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UKRAINIAN PAVILION AT THE 59TH

INTERNATIONAL ART

EXHIBITION — LA

BIENNALE DI

VENEZIA

23.04.2022–27.11.2022

Preview: 20–22 April, 2022

Open to the public: 23 April–27 November, 2022

UKRAINIAN PAVILION AT THE

59TH INTERNATIONAL ART

EXHIBITION — LA

BIENNALE DI

VENEZIA

23.04.2022–27.11.2022

Preview: 20–22 April, 2022

 

Open to the public:

23 April–27 November, 2022

FOUNTAIN OF EXHAUSTION. ACQUA ALTA by Pavlo Makov

Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Аlta project for the 59th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia is first and foremost an attempt to address the present from within the Ukrainian context in order to retrace and reveal how a local concern eventually grows to echo the global conversation.

The Pavilion exhibits the works of Pavlo Makov, whose artistic practices in the early 1990s focused on exploring the parallels between the human body and urban space and have since then largely shifted to elaborating the theme of “the world without us”. The artwork Fountain of Exhaustion is a serene and reflective project, which serves as a conscious extension of the original story of Fountain of Exhaustion (at once providing for the particularities of the exhibition location) and comes as a natural response to the theme Milk of Dreams.

Upcoming events
Press conference (press only)20 April 2022

Piccolo Theatre Arsenale

Campo de la Tana, 2161, Venezia

Press conference (press only)
20 April 2022

Piccolo Theatre Arsenale

Campo de la Tana, 2161, Venezia

Preview20—23 April 2022

Arsenale della Biennale di Venezia

Campo de la Tana, 2169/f, 30122 Venezia VE

Preview
20—23 April 2022

Arsenale della Biennale di Venezia

Campo de la Tana, 2169/f, 30122 Venezia VE

Open to the public23 April—27 November 2022

Arsenale della Biennale di Venezia

Campo de la Tana, 2169/f, 30122 Venezia VE

Open to the public
23 April—27 November 2022

Arsenale della Biennale di Venezia

Campo de la Tana, 2169/f, 30122 Venezia VE

Venue:

Arsenale della Biennale di Venezia

Campo de la Tana, 2169/f, 30122 Venezia VE, Italy

45°26'00.3"N 12°21'06.4"E

Catalogue of Fountain of exhaustion
€18
Ukrainian Pavilion AT THE 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
16/04/2022


Happy to confirm that our whole team will be present at the opening of the pavilion. Moreover, we have a new member joining us - young Hermann Nikiforov, Lizaveta German's son, is joining the team as chief happiness manager.





04/04/2022



The Ukrainian pavilion is located at the crossroads of several exhibition routes of the Venice Biennale. It can be either the beginning or the end of the exhibition. “We want to use this weakness as a privilege, drawing parallels with the urban space. After all, fountains invite people to pause and immerse themselves in meditation. Same for us: the crossroad where our object will be located defines its context. We have an ideal situation when the space complements the art object,” comments FORMA architect Irina Miroshnikova.



26/03/2022


"Because of the war, we have to make the second fountain," said architects @Ira Miroshnikova and @Oleksiy Petrov of @ФОРМА, who are working on the original project of “Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta”


The presentation of the project at the Biennale is the first chance to launch the fountain as it was originally intended 27 years ago. However, the location of the pavilion and its layout poses a number of limitations and challenges for its embodiment.

The bronze funnels of the fountain cannot be mounted to the walls of the Arsenale di Venezia that is protected by the status of an architectural monument. The pavilion itself is located at the intersection of several corridors with no access to water supply. To make it work,
ФОРМА has developed an autonomous structure — a vertical platform to which the funnels are mounted, and a pool with a pump passing water through the funnels.



When the technical aspect of fountain was resolved and the construction was ready to go from Kyiv to Venice, the war broke out. Now ФОРМА is forced to build the second fountain, relying on the support of European contractors.
The pavilion will be able to present the fountain as planned.

01/03/2022


The first photo in sequence was taken in August 2021 when the pavilion team just learned they won the national competition to represent Ukraine at 59th International Exhibition – @La Biennale di Venezia. Back then @Lizaveta German & @Maria Lanko were working on programming the exhibition year for their gallery @thenaked room, @Borys Filonenko was engaged in publishing new books as chief-editor of @ist publishing and @Pavlo Makov was opening new exhibitions and working on his new projects.  Today the team is still in Ukraine scattered around different parts of the country.



Pavlo Makov is in Kharkiv with his family spending most of his days and nights in Yermilov centre, which is an official bomb shelter of Kharkiv National University. The area around his workshop is being bombed.  



Liza German is giving ten interviews a day as she «refurbishes» her house to harden it against air strikes: she has a baby due in a week.



Maria Lanko is driving towards the west of Ukraine with bits and pieces of the Fountain hoping to eventually transport it to Venice. 



Borys Filonenko is in Lviv working on the final edits to the catalogue of the project and maintaining distant contact with our designer @Tanya Borzunova who is also in Kharkiv. 



Despite all the challenges brought in by the war, the team is doing everything possible to put together  a full-scale presentation at La Biennale Arte and present Ukrainian contemporary art as it deserves to be presented. / Photo credit Yevgen Nikiforov

Team
Partners
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MyArtGuidesTheBAG BiennaleArteGuide by VenewsDocumenting ArtUkrainian Institute
LITOtecnolegnoPeggy Guggenheim CollectionUKRAINIAN EMERGENCY ART FUND
Andrea Formilli Fendi for Fondazione Candido Speroni e Carla Fendi
Roma
Paolo e Olimpia Falcone for Fondazione Falcone per le Arti
Palermo/Roma
Antonella Berruti e Francesca Pennone for Pinksummer Contemporary Art
Genova
Franca Tasca d’Almerita
Palermo
Embassy of Lithuania in Italy
Jewish Society of Venice
Art Cafe Venezia