Dispatches. Artists Design Postcards as a Call for Solidarity
5 Oct - 31 Dec 2023
We are proud to announce our participation in the Kyiv Biennial 2023 through the postcard project Dispatches. In these challenging times, M HKA has rallied 12 renowned artists to amplify a message of solidarity.
Dispatches is a postcard initiative, organised by M HKA in partnership with the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv, exclusively for the Kyiv Biennial 2023. With the biennial’s unique ‘distributed’ format spanning venues across Ukraine and the EU, M HKA has enlisted 12 distinguished artists to design a postcard that will be featured at all biennial locations and beyond. This project serves as a humble plea to send dispatches from the front lines of our own lives.
The participating artists include Babi Badalov, Oleksandr Burlaka, Uliana Bychenkova, Davyd Chychkan, Jeremy Deller, Experimental Jetset, Mekhitar Garabedian, Shilpa Gupta, Iman Issa, Kaja Kusztra, Marina Naprushkina, and Anna Sorokovaya.
Dispatches – [dɪˈspætʃ] – stands for: the sending of someone or something to a destination for a specific purpose; deal with a task quickly and efficiently; an official report on state or military affairs; a report, often of war, sent by a journalist abroad; to kill someone. In the context of this postcard project, dispatches refers to artists conveying their message of solidarity through art.
M HKA invites the public to become a part of this movement, showcasing the enduring value of art even in the face of adversity. The postcards will be available for free from October 5th, at M HKA and all venues of the Kyiv Biennial.
Dispatches is presented within L’Internationale, the confederation of European museums for contemporary art, of which M HKA is a founding member. This confederation aims to find strength through solidarity and is committed to promoting art and culture as a source of unity and understanding.
About Kyiv Biennial 2023
The Kyiv Biennial 2023 brings together artists, curators, and institutions to celebrate the power of art and contribute to a world of solidarity and understanding. With locations in Ukraine and the European Union, this biennial provides a unique platform for international artistic exchange and reflection.
The Kyiv Biennial 2023 is envisioned and organized by the Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv) in conjunction with tranzit.at (Vienna), tranzit.org (Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Cluj, Iași, Prague, and Vienna), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum Crisis Center (Lviv), Other Edges, Dovzhenko Centre (Kyiv), Asortymentna Kimnata (Ivano-Frankivsk), and Sorry, No Rooms Available (Uzhhorod).
