Shukhliada exposition environment
The exhibition Who Were All These People Who Saw That Same Landscape_, curator Ksenia Malykh, artist Yaroslav Futymskyi, 2018, screen shot | Credits: SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
Backstage of the exhibition Failing to Raise the Fallen Flag, curator Yaroslav Futymskyi, 2019 | Credits: SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
The exhibition Control Freak, curator Ksenia Malykh, artist Oleksiy Sai, 2020 | Credits: SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
Backstage of the exhibition Control Freak, curator Ksenia Malykh, artist Oleksiy Sai, 2020 | Credits: SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
Backstage of the exhibition White triptych, 2017, Max Robotov | Credits: SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
Shukhliada exposition environment is a website (shukhliada.com), and its main mission is to be a platform for independent curators and artists.
The idea of the project arose in 2013 from the artists Liera Polianskova, Max Robotov, Ivan Svitlychnyi (at that time living in Kharkiv, UA), one year after a very traumatic event—the illegal seizure of the building on the territory of which Liera, Max and Ivan founded the artist-run space.
After analyzing the situation, the artists decided that they wanted to create their own space, independent of political or financial aspects, and realized that the Internet platform could become such a space. The artists were able to launch a site only in 2017, and that's when the first exhibition took place—White Triptych, consisting of works with different media.
At the moment Shukhliada exposition environment work as an environment for addressing a variety of artistic and social tasks, from institutionality to inclusivity.
SVITER art group, Ivan Svitlychnyi
SVITER art group (UA) is a duo of artists Liera Polianskova and Max Robotov. Liera and Max periodically work with Ivan Svitlychnyi—new media artist. Joint projects of artists were included in the exposition of the Venice Biennale (Ukrainian Pavilion, 2017), transmediale Vorspiel festival 2018.