Curators Björn Geldhof, Oleksandra Pogrebnyak
Exhibitors Kateryna Aliinyk (Ukraine), Piotr Armianovski (Ukraine), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (Canada), Julian Charriere (France/Switzerland), Tacita Dean (UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa), Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), Žanna Kadyrova (Ukraine), Alevtina Kakhidze (Ukraine), Roman Khimei & Yarema Malaščuk (Ukraine), Pavlo Kovač (Ukraine), Bogdana Kosmina (Ukraine), Katya Lesiv (Ukraine), Kateryna Lysovenko (Ukraine), Simone Post (The Netherlands), Ashfika Rahman (Bangladesh), Daniel Turner (USA), Álvaro Urbano (Spain), Lesia Vasylčenko (Ukraine), Oleksij Sai & Yury Gruzinov (Ukraine)
Venue Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Dorsoduro 874
www.pinchukartcentre.org
Still Joy – from Ukraine into the World
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In Ukraine, three story gatherers collect testimonies about joy. They are both the starting point and a disruptive agent within an exhibition that, against the violence saturating our time, offers joy and the sharing of joy as a radical act of humanity.
As if unfolding from a dream, rave scenes in Kyiv before and during the war, a landscape painting vibrating with moonglow, and a video essay about dreams seen by Mariupol culminate in an immersive installation that suggests a sweet, impermanent architecture.
Moving through individual stories, lost communities, and love, Still Joy reflects on displacement, endurance, and responsibility. The works trace the scars left by human presence: from the century-old sakura to the tattoo salon and the painted-metal Kalyna offshoot, all submerged in the simple joy of surviving on the battlefield.
The exhibition closes much as it began: with a rave, where the bodies become a landscape carrying the weight of history.