Mykola Ridnyi Blind Spot 2017-2023 C-Prints, spray paint
Clamour
GROUP EXHIBITION
Oleksiy Sai The News 2022 paper, rubber paint 42x29,7cm
Mary FitzGerald Nikolay Karabinovych Roman Ondak
Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy
Mykola Ridnyi Nigel Rolfe Oleksiy Sai Nil Yalter
20 April - 21 May 2023
Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce Clamour, an exhibition of work by Ukrainian and other artists in support of our European neighbours at war.
Following a conversation with artist Mary FitzGerald in March 2022 concerning how the gallery might support Ukrainian artists during this troubling time, Green On Red Gallery reached out to Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv with the hopes of undertaking a collaborative exhibition. Clamour is the result of our joint efforts, an exhibition of Ukrainian artists alongside Irish and European artists. Intended as a response to the war in Ukraine, the featured works have been made in reaction to the destruction and distress the war has caused.
With the constant assistance of Anna Kopylova at Voloshyn Gallery we are exhibiting, for the first time in Ireland, the works of the collective Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy, of Nikolay Karabinovych, Mykola Ridnyi, and Oleksiy Sai - all artists with the Kyiv gallery.
A special thanks also goes to Nil Yalter in Paris for her new work in generous support of the exhibition and to leading Slovakian artist Roman Ondak for joining in our outrage in Clamour, with the help of his Paris gallery, GB Agency.
We are honoured also to add work from Mary FitzGerald, initiator of the exhibition, and Nigel Rolfe, both gallery artists at Green On Red.
Nikolay Karabinovych Untitled from The Voice of Thin Silence 2018 C-print and sound 45 × 30cm Edition of 7
Nikolay Karabinovych The Dead Pool Won’t Ripple 2019 Found casings 1 x 1cm x variable height
Nikolay Karabinovych (b. 1988) Odessa, Ukraine. Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Kyiv, Ukraine.
Karabinovych works across various media such as video installation, performance, sound, and sculpture. He explores the social histories of Eastern Europe, approaching collective and personal memory by means of analytical, conceptual or interventionist tactics.
In 2020 he graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. Karabinovych was an assistant curator of the 5th Odesa Biennale. In 2020 and 2018, he was awarded the first PinchukArtCentre Prize.
His work has been shown extensively at public institutions (M UHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Belgium Jewish Museum, Bozar, Brussels; w139, Amsterdam; Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv; and many others) and in galleries (Hunt Kastner gallery, Prague; Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv; Hit Gallery, Bratislava and others).
Mykola Ridnyi Seacoast 2008 video ( 2:04 mins )
Mykola Ridnyi (b. 1985) Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
Ridnyi is an artist, filmmaker, curator, and writer. In 2005 he co-founded the SOSka group and the gallery-laboratory of the same name in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ridnyi participated in the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2015, as well as in the main project of the Biennale, All the World’s Futures, in 2015.
His work has been exhibited and screened extensively across Europe including at Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Labirynt City Gallery (Lublin, Poland), Blockhaus DY10 (Nantes, France), Edel Assanti (London, Great Britain), the Kyiv Pavilion of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, the 11th Odessa International Film Festival,12th Kaunas Biennale (Kaunas, Lithuania), PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), among many other venues. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin, Germany), Ludwig Museum (Budapest, Hungary), and Museum of Modern Art Warsaw.
Ridnyi was one of two artists invited to Fire Station Artists' Studios, Dublin, to present on his work in Summer 2022 on the occasion of the Art and Activism seminar led by New York-based Gregory Scholette, activist, author and academic, including associate of the Art, Design and Visual Art Program (MFA 1995), and the Public Domain program of Harvard’s University’s Graduate School of Design.
Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy Sky Invasion 2022 Video installation ( 10:10 mins )
Daniil Revkovskiy (b. 1993) and Andriy Rachinskiy (b. 1990) began working collaboratively in 2012. Their work has been shown in solos exhibitions, group exhibitions and at screenings in Europe and the United States including at Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Labirynt City Gallery (Lublin, Poland), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart ( Stuttgart, Germany), Detenpyla (Lviv, Ukraine), OFF/FORMAT (Brno, Czech Republic), Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine), Ermilov Centre (Kharkiv, Ukraine), e-flux (Brooklyn, NY), Centre of Contemporary Art (Torun, Poland), Etc. Galerie (Prague, Czech Republic), and as part of the Second National Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Revkovskiy and Rachinskiy were awarded the Public Choice Prize as part of the 2020 PinchukArtCentre Prize. They both graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art.
Nil Yalter earthQT warQT2 2023 video installation
Turkish artist Nil Yalter (b. 1938) created pioneering video art exploring identity, migration, and displacement. Her feminist activism and political commentary challenged traditional gender roles and highlighted women's struggles. Exhibited worldwide, Yalter is considered one of the most important feminist artists, inspiring new generations. Born in Cairo to Turkish parents, she has lived, worked and agitated in Paris since the early '70s.
Her work is being exhibited currently Signals : How video transformed the world ( work from the collection ) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and in the Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi. She has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig, Köln, at The Hessel Museum of Art, New York and at FRAC LORRAINE, France.
Yalter is represented by 1 Mira Madrid Gallery, Madrid, Galerie Huber Winther, Vienna and Gallery, Instabul.
Mary FitzGerald Fragile 4 2021 Oil pigment barbed wire canvas 30 x 30 x 10cms
Mary A. FitzGerald (b. 1959) is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin and County Waterford. After graduating from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, she moved to Japan where she lived and exhibited between 1979 and 1981. Mary FitzGerald has held numerous solo exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and the USA and has participated in group exhibitions worldwide. She has represented Ireland at ROSC, L'Imaginaire Irlandais and the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo. She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1990.
Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Mary FitzGerald's work was characterized by an elegant austerity and a calm, self-sufficient stillness. The natural restraint suggested by the sparing application of quasi-calligraphic marks on a monochromatic expanse of canvas or paper–she generally worked with a limited palette and frequently favoured black on white–tended deliberately towards understatement. This was subtly countered however, by the complex architechtonics of her most formally ambitious works, a number of which took the form of a modulated concatenation of canvases of disparate dimensions lined up along a notional horizon line. These works seemed to respond to the architecture in which they were installed, while simultaneously constituting an architecture of their own.
Nigel Rolfe Dance Slap for Africa 2023 pure pigment on fabric 210 x 245cms
Nigel Rolfe (b. 1950) is recognized as a seminal figure in performance art, in its history and among current world practitioners. Born in the Isle of Wight in 1950, Rolfe has lived and worked in Dublin, Ireland since 1974. He has worked intensively and made significant contributions as an artist, curator, activist and scholar. Rolfe is an elected member of the Irish association of artists, Aosdana. His work—spanning live performance, photography, video and sound—has received international acclaim and has been presented in five continents, in more than 30 countries.
Rolfe has created live performances throughout Europe, in the former Eastern Block, in North and South America, in the Far East—in China, Korea and Japan. De Appel in Amsterdam, Franklin Furnace in New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London were early champions of Rolfe’s installation and performance work. Major retrospectives of his work have been held at the Irish Museum Of Modern Art in Dublin and at the Musee D'Art Moderne de la Ville De Paris. He has exhibited in the Dublin, Paris, Sao Paulo, Busan, Kwangju and Venice Biennales and presented in numerous international art fairs. Rolfe is represented by Green On Red Gallery in Dublin; Galerie Polaris in Paris; and Jayne H Baum in New York.
Oleksiy Sai Burned 2015 Christmas Tree
Oleksiy Say (b. 1975) Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine
Sai is the artist who uses different media, but is mostly known for his personal invention – the praxis of Exel-Art. Sai has been working with Excel software as a visual language resource since 2004. The first exhibition entitled Excel-Art was held at the Tsekh Gallery in Kyiv in 2007. Besides the fact that Sai sees the means of Excel as the most appropriate mode of addressing the office life realities, the artist’s choice to embrace the software developed to process large corpuses of data is also an attempt to demystify art practice as such.
Oleksiy Sai was born in 1975 in Kyiv, where he lives and works to this day. He graduated from the Kyiv College of Arts and Industries with a degree in graphic design in 1993, and from the Department of Easel Graphic Art at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2001. PinchukArtCentre Prize nominee ’09, he is widely exhibited. Sai took part in many group and solo exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. His works were exhibited at Black Square Gallery (Miami, the USA), Saatchi Gallery (London, the UK), Bunsen Goertz Gallery (Nurembreg, Germany), etc.
Roman Ondak Suspended Window 2013 Painted metal, cord, hook 160 x 60 x 40 cms Courtesy of The Artist and GB Agency, Paris ( Photo : Aurélien Mole )
Roman Ondak (b. 1966) is a Slovakian contemporary artist known for his conceptual and socially engaged art. He was born in Zilina, Slovakia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
Ondak's work often involves interventions in public spaces or the creation of participatory installations that invite viewers to become part of the artwork. He frequently employs found objects, everyday materials, and actions that blur the boundaries between art and life.
One of Ondak's most famous works is "Measuring the Universe," an installation that he created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2007. The installation features a long strip of paper that stretches around the walls of a gallery space, marked with the height of each visitor who chooses to participate. Over time, the paper strip accumulates a record of the heights of all the visitors, creating a visual representation of the diversity and interconnectedness of humanity.
Ondak has exhibited his work in galleries and museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern Gallery, London, The Reina Sofia, Madrid, The Kunsthaus, Zurich, Documenta 13 and his Measuring the Universe at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among many other museum exhibitions and biennali. With his much acclaimed site-specific Loop he wryly represented Slovakia in the Slovakian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale in 2009, growing the Giardini seamlessly through the Neo-Classical pavilion during the winter months. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2012 Sharjah Biennial Prize, the 2019 Kaiserring Prize, The Hugo Boss Prize, the Lovis Corinth Prize and was named Deutche Bank's world Artist of the Year in 2011, the year he exhibited in Green On Red Gallery's group O show, for Dublin Contemporary.
He is represented by Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin/Paris/Seoul, Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna, GB Agency gallery, Paris and Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico.
