Open discussion with Ukrainian and foreign participants of the Quadriennale

🗓 When: 27 September 13:00 – 15:00

📍 Location: Zenyk Art Gallery (third floor), 7 Shota Rustaveli Street

Keynote speakers:

• Jürgen Münzer (Austria), installation and performance artist, sculptor

• Birutė Ukrainate (Lithuania), set designer, costume designer

• Daria Litvinenko (Ukraine/Austria), interdisciplinary artist

• Anna Turlo (Ukraine/Czech Republic), director

• Ruslana Basenko (Ukraine/Czech Republic), set designer

• Bohdan Polischuk (Ukraine), artist, director, curator of the Lviv Quadrennial of Scenography 2025

• Auksė Kapočytė (Lithuania), Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum

• Tetiana Rudenko (Ukraine), Chief Curator of the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine

• Olena Kovalchuk (Ukraine), candidate of art history, leading research fellow at the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine

• Natalia Rudenko-Kraievska (Ukraine), candidate of art history, scenographer, author and lecturer of the additional specialisation "Scenography", associate professor of the Department of Monumental Painting at the Lviv National Academy of Arts

For two hours, participants in the open discussion addressed issues relevant to the performing arts sector. In particular, they discussed the boundaries and differences between theatre and performance as artistic products, as well as the specificities of working in both areas for artists. The impact of events such as the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Production and the Lviv Quadrennial of Scenography on the formation and development of the professional environment, and their influence on artistic processes in the theatre. The specifics of working realities and the place of the artist in the theatre in Ukraine, Austria, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Representatives of Lithuanian and Ukrainian museums shared the peculiarities of forming their collections, approaches to selecting exhibits, and communication between museums and artists and theatres.

📸Photographs by Khrystyna Korol.