Submarine initiative: “The Saving Art”
Who we are?
Submarine is a non profit organization aimed to manifestate the identity of Ukrainian arts and people to the world by inviting for a wider dialogue.
We were established in 2017 to position the Ukrainian arts on an international level by community building, facilitating dialogue, experience exchange and co-creation. We are working with the problem of the information vacuum and iron wall between the EU and Eastern Europe.
More info:
https://telegra.ph/Submarine-03-11 https://www.facebook.com/sbmrn
Our Core Team
Soldiers keeping the cultural front in Ukraine:
Anatolii Pavlovskii - entrepreneur, cultural manager, founder and chief of Submarine. Anatolii’s mission is to organize proper business processes, administration and manage the network of partners within Ukraine.
Dobrynia Ivanov - artist and curator, project manager. Dobrynia’s mission is concentrated on proper interpretation of the voice of the artistic community in the project. Being well embedded in the artistic community, Dobrynia attracts bright and talented people of arts to our network.
Cultural Emissary in EU:
Maryna Shmakova - experienced manager in EU funded projects, entrepreneur, former adviser to the Ministry of Culture. Maryna’s mission is to travel to the EU, establish partnerships and represent the initiative.
Submarine initiative: “The Saving Art”
Problem description
As the art market of Ukraine is relatively young and contemporary arts collections are not well covered in the national museums, prominent artworks of the Ukrainian independence period are in the private collections. Contemporary art represents Ukrainian identity of today and provides a new perspective on how Freedom has become our National Idea. Due to the war artworks are endangered and the whole period of independence in arts could disappear.
Project Mission
Preservation and manifestation of Ukrainian identity by means of arts and intercultural dialogue to support the visibility of national fight for freedom in the spotlight of the world's current agenda.
We cover three fields of activities:
1. Preservation of the artistic heritage by organizing and managing the network of shelters, logistics and legal support for safe evacuation and temporary storage of the art works
The process involves different interconnected activities of professional artists, restorers, cultural managers, legal, transportation specialists and reliable institutions that understand the importance of preserving contemporary Ukrainian art.
Our network of collaboration for this activity:
Memorial museum of totalitarian regimes - municipal museum based in
Lviv.
Museum Crisis Center is a grassroots initiative of culturologist and director of the Lviv based "Memorial museum of totalitarian regime" Olga Gonchar, it is implemented in partnership with NGOs "Insha Osvita" and "New Museum". It was already supported by the European Commission, Kyiv Biennale, PinchukartCentre, MitOst etc. The initiative is aimed at financial, organizational and expert support to small regional museums and professional teams at the time of crisis. The central government is currently engaged in evacuation of big state museums collections, while local museums are struggling to find help.
Submarine initiative: “The Saving Art”
Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund - Today, the world needs free, strong and alive voices of Ukrainian cultural actors more than ever. Task of the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund is to ensure the continuity and development of the Ukrainian cultural process during the war.
2. Manifestation of the Ukrainian identity by organizing numerous exhibitions and dialogue in EU
Submarine will act as a bridging institution and facilitator of collaboration between the curators, art researchers and artists in EU and Ukraine to create bright and bold artistic exhibitions that put a Ukrainian question into the spotlight of the world's agenda.
Our experienced colleagues in EU:
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● Lesia Kulchynska - CV Link. Lesia is an experienced curator and visual
culture researcher. Currently based in Italy.
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● Ksenia Malykh - CV Link. Head of Research Platform at
PinchukArtCentre, currently based in Hanover, Germany
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● Valeria Schiller - CV Link. Art Historian, Art Critic, Curator. Currently
based in Germany.
3. Development of new Ukrainian art reflecting on the recent military escalation period
Contemporary Ukrainian art is represented by a variety of styles and media. We plan to develop different curatorial projects based on our audience, hosting country specifications, including political agenda of Ukrainian question.
Here we provide the first demo set of artistic portfolios of available artists:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aD_LP8U53PsPp0YSg6RFNJBbrWTpcMm s?usp=sharing
Submarine initiative: “The Saving Art”
What do we need? Our expectations from EU partners:
1. Business Support Organization in the field of Arts - technical assistance in the project implementation, management, grant proposal development.
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Institutions for temporary storage of collections in EU
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Institutions ready to host exhibitions and collaborate with our curators
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Journalists and media for the visibility
Looking forward to cooperating with you!
