Kiev-based artists and filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, have been collaborating at the intersection of visual art and cinema since 2013. At Ludwig Forum Aachen, they present their two most recent video works: Explosions Near the Museum (2023) features footage from the Kherson Museum of Local Lore, looted by Russian occupational forces in 2022; the sounds of shellings and missile strikes were recorded while filming inside the museum on December 12. In The Wanderer (2022), the two artists work with staged images that show their own bodies in the Carpathian Mountains and allude to the corpses of Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
Khimei and Malashchuk are part of the Prykarpattian Theater art collective, which recently realized the project Theater of Hopes and Expectations between Düsseldorf and Sloboda-Kukharska, Ukraine. In 2020 they were awarded the main prize of the PinchukArtCentre Prize.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Yarema Malashchuk, Prof. Alexander Markschies (RWTH Aachen) and Fanny Hauser (Ludwig Forum Aachen).
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Organized by Ludwig Forum Aachen and Internationaler Karlspreis e.V. as part of this year’s Karlspreis program.
