Yaryna Szumska

A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, she deals with painting, performance, installation and dance. In 2008, she participated in many international exhibitions and plein-airs (Ukraine, Poland, Italy). She took part in three editions of the performance school in Lviv and participated in the “Timetable” art workshops held in Lublin’s public space, “Perforations” international workshops organised in Sokołowsko, and “Days of performance art in Lviv” festival. In her artistic work, she draws on the constant movement and interaction of phenomena existing in life.

26.07.2025, 15.30 – 16.30 – Nest. (non)Returning (45 min.) – multimedia performance by NURT (UA)

Large educational hall, 6 Kolegialna Street

Nest. (non)Returning

The metaphor of “native nest” concerns the physical connection with place, culture, and self-identification. Birds have been migrating for thousands of years, following the same routes every time, creating itineraries. Nowadays, the migration paths of birds that are flying around the front lines resemble the world’s historical map which is full of blind spots.

The possibility to come back to the so-called “nest” is an unconditional indicator of avoiding tragic socio-political and cultural events.

Art Group NURT

NURT is a multidisciplinary group of Ukrainian artists that works in the field of audiovisual and digital art, performances, and concerts founded in 2011 by artist Mykhaylo Barabash and composer Ostap Manulyak in Lviv. Other artists are also involved in various projects, among them: Yuriy Bulka, Ostap Manko, Sergiy Petlyuk, Roman Haideichuk, Yaryna Shumska etc. During the last few years, the art group presented several performances incorporating different digital and analog techniques. Art Group NURT works with a variety of topics – such as war and ecology, culture, and history.

27.07.2025, 18.00 – 18.30 –  Weights, performance                   

Art Nouveau Patio, 8 Tumska Street

Territory becomes heavy as soon as a human is on it. Every step causes deformation. We, people, are not able to stand still. The human being, human history, the territory of a human are constantly in motion, shaking their environment. This provokes the formation, coordination, granting of rights, which people violate, deny, ignore, provoking a heaviness that is endowed with mass and force. Balance is neither stable nor unambiguous, it is a process of search, where one view coexists in opposition to the other.