EXHIBITION: SENSE OF SAFETY

“Sense of Safety” is an international art project highlighting the core exhibition of the same name in the Yermilov Centre in Kharkiv, Ukraine surrounded by an open network of more than 20 cross-institutional events across 12 countries united as a “Bridges of Solidarity”. The project responds to the urgent situation in Kharkiv, aiming to connect the city with the world and highlight its cultural, scientific, and political importance.

The exhibition in the Yermilov Centre is featuring works from 31 individual artists and collectives representing over 10 countries, including a significant percentage of new commissions. The exhibition is built around the ambivalence of the concept of safety, which has been profoundly redefined by the war. It also touches upon the idea that safety is understood not only as a feeling, but above all as an infrastructure of care, communication as a safe place, supported by vulnerable bodies, by the efforts of people, communities, and institutions. The ambivalence of safety is broken through the ideas of post-traumatic in-growth and the desire for routine actions as safe-gaining. The exhibition demonstrates different perspectives and modalities of understanding and perception of safety — from children’s rituals to educational practices, from the search for self-stabilization and self-soothing to collective creative action.

“The Sense of Safety” exhibition artists list:
Olena Afanasieva & Max Afanasyev, Francis Alÿs, Andreas Angelidakis, Babi Badalov, Sergey Bratkov, Danilo Correale, Uli Golub, Thomas Hirschhorn, Nadira Husain, Taras Kamennoy, Alina Kleytman, Vitalii Kokhan, Dmytro Kolomoitsev, Yulia Kostereva & Yuriy Kruchak, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Katya Lesiv, Iryna Loskot, Kateryna Lysovenko, Pavlo Makov, Boris Mikhailov, Rhona Mühlebach, Ahmet Öğüt, Mark Požlep, Karina Synytsia, Stas Volyazlovsky, Kateryna Yermolayeva, Anna Zvyagintseva, *foundationСlass, _mediaklub

Sense of Safety exhibition curatorial team:
Tatiana Kochubinska, Aleksander Komarov, Maryna Konieva, Antonina Stebur, Maxim Tyminko

Concept of the project:
The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine, YermilovCentre & Maryna Konieva

Further information: https://yermilovcentre.org/