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I was born in 1958, in the city of Leningrad.
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And in 1962 my parents moved to Rivne in Ukraine, and since then I lived in Kyiv, then Simferopol, where I’ve finished the Crimean Art College, and finally I found myself in Kharkiv, where I’ve graduated from the Graphic Department of the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute and where I still live and work.
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- That time when you live through the last chapter, when your parents are already gone, as well as many of your beloved ones; when your kids are grown up; your cancer has already been operated on; your works are in numerous museums all over the world and you don’t have any special feelings about your career any longer, and your house is only twenty kilometers away from the frontline, you feel more or less free to understand that your relations with the world are still as uncertain, strange and mysterious as they were before all that happened.
- And this mysterious uncertainty is maybe the only thing that keeps you alert. Hopes and expectations are well gone by that time, and only curiosity still keeps you company on the way to the studio.
- 2025, Pavlo Makov
- And this mysterious uncertainty is maybe the only thing that keeps you alert. Hopes and expectations are well gone by that time, and only curiosity still keeps you company on the way to the studio.
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We invite you to a special meeting with Pavlo Makov – a Ukrainian graphic artist who lives and works in Kharkiv.
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Pavlo Makov is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in the United Kingdom, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. His works are held in the collections of institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Art Museum of Ukrainein Kyiv, as well as in other museums and private collections. Pavlo Makov represented Ukraine at the 59th Venice Biennale, presenting his project The Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta.
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- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- We host both artists who have previously taken part in Ujazdowski Castle’s programme and those making their debut. In this series, we would like to focus on individual approaches and artistic practices.
- Why take part?
- The events will be recorded for archival purposes, and the recordings will be made available online through the Mediateka.
- In times of tensions and crises, thinking and talking together about contemporary art – which responds to today’s challenges in unconventional ways – helps strengthen social resilience. Art is not only the object – just as important are the process, the thinking, the emotions, and the relationships that accompany it. The meetings offer a closer look at how art is created and, most importantly, who creates it.
- Every week, we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences.
- The meetings are open to everyone, from people working professionally in culture and art, to those who are curious about artists and their work, or simply want to talk about art.
- We do our best to make the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art accessible to everyone – we would like to adapt the event to you and your needs. To help us do that, please contact our accessibility coordinator, Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday before the event.
