Workshop of the “Situational Flowerbeds” Project

May 12 at 17:00 at DCCC — Workshop of the “Situational Flowerbeds” Project

This is an art project by artists Dasha Chechushkova, Ania Nykytiuk, and Kseniia Shcherbakova — a series of flowerbed planting actions in various cities and countries as acts of commemoration and co-existence in the experience of loss. The project is dedicated to Lviv-based artist Artur Snitkus, who was killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war in June 2024.

Each situational flowerbed is a way of honoring through interaction with the earth, being present, and caring for plants or handmade altars. They become memorials to those who are gone, those we have lost, and to forgotten events and places. The central metaphor is the flowerbed as memory: it requires care, tending, planting — it must not be forgotten.

“In contrast to terror and genocide, we must plant flowers in remembrance. It’s about beauty and the continuation of life in the face of destruction. To plant flowers is to think of the future, to hope for the future, or to know that the future will come.”

During the workshop, Dasha Chechushkova and Kseniia Shcherbakova will share more about the project. You will also learn how to make seed bombs — simple tools for planting flowers in public spaces, commonly used in guerrilla gardening and the greening of post-industrial cities.

Free entry, no registration required. DCCC courtyard.