Lesia Vasylchenko's Temporal Justice System at Schinkel Pavillon and Venice Biennale
Lesia Vasylchenko, a Ukrainian artist, is set to showcase her inaugural institutional solo exhibition in Germany, titled YesterLight – Sensing Ruptures of Time, at Berlin's Schinkel Pavillon from 13 March to 31 May 2026. Based in Norway, Vasylchenko, who recently received the PinchukArtCentre Prize in Ukraine, has chosen to donate her prize to aid the Ukrainian armed forces. Her artistic exploration focuses on time scales, featuring the video Chronosphere, which envisions a courtroom where durations serve as prosecutable evidence. The exhibition includes a dried weeping willow branch sourced from the bombed Kakhovka reservoir. Additionally, Vasylchenko is collaborating with musician Yurii Tymoshenko for a commission at the Venice Biennale and is currently residing at Berlin's Künstlerhaus Bethanien, traveling exclusively by ground.
Key facts
- Lesia Vasylchenko's exhibition YesterLight – Sensing Ruptures of Time runs at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin from 13 March to 31 May 2026
- The artist won the 2026 PinchukArtCentre Prize for Ukrainian artists under thirty-five
- Vasylchenko donated her entire prize sum to support Ukrainian armed forces through voluntary initiatives
- She is preparing a new commission for the Venice Biennale featuring musician Yurii Tymoshenko
- Her video Chronosphere proposes temporal durations as legal evidence in international courts
- The exhibition includes a dried weeping willow branch from the bombed Kakhovka reservoir territory
- Vasylchenko collaborated with the University of Southampton on five-dimensional 'everlasting' crystals
- She previously ran Oslo's K4 Gallery and organized the STRUKTURA. Time project with twenty-one events
Entities
Artists
- Lesia Vasylchenko
- Yurii Tymoshenko
- Oles Berdnyk
- Svitlana Matviyenko
- Rob Nixon
- Armen Avanessian
- Bryan Johnson
- Jacques Derrida
Institutions
- Schinkel Pavillon
- PinchukArtCentre
- Venice Biennale
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien
- K4 Gallery
- Podium
- University of Southampton
- Academy of Fine Art Oslo
- Octo Circle
- Office for Contemporary Art Norway
- Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung
- Ukrainian Institute in Germany
- Senate
Locations
- Berlin
- Germany
- Rakhiv
- Ukraine
- Transcarpathian region
- Kyiv
- Brussels
- Belgium
- Oslo
- Norway
- Venice
- Italy
- The Hague
- Netherlands
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Kakhovka
- Southampton
- United Kingdom
- Bremen