You Know That You Are Human – Ти знаєш, що ти – людина

“You Know That You Are Human” is an exhibition by 21 Ukrainian photographers, curated by Kateryna Filyuk, who show humanity in its diversity and thus also, such as gender or cultural and social context, as well as socialization and the individual location of everyday life define human position in the world. The concept for this exhibition was created before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was about Ukrainian photography of human life forms from the mid-20th century to the present day. The title is borrowed from the famous poem by the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko from the 1960s: Ти знаєш, що ти – людина / You know that you are human. The works of the Ukrainian photographers provide an interesting insight into the changes that have taken place in Ukrainian society since the 1960s, from the years when the dream of socialism gradually proved to be a failure until the last few months of the self-sacrificing struggle of the Ukrainians for their country. curated by: Kateryna Filyuk artists: Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh In collaboration with Ukranian Institute, IZOLAZIA, Goethe-Institut in Exile, MOMENTUM, KleinerVonWiese Relevance for Mürsbach: Johann Baptist Schad, * 1758 in Mürsbach, Professor of Philosophy in Charkiv Йоганн Баптист Шад, * 1758 у Мюрсбаху Професор філософії в Харків Johann Baptist Schad was born in Mürsbach a small village in Upper Franconia to poor peasant parents and was sent to a monastery. He was a whistleblower calling the bluff of monastic life as one of gluttony and deceit. This put him on the inquisition´s list of heretics and he had to flee the monastery. Arriving in Jena he found a mentor in the Johann Gottlieb Fichte and became his successor as professor of philosophy in Jena. Schad was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution and the ideas of humanism, freedom and enlightenment, as well as a harsh critic of the Jacobine movement in France. He denounced violence, resentiment, deceit and bigotry and instead became a strong proponent of freedom of speech. In early 1804 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe recommended him to be professor of philosophy in a newly established university in Charkiv, where Schad spent the next 12 years teaching and fostering an intellectual climate. There he became the teacher of many scholars, poets, scientists and journalists in the Ukraine.

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“You Know That You Are Human” is an exhibition by 21 Ukrainian photographers, curated by Kateryna Filyuk, who show humanity in its diversity and thus also, such as gender or cultural and social context, as well as socialization and the individual location of everyday life define human position in the world. The concept for this exhibition was created before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was about Ukrainian photography of human life forms from the mid-20th century to the present day. The title is borrowed from the famous poem by the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko from the 1960s: Ти знаєш, що ти – людина / You know that you are human. The works of the Ukrainian photographers provide an interesting insight into the changes that have taken place in Ukrainian society since the 1960s, from the years when the dream of socialism gradually proved to be a failure until the last few months of the self-sacrificing struggle of the Ukrainians for their country. curated by: Kateryna Filyuk artists: Valentyn Bo, Aleksander Chekmenev, Maryna Frolova, Oleksander Glyadyelov, Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, Borys Gradov, Alena Grom, Viktor and Sergey Kochetov, Yulia Krivich, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Sergey Melnitchenko, Boris Mikhailov with Mykola Ridnyi, Valeriy Miloserdov, Iryna Pap, Evgeniy Pavlov, Roman Pyatkovka, Natasha Shulte, Synchrodogs, Viktoriia Temnova, Mykola Trokh In collaboration with Ukranian Institute, IZOLAZIA, Goethe-Institut in Exile, MOMENTUM, KleinerVonWiese Relevance for Mürsbach: Johann Baptist Schad, * 1758 in Mürsbach, Professor of Philosophy in Charkiv Йоганн Баптист Шад, * 1758 у Мюрсбаху Професор філософії в Харків Johann Baptist Schad was born in Mürsbach a small village in Upper Franconia to poor peasant parents and was sent to a monastery. He was a whistleblower calling the bluff of monastic life as one of gluttony and deceit. This put him on the inquisition´s list of heretics and he had to flee the monastery. Arriving in Jena he found a mentor in the Johann Gottlieb Fichte and became his successor as professor of philosophy in Jena. Schad was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution and the ideas of humanism, freedom and enlightenment, as well as a harsh critic of the Jacobine movement in France. He denounced violence, resentiment, deceit and bigotry and instead became a strong proponent of freedom of speech. In early 1804 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe recommended him to be professor of philosophy in a newly established university in Charkiv, where Schad spent the next 12 years teaching and fostering an intellectual climate. There he became the teacher of many scholars, poets, scientists and journalists in the Ukraine.

Images
  • THEgallery: You Know That You Are Human, Photography from the Ukraine, 2023
  • THEgallery: You Know That You Are Human, Photography from the Ukraine, 2023
  • You Know That You Are Human, Photography from the Ukraine, 2023
  • THEgallery: You Know That You Are Human, Photography from the Ukraine, 2023
  • THEgallery: You Know That You Are Human, Photography from the Ukraine, 2023
  • Johann Baptist Schad, *1758 in Mürsbach, Professor of Philosophy in Charkiv