News – Gluklya

2024/03/192024/03/19

The workshop : Creating the Protest Clothes

The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art
Curated by Stephanie Dvareckas
6 March – 15 September, 2024
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, United States

As far as the central part of the installation contained the curatorial selection (13 items) of the installation “Clothes for the Demonstration against the false election of Vladimir Putin ,(2015),the topic of the workshop was the creation of the protest clothes.
People where invited via the call :

People where invited by the text :Please bring an item of your clothing , one you might not regret giving away to the common space of social reflection and resistance.
It might be a tee-shirt, blouse, dress, trousers or any other item from you or your family members or chosen family members as well.
You are invited to take part in a collective creative process inside the museum ,where together, we will formulate our demands and produce the protest clothes . The aim of the workshop is to bridge the private and political, by connecting your experience of indignation, frustration or anger within the social and political reality.
Let’s think together what we want to improve and change in the society and self by formulating the slogan or visual image, using the pieces of our wardrobe as the tool of expression.

Selected items will participate in the 9 -th of March Festival dedicated to the feminist movement in Washington Square Park from 12 to 4 pm. The topic of this year’s festival which is dedicated the 8 -th of March is : Care for everybody despite the status , migration and social housing .
All are welcome to join us there !

People were truly engaged and the most value is that almost all the clothes with statements we produced indeed participated in the 8-th March Washington Square Park protest festival . It is important because usually the institution which hosts the workshop is motivating people to come because things they will produced will be given them to posses . People are usually very happy to keep the item of the clothing the produced during the workshop. But in this case people agreed to donate clothes to the festival which means it will support the undocumented migrants in NY and feminist solidarity in general .

2023/05/222023/09/11

Last News

Sanatorium for Seamstresses

Chuikov Gallery and Library of Rescued Books

 Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan6-19 OctoberINTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF POLLUTIONArt Prospect & TRASH-5
Field wifes
Museum Rijswijk/NL
Installation of two parts
IMAGES OF POWER/Textile Bienalle
26 June -12 November 2023
Against the War
Museum Helmond /NL
RESILIENT REBELS
14 October -24 March 2024
Drawing Room, ( UAL) London
September 2023
The show is the result of the project: Drawing in social space, collaboration with UAL students and migrants from PACT, following the method: Utopian Unemployment Union
Zimmerli Art Museum
"The Body Implied"
16 February - 30 July 2024
https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/
Curator:
Stephanie Dvareckas
Solo Show:
To those who have no time to play
EXHIBITION OPENING:
13 October, 19:00
ARTIST:
Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya)
SUPPORTED BY:
Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap; Gemeente Amsterdam; AFK; Stichting DOEN; Van Abbemuseum
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Moawya Alkhadra
BiSCA (Saadat Aitalieva)
Shepherd Camara
Roger Cremers
Liah Frank
Natalia Grezina
Marianne Koeman
Vladimir Rannev
Benjamin Roth
Gulmira Tursunbaeva
Anna Bitkina
Shaiymkan Chylgobaeva
Kunduz Asanakunova
Anisa Ibrayeva
Nurlan Alymseitov
Dinara Akylova
Rahat Bolotbek Kyzy
Zayna Ayazbekova
Open Line Foundation
CURATOR:
Charles Esche

 

Framer Framed presents To those who have no time to play, the largest solo exhibition for the Amsterdam-based artist Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), curated by Charles Esche. In keeping with her previous work, the exhibition involves many collaborators from Kyrgyz textile workers and recent migrants to the Netherlands to musicians and writers.

 

The exhibition is structured around four elements, each with its own unique architecture. These are two yurts, a dome, and a stage on which there will be occasional live performances. The works take us from Amsterdam to Bishkek, and via St. Petersburg back to Amsterdam again.

 

Although conditions in Bishkek or St. Petersburg might seem far from Dutch society, bringing these different social and emotional geographies together through art emphasises connections between them. It is impossible to ignore the many disasters looming on the horizon: the climate crisis, extreme social inequality, the war in Ukraine and the harsh working lives of people supplying cheap goods to Western high streets. Gluklya relates it all in a surreal landscape, where humour appears unexpectedly. She takes us on an associative journey through global abuses, whether they be forced labour and migration, economic exploitation or abuse of power.

CONTACT:
www.framerframed.nl
info@framerframed.nl
ADDRESS:
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71,
1093 KS Amsterdam
OPENING TIMES:
Tue – Sun (12:00 - 18:00)
Free Entree

2022/11/112022/11/14

The book “Two Diaries”

This book emerged as a collaboration with Kurdish activist Murad Zorava, who started to write during this project and I hope he might continue.

In 2017, I was renting a studio in one of the two towers of Bijlmerbajes, a former prison in Amsterdam-Zuid-Oost. The second tower was then used by the government as an Asylum-Seekers-Center (AZC). My plan was to attempt a collaboration with the refugees staying there at the time, among whom was Murad.

During my project in Bijlmerbajes, I was confronted with eye-opening questions: What does equality mean, when it is equality between a refugee and an artist, between – so to speak –trained artist and the person who did not study art at all? Can we imagine rethinking and abandoning the idea of enlightenment? How to deal with the notion of Care without falling into patronization, but soberly staying within the frame of Radical Care?

At the start of my research, I visited AZC meetings. These were some of the regular lessons provided to the refugees to teach them about the social structure of the Netherlands and what they could expect here. Nothing was said during those meetings about culture and art, let alone contemporary art. This was surprising to me. It felt as if these people were held not equal to us, westerners, as many westerners believe they cannot survive without a breath of cultural or artistic air. Another thing that struck me was the fact of placing people in the environment of a prison: bars on windows, no locks from inside the rooms, no actual privacy, and unpleasant communal places.

Being haunted by this image of Murad in the cell of the former prison, I started to think about what exactly I could do in this situation. During one of the workshops, I proposed participants write a diary, and Murad accepted this idea. I am very happy to hope that the project had a practical outcome in reality. Murad believes that work with the publishing of his Diary helped him to settle down in Amsterdam.

The book can be purchased here https://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1638030

2022/10/012022/10/01

New Exhibition: To those who have no time to play

Framer Framed presents To those who have no time to play, the largest solo exhibition by the Amsterdam-based artist Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), curated by Charles Esche.
In keeping with her previous work, the exhibition involves many collaborators from Kyrgyz textile workers and recent migrants to the Netherlands to musicians and writers.
The exhibition is structured around four elements, each with its own unique architecture. These are two yurts, a dome, and a stage on which there will be occasional live performances. The works take us from Amsterdam to Bishkek, and via St. Petersburg back to Amsterdam again.
We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition To those who have no time to play for a review. During the opening, curator Charles Esche, artist Gluklya and select collaborators will be present. Reserve a spot by emailing press@framerframed.nl.

Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam

Opening
13 October 2022, 19:00-21:00

Dates
14 October 2022 – 22 January 2023

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00-18:00
Free entree

To see the full info go to Detailed Info

2022/06/252022/06/25

Documenta 15

Documenta 15 is great this year! Really really ..

It is trespassing all the conventional norms in terms of how the perception of the public should be structured: focus on the values as sharing and caring is prevalent and obviously etic is dominating on esthetic in a good way.

It does not mean that there is no good and beautiful works. A lot of them!

The enormous number of artists invited, 1500! Artists are invited other artists, not any single “famous “in terms of selling’s artists involved

And on top of that, the scandal around the topic of the trauma of WWII, provoked a great solidarity among artists, one more time proving that the values of the socialism are still alive and strong. This generosity triggered us to contribute with a performative spontaneous gesture of taking art works by People’s Justice by Taring Padi down from the exhibition by adding to the display this example of the Utopian Dress, regarding a very recent R/U War, which brought an immense global impact.