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Talk and get-together with the Anti-War Art Coalition

Talk and get-together with the Anti-War Art Coalition

Tuesday, 27th June at 7 pm
SCCA Project Room
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana

Warmly welcome to a talk and get-together with Natasha Chychasova and Antonina Stebur from the Anti-War Art Coalition.

Antonina Stebur and Natasha Chychasova come together in a thought-provoking discussion titled “Monuments are Bad Lovers, Catastrophes are Bad Mothers.” The conversation takes its title from the work of Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina “There are no monuments to monuments.” Drawing from their own experiences as individuals affected by war, displacement, and uprisings, Antonina Stebur and Natasha Chychasova Chychasova delve into complex colonial dependencies, resource exploitation, and also how the imperial imagination is connected with the real infrastructures of production, extractivism, grain logistics, oil transportation in the face of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Natasha Chychasova is a curator and researcher from Donetsk, based in Kyiv. She works on post-Soviet legacy and on strategies for its deconstruction, and feminist art practices. Chychasova graduated with a master’s program in art history from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Currently, she works as a head of the contemporary art department at the National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv. Her curatorial projects include: Finally, we’re Here! (Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2019); By memory (Odesa, Ukraine, 2019); This is not a museum, this is a plant (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020), Non-Human trilogy (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020); Letter To Mother (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020), Silence féminin (2020-2022), Ukraine Ablaze platform (2022), Heart of Earth (2022), Forms of presence (2023). Her articles were published in Your Art, ArtsLooker, SHUM magazine, Blok magazine, and Spaika Media.

Antonina Stebur is a curator, art historian, and art critic. She works as a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she teaches an art activism course. She is co-founder of the #damaudobnayavbytu project on gender discrimination in post-Soviet countries and the research platform Spaika.Media. She is a co-curator of the exhibitions “Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance” (Ukraine, 2021), “Names” (Belarus, 2017), “I Was Approaching the City I Had Not Known Yet” (Ukraine, 2021), “If Disrupted It Becomes Tangible” (Lithuania, 2023), and others. Stebur is a co-founder and curator of antiwarcoalition.art – The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine. Her research interests include feminism, post-Soviet studies, political art, tactics of resistance and solidarity, and developing infrastructure.

Image design: Aliaksandra Ihnatovich
The event is supported by the City Council Ljubljana.

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<BACK	Talk and get-together with the Anti-War Art Coalition Talk and get-together with the Anti-War Art Coalition Tuesday, 27th June at 7 pm *SCCA Project Room* Metelkova 6 1000 Ljubljana Warmly welcome to a talk and get-together with Natasha Chychasova and Antonina Stebur from the Anti-War Art Coalition. Antonina Stebur and Natasha Chychasova come together in a thought-provoking discussion titled “Monuments are Bad Lovers, Catastrophes are Bad Mothers.” The conversation takes its title from the work of Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina “There are no monuments to monuments.” Drawing from their own experiences as individuals affected by war, displacement, and uprisings, Antonina Stebur and Natasha Chychasova Chychasova delve into complex colonial dependencies, resource exploitation, and also how the imperial imagination is connected with the real infrastructures of production, extractivism, grain logistics, oil transportation in the face of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Natasha Chychasova is a curator and researcher from Donetsk, based in Kyiv. She works on post-Soviet legacy and on strategies for its deconstruction, and feminist art practices. Chychasova graduated with a master’s program in art history from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Currently, she works as a head of the contemporary art department at the National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv. Her curatorial projects include: Finally, we’re Here! (Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2019); By memory (Odesa, Ukraine, 2019); This is not a museum, this is a plant (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020), Non-Human trilogy (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020); Letter To Mother (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020), Silence féminin (2020-2022), Ukraine Ablaze platform (2022), Heart of Earth (2022), Forms of presence (2023). Her articles were published in Your Art, ArtsLooker, SHUM magazine, Blok magazine, and Spaika Media. Antonina Stebur is a curator, art historian, and art critic. She works as a guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she teaches an art activism course. She is co-founder of the #damaudobnayavbytu project on gender discrimination in post-Soviet countries and the research platform Spaika.Media. She is a co-curator of the exhibitions “Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance” (Ukraine, 2021), “Names” (Belarus, 2017), “I Was Approaching the City I Had Not Known Yet” (Ukraine, 2021), “If Disrupted It Becomes Tangible” (Lithuania, 2023), and others. Stebur is a co-founder and curator of antiwarcoalition.art – The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine. Her research interests include feminism, post-Soviet studies, political art, tactics of resistance and solidarity, and developing infrastructure. Image design: Aliaksandra Ihnatovich The event is supported by the City Council Ljubljana.	JUNE 27TH 19:00 Talk and get-together with the Anti-War Art Coalition