Town Hall Square (on the site next to the ornamental fountain)
Opening: September 14 at 12:00 p.m.
Ukraine on the front line –
Maxim Dondyuk
Maxim Dondyuk (born 1983) is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist who combines photography, video, text and archival material in his work. It explores themes of history, memory, conflicts and their consequences.
Dondyuk’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London and MAXXI in Rome.
His projects include the tuberculosis epidemic in Ukraine (2010-2012), a two-year paper investigating the problem of tuberculosis in Ukraine; Crimea Sich (2010–2013), a series of photographs and a short documentary film chronicling the military upbringing of children in the secret camp in the Crimean mountains; Between life and death(2017), a personal reflection on the aftermath of wars through ruins and devastated landscapes; Confrontational culture (2013-2014), dedicated to the events of the Ukrainian Revolution 2013/14, which in 2019 resulted in the book of the same name; Untitled project by Chernobyl (2016-ongoing), where Dondyuk works with photographs found in the restricted areas of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
His work has been published in magazines such as Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, Photo District News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Russian Reporter, Libération, Polka, 6Mois and Esquire. It also works with international organizations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization.
Available until October 22, 2023.