Palazzo Contarini Polignac Venice
Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre
FROM UKRAINE: DARE TO DREAM @ VENICE 2024
A Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
Preview Days: 17 – 19 April 2024
Press preview: Thursday, 18 April 2024 | 8:30 AM
Opening Reception: Thursday, 18 April 2024
Commissioned and promoted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation
Organised by the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Curated by Björn Geldhof, Ksenia Malykh, Oleksandra Pogrebnyak.
Assistant Curator: Oksana Chornobrova,
Lesia Khomenko, Max in the Army (series), This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom,
Venice 2022, Courtesy PinchukArtCentre
including 22 artists and collectives:
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Poland/UK -Jennifer Allora, USA and Guillermo Calzadilla, Cuba-Anna Zvyagintseva, Ukraine- Anton Saenko, Ukraine -Dana Kavelina, Ukraine -Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy, Ukraine -David Claerbout, Belgium – Fatma Bucak, Turkey -Fedir Tetianych, Ukraine- Kateryna Aliinyk, Ukraine -Kateryna Lysovenko, Ukraine/Austria -Lesia Khomenko, Ukraine/USA -Nikita Kadan, Ukraine -Nikolay Karabinovych, Ukraine -Oleg Holosiy, Ukraine -Oleksiy Sai, Ukraine -Otobong Nkanga, Nigeria/Belgium -Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Ukraine -Shilpa Gupta, India -Wilfredo Prieto, Cuba -Yana Kononova, Ukraine -Zhanna Kadyrova, Ukraine
The exhibition will be accompanied by a dedicated audio guide
created in collaboration with the artists.
Exhibition: 20 April – 1 August 2024
Opening hours: 10 am – 6 pm every day except Monday
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Sestiere Dorsoduro, 874, 30123, Venice, Italy
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The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre present an official collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. Entitled From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, when the world is in constant fear, the exhibition is held at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice from April 20th until August 1st, 2024. The exhibition is a continuation of PinchukArtCentre’s proactive engagement with Ukrainian art on a global and national stage since the outbreak of war in 2022.
The exhibition asks: ‘Can we imagine tomorrow? Do we have the courage to dream?’ The world has reached an inflection point: storms and climate change ravage lands far and wide, political extremes are seizing momentum. Russia’s war in Ukraine unveiled an ongoing global power struggle that has brought war back to Europe. We are at a crucial moment where the future is hidden while fundamental changes are on the horizon.
From Ukraine: Dare to Dream weaves a tapestry of stories and hopes grown within the shadows of global conflicts, including 22 artists and collectives:
Departing from Ukrainian lands and its history of forced migration, the exhibition provides a platform for subdued voices worldwide, offering 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.
Can many struggles become the joint creation of a better future? After liberation, can former victims co-exist with former aggressors? Can empathy offer ways of common being in a space of conflicting memories?
Björn Geldhof, artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre and curator of From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, comments: “From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, provokes a challenge: dare to dream today, even as the world has reached an inflection point. Political extremes are seizing their growing momentum. Russia’s war in Ukraine unveiled an ongoing global power struggle that has brought war back to Europe. With this exhibition we not only share a Ukrainian platform with artists from the African, South American and Asian continent. We actively try to imagine a better future well aware and always conscious of the violent reality we live in today.”
As the first centre for contemporary art in Ukraine, the PinchukArtCentre is a leading voice in developing the Ukrainian art scene; since the outbreak of war in 2022, it has played a vital role in protecting and promoting Ukrainian art and culture. At the 59th Venice Biennale, The PinchukArtCentre organized the collateral event This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom which brought new and historical works by Ukrainian artists to Venice, and saw President Zelensky give his first public speech on art at the opening of the exhibition.
Lesia Khomenko, Max in the Army (series), This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, Venice 2022,
Courtesy PinchukArtCentre
About Björn Geldhof (curator)
Björn Geldhof, Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv). Geldhof has curated numerous projects internationally, including Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2015), Future Generation Art Prize exhibitions in Venice (2011, 2013, 2017, 2019) and This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, an official collateral event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022).
He has curated many solo exhibitions and thematic exhibitions, such as China China, Fear and Hope, Loss: in Memory of Babyn Yar, Suns and Neons above Kazakhstan, Democracy Anew, Fragile State, and The Forbidden Image and has worked with among others: Damián Ortega, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Ai Weiwei, Jenny Holzer, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Tony Oursler, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Shilpa Gupta, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramović, Santiago Sierra, and Carlos Motta.
About Ksenia Malykh (curator)
Malykh is an art historian, curator, researcher and Head of the Research Platform at PinchukArtCentre, (Kyiv). She is co-founder of the OK Projects NGO and Closer Art Center, Kyiv and was general manager of the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 58th Biennale in Venice.
Malykh’s research is focused on young artists and decolonisation of the knowledge of Ukrainian art. She has curated several notable exhibitions, including ‘I Feel You’ (2024), together with Bjorn Geldhof and Oleksandra Pogrebnyak; ‘The Artist as Prophet’ (2023) at Galerie Weisser Elefant (Berlin, Germany), together with Valeria Schiller; ‘When Faith Moves Mountains’. PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Koeln (2023), together with Bjorn Geldhof and Bart de Bare; ‘United’, a group exhibition of artists nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022, together with Oleksandra Pogrebnyak.
About Oleksandra Pogrebnyak (curator)
Oleksandra Pogrebnyak is a junior curator at PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine). She graduated from the Institute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Oleksandra has curated several notable exhibitions, including ‘United’, a group exhibition of artists nominated for the
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022, together with Ksenia Malykh; ‘The Sky is Getting Closer’ (2022), a film program presented during Art Basel at Liste Art Fair Basel (Switzerland) and at Le Festival d’Automne à Paris (France), together with Martha Kirszenbaum and Daria Shevtsova; Piotr Armianovski’s solo exhibition ‘History of Relations’ (2023) at PinchukArtCentre; ‘How River Roars’ (2023) at Krupa Art Foundation (Poland), together with Antoni Burzyński; and ‘Four Slag Heaps’, an exhibition within I AM U ARE, Ukrainian Creators Fair in LA (the USA), together with Daria Shevtsova.
Oleksandra is a co-author of the book on curatorial practices in Ukraine entitled Curatorial Handbook (2020), together with Dmytro Chepurnyi and Kateryna Iakovlenko.
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