Ukraine prepares to participate in the upcoming International Exhibition at the Milan Triennale

On Wednesday, April 27, the Ukrainian Realism exhibition, which can be visited by the public until May 22, 2022, will open at 6:30 p.m. at the Milan Triennale. The exhibition is part of the Planeta Ukrain project, which includes a series of meetings, reflections, and dialogues with Ukrainian artists, intellectuals, and scientists in preparation for the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 23. International Exhibition Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries, which will be held from July 15 to December 11, 2022. The Milan Triennale is the only international cultural institution to be a member of the BIE Bureau International des Expositions since 1928 and will ensure, along with many other countries that have joined the upcoming Exposition, the presence of the Ukrainian Pavilion, which will be curated by writer Gianluigi Ricuperati with actress Lidiya Liberman and pianist Anastasia Stovbyr.

UkrainianRealism will bring together pictorial works, obtained on loan courtesy of the Cooperative Theater, created by Ukrainian painters of the 1970s and 1980s, including Anatoliy Shapovalov Gavrilovic, Dovzhenko Anatoly Ivanovich, and Vadim Demjanovich Valigura. Images influenced by socialist realism, depicting factories, schools, fields, and cities almost like snapshots.

Also scheduled starting at 6:30 p.m. April 27 is a meeting on the theme of art and photography. Ukrainian personalities including artist Nikita Kadan, artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets, cartoonist Sasha Sinimova, photographer Valerish (a pseudonym for Valeria Shashenok), composer Albert Saprykin and director of photography Nastya Roshuk will speak. Along with this selection will be international cultural figures, including Castello di Rivoli director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Serpentine Galleries artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist. The meeting will conclude with the screening of sequences from three films that are being shown for the first time outside Ukraine and are representative of contemporary Ukrainian cinema: After a fire (2014) by Andranik Berberyan, Carpet (2019) by Natalia Kiselyova, and Julia (2021) by Catherine Lemeshynska.

During the 23rd. International Exposition, the Ukrainian pavilion will be spread throughout the indoor and outdoor spaces of Triennale Milano, and will feature prominent Ukrainian artists, including artist and photographer Boris Michajlov, artist Nikita Kadan, designer Sasha Sinimova, and photographer and writer Yevgenia Belorusets.

The meeting on Wednesday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m. is organized in cooperation with the State Agency for Arts and Culture at the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture. Free admission with mandatory registration for the public on eventrbrite

Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia

Ukraine prepares to participate in the upcoming International Exhibition at the Milan Triennale

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