Panel discussion at Depot on June 25, 2025
Painting, historically grounded in its socio-political context, has been a medium through which times of crisis, ideological shifts, and cultural transitions are both recorded and reinterpreted. In Ukraine, from the aesthetics of socialist realism to contemporary works, painters have persistently mirrored both the shifting environment and the existential conditions of human experience.
This conversation will focus on the inheritance of visual memory - how it evolves under conditions of crisis. By foregrounding the personal and political entanglements of artistic work before and after the onset of full-scale war, the panel will open questions on how Ukrainian painting continues to be an archive of a collective memory, and What is Ukrainian painting now?
Date: Wed, June 25, 2025, 7 pm
Venue: Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna
Admission free
Participants:
Yehor Antsyhin, artist, Vienna
Polina Baitsym, art historian, curator, Vienna
Danylo Kovach, artist, Vienna
Olena Shtepura, artist, scenographer, Vienna
Moderation: Ania Zorh, artist, researcher, founder of the prolet.AIR artist union, Vienna.
The panel discussion will be held in English.
Event hosted by Office Ukraine in cooperation with Depot.
Office Ukraine, a project co-initiated by tranzit.at, is created in cooperation with BMWKMS (Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sports).