videogalleryChain ReactionFilm and video works from Ukraine
videogallery – free entry
curated by Mykola Ridnyi, Alessandra Troncone

until 29 May, valid for all exhibitions currently on view, due to the rearrangement of selected galleries and the implementation of energy efficiency improvements to the buildings
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– on your birthday presenting an identity document;
– upon presentation of EU Disability Card holders and or accompanying letter from hosting association/institution for: people with disabilities and accompanying person, people on the autistic spectrum and accompanying person, deaf people, people with cognitive disabilities and complex communication needs and their caregivers, people with serious illnesses and their caregivers, guests of first aid and anti-violence centres and accompanying operators, residents of therapeutic communities and accompanying operators;
– MiC employees;
– journalists who can prove their business activity;
– European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums);
– 1 teacher for every 10 students;
– AMACI members;
– CIMAM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members;
– ICOM members;
– from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays) European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students;
– IED Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts professors;
– upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie;
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
videogallery – free entry
curated by Mykola Ridnyi, Alessandra Troncone
Starting from a more documentary-like style, the screening helps providing an articulated and multi-faceted look not only on the Ukrainian video production but on a country that Europe feels even much closer today.
“When we started working on this project in 2021, our objective was to present the first focus on Ukrainian contemporary art in Italy, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the independence of Ukraine (1991),” tell the curators. Chain Reaction aims at underlining the independence of Ukrainian cultural and artistic production through the voices of some of its protagonists from the latest generation.
Piotr Armianovski | Uli Golub | Dana Kavelina | Oksana Kazmina | Zoia Laktionova | Oleksiy Radynsky | Mykola Ridnyi | Daniil Revkovskyi and Andriy Rachinsky | Ruins collective: Elias Parvulesco, Svitlana Pototska, Teta Tsybulnyk | Anna Scherbyna
Conceived as a fluid narrative between past, present and future, the show brings together a selection of films and videos presented in sequence as in a chain where different topics resonate and recall to each other, in a possible play of internal references that shows each work implicitly connected to the other. The sequence opens with a bird’s eye view of the Zamglai reserve, one of the largest bog systems in Ukraine, and ends with the dystopian – perhaps prophetic – image of an apocalyptic scenario where human presence has disappeared; general themes emerge from this “chain reaction” which meet and follow the international agenda (the effects of climate change, the gender issues), but which are also intertwined with events and aspects specifically linked to the Ukrainian socio-political context: the war in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions started in 2014, the massive labor emigration to EU countries, the struggle between human rights, feminist, LGBTQIA+ movements and conservative ideologies, urban transformation, ecological issues.
header: Piotr Armianovski, Sloviansk, 2014-2018.