KHARKIV PHOTO FORUM is the first interdisciplinary forum dedicated to in-depth analysis and contextual research of the Kharkiv School of Photography, which will take place on August 18-21, 2020 in an online format with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
“The main goal of the Forum is to bring together the world’s leading scientific and cultural institutions in the study, international promotion and strengthening in the academic field of arts of the concept and phenomenon known as the “Kharkiv School of Photography”, comments the curator of the conference part, historian of the Ukrainian photography Tetiana Pavlova.
During three days, 11 thematic lectures will be held in the section “Kharkiv Photography: Past and Present”, 7 lectures on “Between West and East: Relations of Ukrainian Photographers”. About 20 speakers have already confirmed their participation in the international scientific conference – art critics, experts in the photography history, contemporary art researchers, photographers and curators from around the world.
On the first day of the KHARKIV PHOTO FORUM, in addition to the endless flow of lectures, there will be a presentation of the Tetiana Pavlova’s monograph “Ukrainian avant-garde: Kharkiv”. The book, which began with the discovery of the Kharkiv School of Photography phenomenon, reconstructs the history of the Kharkiv’s visual avant-garde as a strong center of traditional and new art media, which once came to the forefront of the city’s artistic life, creating its unique subculture.
In the late afternoon of the second day of the KHARKIV PHOTO FORUM we are going to feel ourselves as in an online kitchen, where Alexei Shulgin and Viktor Marushchenko will talk about “The last years of the USSR: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Moscow”.