Artistic life affected by Ukrainian crisis

Ukrainian crisis affects once again the artistic life in Kyiv.

After the announcement in February that the Second Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art will be postponed until 2015, now the second edition of the Kyiv Sculpture Project due to open in May, was announced to be postponed until 2015 too.

“It's not the right time; the agenda changed dramatically in Kiev,” said Volodymyr Kadygrob, the director of the project. “Potential aggression from Russia is quite high, which makes it quite difficult to organise an international project on the same level that it was planned” he added.

According to the organisers “an educational project dedicated to public art and the development of urban spaces” will be organised instead this year.

A short list of finalists was, however, chosen: Flavio Cerqueira, Valerian Gagnaire, Pawel Kowzan, and Oscar Abraham, the Open Group, Beata Korn, Sasha Kurmaz, Katya Libkind and Viktor Sidakov. Last years' main prize was an €6,000 award.