EST art foundation

The exhibition Territory focusses on the artists who were closely involved as an advisory committee to the KNO group combined with the Ukrainian artists who founded KNO.

In the year 2017, the year that Leiden celebrated De Stijl centennial, the Kyiv Non Objective was brought to life (KNO in short). KNO was an art project, which was based on other art projects that had appeared around the globe during the early 2000’s. Spaces with names like AC4CA, CCNOA, MOP, PS, SNO, Minus Space, NOS, IS among quite some other spaces like ParisCONCRET or Hebel 121, set a new standard for advanced reductive art practices around that time. KNO followed that line in 2017, and reconnected even, exactly where Malevich had worked. Right in the same room. Founding artists were Tiberiy Szilvashi, Badri Gubianuri, Olena Dombrovska and Serhiy Popov. KNO started with an exhibition at the Mysteki Arsenale entitled “0/1” and the panel discussion From the "0.10 " to the "0/1": 100 years of Non-Objective Art. This exhibition toured as “The World of Icons” to other Ukrainian cities and great venues like ILKO gallery in Uruzgorod and Art Centre Dzyga in Lviv. The EST artists were part of this series of events and the connection was made. KNO also invited the IS-projects to curate the exhibition “ICONS\Shift” at the Bulgakov Museum in Kiev in 2018.