The screening event is part of the two-day public program accompanying the exhibitions Everything for Everybody and Come and Go, within the framework of the Kyiv Biennial 2025 and Asortymentna Kimnata in Vienna. It is organized by Office Ukraine in Vienna, in collaboration with curators from the Ivano-Frankivsk-based space Asortymentna Kimnata and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC).

The first part of the program takes place on November 13 at AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab and includes an evening of conversations with curators, artists, and researchers from Ukraine.

The screening program features works by Elias Parvulesco and Sashko Protyah, presented within the exhibition and public program Everything for Everybody at DCCC (as part of the Kyiv Biennial 2025). Based on photographs by Mykola Bilokon (1939–2020) and an interview conducted by Iryna Sklokina, Elias Parvulesco’s two-part film Profession: Photojournalist. Part 1: Hometown and Part 2: Monochrome (2021) draws on archival materials from the Pokrovsk Historical Museum and the Center for Urban History in Lviv. Sashko Protyah’s War Songs (2025) tells a story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the late twentieth century up to 2022, when the city was destroyed and occupied by Russia.

The program continues with Come and Go, a retrospective of feminist video art from Ivano-Frankivsk. Initiated by Alona Karavai, the curators of the original version were Anna Potyomkina and Kseniia Pohrebennyk. The version presented at mumok is curated by Alona Karavai.

Program

Part I — DCCC / Kyiv Biennial 2025 Program

Curatorial Team Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC)
Anhelina Rozhkova, Olena Olekhnovych, Natasha Chychasova, Kateryna Rusetska, Victoria Donovan

Introduction by the DCCC curatorial team
Elias Parvulesco, Profession: Photojournalist. Part 1: Hometown, 2021, 8 min
Elias Parvulesco, Profession: Photojournalist. Part 2: Monochrome, 2022, 4 minutes
Sashko Protyah, War Songs, 2025, 48 min

Content warning: war, sirens, trauma, visually challenging images

Part II — Come and Go: Feminist Video Art from Ivano-Frankivsk

Curated by Alona Karavai (Asortymentna Kimnata)

Introduction by the curatorial team of Asortymentna Kimnata
Marianna Hlynska, Shattered Reality, 2012, 2 min
Zoriana Kozak, Rebirth, music: Zlypni, 2020, 9 min
Maria Rusinkevych, Canvas, 2021, 6 min
Kris Voitkiv, In Search of Protection, music: Liliia Melnyk and MaksYos, 2023, 2 min
Diana Derii, Our Shared Body is a Ruin, music: MaksYos, 2023, 2 min
Anna Potyomkina, Story About a Girl Who Remembered Everything, music: Svitlana Nianio and MaksYos, 2024, 15 min

Closing remarks / Discussion or Q&A

Following the critically engaged, itinerant format of its 2023 edition, the 6th Kyiv Biennial will once again unfold across multiple locations throughout Europe. This year marks the Biennial’s 10th anniversary and sees it co-organized by L’Internationale, a European confederation of museums, art institutions, and universities.

Cooperation with Office Ukraine

Asortymentna Kimnata is both an independent art space in Ivano-Frankivsk and a scalable model for supportive, decentralized formats of contemporary art on the so-called “periphery.” Through a practice of radical decentralization, Asortymentna Kimnata facilitates exhibitions, residencies, educational initiatives, and music events, creating a vital infrastructure for contemporary artistic practice beyond urban and institutional centers.

Office Ukraine. Support for Ukrainian Artists was established just days after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The initiative supports Ukrainian artists and cultural workers from all disciplines who were forced to flee to Austria following the invasion.