On Sunday, February 23, 2025, from 4:30 to 8 p.m., kitev - Kultur im Turm invites you to a solidarity event Ambiences: Solidarity Sounds for Ukraine in the empty space at Oberhausen Central Station.

On the eve of the anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, curators Yuri Yefanov and Natalia Matsenko are creating a moving evening that combines art, sound and community. Ukrainian sound artists and performers will present ambient sounds created especially for the occasion, which will unfold an impressive atmosphere in the unique reverberation of the kitev water tank. The sound installation will be accompanied by a video projection with visual series that were also developed for this special space.

On this evening, the empty space will open its doors to the solidarity community to create a space for exchange, mutual support and togetherness.

kitev - Kultur im Turm e.V.

Willy-Brandt-Platz 1

D-46045 Oberhausen

Vite Joksaite is a cultural manager, curator and activist. Since studying Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (MA) at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in her hometown, Vite has been exploring how art can contribute to social change and how to enable creativity for different target groups. She has initiated projects in public spaces, shopping streets, buildings of renowned institutions and train stations. She studied Curatorial Studies (MA) at the Städelschule and at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to expand her knowledge of the theory and practice of artistic participation. A scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation gave her access to new networks and social issues such as ecology, human rights, migration and feminism. Vite is active in the LABSA association (www.labsa.de) and has been a permanent member of the kitev team for 4 years. She is also the founder of village e.V., which explores new ways of social cohesion.

Nils Andersch: An artist himself and deeply rooted in the urban art and event scene for decades, he realized numerous projects in the Ruhr region and internationally in positions of responsibility in various associations for the promotion of art (Beatplantation e.V., Simama e.V., Denkodrom e.V., Port e.V.) even before the implementation of the TUAM1 project at kitev. In the field of urban art, the “Waende Südost” project, in which 21 artists from all over the world created a 3.5-kilometre-long mural on the noise barriers of the A40 in Essen's south-eastern district in 2012, as well as exchange projects with Africa, e.g. participation in the “Street Art Caravan Morocco” in 2016, are particularly noteworthy.

Natalia Matsenko and Yuri Yefanov have put together a program of electronic music and video art by various Ukrainian artists for the Ambiences.... event, which will be broadcast live into the water tanks at Oberhausen HBF.

Natalia Matsenko - is a freelance curator, art critic and editor. Born in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Her work focuses on landscape and environmental changes, human and non-human communities and networks, new media
communities and networks, new media and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Yuri Yefanov - born in 1990, is an artist and filmmaker from Ukraine.
Yuri Yefanov's projects have been shown at numerous film festivals and exhibitions in
Europe and North America, most recently at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Cinema Dynamo an Genève Centre d'art contemporain, Pinchuk Art Cenre and others. Yuri Yefanov was a resident of the Urbane Künste Ruhr program in 2022 and 2023.