Public Program of the Allied – Kyiv Biennial 2021

Curators of the Allied – Kyiv Biennial 2021 have announced the public program which is going to be held for a month from the 16th of October till the 14th of November. The events are going to happen in three main locations of the Biennal: The House of Cinema, Lira Cinema, Dzherelo and online.


The public program includes:
Saturday, October 16, 17:30 (The House of Cinema)
Exhibitions Opening 

Saturday, October 16, 18:00 (The House of Cinema)
The Insubmersibility of Toasters & Kobzars Theory: or they tried to sink us but we float out of sight at the bottom
Performance by Quinsy and Jörgen Gario

Saturday, October 16, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Divided/Shared Solidarity: Political Mobilization and Visual Agency in Belarusian Protest Movement 2020-2021
Lecture by Almira Ousmanova

Sunday, October 17, 15:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Global Socialism and Decolonization in Eastern Europe – And the Perspective of Contemporary Art
Panel discussion with the participation of Łukasz Stanek and Zoltán Ginelli, moderated by Eszter Szakács

Sunday, October 17, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Artistic Utopias and Activist Aesthetics After ’89
Lecture by Julia Ramírez-Blanco

Sunday, October 17, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Crisis as Form: A Framework for Analysis
Lecture by Peter Osborne

Wednesday, October 20, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
To Whom It May Concern – Day I 
Film program presented by Oleksiy Kuchansky

Friday, October 22, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
To Whom It May Concern – Day II 
Film program presented by Oleksiy Kuchansky

Saturday, October 23, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Winds of Change in Old Europe: Thinking a Digital European Republic for the 21st century
Lecture by Ulrike Guérot

Thursday, October 28, 17:00 (Online)
The Age of Unsettlement – Possible Paths towards a New Political Imagination
Lecture by Madina Tlostanova

Friday, October 29, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Endnotes to Alterglobalist Art History
Talk by Agata Jakubowska and Magdalena Radomska

Saturday, October 30, 19:00 (Lira Cinema)
Free Jazz Concert: Decolonize Your Mind Society, Kurws, Le Cru, Dolgiy & Sidorkin

Saturday, November 6, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Revisiting Yugoslav Memorial Production from the Socialist Period
Talk by Beti Žerovc and Sanja Horvatinčić

Sunday, November 7, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Room to Bloom: Ecofeminist Narratives for Europe and Beyond
Presentation by Marta Cillero, Beral Madra, Katarzyna Hertz & Magdalena Siemaszko

Monday, November 8, 19:00 (Online)
On the Interception of Modern Culture by Post-Socialist Governments
Lecture by Keti Chukhrov

Tuesday, November 9, 19:00 (Dzherelo)
Opening of Undertow
Installation by Aleksei Taruts

Wednesday, November 10, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Dream for Sisterhood
Presentation of the discussion platform by Asia Bazdyrieva, Ivan Melnychuk, Lada Nakonechna, Ramona Schacht, Uliana Bychenkova, Yulia Kostereva

Friday, November 12, 19:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
Labour and the Moderns: the Realist Portrayal of Work and Contemporary Art
Panel discussion with the participation of Jiří Skála, Sung Tieu, Lesia Kulchynska, Olga Egorova (Tsaplya), moderated by Tereza Stejskalová and Vít Havránek

Saturday, November 13, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
The Suits That We Have in Our Country Are Not Suitable for the Tropical Climate 
Performative lecture by Bartosz Frąckowiak & Max Cegielski

Sunday, November 14, 17:00 (The House of Cinema, Blue Hall)
What is Global East and Where to Find It? Rethinking the Universal
Lecture by Jan Sowa

Allied – Kyiv Biennial 2021, curated by the East Europe Biennial Alliance, aims to explore various historical forms and contemporary examples of cultural and political alliances in Eastern Europe and beyond and their ability to create new social formats. The biennial hosts a series of art projects and public program events focusing in particular on the current conditions, political factors, and institutional actors that foster new alliances in the twenty-first century. As we are confronted with the most pressing questions of our time by the ongoing war conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Kyiv Biennial 2021 brings together the curatorial approaches of partner institutions from Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, and Riga, establishing a model of an inter-institutional alliance for multilateral activity in the region as a sustainable network for collaboration and a space for support that is sorely missing in the field of politics today.

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