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*Kyiv Perennial*
February 23–June 9, 2024, Berlin
*nGbK am Alex
<https://kyivbiennial.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=593be942b85c69f4d8741040f&id=e0222f74a7&e=06179c782c>,*
*station
urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf
<https://kyivbiennial.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=593be942b85c69f4d8741040f&id=f3c26d9397&e=06179c782c>,*
*Between
Bridges
<https://kyivbiennial.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=593be942b85c69f4d8741040f&id=a2296a1629&e=06179c782c>,*
*Prater
Galerie
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Free admission to all locations and events
*Press conference*

February 23, 2024, 11 am
nGbK am Alex, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 10178 Berlin, access via
escalator
With a tour of the exhibition. Followed by tours of the exhibitions at
Between Bridges and station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf. Transfer via
shuttle bus.
Please register at presse at ngbk.de

------------------------------

Kyiv Perennial opens in Berlin from February 23–25, 2024, symbolically
marking the 10th anniversary of the Maidan Revolution and the 10th year of
the Russian war against Ukraine. It is a continuation of the pan-European
edition of the Kyiv Biennial 2023, which took place in several Ukrainian
and EU cities. The Berlin edition is funded by the Kulturstiftung des
Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation)
<https://kyivbiennial.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=593be942b85c69f4d8741040f&id=bd1b1e9100&e=06179c782c>
in a cooperation. A multi-part exhibition and an extensive program of
events span four venues: nGbK’s two locations on Alexanderplatz and in
Hellersdorf, Between Bridges, and Prater Galerie.

The public program begins ahead of the opening with a keynote by
historian *Timothy
Snyder* on Friday, February 16, at nGbK am Alex.

The exhibition commences the following week with a three-day opening
weekend: On Friday, February 23, Kyiv Perennial opens at nGbK am Alex.
Ukrainian musician *Heinali* will perform tracks from his latest album *KYIV
ETERNAL*. On Saturday, February 24, the second part of the exhibition opens
at Between Bridges, and on Sunday, February 25, the third part opens at
nGbK’s Hellersdorf location, station urbaner kulturen, with presentations
by *Leon Kahane* and *Christina Werner*. The fourth part of the exhibition
opens with a symposium organized by Prater Galerie in May 2024.

A discursive program with weekly events accompanies the exhibition
throughout March and April. On February 29, *The Reckoning Project*, an
initiative by international and Ukrainian reporters, analysts, and
researchers, presents its documentation of Russian war crimes based on
verified witness testimonies.

On March 9, almost to the day two years after the Russian airstrike on the
Mariupol Drama Theater, one of the worst atrocities committed by Russia
during the current war, the *Center for Spatial Technologies* introduces
its work *A Сity Within a Building*, presenting it in its entirety for the
first time after two years of research. Through hours of interviews with
survivors of the attack, the joint research project with the Berlin-based
group Forensis reassembles the living world of the theater, where more than
1,000 people had sought refuge at the time of the bombing.

On March 16, a panel discussion with literary scholar *Epp Annus*,
historian *Franziska Davies*, and researcher *Darya Tsymbalyuk* reverses
the discourse of decolonization from the West towards Europe’s East with an
eye on the post-Soviet and post-socialist context, where the history of
Russian and German colonial projects intersect. In another panel on March
23, researcher and curator *Kateryna Iakovlenko*, writer *Yassin al-Haj
Saleh*, and historian *Jan Tomasz Gross* share perspectives on recurring
experiences of displacement, from World War II to the war in Syria and
Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Accompanying the exhibition and public program, a poster project draws
attention to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine and contextualizes it as a war
within and against Europe. The artists *Pavel Brăila*, *Uliana
Bychenkova*, *Experimental
Jetset*, *Marina Naprushkina*, *Aliona Solomadina*, and *Wolfgang Tillmans*
were invited to create one poster each with the leading question: What will
happen to Europe if the war against Ukraine continues for ten more years?
Half of the print-run of the posters will be flyposted in Berlin and the
other half will be available for free at the different locations of Kyiv
Perennial.

*About the exhibition*

Kyiv Perennial interprets the idea of the biennial as a collective,
long-term endeavor against the backdrop of survival – politically,
socially, and culturally: “Perennial” means “lasting”, “enduring”, or
“persisting”. Through presenting artistic and discursive practices, Kyiv
Perennial addresses the multi-layered realities of war. The contributions
engage and examine a wide-ranging spectrum of urgent themes, including war
trauma, flight and displacement, the social and political polarization in
European societies, ecological destruction caused by military conflict, and
decolonial tendencies in contemporary Eastern European culture and politics.

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has given rise to a new wave of
investigative, research-based, and documentary approaches deployed by
artists, activists, and journalists. Their works have amounted to a
collection of evidence of war crimes that reach from the killing of
civilians and the erasure of architectural and other cultural heritage to
environmental destruction that will affect Ukrainians until long after the
end of the war. In addition to presenting these, Kyiv Perennial will put
back into focus the Russian invasion of the Donbas region, the history of
the Crimean Tatars, and German war crimes on Ukrainian soil during World
War II. Going beyond a mere reckoning with the past, the exhibition orients
itself towards the future, seeking possible exit strategies from the
current deadlock of war, authoritarianism, and colonialism.

*Artists**:* Anonymous, Zuzanna Czebatul, De Ne De, Dmytro Hreshko, Nikita
Kadan, Leon Kahane, Roman Khimey and Yarema Malashchuk, Yana Kononova,
Daria Kozlova and Arwina Afsharnejad, The Reckoning Project, Vladyslav
Riaboshtan, Mykola Ridnyi, Anna Scherbyna and Christina Werner, Anton
Shebetko

*Poster project with* Pavel Brăila, Uliana Bychenkova, Experimental Jetset,
Marina Naprushkina, Aliona Solomadina, Wolfgang Tillmans

*Artistic Director:* Vasyl Cherepanyn

*Curatorial team:* Jörg Heiser, Serge Klymko, Constanze Musterer, Viktor
Neumann, Lena Prents, Can Mileva Rastovic, Wolfgang Tillmans, Shahin
Zarinbal

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*Public program*
------------------------------

Friday, February 16, 6 pm, nGbK am Alex (Stadtwerkstatt)

*Wonder Woman and the Orcs: Ukrainian History and Western Fables Keynote by
Timothy Snyder*
In English with simultaneous translation into German
------------------------------

Friday, February 23, 6 pm, nGbK am Alex
*Exhibition opening*
*with a musical performance KYIV ETERNAL by Heinali (8 pm) *
------------------------------

Saturday, February 24, 6 pm, Between Bridges
*Exhibition opening*
------------------------------

Sunday, February 25, 4 pm, station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf
*Exhibition opening*
*with presentations by Christina Werner and Leon Kahane*
In German
------------------------------

Thursday, February 29, 7 pm, nGbK am Alex

*The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies Presentation by Nataliya
Gumenyuk, Janine di Giovanni, and Raji Abdul Salam with a screening of the
film CHORNOBYL 22 by Oleksiy Radynski*
In English with simultaneous translation into German
------------------------------

Saturday, March 9, 5 pm, nGbK am Alex

*A Сity Within a Building: The Russian Airstrike on the Mariupol Drama
Theater Presentation by the Center for Spatial Technologies with Maksym
Rokmaniiko, Svitlana Matviyenko, Kseniia Rybak, and Isabelle Haßfurther*
In English with simultaneous translation into German
------------------------------

Saturday, March 16, 5 pm, Between Bridges

*Decolonizing Eastern Europe Panel discussion with Epp Annus, Franziska
Davies, and Darya Tsymbalyuk*
In English
------------------------------

Saturday, March 23, 5 pm, nGbK am Alex

*Displacement and Refuge In Times of War Panel discussion with Kateryna
Iakovlenko, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, and Jan Tomasz Gross*
In English with simultaneous translation into German
------------------------------

Saturday, April 6, 5 pm, Between Bridges

*In Defense of Anonymous Authors – On the Role of the Witness In the
Blurred Reality of a Warzone Presentation by Yuriy Hrytsyna*
In English
------------------------------

Saturday, April 13, 5 pm, Between Bridges

*Queer Fighters of Ukraine Screening and talk by Angelika Ustymenko and
Alex King*
In English
------------------------------

Saturday, April 20, 5 pm, nGbK am Alex

*Why (This) War? Psychoanalysis and War Today Panel discussion with Yurko
Prokhasko and Phil Langer*
In English
------------------------------

Friday, April 26, 7 pm, nGbK am Alex

*Infinity According to Florian Screening and talk by Oleksiy Radynski*
In English
------------------------------

Saturday, April 27, 5 pm, nGbK am Alex

*Love and Know Your Native Land Presentation by De Ne De artistic
initiative with Yevheniia Moliar, Liubov Malikova, Nataliya Diachenko, and
Vova Vorotniov*
In English
------------------------------

Sunday, April 28, 5 pm, Between Bridges

*The Kharkiv Trilogy Screening and talk by Mykola Ridnyi*
In English

------------------------------

*Locations*
------------------------------

*nGbK am Alex*
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 10178 Berlin
Feb 24–Apr 1, 2024
Opening: Feb 23, 2024, 6 pm
Opening hours: Tue–Sun 12–6 pm, Fri 12–8 pm
Accessible with wheelchairs and strollers

*station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf*
Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin (Entrance on Kastanienboulevard)
Feb 26–Jun 9, 2024
Opening: Feb 25, 2024, 4 pm
Opening hours: Thu and Sat 3–7 pm
Accessible with wheelchairs and strollers

*Between Bridges*
Adalbertstraße 43, 10179 Berlin
Feb 25–May 5, 2024
Opening: Feb 24, 2024, 6 pm
Opening hours: Wed–Sat 12–6 pm

*Prater Galerie*
Kastanienallee 7–9, 10435 Berlin (currently under re-construction)
May 25–August 25, 2024 (expected)
Opening and symposium: May 24–25, 2024
------------------------------

The project is a cooperation between the Visual Culture Research Center,
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes
(German Federal Cultural Foundation), together with Between Bridges and the
communal Prater Galerie. The Kulturstiftung des Bundes is funded by the
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government
Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

The neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) is funded by the Senate
Department for Culture and Community.

In partnership with: Emergency Support Initiative, Documenting Ukraine
Program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Vienna, Institute for
East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Ministry of Culture
and Information Policy of Ukraine, The Reckoning Project, Ukrainian
Institute in Germany.

*Press contact:*
Lutz Breitinger
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 10178 Berlin
Tel. 030-616 513 13
presse at ngbk.de
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Vasyl Cherepanyn

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

Kyiv Perennial – Kyiv Biennial Berlin 2024
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