Exhibition "Museum of Forgetting: Dnipro"

On March 25, at 6:30 PM, the Artsvit Gallery will host the opening of Museum of Forgetting: Dnipro, an audiovisual installation by artist Dasha Podoltseva and sound artist Oleksiі Shmurak.

Museum of Forgetting is a series of projects that bridge research and artistic expression. It focuses on forgetting as a counter-form of memory: the displacement of traumatic experience, the conscious "cleansing" of the unwanted, gradual disappearance through physical decay, or transformation dictated by the need for renewal. These processes are viewed as multidimensional — material, ideological, collective, and personal; simultaneously mundane and tragic.

Dnipro is a city of rapid transformations, where the landscape, architecture, toponymy, and the very logic of "places of power" are constantly shifting. During the full-scale war, these processes have intensified due to destruction caused by shelling and migration. In this context, the exhibition poses the questions: What is the memory of the city and the memory about it? How do personal stories intertwine with the histories of buildings, shopping centers, and parks?

The installation in Dnipro is based on stories collected through an online survey. Participants were asked to share what they would like to forget and, conversely, what they wish to preserve.

Within the exhibition space, these testimonies are presented through various media: video, sound, archival materials, images, sculptures, and an interactive object that allows visitors to contribute their own stories to the "machinery of forgetting."

The project will be on view until May 23, 2026.

Free admission, 1st floor.

The project is part of the "KEY WORK: Artistic Grants" program by RIBBON International, in partnership with the Jam Factory Art Center.