Summer of Peace
2022-2025 – 3 Years Peace Letters to Ukraine
Starting on 1 March 2022,
The New Museum of Networked Art – is realizing during The Russian War against Ukraine (open end) in an exchange between virtual and physical space the audio-visual art project – Peace Letters to Ukraine – as an internationally networked action between participating artists, curators and cultural institutions in solidarity with Ukraine. Initiated by the Cologne based media artist and curator Agricola de Cologne – The Peace Letters Project – would not only like to honor the collaboration with Ukrainian artists, curators and cultural institutions since 2008, but contribute to Peace and defend the endangered freedom – freedom of the word, expression and movement as the fundament of free art and culture.
The Summer Program is featuring between 20 July – 28 September 2025 regularly changing screening programs, demonstrating the solidarity of artists all over the world with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people suffering from the Russian annihilation war – starting on 22 February 2022, but also solidarity with all the victims of other current conflicts on earth including the escalating climate change!
Agricola de Cologne @ http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=82
chief curator of The Peace Letters to Ukraine Project
curator of media art, designer of culture, interdisciplinary media artist, director of experimental shortfilms and videos
founder and director of
– The New Museum of Networked Art – the experimental platform for art and new media (2000)
– The Audiovisual Art Collections @ The New Museum of Networked Art (2005)
– artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative „art & moving images“ (2005)
– CologneOFF – The New Institute for Contemporary Art & Moving Images 2005/2020
– creator/curator of The W:OW Project – We Are One World – global networking project (2017) & The 7 Memorials for Humanity (2018)
Besides for a broad bandwidth of dynamic curatorial contexts he is initiating in physical & virtual space like JavaMuseum (2001), NewMediaFest (2002), Violence Online Festival (2003), SoundLAB & VideoChannel (2004), CologneOFF (2005), netEX (2007), AVMCI (2012), Agricola de Cologne is standing also for the co-curator & co-organiser of events like festivals & exhibitions of contemporary art, but also for the jury member of divers festivals.
Since its introduction in 2000, Agricola de Cologne is represented as an artist & curator on more than 800 festivals and media art exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Merida, Caracas, Maracaibo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Bogota, London, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Madrid, Gijon, Sevilla, Valencia, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tampere, Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Manila, Hongkong, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, New Delhi, Guwahati, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jakarta, Perth, Melbourne, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, Addis Abeba, Istanbul, Ankara, Yerewan, Tblissi, Damaskus, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, Gaza, Basel, Zurich, Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Kiev, Kharkiv, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Kansk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Sofia, Varna, Bukarest, Arad, Timisoara, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Lubljana, Rome, Naples, Milan, Pescara, Venice, Torino, Bologna, Berlin, Cologne, Münster, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg & elsewhere, but also on Biennials like Venice Biennale 2003, 2005, Biennale of New Media Art Merida/MX 2003, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth/Australia (2004), Biennale de Montreal (2004), Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile (2005), ISEA Nagoya (2002), ISEA Singapur (2008), ISEA Belfast (2009), Kochi Musziris Biennial (2016/2017)
Agricola de Cologne –> https://agricola-de.cologne
artvideoKOELN –> https://artvideo.koeln
CologneOFF NICAhttp://cologneoff.nmartproject.net
The New Museum of Networked Art –> http://www.nmartproject.net
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Oleksa Konopelko (Ukraine) – Mutafory Lili – Black Hallucination, 2023, 2:23
Lilit Lysa (Ukraine) – Humanity’s Path, 2023, 3:15
Lidiya Starodubtseva (Ukraine) – Time Is Up, 2018, 4:00
Kristina Borhes (MZM PROJECTS) (UA) – If Homophobia Ended Tomorrow, 2020, 12:00
Polina Moshenska (Ukraine) – Bridge (Mist), 2014, 10:00
Oksana Chepelyk (UA) – Jordan – 2023, 8:06
Oleg Chorny & Gena Khamruk (Ukraine) – The Tree, 2019, 6: 40
Oleg Kharch (Ukraine) – Fakemet, 2019, 3:46
Anna Kryvenko (Ukraine) – Silently Like a Comet, 2014, 14:00
Olha and Yaroslav Kutsan (UA) – Basel – back to Bakhchisarai, 2024, 13:55
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In Turmoil – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Colony Collapse, 2019, 3:54
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Stand Up, 2020, 1:46
Carolin Koss (Finland) – Plastic Child, 2016, 12:11
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – SODA – Song of Day After: I Am My Father, 2017, 4:26
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Peaceful Protest, 2020, 5:00
Manon Pichon (France) – Quarantine Contact, 2020, 1.00
Bernhard Hollinger (Austria) – Me, Myself & I
Dimitris Argyriou (Greece) – 5 Minutes Silence, 2018, 10:52
Vito Alfarano (Italy) – I Have A Dream, 2019, 11:30
as previously presented @ Thessaloniki Municipal Art Gallery // 18-20 May 2022
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Videoart from Ukraine
selection 2- curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Cologne)
Lena Nosenko (Ukraine) – Wait form me, 2010, 4:35
Kostia Vozniuk (Ukraine)- Woman in her own room,2017, 04′ 08”
Vera Abakumova (Ukraine) – Self-fullfillment, 2011, 7:40
Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – «Letter from Ukraine», 2014, 7:31
Alexander Isaenko (Ukraine) – The Negative Selection, 2012, 3:30
Nataliia Mashtaler (Ukraine)– Demonstration Lesson, 2012, 13:40
Marina Shkarupa (Ukraine) – Fragile Border, 2023, 7:00
Yaroslav Yanovsky (Ukraine) – Thank You, 20!4, 4:00
Alexander Yeltsin (Ukraine) – Warning, 2014, 5:37
Olexiy Khoroshko (Ukraine) – Lost Angels, 2010, 2:01
As previously presented @ VisArt Center Rockville (MA/USA) 2022
