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Installation view: Explosions Near the Museum, 2023
How River Roars, Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023
Photo: Alicja Kielan
2023
Short film, video, sound, 13’ 38’’
Looted by Russian occupational forces between 24-26 October, the Kherson Museum of Local Lore used to house Southern Ukraine’s largest and oldest collections of antiquities. The museum featured more than 173000 objects, spanning seven thousand years, from Scythian gold to World War II weaponry. Two weeks before Kherson was liberated by the Ukrainians, Russian occupational forces enacted a strategic theft, stripping centuries of Ukrainian history from the museum/region. Explosions Near the Museum
Short film, video, sound, 13’ 38’’
The sound of shellings and missile strikes was recorded during filming inside the museum on December 12, less than two kilometers away from russian-occupied territory.
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Installation view: Explosions Near the Museum, 2023
An intervention in Belgian local history museums, STAM Ghent City Museum, Belgium, 2023
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Installation view: Explosions Near the Museum, 2023
It Already Happened solo exhibition, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, 2023
Photo: Voloshyn Gallery
Directed and filmed by
Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei
Narrator
Clemens Poole
Text editors
Clemens Poole, Kateryna Ulianova
Translator
Anna Halas
Sound recordist
Natalia Avramenko
Sound mastering
Serzh Avdeev
Colorist
Vadym Khudolii
Graphic designer
Ostap Yashchuk
Curator
Bjorn Heldhof
Project manager
Ilona Demchenko
Associate producer
Andrii Lytvynenko
Information about the museum's collection was provided by
Denys Sikoza
Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei
Narrator
Clemens Poole
Text editors
Clemens Poole, Kateryna Ulianova
Translator
Anna Halas
Sound recordist
Natalia Avramenko
Sound mastering
Serzh Avdeev
Colorist
Vadym Khudolii
Graphic designer
Ostap Yashchuk
Curator
Bjorn Heldhof
Project manager
Ilona Demchenko
Associate producer
Andrii Lytvynenko
Information about the museum's collection was provided by
Denys Sikoza