Yurii Biley [Culture of Mobility 6.0]

Year of birth: 1988 Field: Sztuki wizualne City: Mohrytsia

Biley's residency will take place as part of the 21st edition of  "Mohrytsia – a borderland space", a land art festival in Mohrytsiya, in the Sumy region of Ukraine. This year, for the first time, the organisers invited eight young curators (Natalka Matsenko, Yevhenia Moliar, Yuriy Vyshniakov , Kostiantyn Zorkin, Pavlo Kovach, Oleksiy Konoshenko, Vitalii Kokhan, Yuria Shtaidoiu) to collaborate, forming groups of residents and working together with them on the current edition's theme: "The Model of the Horizon".

The group joined by Biley will work on a socio-cultural vide oabout the inhabitants of the village of Mohrytsia, their knowledge of land art and perceptions of the artistic interventions carried out in their area for twenty-one years. Other artists involved are Pavlo Kovach, Atila Hazhlinski, Viktoria Zymomria, Vikenti Komitski, Tomash Hazhlinski and Yuria Biel. Apart from working on the film, the residence will serve as an opportunity for Biley to create a new individual work and to develop another one as part of the Open Group collective's project called "Open Gallery".