From 1914 till Ukraine

The publication tells about the exhibition ‘From 1914 till Ukraine’, which took place at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Germany in 2023, a year after the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The exhibition brought together the artworks of the twentieth-century German painter and graphic artist Otto Dix, who participated in the First and Second World Wars, and ten Ukrainian artists who are living through the Russia-Ukraine war. The publication is not a classic exhibition catalogue; the curatorial texts and artworks presented here are more about capturing the joint search for connections between different experiences and the search for answers to questions about the European future. The exhibition was the result of a partnership between the Ukrainian memory culture platform Past / Future / Art and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The project was implemented with the support of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and the Rave Stiftung. The publication was implemented within the scope of Vidnova Fellowship programme.

Catalogue team

Publishing house: ist publishing

Translator of the texts from Ukrainian into German: Viktoriia-Anna Oliinyk

Translator of the texts from Ukrainian into English, editor of the Ukrainian texts: Iryna Kurhanska

Editors of German texts: Veronika Riedl, Dr. Holger Steinemann

Editor of English texts: Zoe Turner

Corrector of Ukrainian texts and project management: Victoria Berkut

Graphic and layout designer: Ostap Yashchuk

Print: Avanpost-Prym, Kyiv, Ukraine

Exhibition team

Director: Ulrike Groos

Curators: Kateryna Semenyuk, Oksana Dovgopolova, Anne Vieth

Artists: Otto Dix, Katya Buchatska, Maksym Ivanov, Viktor Konstantinov, Andrii Rachynskyi, Daniil Revkovskyi, Andrii Sahaidakovskyi, Denys Salivanov, Kseniia Shcherbakova, Ivan Skoryna, Kseniia Yanus

Communications: Constantin Neumeister, Kateryna Iholkina