Volodymyr Topiy

Volodymyr Topiy was born in 1979 in Sudova Vishnya. He studied at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts. In 2013, he was a scholarship holder of “Gaude Polonia”, a scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture. He deals with performance, painting, installation and graphics. He lives and works in Lviv. 2023 exhibition in Czeslaw Milosz Park in Krasnogruda, Poland 2023 performance at the 12th Tychy Performance Festival, Tychy, Poland 2022 performance at the ECHT JETZTts Festival, Tubingen, Reutlingen, Stuttgart, Germany 2022 performance at the Malamut Festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic

He makes performances both as a solo artist and collaboratively with his partner Mariya Hoyiin

His web site is here: https://topiyvolodymyr.jimdofree.com/video-1/

Solo Performance for Rogue Women Culture Night 2023

Performance Two Sisters.
The performance is based on a true story told by the Russian journalist Elena
Kostyuchenko, who came to Ukraine to one of the cities that was bombed by
Russian missiles. This story tells about two girls, sisters who died during this
bombing.

Image Above photo Rachel MacManus

Collaboration with Mariya Hoyin for Convergence 2023

We conceived this joint work of ours in the middle of June this year while staying on the border of Lithuania and Poland in the area of Krasnogrud in the family estate of the Nobel laureate in literature Czeslaw Milosz. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 460 days of war have passed, according to official data, the number of people killed has reached 9,000. There were 60,000 murdered children in the Chechen Republic, mass murders in Georgia and Syria. All this was preceded by the annexation of Moldova and the historical memory of millions of people who died of hunger in Ukraine. We did not yet know that the next step of the Russian Empire would be to blow up the Kakhovskaya HPP, water from which would flood thousands of square kilometers of land, people, animals and houses would be under water. And most importantly, the fields on which wheat was grown will be flooded, hundreds of kilometers of land will remain without an irrigation system. Ukraine will not be able to export hundreds of thousands of tons of wheat to African countries. Therefore, hunger among the population of this country will become even more real. The increase in the price of fodder wheat will lead to even greater impoverishment of the people of Africa. Our performance is based on footage from news networks covering burials and reburials of tortured and killed civilians during this war. The land in the territories where hostilities are taking place as a result of the use of modern weapons, which include chemical components, will be suitable for growing grain and other crops for a long time. As a result of hostilities, rivers become suitable for drinking water for a long time, and the main thing is that fish and other flora and fauna cannot survive there. Hundreds of species of birds and animals died in the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP or began to look for another place to live. As a result, these events globally disrupted the ecosystem of southern Ukraine. Due to the spill of water from the reservoir, many thousands of kilometers of fresh water entered the sea. Fresh water changes the ecosystem of the Black Sea and the water becomes unsuitable for marine fish. Our performances are largely based on the factors of nature, that is, air, water, earth, and rarely fire. These are the elements that globally make up a person. Therefore, man is the main subject of our research in all its manifestations – physical, mental and spiritual, he is the subject of our research