Municipal Gallery will host the presentation of the online archive art(co)archive.

The first step in the implementation of this project was the publication of digitized works and documents from the fund and archive of MSMO, related to the 1980s work of a group of artists who are now called “Odessa conceptualists”, namely: Leonid Woiciechow, Yuri Leiderman, Sergei Anufriev, Igor Chatskin, “the Peppers” group and other authors. In turn, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery as a project partner prepared a package of materials related to conceptual practices in the works of Vagrich Bakhchanyan and Boris Mikhailov.

An important component of the project is the search and preparation for publication on the platform of works and archival documents from private and museum collections and artists’ archives. This explains the use of the prefix (co) in the title: it means association and partnership as the basis of creating the online archive.

During the meeting we will tell you about creating the art (co) archive, we will talk about opportunities for collaboration for researchers and curators, about the upcoming plans and about the artists represented in the archive at the time of opening.

The project is supported by the Culture Bridges program funded by the European Union and implemented by the British Council in Ukraine, in partnership with EUNIC – the European Union Network of National Institutes of Culture.