, Molly Route, Sabina Magnitofon

The exhibition on the upper floor is expected to feature exposition changes, which will be announced further on the M17 media resources.

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Watch the video tour of the whole exhibition “Assembly Scheme”

Watch the video announcement about the project “Assembly Scheme”

The following temporary exhibitions were held as part of the project:

Instytut avtomatyky non objective. 3.3 project (9.11-19.11.2023) | Participants:Maksym Mazur, Andriy Pidlisnyi, Anton Sayenko, Vitaliy Kokhan, Natalia Lisova, Anna Mirbakh| Watch the video tour

Ich komme und sehe (21.11.23-03.12.23) | Participants: Norman Behrendt, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Samuel Ellinghoven, Paul Maciejowski, Anna Mirbach, Eric Pawlitzky, Andrėja Šaltytė & Leopold Tax, Leon Seidel, Sofie Schnellbach | Watch the video tour and video clip

«BREACH. Episode 2» (26.12.23 – 14.01.24) | Participants: Svitlana Ahranovska and Polina Shcherbyna | Watch the video tour

On 25 January 2024, the “Assembly Scheme” project was reinstalled, unveiling its new exposition at the M17 Contemporary Art Center. See the page of the project 

The new “season” of the project is centred on the installation Transitions by Nikita Vlasov. By exploring the artistic life inside the Institute, the artist immerses the viewer in a space with multidimensional cultural semantics. The installation project includes works by more than 30 residents of the community, as well as artefacts from the corridors of the Institute, which, once in the hands of the artists, also become an independent artistic statement.

Event programme for the project is available here

M17 Contemporary Art Center is a cultural institution that functions as an educational and research platform, an exhibition venue for Ukrainian and foreign contemporary art. The activities of the Center are aimed at creating a dialogue space for professional circles and all the representatives of the culture sector as a whole, at study and research of contemporary and related historical cultural processes. M17 supports art experiments, collaborations and international exchanges of experts, artists from various art fields, in order to integrate Ukrainian art into the world context.

Nahirna 22 NGO was founded in 2022 and is an association of artists whose activities are aimed at developing the local artistic community and the artistic hub that emerged spontaneously in the space of the Kyiv Institute of Automation. Nahirna 22 is the founder of the Open Workshop Day event, a self-organised art exhibition held in the art studios of the event’s participants with the aim of showcasing the process of creating art in the space of their own studio as an exhibition space. The first event of this type took place in autumn 2019 in the space of the Kyiv Institute of Automation (Instytut Avtomatyky).

Art Support Fund is an independent, non-profit, charitable and public-benefit foundation initiated by a group of international patrons, contributing to arts and culture and following the aim to help and support the preservation of the cultural heritage of Ukraine. The Fund was established to ensure the sustainable functioning of the Ukrainian cultural sector, including professionals, assets and infrastructure, as an important prerequisite for the viability and unity of the Ukrainian nation in the face of Russian invasion, by preserving endangered Ukrainian cultural and artistic assets and promoting Ukrainian culture internationally.