The First Virtual Chernobyl Exhibition  

We, two artists from Oleg Kharch Group, ran to the Holosiivskyi Forest every day. We tried to hide from the COVID-19 attack there. In the woods, we had ghosts from the beginning - reminders of the same virus. A pandemic panic was circulating around the city. In fact, Quarantine was not so severe for us. We have avoided unnecessary contact with others. This has brought about results through nature's solitude. Yes, other people sometimes happened to us in the forest. They met us silently, mostly looking past the face-worn protective masks. All communication with the outside world was through the Internet, social networks and telephone. But we didn't need more.
Looking at the trees around them in isolation, the artists from Oleg Kharch Group came to the conclusion: the most important thing in the trees is the root system.
All those artwork was done during quarantine. This is a real, modern story. These are real tree roots, over a hundred! And that's right now. This is our Quarantine we are going through. Hiding in the forest from a new pandemic today.
@ The New Museum of Networked Art


Corona Quarantine

Media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 has shown that modern media art can be understood by a wide audience and work with challenging issues, such as dealing with Chernobyl.
More than 12,000 visitors and many positive reviews
For 10 days the room of the River station in the centre of Kyiv turned into a real portal to Chernobyl. Soviet wall of the ruined building, recreated the atmosphere of today and the past Chernobyl, and in combination with a laser ceiling, VR helmets, plasma, projection installations and parametric sculptures do not leave anyone indifferent.
As for rethinking the organizers call Ukrainians to watch on the information content of the tragedy of Chernobyl and get out of the role of victims, by and large, we are not victims, we are the heroes who have eliminated terrible accident and become a shield for all of Europe.
“The exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 is the first rethinking of the Chernobyl contemporary art. It’s like a window into the inner world of the people who survived the tragedy, we need as a national art therapy to again to prevent disaster. The exhibition encourages to set ourselves a simple question: Why today, we are trying not to remember the heroic contributions made by the liquidators, not interested in what actually happened at Chernobyl and don’t even know how to protect themselves and their children from radiation. It’s the effects of large-scale information component of the disaster of Chernobyl”, – said Valeriy Korshunov, curator of the exhibition.
The exhibition has completed its task and was equally interesting for its interactive exhibits as experts of the Chernobyl subject and liquidators, and children who attended the tour classes. In General, the exhibition is curated by Yaroslav Kostenko and Valery Korshunov, in partnership with Iury Lech, the founder of Spanish media art festival МАDАТАК, presented 17|7 Ukrainian and international artists.
In addition, each day at the exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 was surprised by the performances, impressed by the installations, conducted free tours for children and adults. A special impression left behind light laser presentation tonight called “Radiation” from VJ Yarkus, midi8, Ujif.notfound RASSVET and with the participation of performative theater. A strange dance of light, laser modern music created an incredible atmosphere and feeling of a parallel world in which radiation is still possible to feel.
“Cool when people are inspired by his work that creates a miracle! The miracle of art, that qualitatively tells a heavy story, it helps to rethink the past and to create a new future! I advise everyone to visit the ARTEFACT: CHERNOBYL 33 at River station” – the Executive Director of the Ukrainian cultural Fund Yuliia Fediv.
In the main hall presented by VR and AR technologies, which allowed to visit the Chernobyl Zone, only wearing a virtual reality helmet, the objects of parametric architecture from Eugen Vash4enko, showing the decay of uranium, audio laser system “reactor Cores” Yaroslav Kostenko and Xenia Buzyak, which demonstrated the mode of operation of the reactor on the night of April 26, an area with 500 pioneer ties “Be Prepared” from Oleg Kharch (Kharchenko), reminiscent of may day demonstrations in 1986, which has not been canceled, despite the high levels of radiation, and exhibit the highest number of reviews – “Radiation” Valeriy Korshunov and Astian Ray, the first dedicated to the firefighters of the Chernobyl accident, which was in Moscow hospital No. 6, “the Ashes of the atomic era” from Astian Ray, “Genus. Chernobyl. Code depressurization”- Tripoli sculpture with the voices of dispatchers Chernobyl from Tatiana Zubchenko, hazmat suits, reconsider artists from different regions of Ukraine from Toma Kalinina; installation, the “White Soul” Irina Vorona; “Inflation” Anastasia Loyko, “Landscape, which no one will see” Vladimir Gulich; “Pravda” Olesya Gerashchenko, modern Medialogia pseudoreality – “MIMOSA” Sergei  Nijinsky and Vladimir Kolbasa; the “Sarcophagus” which is a piano, and a camera obscura Valdemar Kluzko and Igor Belsky and the radioactive “Classics”.
Was also presented 7 papers on international media art artists, they were able to provide unique perspectives of the Chernobyl tragedy: CHANG, Yung-Ta (Taiwan) exhibit the Entropy with a Geiger counter, a projection installation by Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark) on how to disappear the memories of Chernobyl, Alfredo Garcia Barroso (Spain) suggested that in virtual reality to feel the effect of words in space, Eugenio Ampudia (Spain) presented two clearly work “a Crack in time” and “Pile of Flour” that Ukraine’s time to get out of radiation circle, installation by Alessandro Amaducci (Italy ) on the topic of mutations of man and machine, he Iury Lech(Spain) with incredible audio-visual performance by Dub FX (Australia) – a world famous beatboxer, who created a piece of music from “Sounds of Chernobyl”
 
 
ARTEFACT exhibition: Chernobyl 33 – innovative cultural product that proves that modern media art can be interesting and useful to a wider audience, reveals the incredibly talented Ukrainian artists and introduces to the world a new, modern Ukraine, through the new art. Implementation of this exhibition was made possible thanks to the Ukrainian Cultural Fund. In the future, the show plans to exhibit in other cities of Ukraine and Europe.
The ARTEFACT project, which began in 2018, with an impressive media-art performance with digital sculpture in the center of Pripyat, opens the whole direction of Ukrainian art of the future, which could become the visiting card of our country.
To follow the project in social networks ARTEFACT
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pg/ArtefactArtProject/photos/?ref=page_internal
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/artefact.live/
 
“Ukrainians are very talented nation. Through such social and cultural projects through a contemporary reinterpretation of the past you can tell the world who you really are” – Iury Lech, international exhibition curator, founder of the Spanish media art festival MADATAK.
“Media-art – speech of the 21st century. The language that now understands the whole world. We want to present Ukraine as an innovative country that is on the same level with Europe. It is very interesting how artists are reconsidering the Ukrainian Chernobyl in the context of its informational component because of the latest technology, media, and contemporary art. The results of the preview we see that due to this impression, it is very bright,” – the curator of the exhibition Yaroslav Kostenko
“Now I saw thanks to modern means, to young people comes the impression of the disaster from the survivors of Chernobyl, and those who, like me, deals with Chernobyl and talking with witnesses to the incident. I believe that such projects should be. Because they are very important in our country emerging from disaster”- scientific Director, Deputy Director of Chernobyl Museum, the Ganna Korolevska.
“The new generation chooses media. And while the Ukrainian art party to procrastinate the same names of “modern painters” and a pair of three “curators” – in its “canonical territory”, i.e., in Ukraine, sooner or later it had to come someone from the outside did NOT “rave”. And make art so that was not ashamed to show in the East and the West. Though take Yes immediately at MOMA take me” – Anna Parovatkina,” Mirror of week “.
“Excellent installation, No worse than at the Venice Biennale of contemporary art” – Victor Levchenko.
Hard, painful and inspiring. In my head it sounds a little but louder – “mindfulness, let us often think of what we do and broadcast to the world”- Valeri Klochkova.



Media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl33 .

ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 exhibition in Kyiv

From September 26 to October 6, the international media art exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 will be held for the first time at the Kyiv’s River Station. It combines state-of-the-art media art, VR and AR technologies, parametric architecture, laser and projector installations, connectors and others.
Media art is a new field of art that is very impressive and interesting for everyone. Attending this exhibition can be a cultural therapy for the entire Ukrainian nation. ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 is the Ukraine's first cultural response to the Chernobyl information tragedy. At that time, almost every Ukrainian family was affected by the propaganda, manipulation and hidding of the truth. The purpose of ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 is to urge, through media art, to rethink the role of Chernobyl in the past of the Ukrainian nation. River Station is a unique monument of Soviet architecture. Therefore, it has the most suitable atmosphere for immersion in the subject of the Chernobyl tragedy. Just for the exhibition, a completely new space will open here, which will become a kind of portal to Chernobyl.
 
ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 is created with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, under the guidance of an international curator from Spain and with the participation of Ukrainian and European artists, musicians and experts. One of the exhibits was created by world-renowned musician Dub FX. The presentation of the first exhibits of the exhibition, created by Ukrainian artists, received positive feedback from the audience and highly appreciated by experts.
 
The consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are still present today. Nobody knows what actually happened and even how to protect themselves from radiation in case of a sudden emergency. Even those who live in Kyiv (in the 100-kilometer zone of the world's largest man-made disaster) do not know the first means of radiation safety. In addition, since 2012 our country has been in a state of hybrid war. Therefore, today, the attitude to information and media literacy issues must be of great importance for correctly defining one's past. After all, this will be an important foundation for the future of every conscious Ukrainian.

Project ukrainian artists:
Tatyana Zubchenko
Olesya (Shambur) Gerashchenko
Oleg Kharch
Anastasia Loyko
Pavlo Sirko
Irina Vorona
Astian Ray
Xenia Buzyak
Igor Belsky
Waldemart Kluzko
Volodymyr Gulich
Evgen Vas4enko
Volodimir Kolbasa
Sergiy Nijinskiy
Olexiy Elizarov
Gena Klabukov
Taya Kabaeva
Valery Korshunov
Jaroslav Kostenko

Project internatinal artist:
CHANG Yung- Ta (Taiwan)
Jacob Kirkegaard (Danemark)
Alfredo Garcia Barroso 
Eugenio Ampudia (Spain)
Alessandro Amoducci (Italy)
Iury Lech (Spain)
Dub FX (Australia)

Project curators:
Valery Korshunov (RASSVET)
Svitlana Korshunova
Alexandra Halepa
Jaroslav Kostenko (VJ Yarkus)
 Iury Lech(Spain) - is the founder of the international media art festival MADATAK;






ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 exhibition in Kyiv

  Нlebzawod ART FAIR May 23-26 "Toronto - KYIV" Complex. 
Artists:

Yegor Antsigin,
Ute Kilter,
Eugen Valiuk,
Nastya Didenko,
Eugen Stein,
Nastya Didenko,
Hanna Anufriieva,
Oleg Kharch.

Box #25/down floor.

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