Office Ukraine Vienna, in collaboration with curators from Ivano-Frankivsk Asortymentna Kimnata and the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC), is pleased to present an evening of selected short films at mumok kino.

Programme Part I

Curated by the DCCC. Introduction from the DCCC curatorial team.

• Elias Parvulesco, »Profession: Photojournalist«
  Part 1: »Hometown« (2021, 08:00 min)
  Part 2: »Monochrome« (2022, 03:43 min)
• Sashko Protyah, »War Songs / Пісні про війну« (2025, 47:00 min)
  content notes: war, sirens, trauma, graphic imagery
  

The works by Elias Parvulesco and Sashko Protyah are from the exhibition and public programme »Everything for Everybody« at DCCC (as part of Kyiv Biennial 2025) that focuses on the role of archives, memory, and musical traditions in narrating histories of war in Ukraine.

Based on the photographic works of Mykola Bilokon (1939–2020) and an interview recorded by Iryna Sklokina, Elias Parvulesco’s »Profession: Photojournalist« traces the transformation of an industrial town in Ukraine’s East through the lens of a single photographer over four decades.

Sashko Protyah’s »War Songs« (2025) tells the story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the late 20th century until 2022, when the city was destroyed and occupied by Russia. Through songs recorded before the city’s destruction, Protyah explores how music carries memory, grief, and the remnants of what words can no longer hold.

Programme Part II – »Come and Go«

Curated by Alona Karavai. Introduction from the Asortymentna Kymnata curatorial team.

• Marianna Hlynska, »Shattered Reality« (2012, 02:26 min)
• Zoriana Kozak, »Rebirth«, music by Zlypni (2020, 09:19 min)
• Maria Rusinkevych, »Canvas« (2021, 06:26 min)
• Kris Voitkiv, »In Search of Protection« music by Liliia Melnyk & MaksYos (2023, 02:53 min)
• Diana Derii, »Our Shared Body Is a Ruin«, music by MaksYos (2023, 02:27 min)
• Anna Potyomkina, »Story About a Girl Who Remembered Everything«, music by Svitlana Nianio and MaksYos (2024, 14:54 min)

»Come and Go« is a retrospective of feminist video art from Ivano-Frankivsk. Initiated by Alona Karavai and curated by Anna Potiomkina and Ksenia Pohrebennyk, the same-titled exhibition was first presented at the Odesa National Art Museum and later shown at Asortymentna Kimnata in Ivano-Frankivsk in April 2024. Through intimate and politically resonant video works, the selection reflects on female subjectivity, collective memory, and the evolving visual language of the body, landscape, and everyday life amid disruption and displacement.

The programme is initiated by Office Ukraine Vienna in collaboration with the Kyiv Biennale and Asortymentna Kymnata, with support from ERSTE Foundation. This is the second part of a two-day programme, starting on 13 November with conversations about exhibiting makding admits war in Ukraine. Following the critically engaged, itinerant format of its 2023 edition, the 6th Kyiv Biennial will once again unfold across multiple locations throughout Europe. This year marks the Biennial’s 10th anniversary and sees it co-organised by L’Internationale – a European confederation of museums, art institutions, and universities.

Header image: Film still from »War Songs Пісні про війну« (Sashko Protyah, 2025)