CONTEMPORARY ART AND ART MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF LOCAL SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN UKRAINE: THE CASE OF THE TEPLE MISTO PLATFORM

Abstract

Most of the art projects related to modern art take place in the capital. Other Ukrainian cities mostly have few powerful centers for the promotion of modern art and few active representatives of art management. However, such initiatives outside the capital can have a significant impact on social transformations. The purpose of this article is to analyze the activity of art management of the public platform of Ivano-Frankivsk Teple Misto in the field of contemporary art. In the last nine years, this platform has implemented numerous projects that are aimed at social transformations in the urban community. One of the areas of its activity is the engagement of the city’s public with modern art through exhibitions, murals, performances, educational projects, etc. These projects were implemented through a number of grants from Teple Misto. Art managers of the platform work on the Warm Art program. After 2018, this program was transformed into other projects. Contemporary visual art has been chosen as the focus of artistic initiatives for the purpose of promoting artistic processes in the city. Since 2015, the projects Residence for Artists, Open Art Lecture Hall, grants for exhibitions, etc. have served this goal. In addition, the project promotes famous art figures of the 20th century from Ivano-Frankivsk and the region through the support of exhibitions of the art by Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, Osyp Sorokhtei, Stepan Nazarenko and others