A frank conversation with Pavel Makov

Place, Garden, Abracadabra

FORMAT
offline, Kyiv

SPEAKER
Pavlo Makov

 

Pavlo Makov is a renowned Ukrainian artist and winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. His works are exhibited in leading museums around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Osaka), the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and others. In 2022, Pavlo Makov represented Ukraine at the 59th Venice Biennale with the project ‘Fountain of Exhaustion. High Water’.

Photo by Viktoria Yakimenko

This meeting is for those who are looking for answers to the main questions: who we are, where our strength comes from, and what sense we bring to the world after this war.

Focus of the meeting:

  1. Culture: strategy, potential, mission
  2. How art helps to think and create the future where the past is being destroyed.
  3. Why culture is becoming the key to subjectivity in a global world.
  4. Ukraine’s three enemies: Russia, the Kochubei movement, and provincial views.
  5. What will we offer the world after the war? Not just images of victims, but a powerful culture of recovery, dignity, co-creation and openness that will become a source of new meaning and inspiration for a global rethinking of values.

The image was taken from the artist’s official website