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Opening of the exhibition "Ola Yeriemieieva. Bau(m\ch)schmerz"
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ZIEGEL
Atelier Gemeinschaft ukrainischer Künstler:innen
"ZIEGEL. Atelier Gemeinschaft ukrainischer Künstler:innen" is an art space and atelier founded by a community of Ukrainian artists and cultural workers now based in Graz, Austria. Born out of displacement following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, ZIEGEL has become a new home—a space for creation, connection, and collective care.
We are a diverse collective. Our members come from different generations, disciplines, and regions of Ukraine. We bring a variety of practices, experiences, and perspectives, yet we are united in our commitment to collaboration, sustainability, co-creation, and cultural exchange. Our diversity is our strength, and equality is our foundation.
ZIEGEL operates on principles of responsibility, non-hierarchy, and mutual respect. We cherish our Ukrainian identity while remaining open to new ideas, meanings, and dialogues. Our space is both a shelter and a platform—for artistic expression, for community building, and for intercultural dialogue.
We stand firmly against all forms of discrimination, violence, and hate. Racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other expressions of oppression or extremism have no place at ZIEGEL.
Through our work, we seek to contribute to the cultural life of Graz, Austria, and Europe, sharing our stories and experiences while learning from others. We are proud to carry and amplify the voices of Ukrainian culture and its ongoing resistance against aggression, with hope for peace and justice.
ZIEGEL is open to all who share our values—mutual respect, solidarity, and freedom of (self-)expression. We welcome individuals and communities from all backgrounds to join us in dialogue, collaboration, and the collective shaping of a more just and empathetic world.
- Exhibition
5/16/2025 - 5/25/2025
Bau(m\ch)schmerz
Einzelausstellung von Ola Yeriemieieva
Künstlerinnenporträt | Foto: Ola Yeriemieieva
Kunstwerke von Ola Yeriemieieva | Courtesy: Ola Yeriemieieva
The tombstone-trees depicted in the paintings first appeared in the nineteenth century in Jewish and Christian cemeteries. These monuments are usually associated with an interrupted life and symbolise untimely loss. They often represent the termination of a family line. Baumschmerz (the pain of the tree) is the pain of nature, representing the loss and finality of death. Bauchschmerz (stomach pain) is a metaphor for universal pain that unites human and natural experience, the pain of the tree and the pain of the human. In this room, there is a whole forest of cut-down trees that have become monuments of lost memory and broken stories.
- Artists:
- Ola Yeriemieieva
- Ola Yeriemieieva is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of corporeality, death, loss, and memory. She investigates the fear of loss and the attempt to preserve what has not yet been lost. And if it has been lost, to reinterpret and materialize that loss. She is interested in examining these themes through subjective visions and personal narratives that intertwine with broader historical and political contexts, as memory and history are inseparable. Born in 1997 in Kyiv, Ukraine, she has a bachelor's degree in graphic design from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design in 2018. She also studied contemporary art at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Selected Exhibitions: — Looking into the Gaps, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv (2024) — Women Artists in War, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (2024) — Defloration, Mala Gallery, Kyiv (2024) — Kunst und Leben in Zeiten des Krieges, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2023)
- curated by:
- Anton Tkachenko, Oleksandr Halishchuk
- Support:
- Office Ukraine Graz
- Exhibition
5/17/2025 - 5/18/2025
Brick in the Screen
Ausstellungssujet | Courtesy: Oleksandr Halishchuk
«Brick in the Screen» - a series of short documentary movies/family archives screenings offers an opportunity to immerse oneself in the fresh artistic voices from Ukraine and the local Graz community.
The topic of the edition is «Little Tail ». In its frames, we will present works of people in and outside the artistic bubble, who, in their way, are «breaking the screen» for representation and sharing of different stories, experiences, and spaces that, eventually, come together and build up in ZIEGEL.
- Artists:
- Oleksandr Halishchuk
- Oleksandr Halishchuk is a multimedia artist, curator, queer-anarchist born 29.10.1999, from Melitopol (southern Ukraine). In their artistic practice private-sincere and political-triggering are inseparable, they like to explore the intersections of such concepts as: truth and sincerity, hearing and listening, presence and being somewhere physically through personal (marginalized, queer, traumatic) life experiences.
- Exhibition
5/17/2025 - 5/17/2025
Bricks of "ZIEGEL"
Veranstaltungsplakat | (c) Dmytro Khodorchuk
One-day presentation in the atelier space by the Ziegel residents. Each sub-exhibition is created within their working area.
- Artists:
- Olga Zhuk, Anton Tkachenko, Oleksandr Dmytrenko, Jura Golik, Dmytro Khodorchuk