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Participating artists:
Yana Kononova, Olena Kurzel, Oleksandr Naselenko, Anna Scherbyna und Christina Werner, Nastia Sopilnyk, Clemens von Wedemeyer

Venue:
Chemnitz Open Space
Brückenstr. 10
09111 Chemnitz

The first exhibition in Chemnitz Open Space in July 2023 invites visitors to approach the war against Ukraine in a new way. After a wave of empathy and solidarity within German society, the war against Ukraine has developed into a polarizing and emotional political issue. For while in this country it has sometimes become a topic of political dispute or the subject of populist and conspiracy-theory narratives, for the people of Ukraine it represents not a mere issue but everyday life, an existential threat to the reality of their lives.

This is the point of departure for the exhibition Between You and Us: An Attempt at Translation, developed for Chemnitz Open Space. A total of seven artistic positions from Ukraine, Austria and Germany express themselves within this from a personal and close perspective on the war as well as on the history of Ukraine, in which not only the hegemonic aspirations of Russia, but also the German crimes of the Second World War have left deep wounds up to the present. Curated by Elza Gubanova, Leon Seidel and Frédéric Bußmann, the exhibition attempts to allow dialogues to emerge, offering space for a multi-layered view of the war against Ukraine. Intermediate tones are allowed and a direct representation of the mere reality of war is bypassed, so that the imaginary can take its place. For it is probably only here, in the space of the imagination, that the war can be translated and reflected upon and understanding or empathy can arise.

The exhibition Between You and Us: An Attempt at Translation is accessible barrier-free and in three languages: German, English and Ukrainian. The exhibition will be accompanied by discussions with artists, lectures, workshops and many other program events that invite visitors to speak and reflect together on political, historical and cultural contexts. More information about the exhibition program...