SMCK On Reel. Chain of Solidarity. Leipzig, Kyiv, Vilnius

SMCK On Reel videos will be screened from 20 October to 6 November in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv. SMCK ON REEL is screened in the framework of the group show "Ukraine is fighting". The show is curated by Iryna Udovychenko and features works made by twenty Ukrainian artists during the war.

SMCK On Reel will also be screened from 20 October to 20 November during the International Biennial for Contemporary Metal Art Metalofonas at Museum of Applied Arts & Design in Vilnius, and from 21 to 23 October during Grassimesse at Grassi Museum Leipzig, thus building a Chain of Solidarity with our fellow artists in Ukraine.
 
SMCK On Reel highlights tradition and future, memory and identity, environmental destruction and material awareness, femininity and feminism, gender, and social conventions. Twelve Ukrainian artists tell the story of living and working in the war zone or in exile. Their videos speak of the spiritual experience of cameo engraving, the omnipresence of destruction and death, the consolidation of one's own identity, the determined resistance, or the ancient rituals to connect with nature.
 
Reels, the art of the moving image, deploy the artist’s narrative and enable the public to indulge in the maker’s work. SMCK On Reel considers jewelry not only as a story-telling trigger, but also as a cultural catalyst, and a precious tool of diplomacy.
 
SMCK On Reel is curated by SMCK Magazine For Independent Artists.


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With video greetings by: Sabine Epple, Curator of Grassimesse Leipzig. Irina Udovychenko, Senior Researcher, Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine Kyiv. Jurgita Ludavičienė, Curator of Metal Art Biennial Metalofonas at National Museum of Applied Art & Design Vilnius
 
Participants: Valeria Florescano, Serzhan Bashirov, Olga Butenop, Xiao Chen, Fernando Crêspo, Martina Dempf, Lena Echelle, Eva Geldof, Karl Fritsch, Yolanda Ky, Alma Lion, Criselda Lopez, Carolina Melo, Daniel Ramos Obregón, Orion Ivliev, Federica Pallaver, Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė, PyR, Camilla Prey, Loukia Richards, Tieke Scheerlinck, Simon Marcus Swale, Silvia Vatta / GIADA, Eszter Zámori, Christoph Ziegler, Diego Saraiva

Ukraine: Serhiy Hranievych, Kristina Ignatova, Katia Krutikova, Denis Music, Svyatoslav Nikitenko, Yuri Plekhanov, Pirya-Vadym Mykolaenko, Anton Sokolov, Tetiana Chorna & Volodymyr Yarmusevych, Lena Yastreb, Sergey Zhernov.

Museums & Organizations: Akademie für Gestaltung München, DIVA Museum Antwerp, European Fashion Heritage Association, FaveLAB Athens, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Legnica Silver Festival, Pureun Culture Foundation, SMCK Magazine, ZLR Betriebsimperium.