Circles

A programmatic focus of asphalt 2023 is on works by Ukrainian artists dealing with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Against this background, the Ukrainian artist Alisa Gots was invited for a six-week residency. The graphic artist from Kyiv will be living and working in the Weltkunstzimmer for a month before the festival begins, and during its course, she will be showing an exhibition in the Backraum of earlier works and new ones created during her residency.

For the artist, her projects and series of works are a way of remembering personal experiences and decoding their essence. She creates most of her works with lithography technique. Due to the peculiarities of the printing process, the works sometimes take on a life of their own and the final outcome often defies prediction.

Alisa Gots (*1988) completed her master’s degree with a focus on graphics at the Institute of Printing and Publishing of the National Technical University of Ukraine in Kyiv in 2012. In 2013, together with Nina Savenko and Taras Koblyuk, she founded the independent print workshop Lithography30, in which the three artists work mainly with lithographic printing processes. Today, Lithography30 is the only independent lithographic workshop in Ukraine that functions as both an artistic association and an open educational platform where people can learn this technique. Alisa Got’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions in Europe and the USA.

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