Office Ukraine. Support for Ukrainian Artists

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 is an initiative that has been set up for Ukrainian artists and cultural workers in all disciplines fleeing war in Ukraine and now living in Austria. We connect Ukrainian artists and cultural workers with cultural institutions and initiatives as well as artists all over Austria: including museums, galleries, off-spaces, design studios, film initiatives, literature and music associations, funds and many more, and we help with the search for exhibition and performance opportunities, studio spaces, jobs and internships. The foremost goal of Office Ukraine, which is represented throughout Austria with three offices in Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck, is to enable displaced artists and cultural workers to continue their practice and to foster long-term artistic collaborations between artists from Ukraine and the Austrian art scene. The exhibition 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 - 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 presents artworks by Ukrainian artists currently living in Ukraine or in other EU countries due to the war. Office Ukraine's contribution to Parallel Vienna revolves around the perspective of interconnection. Artists and cultural practitioners from Ukraine, who due to the Russian large-scale war of aggression and their subsequent flight to other countries are now scattered in various countries, are building their practice in different environments maintaining relations with each other. Displaced yet connected they are still influenced by the same elements of experience - war, distraction, and entanglement with both the country they left and the country they are in now. The title is a metaphor for diverse perspectives, interpretations of reality, and life directions. Some works present narratives that mirror each other in tactile similarities and disrupted cultural contexts. Others illustrate the meaning and relevance of having strong connections. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬: Elizabeth Derzhavytska, EtchingRoom1, fantastic little splash, Dmytro Krasnyi, Anton Lapov, miki-mike 665, Mikhailo Shostak, Max Svitlo & Salt Salome.