"The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast" exhibition in Berlin

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⌚️2024-05-03 17:00:00 – 2024-05-03 20:00:00
🏢Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

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You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition "The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast," which will take place on Friday, May 3, at 5 pm at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin

On June 6, 2023, Russian troops blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station reservoir, flooding dozens of villages and three nature reserves on the Ukrainian steppe. On March 22, 2024, during yet another missile attack on Ukraine, Russian missiles hit the Dnipro hydroelectric station, causing pollution of the Dnipro River and damaging the power plant’s dam (for the first time since the Second World War). These two episodes – just a small part of the tragic series of events Ukraine and Europe are facing – force us to reexamine the origins of the present-day energy infrastructure, its connection with environmental crimes and totalitarian regimes of the past. The construction of a cascade of hydroelectric stations on the Dnipro River and its cinematic representation offer us a look at the dark side of Soviet modernization with its "subjugation of nature” narrative, continued today in Russia’s colonial ideology.

program

opening: friday, may 3, 2024, 17:00–23:00

saturday, may 4, 2024, 17:00
screening of the film Poem of the Sea (1958, 115`) by Yuliya Solntseva
introduction by Alona Penzii
in english

sunday, may 5, 2024, 17:00
Nova Kakhovka, Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Dream City: How the Film Director Contributed to the City’s Construction
lecture by Ielyzaveta Ievseieva
in english

curators: Alona Penzii, Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Oleksandr Teliuk
project coordination: Vasyl Cherepanyn, Serge Klymko
architecture of the exhibition space: Oleksandr Burlaka
exhibition design: Lera Guievska
director Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien: Stéphane Bauer
programme coordination: Sofía Pfister
production: Kristoffer Holmelund

the project has been created in cooperation between the Visual Culture Research Center / Kyiv Biennial and the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre on the occasion of Kyiv Perennial in Berlin with the support of Teiger Foundation

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
04.05–20.05.2024
sun–wed: 10:00 – 20:00
thu–sat: 10:00 – 22:00
free admission

kunstraumkreuzberg.de
dovzhenkocentre.org

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