Opening: 18.04.2024, 7PM (invitation required)
Exhibition: 20.04–01.08.2024
Place: Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Sestiere Dorsoduro, 874, 30123, Venice, Italy
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre present the exhibition entitled From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, as a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
Departing from Ukrainian lands and its history of forced migration, the exhibition sounds subdued voices that become songs of resistance and resilience. It addresses Earth’s ecological disasters while imagining a new utopia, where mythology merges into an alternative garden of Eden. Exhausted landscapes bear witness to human violence—from extractive economies to the harsh realities of war—while carrying seeds of a new beginning. Amidst these overwhelming circumstances, the fragility of the individual is blossoming yet at risk. Its shadow is cast by touches, movement of nuanced lines as a part of unspoken verse, scenes of normality that question reality. They all converge into a possibility of acceptance.
Artists and collectives: Kateryna Aliinyk, Allora & Calzadilla, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Fatma Bucak, David Claerbout, Shilpa Gupta, Oleg Holosiy, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Dana Kavelina, Nikolay Karabinovych, Lesia Khomenko, Yana Kononova, Kateryna Lysovenko, Otobong Nkanga, Wilfredo Prieto, Oleksiy Sai, Anton Saenko, Fedir Tetianych, Anna Zvyagintseva, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy
Curators: Bjorn Geldhof, Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre, Ksenia Malykh, Head of the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre, Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Junior Curator of the PinchukArtCentre
Assistant curator: Oksana Chornobrova
Source: PinchukArtCentre
Kateryna Aliinyk, When The Sun Sets East, 2024