“Discover Ukraine. Bits destroyed” at the 20th Festival of Lights in Berlin
The Ukrainian Institute is taking part in the Festival of Lights for the first time! During the audiovisual show, 56 monumental mosaics from the 1960s and 1970s will be animated. Of these, however, more than a quarter were damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion.
When?
October 4 to 13, daily from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Where?
James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Tickets
Free Entry
The light installation “Discover Ukraine. Bits destroyed” consists of images of 56 monumental mosaics from the 1960s and 1970s, created by Alla Horska, Hryhoriy Pryshedek, Halyna Zubchenko, Ada Rybachuk, Volodymyr Melnychenko and many other Ukrainian artists.
The installation is designed to immerse the audience in the multi-layered world of Ukrainian monumental art and draw attention to the need to preserve it.
The revival of the mosaics in a digital work of art was made possible by close collaboration with photographer Yevhen Nikiforov and his documentary project Ukrainian Soviet Mosaic (2013-2021).
The audiovisual artwork was produced by Tais Poda, Rock ‘n’ Light Studio, and Ptakh.
Discover Ukraine has already been shown at the Greenwich-Docklands International Festival in London (video below) and at Museumsquartier in Vienna.
Partners
The project is organized by the Ukrainian Institute in Germany and carried out with the support of the Federal Foreign Office, the Polish Institute Berlin and the Festival of Lights.