PAVILION OF UKRAINE AT THE 58TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

MAY 11 THROUGH NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th International Art Exhibition –
La Biennale di Venezia – will present the project entitled The Shadow of Dream* cast upon Giardini della Biennale devoted to rethinking the notion of myth and its significance and influence on contemporary art.

For the full duration of the biennale there will be performances in the pavilion based on the myth of the flight of the world’s largest cargo aircraft over Venice on May 9th at noon. The An-225 Mriya*, (Ukrainian: “dream”), will cast its shadow over the Giardini della Biennale for a few seconds carrying only a digital hard drive with a directory of all** living Ukrainian artists in its cargo hold.

As stated by Open Group (curator): “Such histories inflect our experience as Ukrainian artists, however they do not wholly define us. The story of the shadow of the Dream passing over the Giardini della Biennale may pass into myth via retellings in the pavilion and the media, but we consider this to be constituent of the dynamic corpus of our curatorial proposition”.

http://open-group.org.ua/en/