Towel, 2021, Soft Image Serie

The picture as a soft image. Victoria Pidust renders digital photographic works in photogrammetry software, usually used by architects to create spatial objects. The software tries …

Untitled (Softimage), 2021

Artist Volo Bevza explores the ubiquity of the internet and its impact on our daily lives. Bevza explores the possibilities of panel painting in the post-digital age. In the transformation from …

Mariupol

Maryana Mural’s painting “Mariupol” is the pictorial translation and artistic processing of a video that became known in the media showing the injured pregnant women who had to be taken to …

Capri Blue / Traffic Yellow

The sense of belonging to a particular country, the attachment to one’s national identity, the national idea and national symbols are never stronger than in times when countries are in conflict …

Skies of Mariupol

Polina Moroz’s work “Skies of Mariupol” darkens and condenses the Ukrainian sky into a black impenetrable curtain, where day becomes night and night becomes nightmare. The …

Stranger

“All I can think about is death. The first time waking up to bombing and the sound of sirens is a frightening and not yet experienced feeling.” Mariia Stepanchenko’s work is about this feeling of …

The Russians are coming, 2015

»“Crimea is my homeland and I lost it.” In her digital collage “The Russians are coming”, Anna Bekerska deals with the loss of her homeland, Crimea. She fills the human voids of this bathing …

Hospital, 2022

Death and birth. Sacred life threatened in the sacral shelter, becomes the target of evil. The image becomes an inner prayer. In his work “hospital”, Danylo Movchan processes the current war …

Kiss me

Yana Franz’s photographic works are often about the feelings of young people and the subject of self-acceptance. “Kiss me” is an expression of a longing for closeness, self-discovery and …

Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine 2012

Oleksandr Davydov’s photograph from 2012 is a reference to the time before the annexation of Crimea, when Yalta was still one of the most popular spa towns and holiday resorts in the …

world, google Bucha

Maria Matiashova’s media-critical screenshot “world, google Bucha” addresses, among other things, the question of whether and which images of war crimes are allowed to be shown in the …

Impossibility of unflattening the flattened

DDima Tolkachov’s work “impossibility of unflattening the flattened” is an attempt to rebuild the completely destroyed city of Mariupol in an artistic act. With the help of the relief filter, Dima …

Alone in the crowd

Vartan Markarian’s digital work “Alone in the crowd” conveys the impression of isolation. In the midst of a pile of rubble and rubbish, a man stands obliviously in a cocoon of plastic film. …

Untitled

“This photo shows how I feel. I took it in the first days of the war. To feel that it was really happening made me desperate. I want to scream. I want this terrible war to end. I want peace for …

Kyiv_02, Ukraine, 2022

In his series “Abrupt”, artist Dima Mykytenko examines the urban environment. In order to achieve this, he intervenes in the urban space by means of orange speech bubble-like structures. His …

Doom

Ivan Oliinyk’s drawing “Doom” has the look of a graffiti. Black tube-like forms meander in large broad strokes. They gradually take over the white space, which they seem to appear out of …

In the red room

With the backdrop of Ukrainian history and Ukrainian identity, Andrii Bludov’s project “Voices” deals specifically with the genre of family history. Photos from family archives serve as his source …

My grandmother taught me how to save money

»“I learned to save money from my grandmother. She literally saved money on everything. She used tea bags several times, for example. From the small savings wrested from everyday, she …

The sunny space in my blue room

Through the prism of visual perception, Kristina Mos tells stories of elusive objects and phenomena like light. In this installation, she simulates her childhood longing to merge with it, to …

Hopes

Kostiantyn Sen’s computer-generated image “Hope” shows a woman with eyes closed and a face tilted upwards, who senses the freedom of the sky above her which becomes a symbol of hope. …

Clear sky

Maria Motorina’s work “Clear sky” is an expression of her longing for freedom. The strong blue sky and the pure white cloud towers become the symbol of this desire. In the restriction to these …

Ultraviolett

Nikita Tsoy’s title “Ultraviolet” reveals that he is concerned with the border between the visible and the invisible. The border between the physical and the psychological. His radical portrait precisely …

Journey into the unknown

Fleeing destruction, the sound of bombs, the sound of sirens. In Anastasiia Zazuliak’s sensitive work “Journey into the unknown”, a mother, overtired with her child in her arms, becomes a …

SGorobyna, Vorohta, 2018

Nikita Sereda’s photograph shows a young girl looking down at the viewer. The face, set against the sky, suggests closeness and distance at the same time. The uncertain smile, the fleeting …

90 Seconds

Missiles are there to kill. In her performance “90 Seconds”, which took place during a missile attack on Israel, Daria Pugachova leans against a rocket from the Smerch-Salvey-Fire system …

Home

Viktoria Mashchenko’s graphic work shows a boy standing in front of his house in Luhansk, which has been destroyed by Russian bombardment. A deep all-encompassing blackness in the image …

Sequential Fist Formation

From fraternity to being the enemy that has to be destroyed. The path is short: From an open hand to a fist ready to use violence. Sasha Kurmaz’ sequence divides this transition into 4 stages …

Sick

Crouched down, frightened and naked, Dasha Bogdan depicts herself in this existential portrait. Her body, portrayed as lines of fear, degenerates into a frame without colour. Life becomes a …

Single Picket Performance »?«

Mariia Mytrofanova’s Single Picket Performance “?” tells of the impossibility of being an apolitical artist in times like these. Every day from 16.-30.04.22, she stood on the main square in Krakow …

Bioisms, Intervention, Ukraine 03.2022

The Ukrainian artist Aljoscha, who lives in Düsseldorf, travelled to his home country with his filigree and lively Bioisms sculptures. Under the war conditions, he installed them in homes …

Burning

Anna Martynenko’s photograph “Burning” is a staging that, among other things, uses the elements of performance to build a narrative around the person in the picture. This story lives from …

Love

Darina Beznosenko’s abstract and subtle painting “Love” is an image of hope. The quiet and nuanced transitions in colour and the careful hints of content convey a pleasant intervening space …

Bad Omen

Nastya Didenko’s work “Bad Omen” deals with the subject of destruction and the loss of objects that are overly charged with meaning. In her work, she symbolically uses plates inherited from her …