Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW It's important to mention that you are a ukrainian artists, because my group and founder and organizer of Kyiv Collage activity attracted some very interesting art Practice group and . Interdisciplinary practitioners who wanted to produce new collaborationsas the one that you have artforms and try new ways of thinking established at Kyiv Collage Practice group (collage thinking). Although i consider myself and atметаCOLLAж are without any doubt a loner and i prefer to be left on my own, i ever growing forces in Contemporary Art: understand the importance of collaborative could you tell us something aboutthe work, because i believe it is exactly when collaborative nature of your practice? Can growth and evolution happens. And thanks you explain how do some artworks to these collaborations, i managed to get out demonstrate communication between of war and find a good place in germany artists from different disciplines? where i can pursue my dreams and new collaborations. (FYI i’m no longer managing Yes i set up a first collage group in kyiv or or organizing “kyiv collage practice” group, maybe even ukraine, i don't know. Collage as well as метаCOLLAж; i chose to wasn't so popular even few years back. It concentrate on my own practices these wasn’t even considered an art form. I days). thought i was the only one working with collage because nobody seemed to show it. As the move of Art from traditional gallery So i began popularizing it, even though some spaces, to street and especially to online artists laughed at me and viewed my art platforms — as Instagram — increases, how practice as childish (because collage, they would in your opinion change the thought, was what kids played with). “kyiv relationship with a globalised audience? collage practice” group was open to anyone who is interested to try or to learn the art of In the beginning of my art journey i used collaging and to express their ideas in a new instagram to show my artworks (collages), way (no payment, just donation). There were and it pushed me to continue doing it educational and theoretical and even because i was getting a lot of likes and philosophical and visual inspirational parts, encouraging comments. But the more i followed by practical and then discussions. realised what art means to me and what kind Then метаCOLLAж happened. It was my way of art thinker i am, and what philosophy i am of creating one platform in a form of following, the more i understood that multidisciplinary art-zine dedicated to all instagram and any other online platform kinds of collages (analogue, digital, video, where people dont appreciate intellectual sound, performative, etc) from around the art, and spend 3 seconds on each image, world. These types of activities built aren’t for my kind of art creations. I deleted confidence in me and taught me all collage artworks from my instagram. communication with different kinds of Today i use it for visual philosophy and a bit people and artists. And this led to of pr. My relationship with instagram isn’t collaborations with other international and perfect, i’ve been banned for nudity so many