Kyiv Khanenko Museum hosts Before the Future exhibition, showcasing Ukrainian pavilion’s Venice Biennale Architecture collection

The exhibition "Before the Future" with exhibits from the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture was opened at the Kyiv Khanenko Museum.

The Khanenko Museum reported that on Facebook.

It is noted that the exhibition title, "Before the Future," is based on the idea of the future as a time after the end of the war, explains the team. The exhibition covers five themes and vectors of work:

• reconstruction,
• commemoration,
• education,
• ecology,
• future.

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The exhibition will last until January 7, 2024, at 15-17 Tereshchenkivska Street. The exposition can be viewed from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day except Monday and Tuesday. The ticket costs 50 hryvnias and can be purchased online or at the museum box office.

As reported, the Architecture Biennale in Venice with the theme "Laboratory of the Future" lasted from May to November 2023.

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Ukraine took part in it for the first time since 2014. Thirty-five participants from architecture, art, and science fields created five thematic exhibitions.

The co-curators were the co-founders of the "Forma" office, Oleksiy Petrov and Iryna Miroshnikova, and the art critic and director of IST Publishing, Borys Filonenko.

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After a nearly ten-year hiatus, Ukraine has finally debuted a pavilion (in fact, two) at the Venice Architecture Biennale. This prestigious architectural event, the largest in the world, is sometimes overshadowed by its artistic counterpart, the Venice Art Biennale. The architectural exhibition broke away from the art one in 1980 and has since been on a biennial rotation in Venice.

The pavilion from Ukraine was included in the 11 best national pavilions, according to Deezen (out of 64).

"Biennale" means "biennial" in Italian, that is, the exhibition is held once every two years.

Each Biennale lasts two months and receives more than 130,000 visitors during that time. The Architecture Biennale began its life in 1975. In 1980, it finally took the form of a separate exhibition with a wide range of participants.

Earlier, Rubryka wrote that the Ukrainian project "Before the Future" would be presented in Venice at the Architecture Biennale 2023. The international architectural exhibition would last from May 20 to November 26. 

It is worth noting that the Kyiv Khanenko Museum together with the film studio MIR&CO PRODUCTION created a short documentary film "Shadows and Walls" about the work of the institution during the full-scale Russian invasion.