ArtPole Agency specializes in creating multidisciplinary projects. It collaborates with musicians, writers, artists, and invites translators, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers. The peculiarity of ArtPole's projects is their continuity, the ability to transform and be new every time thanks to the game of adding and excluding certain disciplines, changing participants and locations.
The agency emerged in 2007 in Kyiv from the Sheshory-ArtPole International Festival. In 2008, he received an invitation from Yuriy Andrukhovych to participate in a music and poetry project with the Karbido band and suggested adding a visual component. The collaboration continues with the multimedia performance Albert, or The Highest Form of Execution. In 2013, the project Divided emerged, combining Olya Mykhailyuk's visualizations with Serhiy Zhadan's poetry and music. In 2015, he created the multidisciplinary projects Sum of Sun in Kyiv and VKhidnaSkhid in Berdiansk. ArtPolecontinues its psychogeographical research in the projects :::path::: (2014-2022), Granica(2017), and Crimea.Third Dimension (2021).
Babyn to Bakhmut
Filming and screening of the documentary video "Babyn to Bakhmut" about the Ivano-Frankivsk community that is currently defending Ukraine on the eastern and southern fronts, maintaining ties with those back home, and discussing the restoration of community relations on the example of one Carpathian village.Atmosfera & ArtPole: Forests of our hearts
The Forests of Our Hearts was a collaborative project by Atmosfera Festival (Slovakia) and ArtPole Agency (Ukraine), featuring the multidisciplinary installation Forest at the 2024 festival in Hontianske Nemce. It included expert talks on natural heritage, a community performative lunch under an old oak, and partnerships with “Peace for Ukraine.” The project fostered cultural exchange and awareness, with documentation shared for wider reach.