PinchukArtCentre will Represent Ukraine at the 52nd Venice Biennale

Commissioner of the Ukrainian pavilion Peter Doroshenko presents the art project "Poem on the Inner Sea" with which Ukraine will participate in the 52^nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (the Venice Biennale). The Ukrainian exhibition will be open at Palazzo Papadopoli from June 7^th to November 21^st 2007.

The title of the project recalls the famous film "Poem on the Sea" created based on the script of the outstanding Ukrainian director Olexandre Dovzhenko. Well-known artists from Ukraine, Great Britain and the United States of America feature in the project who will create new works specially for the new exhibition: Sergiy Bratkov (Ukraine), Olexandre Gnylytsky and Lesia Zayats (Ukraine), Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine), Juergen Teller (Germany/Great Britain), Marc Tichner (Great Britain), Sam Taylor-Wood (Great Britain), Dzine (Carlos Rolon; USA).

The art project "Poem on the Inner Sea" will demonstrate the joint vision of the authors and their aspiration for exploration of new and active roles of the artist in the society. The exhibition intends to reveal the issues that the famous Ukrainian director Olexandre Dovzhenko had been raising for all his life: what does being Ukrainian mean? Who are Ukrainians? Where are they, Ukrainians? Thanks to the international composition of the project participants, the exhibition will give an opportunity to have a look at Ukraine from inside - through the works of the Ukrainian artists - and from outside, through the foreign artists.

Ukraine definitely needs an understanding of the processes of post modernism and globalization that are occurring in other countries in Europe and the world. Since the conflicts between the local and the global are going on, and specific cultural traditions change under the impact of these very processes, Ukraine is becoming a territory to explore the key artistic and cultural trends.

One of the biggest centres of contemporary art in the Eastern Europe, PinchukArtCentre, will represent Ukraine at the 52^nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. "To represent Ukraine at the Venice Biennale before the whole world is a big honour. And we will realize this mission with a big responsibility. We hope that our experience of participating in world-scale art projects, a strong and professional team of art managers and our financial base will allow us to represent decently the contemporary Ukrainian context at the most influential artistic forum", the founder of PinchukArtCentre Victor Pinchuk said.

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