Speakers of the event:
Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine and Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Commissioner of the Pavilion of Ukraine; Zhanna Kadyrova, artist; Ksenia Malykh, co-curator; Leonid Marushchak, co-curator.
Speakers will deliver opening remarks and respond to questions on the Security Guarantees project: Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine and Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Commissioner of the Pavilion of Ukraine; Zhanna Kadyrova, artist; Ksenia Malykh, co-curator; Leonid Marushchak, co-curator.
Speakers will deliver opening remarks and respond to questions on the Security Guarantees project: Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine and Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Commissioner of the Pavilion of Ukraine; Zhanna Kadyrova, artist; Ksenia Malykh, co-curator; Leonid Marushchak, co-curator.
Building Cultural Futures in Times of War: Ukraineʼs Horizon
Speakers of the event:
Zhanna Kadyrova, Ukrainian artist; Alevtina Kakhidze, Ukrainian artist; Agnieszka Pindera, commissioner of the Polish Pavilion, director of the Zachętą National Gallery of Art; Maria Isserlis, curator, art historian, Deputy Chair of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Polish Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale
19.03.2026
Brussels: The Origami Deer by Zhanna Kadyrova on the Way to Venice
18:00
Lecture by Damian Lentini
On the occasion of the temporary re-siting of Zhanna Kadyrova’s The Origami
Deer (2019) in Brussels, this lecture examines the historical development
and ongoing potential of realism in the visual arts in relation to monumental-
ity, the politics of space, and modes of resistance. Tracing works from the
postwar period to the present, it interrogates realism as an umbrella term
while pointing to contemporary “realisms” as forms of active passivism that
contest prevailing ontologies.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion with the audience addressing
current challenges for cultural expression in Europe.
Speakers: Damian Lentini, Deputy Director / Chief Curator at Ludwig Forum
Aachen
Ivanna Kozachenko, co-curator of the Public Programme
Location: Studio
Berlin: The Origami Deer by Zhanna Kadyrova on the Way to Venice
Day 1
14:00–22:00
Sculpture display at Oranienplatz
19:00–21:00
Screening of a documentary short film IDP
(dir. Zhanna Kadyrova, 2025) and further discussion
with Zhanna Kadyrova, Leonid Marushchak and Ksenia
Malykh, moderated by Ania Kołyszko. The Forest of
Zhanna Kadyrova, presented at Echoes of Tumult exhi-
bition with CTM Festival, co-curated by daadgalerie
and instrumentinventors.
Location: daadgalerie
Day 2
15:00–22:00
Sculpture display at Mariannenplatz
15:00
The event in solidarity with Ukraine, in partnership
with Vitsche Berlin
15:00–22:00
Music Performance
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Artists: Cybele, Gosha Babanski, Sirakusy, Natalia Martynenko
Location: Mariannenplatz
Prague: The Origami Deer by Zhanna Kadyrova on the Way to Venice
15:00–22:00
Sculpture display at the Jan Palach Square
18:00–19:00
Screening of a documentary short film IDP
(dir. Zhanna Kadyrova, 2025) and further discussion
with Zhanna Kadyrova and Leonid Marushchak
Location: Cafe Rudolfinum
19:00–20:30
The intervention by Isabel Jacobs
Isabel’s contribution brings Zhanna Kadyrova’s sculpture in dialogue with
Soviet ecology, its visual representations and complex legacies. She explores
how plant life, interspecies solidarity, symbiosis, nuclear energy, and the
biosphere were conceptualised in Soviet Ukraine by figures such as Volodymyr
Vernadsky, Feliks Sobolev, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Their films and
writings blur the boundaries between nature and technology, humans and
plants, violence and peace. Isabel also explores how ecological theory is
bound to territory and placemaking, when objects become part of nature.
Speakers: Isabel Jacobs, writer and philosopher
Ivanna Kozachenko, co-curator of the Public Programme
Location: Cafe Rudolfinum
21:00–01:00
Music performance by Viktoria Bobko
and Nastya Muravyova
Location: Bike Jesus
Vienna: The Origami Deer by Zhanna Kadyrova on the Way to Venice
16:00–20:00
Sculpture display at the MuseumsQuartier
18:00–19:00
Screening of a documentary short film IDP
(dir. Zhanna Kadyrova, 2025) and further discussion
with Zhanna Kadyrova and Leonid Marushchak
Location: Raum D
19:00–20:00
Conversation on the Weaponised Landscape
and Its Inhabitants
Beginning with the history of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament in the 1990s–
early 2000s and the Budapest Memorandum (1994), which gave the project
its title Security Guarantees, the discussion unfolds through Kadyrova’s
work into a broader context. It focuses on non-human actors of war and dis-
placement, deer as bio-monitors, weaponised ecology, and everything
that moves within the wartime environment.
Moderator: Mariia Noschenko, art curator and researcher
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Fahim Amir, philosopher (Bremen University of the Arts)
and author
PhD candidate Asia Bazdyrieva, researcher and art historian
(Weibel Institute for Digital Culture)
Location: Raum D
20:30–02:00
Music performance by Asia Bazdyrieva,
Conny Frischauf, Anton Lapov
Location: Roxy Club
Warsaw: The Origami Deer by Zhanna Kadyrova on the Way to Venice
16:00–22:00
Sculpture display at the Ujazdowski Castle
Centre for Contemporary Art
17:00–18:00
Screening of a documentary short film IDP
(dir. Zhanna Kadyrova, 2025) and further discussion
with Zhanna Kadyrova and Leonid Marushchak
Location: Cinema hall
18:00–19:00
Discussion Public Art at Risk: Poland and Ukraine
The discussion is dedicated to the conditions and contexts under which art-
works are being removed from public space referring to both Zhanna
Kadyrova’s and Julita Wójcik’s sculptures. It will examine the vulnerability
and significant transformations of their meanings as a result of the displace-
ment, exploring a secure place for the sculptures within the conversation.
Moderator: Iwona Kurz, art historian
Speakers: Zhanna Kadyrova, artist
Julita Wójcik, artist
Location: Cinema hall
19:00–22:00
Music performance by Zoi Michailova, Ssscreep,
Ganna Glass
Location: Workshop room