Culture Under Pressure by ООО/OOOO

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“Do artists need exhibitions?” — this is the question that opens the collection. Artistic practices here are part of complex networks of visual culture, political systems, interspecies dependencies, ecological disasters and the totality of war.

In this collection of selected texts from 2020–2024 critic Borys Filonenko writes about the Kharkiv Biennale of Young Art, the Ukrainian Pavilion in Venice, the Khanenko Museum and the practices of Open Group, Viacheslav Poliakov, Kateryna Buchatska, Nikita Kadan, Pavlo Makov, Andrii Sagaidakovskyi, Katia Libkind, Stanislav Turina, Yaroslav Futymskyi, Mykola Kolomiiets, Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev, Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi. These are texts about art in times of excess and exhaustion, about historiographic turns, the avant-garde and dinosaur bones, studios and shelters, volunteering and social connections and the roles of artists in dangerous environments.