A series of talks with an „exhibition within the collection”. The talks are accompanied by a display of artworks by Ukrainian and German artists, connected to the theme of the Transition generation “Transition. Cultural Understanding, Integrity and Democracy in Ukraine and Beyond” is a series of seven public talks and discussions with experts and cultural representatives from Ukraine and Germany as well as other European countries, which revolve around cultural understanding, integrity and democracy. Conversations lean on such historical political and social changes in Ukraine and Europe in general, that took place in the post-war era, during the Perebudova (known as Perestroika) period and nowadays. The starting point for the conversations will be the artistic intervention of the Ukrainian artists in the contemporary collection of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur. The topics of the “Transition Talks” are mirroring the connections between the art works of the collection and the interventions.

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur,Kunststiftung NRW

Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Ukraine Funding Line

Congress of Cultural Activists

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team:

Kateryna Ray, curator of contemporary art, Kyiv/UA in collaboration with

Jana Bernhardt

Daniel Müller-Hofstede

Nora Staege

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Marianne Wagner

and the team of LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur

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experts:

Victor Griza (Kyiv, Ukraine) associate professor of the Department of Cinema and Television Arts, Institute of Cinema and Television of Kyiv National University and creator of the art project “Apotheosis of the empire”

Anke Hilbrenner (Dusseldorf, Germany) – member of the university of Düsseldorf, research interest is the Imperial history of the Russian and Soviet Empires. history of terrorism in the Russian Empire.

Olena Pravylo (Kyiv, Ukraine) – Chairwoman in NGO of the Congress of Cultural Activists of Ukraine and Expert in the project “Transition Dialogue”

Dr. Dorothea Schöne (Berlin, Germany) art historian, curator, writer, and the director of the Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin

Dr. Marianne Wagner (Munster, Germany) - Curator of Munster sculpture project 2017‍

Joanna Warsza (Warsaw/PL and Berlin/G) - Co-curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 59 Venice Biennale, Program Director CuratorLab at Konstfack University, Interdependent Curator, Editor and Writer

Myths and Lies of Empires

Freedom and Perplexity. The Perebudova

Border as a Concept of Independency 

Monuments as a new dynamic