{"id":329,"date":"2022-04-13T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-07-01T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:39:28","slug":"5-ukrainian-art-accounts-to-follow-on-instagram-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/5-ukrainian-art-accounts-to-follow-on-instagram-now\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ukrainian Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists continue to work, documenting the impact of events as they unfold to keep the world watching.<\/p>\n<header class=\"css-xumypt euiyums1\">\n<div class=\"css-sklrp3\">\n<div class=\"css-1e2jphy epjyd6m1\">\n<div class=\"css-233int epjyd6m0\">\n<p class=\"css-4anu6l e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/will-heinrich\">Will Heinrich\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1cqo4d\"><time class=\"css-8blifj e16638kd2\" datetime=\"2022-04-14T23:10:27-04:00\"><span class=\"css-1sbuyqj e16638kd3\">Published April 13, 2022<\/span><span class=\"css-233int e16638kd4\">Updated April 14, 2022\u00a0\u00a0 in NY Times<br \/>\n<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"NYT_ABOVE_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION\" data-testid=\"region\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-b6gify\">\n<div class=\"css-1375xv5\">\n<div class=\"css-h4xb2d\">\n<div id=\"RUWB\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Social media give us responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost instantly, but some of the most moving responses I\u2019ve seen come from the young Ukrainian artists who\u2019ve managed to make new work documenting events as they unfold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What follows are four accounts run by Ukrainian artists \u2014 one currently in Austria, and three still in the country \u2014 and one by Ukrainian Americans, all working to keep the world\u2019s attention on what\u2019s happening on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I\u2019ve also been following the wave of relief efforts centered in New York, among them the Moldovan-born artist <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/aleksandra_borovski?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandra Borovski<\/a>\u2019s sale of beautiful, obsessive ink drawings to help the American artist <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/clemenspoole?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clemens Poole<\/a> ferry relief supplies from Poland. A collective called <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/spilka.nyc?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spilka<\/a>, co-founded by the Ukrainian American multimedia artist <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/it.is.thyme?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betty Roytburd<\/a>, is reaching isolated Ukrainians overlooked by larger aid groups \u2014 and organizing Ukrainian-food-themed fund-raisers in Bushwick, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-8atqhb\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Ekaterina Lisovenko @lisovenko_ekaterina<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The painter Ekaterina Lisovenko recently took on the Russian slogan \u201c<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">mozhem povtorit,\u201d<\/em> literally, \u201cwe can repeat,\u201d which refers to the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War II and has been revived in the hopes of convincing Russian people that the war in Ukraine is a similarly heroic undertaking. Lisovenko posted a single image four times. Captioned as \u201ca raped and murdered woman and her murdered child,\u201d the supine, yellowish, slightly abstracted figures on a dark gray ground are assigned to four different Russian invasions \u2014 the current one; the 2014 incursions into the Donbas region; the 2008 invasion of the Republic of Georgia; and the first Chechen war. It\u2019s a shocking, extremely effective way to remind us what\u2019s really at stake when we talk about sanctions, negotiations and troop movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Asia Bazdyrieva @asiabazdyrieva<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the last six or seven weeks, the writer Asia Bazdyrieva has been keeping a mostly English-language online diary from somewhere outside Kyiv. Posted in white sans-serif letters on a black background \u2014 like iPhone notes adjusted for low light \u2014 the diary captures the mind-bending dissonance of life in a war zone. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaffkLBNOIC\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One entry<\/a> notes that Bazdyrieva has slept for seven hours, delivered Molotov cocktail supplies to the Territorial Defense Forces, and repotted a plant; another, which uses the phrase \u201cRussian roulette,\u201d is captioned \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbBqtYstS9U\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felt cute might delete later<\/a>.\u201d The different tones are impossible to reconcile, and that\u2019s exactly what makes the diary so evocative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Andrey Rachinskiy @andrey_rachinskiy<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the invasion, the new media artist Andrey Rachinskiy was making photo and video work about the stranger corners of post-Soviet reality with his longtime collaborator Daniil Revkovskiy, like one fascinating investigation into the duel between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian graffiti in their native city of Kharkiv. Now Rachinskiy is in Lviv, buying piles of food, diapers and medical supplies to send home \u2014 and keeping account of the piles with handsome, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbXNRAIty4V\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heartbreaking photographs<\/a>. His feed is also a good place to find some of the billboards Ukraine has erected for its invaders, like the one telling them, \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CauxSY-taXu\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We are on our land, but you will be in it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Ukrainian Modernism @ukrainianmodernism<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the war, this popular account run by the photographer and educator <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dmytrosolovyov\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dmytro Soloviov<\/a> was dedicated to celebrating the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZr4ewcNTai\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharp corners<\/a> and enormous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaAc3cet8ne\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chandeliers<\/a> of Ukraine\u2019s grandest 20th century buildings. Now it\u2019s chronicling their <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbIjzVyt80I\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violent destruction<\/a>, as well as fund-raising for the preservation of cultural properties, like this <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbiajFmNoVP\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stained glass in the Kyiv Funicular<\/a> \u2014 and promoting the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbxnLMhtnvE\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">architectural tours<\/a> Soloviov is conducting even now. Images of bombed out buildings, unfortunately, are easy enough to find, but the context of Soloviov\u2019s account makes them into something slightly different. He\u2019s not only adding to the record of airstrikes on apartment buildings and other civilian targets, as important as that is. He\u2019s also found a way of picturing the harder to reckon with cultural damage that comes with loss of life and property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Ukrainian Artists @ukrainianartists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Run by the Ukrainian American muralist <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mayahayuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maya Hayuk<\/a> under the aegis of a new activist group called Ukrainian Artists &amp; Allies, this feed has been slowly but steadily posting excellent work by a range of Ukrainian artists. (\u201cTo encourage artistic survival and celebrate it,\u201d says UAA co-founder <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbyTKGjO0TM\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katrina Majkut<\/a>, \u201cis a political act of defiance.\u201d) Some of the best pieces so far have been a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ca_MIUdNlFg\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lovely expressionist painting<\/a> of a heroic sword-wielding nude by the former graphic designer <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/maxymova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iryna Maksymova<\/a> and a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Caq31SGuUmm\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of graphic woodcut-like images<\/a> by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oleggryshchenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oleg Gryshchenko<\/a> that use the Ukrainian flag\u2019s sky blue and sunflower yellow as a background. Working with the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uima-chicago.org\/about-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art<\/a>, Ukrainian Artists &amp; Allies has also launched a major fund-raiser on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/auction\/impact-artists-in-support-of-refugees-from-ukraine?sort=sale_position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists continue to work, documenting the impact of events as they unfold to keep the world watching. 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