Open Lectern is a creative laboratory for exchanging ideas, a local platform for the dialogue between artists and public in the form of a multi-aspect communication: public lectures and presentations.
Being aware of the fact that there is no modern art education in Ivano-Frankivsk, we are encouraged to create diverse events related to contemporary art and visual art history to provide all-round development of the city residents and greater understanding of art-related processes.
Our events mostly follow a free dialogue format, as it helps listeners to find answers to the questions they are interested in.
During 2016, 9 similar events took place:
- Melancholia of Microutopia, lecture on the 20th-century art, lecturer — Oleksandr Sushynskyi
- From Dada to Samborskyi, lecturer — Anatolii Zvizhynskyi, director of the Contemporary Art Centre
- Algorithm of Work on a Design Project, lecturers — founders of Dvoika design studio
- Oh, Brave New Contemporary World: What and Who is Art Necessary for Today? Lecture-discussion, lecturer — Daria Koltsova
- Lecture on French surrealism, lecturer — Oscar Shtertser
- From Subculture Collective Practice to Visual Mass Industry. World. Europe. Ukraine
- Public meeting with Polish artist Sławomir ZBIOK Czajkowski
- Ivano-Frankivsk Mural Bicycle tour organized by the Next Project program coordinator Roman Malynovskyi
- Public Space Transformation, lecturer — Zhenia Moliar
In addition to these meetings, Oleksandr Sushynskyi, curator and event planner of Aesthetic Research Laboratory, curator of many cultural events in Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk and Chernivtsi, gave a course of 14 lectures on late 20th and early 21st century art.
