The exhibition of Vasya Dmytryk, "Heating Season"

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  • The Kryvyi Rih Cultural Centre / KRCC presents a solo exhibition by Odesa-based artist Vasya Dmytryk, "Heating Season." Exhibition curator: Kyrylo Lipatov.

    Title:

    Heating Season

    When:

    15.06 – 15.07, 2024

    Where:

    Address: 6B Poluboyartseva St. (6B Vakhtangova St.).

The project documents the material evidence of the past two winters—nails collected from the furnace of Vasya Dmytryk’s Odesa workshop. These nails are deformed, covered in rust and soot. A specially designed "tachograph," created for this exhibition, will move the nails during its display and produce a set of sheets imprinted with their traces. Artificial intelligence has programmed various random modes for the movement of the electromagnetic field.  
In his workshop located at the ship repair plant (SRZ-2) in Odesa, Vasyl heated the space with wooden pallets from the port. While cleaning out the furnace, he gathered the leftover nails, pondering how to repurpose them. One long winter evening in 2021, during a conversation with the curator, the idea emerged to create a mechanism that would interact with these materials. “In contemporary art, this is called a found object,” explains curator Kyrylo Lipatov to Post Impreza.
The exhibition was first presented at the Assortment Room in Ivano-Frankivsk and later at the Odesa National Art Museum.  
The exhibition will run from June 15 to July 15, 2024, at 6B Poluboyartseva St. (6B Vakhtangova St.). Viewing hours are from 12:00 to 19:00, Friday through Sunday. During air raid alerts, the exhibition will be closed; the nearest shelter is located at 6A Vakhtangova St.

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Video by Ivan Baranov

Vasya Dmytryk is a Ukrainian sculptor born in the village of Pidpechery (Ivano-Frankivsk region) who gained recognition as an Odesa-based artist. In 2016, he graduated from the M. Grekov Odesa Art School. Dmytryk works with kinetic sculpture, found objects, spatial installations, and landscape sculpture. As a member of the artistic community SRZ-2, his practice explores industrial systems and their interactions with the environment, creating new, harmonious connections between them. He lives and works in Odesa.

Kyrylo Lipatov is a historian and researcher, formerly the head of the scientific department at the Odesa National Art Museum. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Lipatov has been actively volunteering and working to secure cultural heritage sites. His current research focuses on the decolonization of memory spaces and the rethinking of local urban identities, particularly in his native Odesa.

The Kryvyi Rih Cultural Centre (KRCC) is a civic initiative dedicated to developing culture, art, and creative industries in Kryvyi Rih. Its mission is to unlock the cultural potential of Kryvyi Rih by fostering an environment conducive to creative industries through the institution’s activities.

The "Heating Season" project by Vasya Dmytryk has been realized with the support of EU4Culture, Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, Friends of the Museum NGO, Assortment Room, Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Kryvyi Rih Cultural Centre (KRCC).

Photo: Daria Kolomoets

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