19-21 May2011

ArtFashionMusic

032cJoseph AltuzarraDerek BlasbergMarcelo BurlonScott CampbellRaphael De CárdenasJack DonoghueCyril DuvalCyprien GaillardJohn HollandZinaida LikhachevaLeonid LipelisHelen MartenGosha RubchinskiyOlympia ScarryMark SchedrinDanko & Ana SteinerTatlerVisionaire

SANAHUNT CULTURAL INITIATIVE

SANAHUNT Luxury Concept Store is launching the SAHANUNT Cultural Initiative, a bi-annual event produced in collaboration with the brand’s business partners and friends. SAHANUNT Cultural Initiative captures emerging trends in international fashion, music and art and relocates them within the cultural context of Kyiv, promoting the city not only as a vibrant, culturally sophisticated destination, but also as an international hub on the cutting-edge of creative production. The inaugural installment will combine several projects into the unmissable weekend of May 19-21. For the contemporary art component, SAHANUNT Cultural Initiative has invited the Berlin-based magazine 032c to bring one of its signature Workshops to Kyiv. The program will hinge on a group exhibition, featuring selected works by artists Scott Campbell, Danko and Ana Steiner, and Helen Marten.

Meanwhile, Milan’s prince of the party scene, Marcelo Burlon, the legendary Jack Donoghue of Salem, artist Cyprien Gaillard, and designer-extraordinaire Gosha Rubchinskiy who will keep the SANAHUNT dancefloor rowdy during the three nights of the event.

As a special project of the May 2011 edition of SAHANUNT Cultural Initiative, Visionaire will present a retrospective of all 59 of its issues, which will be on view within the retail space of the SANAHUNT Luxury Concept Store. Rafael de Cardenas of ARCHITECTURE AT LARGE is creating display installations for the Visionaire archive issues.

Oksana MOROZ-HUNT, SANAHUNT Group President

SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative19-21 May 2011

Some people may be too beautiful for their own good. Jack Donoghue is exactly that sort of soul, and his band Salem may be exactly that sort of sound.

Both the boy and the band make a conscious effort to avoid easy classification. Enigmatic but energetic, Salem has been dubiously dubbed “the best band from Michigan.” In addition to being a curiously-underhanded compliment, this may be little bit of a misnomer; while the other two band-members – John Holland and Heather Marlatt – do hail from Michigan, the band started making music when they were all together in Chicago. Now that the members have scattered geographically, the music is assembled piece by piece, with songs traded back and forth between the trio, perhaps accounting for its accumulated complexity. While distinctions are hard to draw, New York-based Donoghue is to credit for the beats, as well as some of the vocals. He also may very well be responsible for some of the press, as he and Holland have become accidental gay icons, their every move documented across internet. Donoghue has been a sweet-natured sport about the sudden fame, giving bloggers plenty to talk about, as both he and Salem continue their meteoric rise.

10:30pm 19 May 2011Special guest: Jack Donaghue.

Scott Campbell

A New Orleans native, transplanted to Brooklyn, artist Scott Campbell considers himself a semiotician of tattoo culture, tracing the most common signs and symbols, and then teasing out the irony existing within that imagery. Rather than resort to simple satire, however, Campbell lifts these symbols from the skin and relocates them into the context of contemporary art; in doing so, he insists on a fresh acknowledgment of a seemingly familiar vocabulary. It is a shrewd maneuver, but Campbell is able to pull it off through his sheer mastery of the art itself. The precise execution of his tattoo work carries over into his sculptures (for example, the recent series of reliefs meticulously cut from stacks of US currency, which have factored into multiple shows by the tri-city exhibition platform OHWOW.)

SANAHUNT Cultural initiative and 032c Workshop/Joerg Koch is pleased to introduce the 032c Workshop Report #2 (Kyiv). The second installment in an exhibition series that launched in Moscow in 2010, this show will occupy the SANAHUNT GALLERY. Featuring works by Scott Campbell, Helen Marten, Olympia Scarry and Danko Steiner, the exhibition will celebrate the release of 032c’s 21st issue, expanding on its content in three dimensions.

The artists presented may come from vastly different creative backgrounds, yet unifying the works chosen for Kyiv is a common theme: they not only directly develop the mission and theme of the latest edition of the magazine, but address their relationship to the body and space. Scott Campbell, a tattoo artist by trade, takes his craft into the proverbial “frame” of the artwork. Helen Marten, who created an original contribution to the latest issue, meanwhile gives us a particularly tactile, even “fleshy” rendering of familiar objects of domestic design. Olympia Scarry navigates the actual space of the gallery clad in a Givenchy burka, like an ambulatory black monolith, both corporeal and architectural. A similar, though perhaps more still image is captured in Danko Steiner’s dark photographic study, in which model John Holland (of Salem) appears statuesque and monumental, cloaked and hooded in heavy textiles. Computer-generated, patterned overlays in Steiner’s series, like Marten’s deployment of Internet icons and Wikipedia-informed networks of reference, export the digital into a post-web, tangible world.

Danko &Ana Steiner

Originally from Zagreb, Danko and Ana Steiner make up a fashion spouse-powerhouse, as a husband-and-wife team of photographers and stylists. In addition to their collaborative practice, Danko first put in his time as a designer for Visionaire and Harper’s Bazaar, eventually moving on to Vogue, where he served as design director, before leaving in 2010 to concentrate full-time on photography. Ana maintains an individual practice as a stylist and make-up artist, while also contributing as fashion editor for publications like Vogue Italia and LOVE. In 2010, their darkly quirky collaborations were exhibited in a five-photograph show, “Baby, We’re Really In Love,” at Berlin’s Galerie für Moderne Fotografie.

Olympia Scarry

Swiss-born but London-based, Olympia Scarry creates sculptures, installations and performances which are deeply rooted in the psychological and its various subterfuges. Much of this effect derives from the contrast of the seemingly-confessional with the cool composure of form. Her first solo show was held at the Conduits Gallery in Milan in 2008, where she reconfigured flourescent lights, cables, and glass display cases under such portent titles as “It’s what you Make of it, my friend” and “rise.above.the.shit”. Since that time, she has participated in exhibitions at 20 Hoxton Square (London), fordProject (New York), and at the Arsenale Novissimo during the 53rd Venice Biennale.

9:00pm 19 May 2011SANAHUNT Gallery presents 032c Workshop Report #2 (Kyiv).

Helen MartenLondon-based artist Helen Marten indulges in what she calls “environmental window-shopping,” playfully dismissing traditional distinctions between the disciplines of design, architecture and craft. Her sculptures are heavily weighted towards the material, with a casual, almost accidental finish that belies the effort of their construction (the artist once described a work as “wearing baggy pants.”) Marten’s biting wit and keen formal sensibilities allow her to sample from tropes of masculinity and handiwork with the same ease as she mixes materials. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Take a stick and make it sharp,” will run from April 30-June 4, 2011, at Johann König (Berlin.)

Hailing from Patagonia, but seduced by Milan, Marcelo Burlon’s personality precedes him – fitting for a man whose thriving creative consultancy – Marcelo Burlon Enterprise –mirrors his mastery of the multidisciplinary. Burlon is an outspoken advocate for enjoying oneself, which he seems to be doing as he glides along the boundaries of art, music, and fashion, as a PR consultant, stylist, party organizer, art director, and former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Rodeo magazine.

Burlon got his start working as an event promoter for Dolce & Gabbana and Alessandro

Dell’Acqua, and then building up his resume with projects for labels like Karla Otta and Diesel, before signing on as PR for the then-up-and-coming Riccardo Tisci. Establishing his own company in 2006, Burlon’s recent collaborations include Alexander McQueen, Maison Martin Margiela, Givenchy, Versace, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander and Prada.

Always an enthusiast for music (having famously booked Prince to play a Versace party), Burlon’s passion for music has spilled out over the short step from the fashion world into the club scene; his “Pink is Punk” party has taken siege of Milan as the recurring dance party for the supremely-in-the-know (among them Tisci, Margherita Missoni and Devendra Banhart.) He will show off some of this party know-how for the opening on Thursday night.

10:30pm 19 May 2011DJ set by Marcelo Burlon

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Derek Blasberg moved to New York City to study dramatic literature and journalism at New York University. Shortly after graduating, he began his first job as an assistant at Vogue, and ever since then he has rocketed through the fashion world as one of its most personable correspondants.

Blasberg is currently the editor of VMAN, the Editor at Large of Harper’s Bazaar, and the Senior Special Projects Editor at V magazine. His writing can also be found appearing in publications like Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, 10 and London’s Sunday Times.

In 2008, Blasberg was tapped as editor for Influence, the fashion and art hybrid conceived by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and since he has contributed to several other books and literary projects, including his own: Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady, released by Penguin Books in April 2010.

Classy serves as an etiquette guide aimed at young women dangerously on the edge of trampdom. Classy attempts to revive the concept of being a lady in an age slouching in what Blasberg calls “Look At Me” culture. “You might not have been born a lady,” he writes, “but there’s no reason you can’t learn to be one.” The book compiles Blasberg’s tongue-in-cheek wit and observations from his time on the celebrity jetset scene into step-by-step guides, taking on the scourge of Uggs, club dancing and “social drinking,” while also providing

tips on everything from shopping, dressing for the airport and honing one’s gaydar.

A certified New York Times best seller in its second week, Classy was christened with a world tour chronicled on Blasberg’s website. The launch in Kyiv will be preceded by a question-and-answer session between Blasberg and Visionaire’s Cecilia Dean.

It’s interesting that you specifically mention that you studied Dramatic Literature in your bio. How does that come to play in your writing?It hasn’t yet. Maybe one day I’ll do the screenplay for my book. One of my favorite films ever, Mean Girls, was based on a collection of essays. Is this your first time in Kyiv? Any expectations?Yes, it’s my first time in the Ukraine, but I’ve been to Eastern Europe a few times. I find it fascinating how complex that part of the world: the new and the old, the contemporary and the

traditional, looking forward and holding back, all at the same time. Kyiv is arguably home to some of the world’s most beautiful women, but it is also entrenched in a Post-Soviet conception of feminity, one which often reads as very theatrical in the Western context. Do you have any specific advice or suggestions for Ukrainian women? I think I should wait to meet the women before I start telling them how to behave!

3:30pm 20 May 2011Question and answer session with Cecilia Dean and Derek Blasberg

followed by 4:30pm book signing.

5:00pm 20 May 2011Presentation of special project by Zinaida Likhachëva

Artist and designer Zinaida Likhacheva understands her work as being inherently tied to its origin in the Ukraine, still a “terra incognita” for Europe. Likhacheva’s interest in local folklore and traditional craft imparts what she sees as an “ethno-modern” element to her brand “Nashe.” The debut collection, “Light of the Sun,” (AW 2010-2011), wove together ethnic motifs, mixing natural materials and hand embrodiery with a very modern cut. Her second collection, “VidLunnia” (SS 2011), was much influenced by the designer’s painting practice, which explores sacred symbols. This collection was shown at fashion weeks in Ukraine, Georgia and Russia, and received acclaim from the legendary Kenzo Takada.

Since that time, Likhacheva has produced another collection, “COCOONed” (AW 2011), while also branching out in her painting, creating multiple large-scale installations and exhibitions. For the SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative, Likhacheva will present her project “Uzor;” bridging her practices as a designer and painter, Likhacheva samples from a vocabulary of traditional Ukrainian symbols, infusing the works with a sense of the ancient.

When Joseph Altuzarra was nominated for an award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), it hardly felt like the shock it should have been. While his signature label has thrived for two years now, Altuzarra himself never studied design technique formally; instead, his expertise was honed interning at Marc Jacobs, freelancing for Proenza Schouler, and later working closely with Riccardo Tisci as his design assistant at Givenchy. Needless to say, when Altuzarra presented his debut collection at New York Fashion Week, it was a mature body of work, serious and purposeful.

Born in Paris, but having relocated to New York after school, Altuzarra sees his work as somewhere “between the legacy of French culture and New York’s pulsating energy.” His models are distinguished by a triumphant eroticism, perhaps what the designer meant when he has repeatedly claimed that he does not design for girls, but for grown women. Much of his work balances on the verge of provocation, simple and yet able to transform its wearer into a goddess. After witnessing Altuzarra’s spring-summer collection, Carine Roitfeld remarked that “it makes me want to be that girl.”

How did you decide to start your own label? Was it a struggle, or did it just come naturally?The decision came rather organically. I wanted to have some experience before starting a brand, and I wanted to really have something to say. I knew when the time was right.You are best known through your fashion practice, but you actually started to study fashion in a theoretical way (having studied Art History with a focus on fashion and architecture.) Are you still drawn to theory?I started thinking about fashion from a much more art historical point of view, as an expression of a culture, within a time period. This is still something I am interested in: thinking about the culture I live in, the preoccupations of the people I know and trying to synthesize some of it in a collection.Who are the people you work for?JA: I try to think about specific women, like Vanessa, my mother, Carine, Melanie Huyhn, when I design. But I also hope I think about women as a whole, and how they live their lives today, what their needs and desires are, and how that is reflected in their clothes.Can you call yourself an ordinary person? As ordinary as they come.

8:30pm 20 May 20113D screening of the Altuzarra Fall 2011 show.

Visionaire is a multi-format album of art, fashion and design, produced in exclusive numbered editions. Since its inception in 1991, Visionaire has grown into one of the most highly sought-after fashion and art publications in the world. Published three times per year, each issue has a different theme and format, featuring commissions from both famous and emerging artists from around the world alongside contributions from fashion designers, art directors and image-makers (The list of contributors boasts such vaunted names as Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Kate Moss, Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Mario Testino and Bruce Weber.) Visionaire is widely recognized as one of the most important publications of the last 20 years and is represented in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Morgan Library.

For its sixtieth issue, Visionaire has invited guest editor Riccardo Tisci in collaboration with Givenchy. The theme of the issue is “Religion,” as depicted by photos and art commissioned and curated by Tisci especially for this issue. Images are featured in black and white with gold pages. Independent of any divination, the issue’s theme draws inspiration from “religion” as a synonym for obsession, ritual, worship, apparition, and the celebration of humanity.

Visionaire Sixty Religion comes as a leather-wrapped 228-page hard- bound book. Inspired by a church altarpiece, the case’s split doors open to reveal the black-on-black stamped book cover inside a black plexiglass lined interior. Contributors to Visionaire 60 include Marina Abramovic, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Lara Stone, Paolo Canevari, Franca Sozzani, Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mario Testino,

Jefferson Hack, Patti Smith, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Nick Knight, Katy England, Kate Moss, Yann Vasnier, and many many more.

Visionaire is the project of its three co-founders, Cecilia Dean, Stephen Gan and James Kaliardos.

Editor of Visionaire Cecilia Dean has modeled for some of the world’s leading image-makers including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Steven Meisel and Mario Testino. She is a frequent lecturer on photography, art, fashion and publishing at international conferences and competitions, and has served a Visiting Professor at Parsons School of Design and a mentor at the School of Visual Arts.

Stephan Gan began work as a photographer and later fashion editor for Details magazine, before co-founding Visionaire and its successive spin-offs, V Magazine (found in 1999) and V-MAN (since 2003.) He is also the creative director of Harper’s Bazaar. Gan has directed multiple advertising campaigns – including Calvin Klein featuring Kate Moss, Dior Homme, and Shiseido – and also designed catalogues for fashion exhibitions at the Louvre and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2002, he was honored with a Creative Visionary Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

James Kaliardos is a world-renowned makeup artist, who has perfected the faces of celebrities like Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and Nicole Kidman, while also creating runway and advertising looks for fashion houses including Balenciaga, Hermès, Gaultier, Versace, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Chanel. His work can be found in spreads in publications like Vogue and Allure, and he has been a creative consultant for L’Oreal since 2003.

9:30pm 20 May 2011Opening of the Visionaire retrospective exhibition.

Paris-born artist and DJ Cyprien Gaillard seeks out the traces of entropy is all its themes and variations within contemporary society – from ancient ruins to alcohol. His work holds a particular fascination with architecture and its ingrained ambition towards the utopian ideal (which Gaillard subtly records in his documentation of the deterioration and demolition of failed social housing projects.) Music is a driving component of his practice, and many of his most prolific pieces – such as his bombshell breakthrough, “Desniansky Raion” (2007) – resulted from collaboration with musicians like Koudlam. Gaillard has had recent exhibitions at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington, DC, the Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon,

among many, many others. In the summer of 2010, he was shown in Moscow at BAIBAKOV art projects, both as part of the group exhibition “Perpetual Battles” and later in “032c Workshop Report #1 (Moscow).”

In October 2010, Gaillard became the youngest-ever recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp, an honor that supplements its monetary prize with a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. It would seem France has no qualms about sharing the artist with Berlin, his adopted home. This year, Gaillard has grabbed headlines in the German capital and beyond with his installation at KW Art Institute. “Recovery of Discovery” offered a commentary on European colonialist assumptions through a pyramid of cases of Turkish beer, which viewers slowly (and occasionally not so slowly...) consumed, confusing real hangovers with architectural ones. Gaillard’s international reign continues in 2011, with the artist’s residency at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and his contribution to the main project of the 54th Venice Biennale, curated by Bice Curiger, as well as his upcoming showcase at the Centre Pompidou.

10:30pm 20 May 2011DJ set by Cyprien Gaillard

Based in New York, Parisian-born conceptual artist Cyril Duval travels through the mediums of art, fashion, visual communication and retail design, under the fictional alter ego brand Item Idem (Latin for “the same.”) Working at the junction of conceptual art, marketing, branding and retail design, Duval collaborates with such high-profile eclectic creative agents as AA Bronson, BLESS, colette, Michel Gaubert, Nagi Noda, Terence Koh, Bernhard Willhelm, or Tobias Wong. His work has graced the pages of multiple international publications including 032c, AnOther, AnOther Man, Apartamento, BUTT, Casa Brutus, Dazed Digital, DIS, Domus, Frame, i-D, Interview, MUSE, T Magazine, The New York Times, Viewpoint and WWD. In 2007, Item Idem won the Great Indoors Award for his striking design of the Bernhard Willhelm Tokyo flagship boutique.

A self-professed “conceptual stimulator”, Duval negotiates the politics and processes of appropriation, deploying found images, objects and ideas with a deft wit and an immediately identifiable sense of style (despite the fact that the artist himself is quite the chameleon, rarely appearing in the same guise twice.) More recently, the artist has taken his flair for the theatrical to the actual theatre itself, designing the sets for Bruce LaBruce’s staging of Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in Berlin in March 2011.

You’re no stranger to the Post-Soviet world. You’ve been in Moscow several times. Will this be your first time in Kyiv? Anything in particular you’re excited about?I am very curious about traveling to Ukraine and showing my work there. It is very exciting to imagine that I will be able to transcend the postcard imaginary that I have of this city/culture and maybe even

produce something inspired by it. Also, I just recently came back from the Tsunami stricken area in Japan, and was wondering if I shouldn’t expand my new ‘nuclear tourism’ by visiting the area of Tchernobyl. As an artist, I believe I should be committed to witnessing all aspects of this world.Kyiv is rumored to be home to some of the world’s most beautiful women – more beautiful even than Moscow. Did you have any commentary on the gender roles you’ve observed in your travels? Having travelled all around the world, or at least to a wide variety of places, I have seen many beauties, from many different genres. But of course, there is something really fascinating about the essence of the Caucasus in itself, and it would be impossible for me to conceal my excitement that I’ll soon be heading to the center of Europe

to witness this in its most delicate and refined form. The performance I am directing in collaboration with Gosha Rubchinskiy for will actually be all about that!For someone who is known for his tributes – that chameleon ability of yours to assume an entire persona, and not just an outfit – what defines your style?I try to consider myself as a blank format, or, as I’ve recently been described, as a “living, breathing thing made out of something crystal clear.” Well, it’s more of an aspiration that deforms and directs my personality and the reality of my work, but yes, whatever I am doing or whoever I am becoming – for the purposes of life or work – it is always very important for me to start composing from nothing, from the absolute emptiness, so that little by little I can start filling the void into a creative/life canvas.

3:30pm 21 May 2011Performance by Gosha Rubchinskiy & Item Idem

Born in 1984 in Moscow, Gosha Rubchinskiy graduated from art school and later the College of Technology and Design, before finding work as a stylist for magazines and fashion shows. Inspired by the teenagers of the 1990’s, he launched his own eponymous brand of men’s clothing in 2008. His debut collection, “Evil Empire,” was emblazoned with the motifs of a bear and a two-headed eagle with a gun, shooting out signals to the fashion world that Rubchinskiy was unlike any other Russian designer it had seen before.

Nor are his shows like any other: his first collection was shown in a stadium, where over 600 people crowded in to get a glimpse of the much-mythologised young designer. For his second collection, entitled “Growing and Developing,” models took to an adhoc basketball church, in what was once a church. In November 2009, Rubchinskiy supplemented the collection “Dawn is Not Far Off” with a publication and a film, documenting the summer idylls of Russian skateboarders. His last collection, “Slave,” a video-portrait of a 14-year-old boy, received raves at London Fashion Week before moving on to Berlin, where Rubchinskiy was featured in a showcase at 032c Workshop.

In addition to his work as a designer, Rubchinskiy has been developing a body of photography,

mixing searing portraits of skater boys with digital mash-ups of Russian culture (such as a proposal for an Orthodox church to function as a skate park.) His proximity to all things cutting-edge in Moscow also means the artist has incurred a formidable musical expertise, which will reveal itself in his collaborative setlist with Mark Schedrin and Lenya Lipelis.

Your show in the gym was legendary. How has your style evolved since that moment?That project specifically addressed sports and youth culture in the early 90’s, drawing from a mix of memories and nostalgia. Now we are planning to do something new – our version of the future here in Russia. I have always been really invested in the special “Russian” quality of my feelings and my vision, and I think that remains in my work to this day. Who would you say is your audience now? Who do you have in mind when you design?I try to do what I want, everything according to my own world. I take the things around me and I try to show them as I see them. It’s really

open for everyone, if it’s their thing. You’ve recently tried your hand at digitally-altered photographs, with the image mash-ups of Russian Orthodox churches with skate parks. Can you say a few more words about that project?This comes from a mix of new global culture and the old Orthodox traditions. It’s my vision of the future: Orthodox skateboard camp for teenagers.What interests you about Kyiv? Do you have any particular expectations for this trip?I always liked the city and Ukrainian people, and it’s just another good reason to be down here. With this trip in particular, we want to do something special, maybe try new media.

3:30pm 21 May 2011Performance by Gosha Rubchinskiy & Item Idem

Kyiv’s XLIB club is the exception to every rule of club culture. It’s a mecca for the more refined set – the club-intelligentsia, if you will. The name derives from the Ukrainian word for “bread,” an aesthetic reflected in the interior: the minimum décor allows for maximum movement, a refreshing break from the capital’s customary combinations of crystal, gold trim and velvet. Here simplicity is king. (According to the club’s founder, it’s exactly this kind of simplicity that the much spoiled-citizens of the capital have been lacking.)

XLIB is located in a former bombshelter several meters below the sur face, in the historic center of the city. The space is divided into two halls: a dance-floor and another “chill-out” zone. It boasts a regular roster of international guests, including world renowned DJs. (It should be noted that, breaking from the golden rule of Simple, the club is outfitted with the city’s most sophisticated system

from sound and light.)As part of the SANAHUNT

Cultural Initiative, XLIB will host performances by Moscow designer and photographer Gosha Rubchinskiy as well as staples from Moscow’s Solyanka and Simachev clubs, the DJ duo Mark Schedrin and Leonid Lipelis.

You two have worked together for a while now. When did the collaboration begin?We’ve known each other for quite some time now, but we only really started to play together about a year and a half ago.Do you have any particular style or ethos which guides the music you play?

Any music which we find interesting can find its way onto the setlist.Do you prepare setlists beforehand, or do you tend to follow the mood of the crowd? It always depends on the situation, on how things play out. We don’t ever really prepare in advance. Any particular expectations for this trip?Just to meet up with all our old friends in Kiev, and then we’ll just see how it goes from there.

11:30pm 21 May 2011Afterparty at XLIB club. DJ lineup: Mark Schedrin, Leonid Lipelis, Gosha Rubchinskiy.

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In 1994, Oksana Moroz-Hunt inaugurated Ukraine’s first luxury fashion concept store – a bold statement in a country, long absent from the style-radar of most followers of fashion. Since that time, SANAHUNT serves as the constantly-evolving flagship of the country’s fashion retail industry; its signature is its high-end approach to design, fashion, art,

beauty and food. Today SANAHUNT Concept Luxury Store occupies more than 7000 square meters within a 5-storied 19th century mansion in the heart of Kyiv. There are currently over 200 brands on display, including 14 corners and shop-in-shops.

In 2010, SANAHUNT became the world’s first luxury store to offer its clients the full range of art services,

including a prêt-à-porter gallery program and an on-site art concierge service. Last year’s Damien Hirst show was the first project of SANAHUNT Gallery. The gallery also launched an exclusively designed reading corner, where one can find a number of limited-edition books on contemporary art and architecture, artist’s books, and cult periodicals.

May 2011

8:00pmReveal of the new SANAHUNT

window installation.

9:00pmSANAHUNT Gallery presents

032c Workshop Report #2 (Kyiv). A group exhibition curated by

032c’s Joerg Koch, featuring: Scott Campbell,

Danko & Ana Steiner and Helen Marten.

10:00pmPerformance by artist

Olympia Scarry.

10:30pmSociété de 032c bar night in honor of Olafur Eliasson

DJs: Jack Donoghue, Marcelo Burlon

May 2011

3:30pmQuestion and answer

session with Cecilia Dean and Derek Blasberg.

4:30pmBook signing for

Derek Blasberg’s Classy.

5:00pm5 o’clock tea with Tatler Russia.

Presentation of special project by Zinaida Likhacheva.

8:30pm3D screening of the

Altuzarra Fall 2011 show.

9:30pmOpening for the Visionaire retrospective exhibition.

10:30pmDJ set by Cyprien Gaillard.

May 2011

3:00pmPerformance by

Gosha Rubchinskiy & Item Idem (time and location to

be confirmed).

11:30pmAfterparty at XLIB club.

DJ lineup: Mark Schedrin, Leonid Lipelis,

Gosha Rubchinskiy.

SANAHUNT CULTURAL INITIATIVE