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Julia + Maxim Voloshyn: Ukrainian Gallerists in Miami

Julia + Maxim Voloshyn:  Ukrainian Gallerists in Miami

 

 




Introduction to Julia + Maxim Voloshyn.   2:20 min.  Interview:  Raymond Elman.  Post-Production:  Lee Skye.  Music: Jurica Jelić, “Flickering.”  . Recorded via Zoom:  3/6/2022, Miami.

 

 

Editor’s Note:  My friend, Miami-based art journalist Brett Sokol, wrote an article for the New York Times, dated 2/28/22, that caught my attention.

“The wife-and-husband gallerists Julia and Max Voloshyn had planned to return to Kyiv last week to open a new show at their space there. But with commercial air traffic halted as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, their stay in Miami — and the run of their pop-up exhibition there — was extended.

The show, titled “The Memory on Her Face,” features socially charged work by five Ukrainian artists. After arriving in Miami in November to run booths at two of the satellite art fairs held concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach — NADA and Untitled Art — the Voloshyns contracted Covid, postponing their return for a month. By mid-January, with several prominent Ukrainian art collectors coming to Miami in February, they mounted this impromptu show inside a small warehouse in the Allapattah neighborhood, with Untitled’s Omar Lopez-Chahoud as the curator.”

So, I visited the Voloshyns at their temporary Allapattah pop-up gallery and followed-up with a video interview via Zoom.

 

Founded in October 2016 in Kyev, Ukraine by JULIA AND MAXIM  VOLOSHYN, Voloshyn Gallery specializes in contemporary art. It showcases a broad range of media, hosting solo and group exhibitions and participating in leading contemporary art fairs worldwide. In 2015, the Voloshyns were included in the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Voloshyn Gallery is a member of The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

Voloshyn Gallery fosters the integration of Ukrainian art into global cultural processes. It presents a diverse exhibition program, as well as working in partnership with institutions, independent curators in realizing both on and off-site projects.

During the last two years, the gallery has participated in The Armory Show, Vienna Contemporary, Dallas Art Fair, Pulse Art Fair, Nada Miami, Untitled.Art, and EXPO CHICAGO. Zhanna Kadyrova’s solo presentation at the Voloshyn Gallery was awarded the Pulse Prize (2018) at the Pulse Art Fair.

Voloshyn Gallery’s primary exhibition space is located in Kyiv’s cultural and historical center, on Tereshchenkivska Street, in a historic 1913 building formerly owned by a renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist N.A. Tereshchenko.

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS:   1:44 min.




What was your motivation for starting a gallery? Are you artists?

 

COLLABORATION:  1:07 min.




Where will you be in April?

 

UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART:  0:29 sec.




How did you select artists for your gallery when you were starting out?

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:  1:53 min.




Talk about exhibiting in international art fairs, and about your support for emerging artists.

 

PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS:  1:30 min.




You both speak English very well. How did you learn our language?

 

SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES:  0:54 sec.




Miami-based arts journalist Brett Sokol wrote a story about you for the New York Times. Did you experience an immediate impact from the story?

 

COMMUNITY VALUES:   1:04 min.




When you curate an exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in April, 2022, will the sales proceeds be donated to Ukrainian relief agencies?

 

RESILIENCE:  1:02 min.




Are you going to stay in Miami until there is peace in Ukraine?

 

RESILIENCE:  2:52 min.




I think you will draw a lot of attention no matter where you are living. Are the Ukrainian artists you represent living outside of Ukraine right now?

 

EMPATHY:  0:43 sec.




Do you try to avoid watching the news on television?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:  1:09 min.




What do you think the outcome of this war in Ukraine will be?

 

RESILIENCE:  2:12 min.




Do you have Russian friends? How are they reacting to the invasion?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:  0:50 sec.




When did Putin start planning to invade Ukraine?

 

COMMUNITY VALUES:  1:08 min.




My father left Ukraine in 1921, immigrated to the United States, and made a new life. He never returned to Ukraine. Can you imagine making a new life for yourselves in the United States?