Cutting Through: The Soviet and The Now.
Collages by Irina Vale (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Curated by Oleksandr Levchenko
Vernissage: 9. August, 19h
Vortrag Maria Chistyakova: 11. August, 19h
Öffnungszeiten: 10.-13. August, 16-19h
After the fall of Soviet Union in 1991 the world has changed so dramatically, that we tend to forget what it was all about. From a millennial perspective, some of those things are hilarious, some are weird and some are just nonsensical.
Irina Vale took then popular newspaper "Ogoniok" and reworked its imagery mixing it with cutouts from contemporary magazines. The result is worth admiring.
There's more than that!
Lecture by Maria Chistyakova
"Geheimstädte der Sowjetunion: Eine Exkursion in die Schattenseiten der Utopie", August 11 at 19:00.
Interestingly enough, the idea of the communist utopia actually happened, but on a smaller scale. Listen to some surprising facts about what the ideal world looked like and how it was sustained.
