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The Dzyga Art Center is an artistic association, gallery, theater and concert facility in Lviv, Ukraine. [1] [2] [3]
Dzyga showcases and produces in the genres of art, music, literature, holds theater plays and displays various films.
The Dzyga Art Center was founded in June 1993 by members of the student brotherhood of Lviv (Markiyan Ivaschysyn, Andriy Rozhniatovsky, Yaroslav Ruschyshyn, Andrian Klisch) and famous Lviv artists (Serhiy Proskurnia, Vlodko Kaufman). The Dzyga Art Center was opened in the former monastery of the Dominican Order in March 1997.
Dzyga is a co-organizer of the International Publishers' Forum, which helped establish Lviv as the book capital of Ukraine.
The association has organized a large number of events involving leading artists from Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, USA, Russia and Japan.
Dzyga founded the first informal radio station in Ukraine, named Radio Initsiatyva, on which figures of Ukrainian journalism and public life, including Roman Chaika, Mykhailo Barbara, Marta Bilska, Kostya Bondarenko and others spoke out. Dzyga founded the oppositional newspaper, named Lvivska Gazeta.
In its projects, in particular in the project "Ye" (1995), Dzyga collaborated with future stars and famous music groups, such as "Pikkardiyska Tertsiya", "Okean Elzy", "Plach Jeremyi", "Mertvy Piven", "Vohni Velykoho Mista", "Dzyga Jazz Quintet", "ShockolaD", Ruslana and others.
The most popular literary project of Dzyga was the magazine "Chetver", edited by the avant-garde Ukrainian writer Yuriy Izdryk.
The club "Lialka" was founded by Dzyga, a famous place in artistic circles, lasting from 1998 to 2008. The club was ended with the intention of keeping Lialka infamous.
One of their main projects has the vision of introducing viewers to modern European photography. [4]
Ethnoclub Nabutkiv is an art school, attracting musicians and fans of ethnic culture. One of its focal points is ancient music, as well as performances of traditional and ethnic Ukrainian music. [5]
"Jazz Club. Lviv " has earned Lviv the title of jazz city amongst musicians. The school was created with the goal of educating young musicians and organizing events between different jazz schools. [6]
During its existence, the art center was credited with organizing around 1000 events, the most famous of which were: "Vyvykh", festivals "Ukrainska Molod Chrestovi", "Novyi Noyev Kovcheh", "Sluchay Ukrainske!", music and literary project "Ye".
Summing up the results in the 15th anniversary in 2008, Dzyga received the following statistics: 394 exhibitions, 1,223 club concerts, 119 exclusive concert projects, 26 festivals, 117 performances, 360 literary presentations, gathering 1,5 million participants, visitors and spectators.
Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the fifth-largest in Ukraine, with a population of 717,273. It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv also hosts the administration of Lviv urban hromada. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia.
Ukrainian rock is rock music from Ukraine.
Okean Elzy is a Ukrainian rock band. It was formed in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. It is the most famous and successful Ukrainian music band. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. In April 2007 Okean Elzy received FUZZ Magazine music awards for "Best rock act".
Ukrainian cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Ukraine and also by Ukrainian film makers abroad.
Bu-Ba-Bu is a literary performance group founded on April 17, 1985 in Lviv by three Ukrainian writers Yurii Andrukhovych, Viktor Neborak, and Oleksandr Irvanets. The group's three syllables stand for "burlesque, balagan, and buffonada". The idea behind the group's formation was in order to present a carnival like interpretation of events in Ukraine.
The Kharkov Klezmer Band, also known as the Kharkiv Klezmer Band, is a klezmer band from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Chervona Ruta is a permanent biennial all-Ukrainian youth festival of contemporary song and popular music, which has been held every two years since 1989. It was a benchmark where more Ukrainian popular music was presented transitioning away from traditional Ukrainian folk culture associated with "sharovary" genre. Unlike the Soviet festival Song of the Year, where only a selected song from Ukraine sometimes was demonstrated, Chervona Ruta allowed more singers and songs.
Oleh Suk is a Ukrainian rock musician, specializing in the bass guitar.
Dead Rooster or Mertvy Piven was a Ukrainian rock band that was formed by Lyubomyr Futorsky in 1989. The first concert was given in 1990 at the first Vyvykh festival. Their debut album Eto was recorded in 1991, at the end of the Chervona Ruta festival, where the group took first prize in the category of performers art songs. Dead Rooster began as an acoustic band. During the second half of the 1990s, they evolved into a grunge/art-rock band, though their music can't be described by one particular style. Dead Rooster has changed personnel several times.
Leopolis Jazz Fest is an international jazz festival, annually held in June in Lviv (Ukraine) since 2011. The Guardian included Leopolis Jazz Fest in the list of the best European festivals.
Contemporary Ukrainian literature refers to Ukrainian literature since 1991, the year of both Ukrainian independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. From that year on, censorship in the Soviet Union ceased to exist and writers were able to break openly with the official socialist realism style of art, music, and literature. Principal changes had taken place in Ukrainian literature already under Perestroika (1985) and especially after the Chernobyl disaster. Some researchers consider that modern Ukrainian literature was born during the 1970s and founded by Soviet dissidents from the sixties generation.
Trystavisim – is a Ukrainian rock band from Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia, Ukraine.
Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky is the leading music and drama institution of higher education in Ukraine. The university trains about 900 undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in music and theatre art. It enjoys Level IV accreditation, which is the highest under Ukraine's national standards, and is licensed to train foreign students.
Svitlana Yeremenko — born 15 March 1959, is a Ukrainian journalist, editor, media-expert, NGO manager and the author of the book “Art, as prayer”.
Myroslav Yahoda, sometime transliterated as Yagoda was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist, playwright and set designer. The "Ukrainian Goya" – with true integrity in his diverse art – was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground art scene.
Serhiy Vladyslavovych Proskurnia was a Ukrainian stage director.
Vlodko (Vladimir) Kaufman is a Ukrainian artist of German descent, painter, graphic artist and performer. He is the author of many art projects, and participant in solo and group exhibitions.
Collegium Musicum Lviv is an artistic community and music agency in Lviv, Ukraine that specializes in classical music. The activities of the music agency are aimed at promoting music and poetry, involving the public in co-creation, and bridging the gap between the performer and the listener.
The LvivMozArt festival is an annual international classical music festival held in Lviv and Brody, and their surroundings, in Ukraine. It is named in honor of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who lived in Lviv from 1808 to 1838.
Ukrainian Art Front (UAF) was launched in March 2022 in Lviv to raise funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The project was created and implemented by Serhiy Fedorchuk, Ukrainian musician and organizer of musical events, and Olga Chertkova, owner of the Kyiv-based communication agency Top Media Communication.
