The restoration of the Jam Factory will be completed with the opening of a large-scale art exhibition

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Jam Factory Art Center, a modern art institution, will be opened in the revitalized Fabrika Povydla building complex.

Completion of the process of preparation and revitalization of the complex of buildings in Pidzamcha will be announced in August 2022. At the same time, in the Jam Factory Art Center, which is part of the complex, will start exhibition called "Organic communities". The art project will last three months.

"Jam Factory" is a unique object in Lviv, an architectural monument, built at the end of the XNUMXth and the beginning of the XNUMXth centuries. in the neo-gothic style

The opening program is designed to bring together different communities to find ways to interact. During the event, dialogues will be built around five zones of tension, from which linear and non-linear stories can be composed. It is helplessness, care, cultural memory, new ecosystems and multiple futures."

Reviving the Genius Loci. 7CI Group in the implementation of the Jam Factory Art Center project in Lviv

The authors of the opening program are a group of curators: Kateryna Botanova, Olga Bekenstein, Lyuba Ilnytska, Oksana Karpovets, Ksenia Malykh.
The author of the visual work: Olena Turyanska.

Before the opening of the cultural center, the team and invited curators are preparing an exhibition, a number of theater productions and concerts, and a discussion program.

This is what the Jam Factory looked like before the renovation. Photo: secretland

The jam factory is an architectural monument of local importance at the beginning of the 1970th century. Since Soviet times, the Ukrgolovvyno winery has been located here. In the 2009s, the enterprise was repurposed into a vegetable base processing plant. Since XNUMX, the Jam Factory has been used for various festivals, although the building was in a completely neglected state.

This is what the Jam Factory looked like before the renovation

New and old: balancing architecture. 7CI Group in the implementation of the Jam Factory Art Center project in Lviv

We will remind, in 2015 the Austrian historian and philanthropist Harold Binder bought the building. At the end of the same year, the Jam Factory Art Center team invites five studios to participate in the design competition for the future architectural complex: Baumhauer Architekten (Berlin), Drozdov & Partners (Kharkiv), Atelier Stephan Rindler (Vienna), Urban Curators (Kyiv), Zelemin (Lviv). The winner was the Austrian office of Stefan Rindler.

Harald Binder, Austrian historian, philanthropist, founder of the independent research institute Center for Urban History

The reconstruction project developed by the studio was adapted to Ukrainian state building norms and rules by the local architectural company AVR Development.

 

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