From Ukraine: Dare to Dream

[아츠앤컬쳐] Victor Pinchuk 재단과 PinchukArtCentre는 제60회 국제 미술 전시회인 베네치아 비엔날레의 공식 부대 행사를 선보인다. 'From Ukraine: Dare to Dream' 전시회는 2024년 4월 20일부터 8월 1일까지 베네치아의 Palazzo Contarini Polignac에서 열린다.  

전시는 '내일을 상상할 수 있는가? 우리에게는 꿈을 꿀 용기가 있는가?' 세계는 변곡점에 도달했다. 폭풍과 기후 변화로 곳곳이 황폐화되고 극단적 정치 판도가 추진력을 얻고 있으며, 러시아와 우크라이나 전쟁은 세계적 권력 투쟁을 드러냈다. 

From Ukraine: Dare to Dream은 22명의 예술가와 집단을 포함하여 글로벌 갈등의 그늘 속에서 자란 이야기와 희망의 태피스트리를 엮어낸다.

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: 
 

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 
 

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.  

The exhibition will be accompanied by a dedicated audio guide created in collaboration with the artists.