With works by Katya Buchatska, Oleksandr Burlaka

With special funds from the German Foreign Federal Office, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program supports two projects with Ukrainian Artists at this years’ 60^th Art Biennale in Venice.

The Pavilion of Ukraine, curated by Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi, presents the group exhibition Net Making, which draws from the practice of collective weaving of camouflage nets as a metaphor for joint horizontal actions. It features works by Katya Buchatska, Oleksandr Burlaka, Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva, Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi as well as the communities with whom the artists have worked together. The Ukrainian Pavilion project will address the topic of otherness through personal experiences of war, emigration, and assimilation in new societies, and the transformation of language under the pressure of violence. Burlaka, who created the architectural structure of the presentation and Buchatska, who has been working several years with neurodiverse artists for this project had both been short-term fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2022 and 2023.

The Polish Pavilion is hosting the video installation Repeat after Me II by the Open Group collective.

Picture credit: Anna Sapon “Adriano Pedrosa, I congratulate you on the opening of the doors of La Biennale”, 2024, carpet, audio, from Katya Buchatska’s project “Best Wishes”, 2024 (photo: Oleksandr Popenko)