Mazur Maksym

Common Space
Common Space 2024, installation, A3 paper, found object, match, video "Toloka" by Anastasia Pozharska and Dara Sholokh
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The installation contains the video work “Toloka” by Anastasia Pozharska and Dara Sholokh.

In March 2024, a fragment of a Russian missile struck the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design, destroying a significant part of the building. Later, a volunteer cleanup event was organized, gathering several hundred people, mostly artists and creative professionals.

On that day, I noticed how diverse the methods of interacting with the aftermath of destruction were. Some took photos and videos, others created sketches and studies, some used photographs to create paintings… Many people were cleaning up various debris, selecting artifacts from it… A large number of texts and social media posts were created.

Similar methods of interacting with reality can be observed in the artistic practices of artists. If, in the past, conflicts within the artistic community arose from the rejection or misunderstanding of different approaches, it has now become clear that all means aimed at improving our situation are beneficial to the entire community. After all, this is about engaging with reality and attempting to comprehend and understand our shared space and collective responsibility.

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Mazur Maksym
Date of birth: 1990
Place of residence: Reshetylivka (Poltava region), Kyiv

Born in 1990 in Reshetylivka, Poltava region.

Education:

2005-08 – State Art High School named after Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv.

2008-12 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Crimean branch). Kolchugino, Crimea.

2012-14 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Kyiv.

Personal exhibitions:

2023 – Time Forms. New life. Together with Vasyl Tatarskyi, Imagine point, Kyiv. 2022 – Transliteration, Portal 11, Kyiv.

2022 – Ex libris, Dzyga, Lviv.

2019 – Day two, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv.

2018 – A priori, Triptych Art gallery, Kyiv.

Group exhibitions:

2024 – Kyiv Time, Institute of Automation, participation in the alternative art fair TRYST 2024, Torrance Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2024 – Second Breath of the Earth, Imagine Point, Kyiv

2024 – My Territory, Mercury Center of Intellectual Arts, Lviv

2024 – A Place on Earth, Institute of Automation, Dzyga Art Center, Lviv

2024 – Territory of Freedom: Maidan, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv

2023 – Assembly Scheme, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv (Co-curator)

2023 – Satellite Exhibition of the 7th International Biennale of Non-Objective Art, Institute of Automation in collaboration with KNO, Kyiv

2023 – International Collage Festival CUTOUT COLLAGE FESTIVAL, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv

2023 – Shared Space, Institute of Automation, Kyiv

2023 – Concentration of Will, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv

2023 – Forms of Presence, Art Arsenal, Kyiv

2022 – Ukraine! unmuted, Triennial of Ukrainian Contemporary Art “Ukrainian Slice”, Kaunas, Lithuania.

2022 – Unity: British and Ukrainian Art, Koppel X Gallery, London, UK.

2022 – Relocation, Institute of Automation, PM Gallery, Lviv.

2022 – The second international exhibition ART FAIR ART COMPENSA, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2022 – Terra Libera, Venice Art Gallery, Venice, Italy.

2022 – Time of war, reflection…, Dzyga, Lviv.

2022 – Institutionalisation, Imagen point, Kyiv.

2021 – Labyrinths of discourse, as part of the opening of the XIV platform “New Directions”. Institute of Contemporary Art Problems. Kyiv.

2021 – “Your Name is Ukraine”, Korsaks Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk.

2021 – Second All-Ukrainian Levkas Biennale, CSM White world, Kyiv.

2021 – Visiocracy, as part of the opening of the XIII platform “New Directions”. Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv.

2020 – International project “One Day After”, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv.

2020 – Co-organiser of the project space “Institute of Automation”, Kyiv.

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