ГОГОЛЬFEST Information

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART ГОГОЛЬFEST is a two-week multi disciplinary art event in Ukraine. The exhibition consists of visual art and audiovisual installations, experimental theatre, contemporary modern music and dance, literature and cinema within one interactive space. The Festival is looking for new names, new concepts which will define the future. ГОГОЛЬFEST was established by Vlad Troitskyi, President of DAKH - Contemporary Center of Art (Kiev) in 2007. Successful festivals were held in 2008 and 2009. The project was started by progressive people in Ukraine to create a contemporary art scene that could actively generate innovative processes in Ukrainian culture. There was an urgent necessity to develop an art forum to present on a very high level all aspects of contemporary art and to open modern Ukraine to the world. An important aspect of the first multidisciplinary international festival of contemporary art in Ukraine is its global potential. The great author and playwright Nikolai Gogol embodies two Slavic cultures. At the same time his work shows that the Ukrainian and Russian culture share common European roots and values. It was the aspect of Gogol’s legacy that gave the festival its name. ГОГОЛЬFEST is fast becoming a cultural hub bringing together the avant-garde of Russian and Ukrainian contemporary visual and performing arts along with other European artists from West and East.