Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk's First Spanish Solo Exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza

The TBA21 Foundation and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza present "Pedagogies of War," the first solo exhibition in Spain by Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk. Curated by Chus Martínez, the show runs from March 3 to June 21, 2026, featuring four audiovisual installations created since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The works analyze how systemic violence infiltrates everyday life through screens, algorithms, and remote technologies. The artists reject war as spectacle, instead framing it as a training system that reshapes bodies, attention, and reality. The exhibition includes "The Wanderer" (2022), referencing Caspar David Friedrich's painting and the Ukrainian collective Fast Reaction Group; "Open World" (2025), shown at the 36th Ljubljana Biennial, following a displaced youth controlling a robot dog; "You Shouldn't Have to See This" (2024), winner of the OFFSCREEN Paris Curatorial Award, depicting sleeping Ukrainian children among over 20,000 forcibly transferred to Russia since 2014; and the new commission "We Didn't Start This War" (2026), showing mundane Kyiv life. The artists combine staged film and real recordings to blur documentary and fiction, aiming to erode the safe distance of televised war.