The works of Nikita Kadan, Kateryna Aliynyk and the Open Group are presented at the exhibitions These Walls Are Not Here to Protect Us and Emergency Frequencies at the OFF Biennale Budapest – the largest art event in Hungary. This is what the Ukrainian Institute writes on its Facebook page.
Kateryna Aliynyk, in her work Death in the Summer Afternoon (2024), speaks about fragility in the face of horror. The exhibition These Walls Are Not Here to Protect Us explores the symbol of the wall as a reaction to fear and the need for protection.
Emergency Frequencies takes place in a Second World War bomb shelter and explores the sound of war. Nikita Kadan’s audio installation The Inhabitants of the Colosseum recreates the procession of concentration camp prisoners walking across the stone bridge in Regensburg in 1945.
The video work Repeat After Me II by the Open Group demonstrates how displaced Ukrainians reproduce the sounds of weapons as knowledge that has become a means of survival.
OFF Biennale will last until 15 June 2025.