Office Ukraine Screenings at mumok cinema
14 November 2025 at 7 PM
Venue: mumok cinema, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Office Ukraine Vienna, in collaboration with curators from Ivano-Frankivsk Asortymentna Kimnata and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC), is pleased to present an evening of selected short films at mumok kino.
The program of the screenings includes works by Elias Parvulesco and Sashko Protyah from the exhibition at DCCC (as a part of Kyiv Biennial 2025) that focus on the role of archives, memory, and musical traditions in narrating histories of war in Ukraine.
Based on the photographic works of Mykola Bilokon (1939–2020) and an interview recorded by Iryna Sklokina, Elias Parvulesco’s Profession: Photojournalist Part 1: Hometown and Part 2: Monochrome (2021) draws on archival materials from the Pokrovsk Historical Museum and the Lviv Center for Urban History. The film traces the transformation of an industrial town inUkraine’s East through the lens of a single photographer over four decades.
Sashko Protyah’s War Songs (2025) tells the story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the late 20th century until 2022, when the city was destroyed and occupied by Russia. Through songs recorded before the city’s destruction, Protyah explores how music carries memory, grief, and the remnants of what words can no longer hold.
The program will continue with Come and Go, a retrospective of feminist video art from Ivano-Frankivsk. Initiated by Alona Karavai and curated by Anna Potiomkina and Ksenia Pohrebennyk, the exhibition was first presented at the Odesa National Art Museum and later shown at Asortymentna Kimnata in Ivano-Frankivsk in April 2024. The screening version at mumok is curated by Alona Karavai. Through intimate and politically resonant video works, the selection reflects on female subjectivity, collective memory, and the evolving visual language of the body, landscape, and everyday life amid disruption and displacement.
Program Part I
Curated by the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture:
Elias Parvulesco
Profession: Photojournalist
Part 1: Hometown (2021, 08:00 min)
Part 2: Monochrome (2022, 03:43 min)
Sashko Protyah
War Songs / Пісні про війну (2025, 47:00 min)
Content notes: war, sirens, trauma, graphic imagery
Introduction to the program from the DCCC curatorial team.
Program Part II
Come and Go
Curated by Alona Karavai:
Marianna Hlynska, Shattered Reality, (2:26 min, 2012)
Zoriana Kozak, Rebirth, music by Zlypni, (9:19 min, 2020)
Maria Rusinkevych, Canvas, (6:26 min, 2021)
Kris Voitkiv, In Search of Protection, music by Liliia Melnyk & MaksYos, (2:53 min, 2023)
Diana Derii, Our Shared Body Is a Ruin, music by MaksYos (2:27 min, 2023)
Anna Potyomkina, Story About a Girl Who Remembered Everything, music by Svitlana Nianio and MaksYos (14:54 min, 2024)
Introduction to the program from the Asortymentna Kymnata curatorial team.
The event is initiated by Office Ukraine Vienna in collaboration with the Kyiv Biennale and Asortymentna Kimnata, with support from ERSTE Foundation.
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.
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 due to the invasion.
Image: Still from War Songs / Пісні про війну (Sashko Protyah, 2025)
