Net Making

Pre-sale lasts until 2024 December 15

The catalogue of the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia offers extended information and reflections on the “Net Making” project, as well as the featured individual works, with contributions from artists, curators, and invited thinkers.

“Net Making” refers to the process of weaning of camouflage nets needed at war to protect people and equipment from the aggressor's attacks. While born of tragic necessity, this collective effort becomes a form of therapy, social connection, and a symbol of self-organisation, horizontality, and joint action, fostering the emancipation of its diverse participants.

The project explores the theme of otherness through personal experiences of war, emigration, and social integration.

The catalogue includes installation shots and various visual materials that not only capture the final form of the Net Making project at the Arsenale in Venice but also document the development of the exhibition and the four individual projects that constitute it.

The international distributors of the catalogue are Idea Books and Antenne Books.

Team

Compilers: Viktoria Bavykina, Max Gorbatskyi

Authors of the texts: Viktoria Bavykina, Kateryna Botanova, Katya Buchatska, Oleksandr Burlaka, Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, Max Gorbatskyi, Charlotte Higgins, Alona Karavai, Michael Kurtz, Andrii Rachynskyi, Daniil Revkovskyi, Vid Simoniti

Design and layout: Misha Buksha, Uliana Sukach-Kochetkova

Managing editors: Viktoria Berkut, Iryna Kurhanska

Literary editing: Kateryna Botanova, Iryna Kurhanska, Zoe Turner

Proofreading: Iryna Kurhanska, Olha Petrenko-Tseunova

Translation: Maria Pravda

Project management: Kateryna Nosko, Nastya Leonova

Intellectual property lawyer: Maria Farbota, LAW NET

Publishing house: ist publishing

Photographs: Rob Battersby, Oleksandr Burlaka, Max Gorbatskyi, Oleksandr Popenko