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57, D. Vitovskoho St., Lviv

The LEM Station became the centre of all the action at the festival. For three days, performances, masterclasses, lectures, film screenings and exhibitions took place there.

On 8 October, the official opening of the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2021 took place at . Evolution through revolution.presented a THEATRICAL FASHION during the opening : costume shows by Aliya Mezhenina, Hanna Ipatieva, and Innesa Kulchytska.

TIME: June 8, 20:00.

Hanna Ipatieva. A screening of costumes from the opera Mykyta the Fox from the repertoire of the Solomiya Krushelnytska National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Lviv.

Aliya Mezhenina-Baitenova. The show featured costumes from the musical Dorian Gray from the repertoire of the Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater.

Inessa Kulchytska presented costumes and puppets from the performances of The Golden-Horned Deer and Sunset Tango.

Musical performance based on the novel by Olha Kobylianska “Melancholic Waltz” by Lyubov Dushyna (Kharkiv)

TIME: October 8, 21:00

The director and author of the script based on the novel is Tetiana Voronova

Played by: Three women - Tetiana Voronova, Soul - Vyacheslav Rodionov.

The performance is based on music by Chopin and Stepurko, a folk song based on the words of Ivan Franko “I am sad, I am sad...”

International symposium. Curated by Lilia Voloshyna

TIME: October 9 - 10, 11:00 - 13:00

The symposium was held in a zoom format. Below you can watch videos of the participants' speeches.

Lilia Voloshyna (Ukraine). Topic: "Presentation of the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2021"

Kate Burnett, Abi Cohen (UK). Topic: “Curating scenography - Abi Cohen and Kate Burnett in conversation”

Kate Burnett is currently the Chair of the OISTAT Research Committee. She was the editor of the 2013 World Scenic Design (WSD) catalog and a juror for WSD2017 in Taipei. For OISTAT50 and PQ2019, Kate collaborated with Sean Crowley and Chad Healy on a workshop exhibition of Paul Brown's studio and design work.

Abi Cohen is the winner of the GOLDEN TRIGA PQ2011 as a designer and curator of the Brazilian national exhibition. International curator of SharedSpace/POLITICS in PQ 2015. Awarded the 2013 IDCA - International Communication Design Award for the project MixMax Brasil, made for TropenMusem in Amsterdam.

Set and exhibition designer, curator and teacher, works as a freelancer/private entrepreneur for theater, film, exhibitions and live events. PhD in Art/Performance at the University of São Paulo, with a focus on design practice at the intersection between performance design + art installation + exhibition. Member of OISTAT since 2003.

Nino Gunia-Kuznetsova (Georgia). Topic: "Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design 2020"

Executive Director of the Union of Young Theatre Artists of Valerian Gunia (YTA Union) - National Centre of Georgia OISTAT

Natalia Rudenko-Kraevska (Ukraine). Topic: "Scenographic characters of a figurative nature in the works of the Ukrainian theatre artist Tetiana Medvid"

Production designer, senior lecturer at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Monumental Painting. Author of more than ten scientific and methodological developments on topics related to scenography and problems of spatial art objects.

She is the author of curricula in the following disciplines: "A Short Course in the History of Theatre and Scenography", 2018, "Fundamentals of the Art of Scenography", 2018, "Problems of Spatial Art Objects", 2018. Author of the textbook "Fundamentals of Scenography". She is a graduate of the KHPI, workshop of scenographer Boris Kosarev. Author of a number of scientific articles. Participant of thematic scientific conferences.

Roman Lavrentiy (Ukraine). Topic: "Galician Petrytskyi, or the Artistic Search of an Artist of the Ukrainian Young Theatre "Zahrava" (Galicia, 1930s)"

Theatre critic, PhD in Arts, lecturer at the Department of Theatre Studies and Acting at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, secretary of the Commission on Theatre Studies of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society. Co-author of the scientific publications "Ukrainian Theatre of the Twentieth Century: Anthology of Performances" (2012) and "M. Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. Book 1: Time and Fate" (2016); compiler of the publications "Ukrainian Stage in the Multicultural Space of Austria-Hungary (second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries). Reader. Based on the materials of the Austrian German-language press" (2017) and "Jewish Culture in Ukraine (the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century): Museum Collections and Theatre Art" (2019); co-editor of "S. Charnetskyi, History of Ukrainian Theatre in Galicia. Essays, articles, materials" (2014).

Master class by Aliya Baitenova
"The language of theatrical costume: not clothes but meaning"

TIME: June 9, 11:00 a.m.

Aliya Mezhenina-Baitenova is an artist, set designer, costume designer, graphic artist, watercolourist.

The artist usually indicates the place of action with one or more details, directing all her attention to creating the atmosphere and aesthetics of the performance. Over 9 years of work, she has staged more than 25 performances at many theatres in Ukraine and abroad, including: Kyiv National Operetta, Kyiv National Young Theatre, Kyiv Academic Theatre on Lipki, Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kharkiv National Taras Shevchenko Theatre, Sumy Theatre named after M. S. Shchepkin, fruitfully cooperates with Chernihiv Theatre named after T. Shevchenko.

Presentation of ALTstage technology. A new artistic space using augmented reality with the participation of dancers Yaroslav Kainar and Iryna Bashuk and project manager Oleksandr Manshylin

TIME: June 9, 13:00

ALTstage is a technology for using augmented reality together with live events or video content. altstage.com.ua

Augmented Reality (AR) has become a great way to showcase 3D objects for business purposes or 3D animations for games. However, it is still rare to see a person entering AR in artistic or non-artistic performances.

Broadcasting live performances at home has recently become a massive practice, stimulated by the pandemic. Watching video, we are inevitably confronted with its natural limitation - two-dimensionality. Video cannot convey the beauty and charm of a body in motion.

ALTstage. Stepping from the screen solves these problems and creates an environment in which a person on the move enters augmented reality and it happens in your home. To get this experience, all you need is a modern smartphone and a laptop that interact in an unusual way thanks to unique software.

Master class lecture by Daria Zavyalova "The Image of the Hero"

TIME: June 9, 14:30

Daria Zavyalova is an artist, set designer and costume designer. She is engaged in artistic textiles and painting, periodically exhibiting her works at group and solo exhibitions. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Honoured Artist of Ukraine. Since 1986, she has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland. She has created more than 70 performances as a scenographer and costume designer in theatres in Lviv, Drohobych, Lutsk, and Dnipro. She has been working with the Taras Shevchenko Academic Theatre in Ternopil for 23 years.

Production designer (since 1995), and Chief Artist of the First Ukrainian Theatre for Children and Youth (First Theatre) (since 2003).

Presentation of the film "Self-identification in times of isolation"

TIME: June 9, 14:30

Participants of the presentation: Bohdan Polishchuk, Svitlana Oleksiuk, and Yana Shlyabanska told about and showed the project they had been working on for several months.

“Self-Identification in Isolation” is an art project that aims to explore several important issues: the role of self-identification and its impact on the professional realization of a creative person in today's globalized world, with its daily challenges. Also, the question of the mutual influence of costume, body and music. The mutual influence of the artist, choreographer and composer in the joint creative process.

During the project, artist Bohdan Polishchuk, choreographer Svitlana Oleksiuk, composer Yana Shlyabanska, and videographer Dmytro Zakharov discussed issues of self-identification, creative collaboration, and the role of costume in performing arts with experts and practitioners from various artistic fields: choreographer Maria Schurhal (Austria), set designer Kotrina Daujotaite (Lithuania), choreographer and performer Agnija Sheiko (Lithuania), art historian Lilia Voloshyna, composer Maksym Kolomiets, choreographer and contemporary dance researcher Viktor Ruban.

The practical part of the project was the creation of a dance video performance dedicated to the issue of self-identification. It included costumes, dance, and music.

The film is based on discussions, small interviews, moments of the preparatory process, and the performance itself, and we are pleased to invite you to watch it.

This is a project supported by the European Union under the House of Europe program.

Performance "KURBAS" . Ivan Svitlychnyi

TIME: June 9, 18:00

The performance took place in a space created by Oleg Tatarynov.

Directed by Anastasia Toros

Actors: Andriana Bufan, Yulia Oliyar, Maryna Mazur, Andriy Synyshyn

Music by Maksym Rymar

Masterclass by Serhii and Nataliia Rydvanetski "Scenography.
Dialogue of creating a play"

TIME: October 10, 11:00 a.m.

Serhii is the chief artist and set designer at the Taras Shevchenko Cherkasy Academic Music and Drama Theatre. His wife Natalia is a costume designer at the same theatre. "Their artistic style currently tends to be low-key, often monochromatic, refined and somewhat pretentious. "For Serhiy Rydvanetskyi, his theatre career began in 1998 at the Lviv Regional Music and Drama Theatre named after Yuriy Drohobych.

For Nataliia, it was in 1995 at the Taras Shevchenko Cherkasy Music and Drama Theatre. The first theatre "home" for the artists was the aforementioned Drohobych Theatre, and the second and last - since 2003 - was the Cherkasy Theatre. They graduated from the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in Lviv (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts), which introduced them to each other.

In total, the artists have staged about 90 performances in various theatres in Ukraine.

Masterclass lecture by Oleg Tatarynov
"Creating scenic images"

TIME: 10 October, 12:20 pm

Oleh Tatarynov is a theatre artist who is also fond of painting and collage. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, a member of the Association of Scenographers of Ukraine, and an assistant trainee at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Over the past 12 years, Oleg Tatarinov has designed 38 performances.

Stage designer and costume designer at the Kyiv Academic Theatre for Young Spectators on Lypky (since 1998)

Masterclass by Olexandra Nahirna
"Children's theatre costume"

TIME: 10 October, 13:30

Oleksandra Nahirna is the head of the Design department at the School of Free and Indifferent Arts, creating design curricula for children.

Lecture by Olena Kovalchuk "Ukrainian scenography
of the twentieth century through the prism of theatrical costume"

DATE: 10 October, 13:15

Olena Kovalchuk is a leading researcher at the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor.

She graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine) with a degree in art history (1979-1984).

She worked as a junior researcher at the State Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine (1984).

In 1984-87, she studied at the postgraduate course of the Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1995, she defended her dissertation “Ukrainian Scenography of the 60s-80s of the Twentieth Century (figurative, plastic and stylistic searches of drama theater artists)”.

Since 2007, she has been working at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (ICAAP), since 2017 as a leading researcher at the Department of Cultural Theory and History. She has published more than 50 articles on scenography, theater history, and fine arts in domestic and foreign journals.

She is the author of biographical articles about theater artists in the publications “Artistic Culture of Western and Southern Slavs (XIX - Early XX Centuries)” (2006), “Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine” (2007).

Author of articles in the anniversary album of the Ivan Franko Theater: “Scenography. Search for its own aesthetics. 1920 - 2020” / Compiled by A.I. Oleksandrovych-Dochevskyi; text by O.V. Kovalchuk - K.: 2019 and a monographic study ‘Scenographic Practice in the Space of the Twentieth Century: Kyiv Realities’ - K.: 2019.

He has many years of teaching experience (Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, NAOMA), is the developer of scientific programs for the preparation of doctors of philosophy: “Innovative Teaching Methods in Higher Education” and ‘Costumed Twentieth Century: History, Culture, Fashion’.

Head of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the IPSS.

She was awarded the medal “People's Honor to Ukrainian Scientists 1918 - 2019” (2019).

Screening of the film ScenoGraph, an author's documentary about Myron Kyprian, directed by D. Hirna and O. Shpakovych

TIME: October 10, 14:30

Liliya Voloshyna's lecture "Perception of the Ukrainian
scenographer in the world at different times"

TIME: October 10, 16:00

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