Luba Michailova standing behind Daniel Buren’s site-specific installation, Colours in a Cage, 2012. Courtesy of Izolyatsia
Meanwhile, in Donetsk
Contemporary art enters the scene
Situated in eastern Ukraine is a city called Donetsk, and it has an agenda. Ambitious businesswoman Luba Michailova has established
Izolyatsia, a contemporary arts foundation, and she is bent on making a great success of it. With more on her plate than on that of the average founder of such an entity, the meaning of art has simultaneously to be conveyed the suspicious local population, who don’t know the least thing about it.
