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From: Vasyl Cherepanyn <cherepanyn at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Subject: Kyiv Biennial announces its fifth edition
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*The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial will be international and will take
place in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin.*

In view of the brutal Russian attack on Ukraine, a comprehensive biennial
project in Kyiv long seemed deeply uncertain, if not impossible. But, with
a cascade of openings – starting in Kyiv and Vienna in October 2023,
finishing in Berlin in 2024 – the fifth Kyiv Biennial will take place. This
Biennial edition is conceived as a European event, with dispersed
exhibitions and public programs in a number of Ukrainian and EU cities, and
realized in partnership with leading European institutions in the field of
contemporary art.

Instead of abandoning the project and thus submitting to the logic of war
that attacks everything civil, the 2023 Biennial draws upon its founding
idea: that of being a multi-centric initiative in a European,
interconnected and solidary form. Art institutions in Ukraine (in Kyiv,
Ivano-Frankivsk and Uzhhorod) organize presentations and events in their
endangered yet working infrastructures. Despite the late start of planning
due to the war, museums and exhibition halls in Vienna (the main exhibition
spot), Warsaw and Berlin, together with venues in other European cities,
have freed up their spaces and platforms for exhibitions and events with
Ukrainian and international artists as well as for discursive, performative
and educational activities. Together, the institutions have formed a
curatorial consortium to jointly create a conceptual framework within which
they develop their respective Kyiv Biennial programs.

How can a country at war address political, social, cultural and societal
issues? Today, the experience of artists and cultural workers in Ukraine is
profoundly marked by war trauma, displacement, lack of access to basic
resources and, in many cases, direct involvement in armed resistance or the
experience of life under military occupation. This poses existential
challenges for the future of art and cultural production in Ukraine. The
upcoming Biennial aims at reintegrating the Ukrainian artistic community,
divided and scattered throughout Europe by the war, in order to empower its
actors to work and reflect collectively and together with international
colleagues on cultural, social and environmental challenges Ukraine is
currently facing and to imagine scenarios for an emancipatory future within
a global context.

The Kyiv Biennial strategy, developed in the course of its four previous
editions, merges artistic production, critical knowledge and social
engagement in the times of emergency, where curatorship goes far beyond its
contemporary meaning of an artistic and organizational practice and becomes
resignified with its original sense of restoration, rehabilitation and
relief, thus suggesting not a biennial, but a perennial long-run
international project, a “Kyiv Perennial.”

Kyiv Biennial 2023 is conceived and organized by the Visual Culture
Research Center
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and Vienna), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
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Vasyl Cherepanyn

PhD, Head of the Visual Culture Research Center <http://vcrc.org.ua/en/>

Allied – Kyiv Biennial 2021 <https://2021.kyivbiennial.org/en>

East Europe Biennial Alliance <https://eeba.art/en>

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