Jura Golik
Opening
Saturday, 10.05.2025 | 18:30
Exhibition duration
11.05. – 22.05.2025
Wed-Sun: 16– 19
Performance by Nina Eba
Saturday, 17.05. | 20:00
Part of Galerientage Graz 2025
Curator: Peter Rieser
What Will You Remember About These Times / Що ти будеш згадувати про ці часи? by Jura Golik reflects on the experience of migration, distance, and memory. When time is spent far from home, memories begin to fade. Sorrow gives way to a detached melancholy—like a dream that never ends. The project takes its name from a poem by Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan and draws on the urge to hold onto the voices and images of the past.
The exhibition presents works from two series: De/relized (in collaboration with Olia Fedorova) and Two Cities: Kharkiv (in collaboration with Sasha Borovytska). Both address personal and collective displacement through material and form.
Two Cities: Kharkiv reflects on the doubled perception of home: Kharkiv as a real city—now remote and transformed—and as a half-mythical space preserved in memory. Decoupage is used to fragment images of destruction, while concrete blocks, deeply associated with Kharkiv, serve as both surface and metaphor for resilience and the potential for rebuilding.
In contrast, De/relized uses cyanotype on textiles to evoke layered emotional and psychological states. Barriers — visual and symbolic — disrupt the view of peaceful landscapes. The interplay between heavy concrete and light, elusive fabric suggests a condition suspended between a threatened past and an uncertain future.
The exhibition also considers materials — concrete, textiles, construction elements — as metaphors for fragility, endurance, and the hope of reconstruction. Continuing this narrative, on May 17 a presentation of the album Morpho by Nina Eba will take place. The album reflects on the experience of migration, rebirth, and new beginnings.
Jura Golik (*2003) is an artist and curator from Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2024 he has finished his study in History and Theory of Arts at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and worked as an art-manager at Municipal Gallery in Kharkiv and with friends he launched an independent art project PATIO. In September 2022 he moved to Lviv, currently he is based in Graz, Austria.