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Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art Without Borders
Charity event to support the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
About the project
On the 28th of January, 2023, the Royal Academy of Arts in London hosted the Charity auction to benefit the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. The event was initiated and organised by the Natalia Cola Foundation and the Royal Academy of Arts. Natalia Shpytkovska was honoured to be an Advisory for the event. All donated works were exhibited in the Royal Academy on the evening of the event.
The NAAU is facing a crisis. State support has been diminishing since 2014 and the majority of the NAAU’s local charity financing/funding was cut when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The RA was showing unprecedented support and solidarity for the NAAU at a critical time for Ukrainian culture.
The declared total amount collected at the auction exceeds 200 thousand pounds. The exact amount raised will be announced after the charitable contributions are received on the account of the Public Organization (NGO) "All-Ukrainian Academy of Arts" within a month from the date of the event.
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Royal Academicians participating include Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Conrad Shawcross, Ryan Gander, Allen Jones, former President of the RA, Sir Christopher Le Brun. Tatiana Drozd, Olga Kisseleva, Taisiya Polischuk, the international interdisciplinary group of an artist, a designer, a danser, a biologist and a curator, also participated in the charity event.
Among the Ukrainian Academicians: Boris Mikhailov (representative of Ukraine at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017; winner of the international Hasselblad Award, 2000); Pavlo Makov (Ukraine’s representative at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022); Victor Sydorenko (President of the NAAU; Representative of Ukraine at the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003, Commissioner of the 54th and 55th Venice Biennale, 2011 and 2013 respectively); holders of the Shevchenko Prize Tiberiy Silvashi and Anatoliy Kryvolap, as well as Lubomir Medvid and Vira Barynova-Kuleba. Participants of the 49th Venice Biennale Arsen Savadov and Oleg Tistol, as well as Sergei Sviatchenko, joined the charity initiative. Among the younger generation of Ukrainian artists to join the auction: Gamlet Zinkivskyi, Olesia Trofymenko, Volodymyr Manzhos (WaOne), Ruslan Tremba.
Prior to the event, a silent auction with works by established and emerging artists, launched online on the 10th of January at www.saveukraineculture.com.
Stephen Shore has donated a photograph that was included in his 2018 MoMA retrospective and taken in the home of a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor. Juergen Teller has given a work that was taken in 2007 while in Ukraine and exhibited in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.
The project was conceived by the Natalia Cola Foundation to ensure the effective functioning of the NAAU, as a platform for reflecting the achievements of Ukrainian culture both in Ukraine and abroad.
Funds were being directly raised for urgent structural repair to NAAU buildings and provision of the equipment, support of scientific, publishing and exhibition activities of the NAAU, grant programme for Ukrainian artists to participate in programmes in Ukraine and abroad, digitisation support of the institution.
Vogue Ukraine, Giorgio Armani, and Clara Zevi Consulting were the partners for the event along with the Natalia Shpytkovska Art Advisory.
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