February 7 – April 27, 2014

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00

Admission is Free

Kiev, Ukraine, February 6, 2014

The PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presents “(De-)Construction. Reality and Fiction”, an exhibition featuring three videos by Pierre Huyghe (France), Christian Marclay (US) and Diana Thater (US). These major video installations share the theme of constructing and/or deconstructing culturally defined concepts. The works establish a tension between reality and fiction, challenging the viewers’ relations towards these notions.  

“The host and the cloud” (2010) by Pierre Huyghe is the result of a yearlong experiment and a series of events the artist organized at the former building of the National Museum of Folk Art in Paris. The work offers a journey through the documented research during which Huyghe created conditions that forced the participants of his performance and invited witnesses to deal with the frictions between reality and fiction, as well as original incident and re-enactment.

“Crossfire” (2007) by Christian Marclay, first shown in the PinchukArtCentre in 2008, is a four-channel video of different people handling their guns. It is a collage of images derived from American westerns and war movies. The audio-visual composition of Crossfire de-constructs the act of shooting, allowing the viewers to rationalize their emotional and physical response, emphasizing fascination for, and fear of, violence.

“Chernobyl” (2011) by Diana Thater is a six-screen monumental video projection depicting the destroyed, still completely unrepaired situation in the nuclear disaster zone of Chernobyl. The installation constructs an all-around impression, surrounding us from each side with projections disrupted only by the viewers’ shadows.

Located on the 3^rd floor, the exhibition lasts from February 7 till April 27, 2014 in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine. Opening hours: from Tuesday through Sunday from 12 am to 9 pm. Admission is free.

PinchukArtCentre is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe.  As a project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, it is dedicated to fostering artistic education, creation and appreciation in Ukraine. It provides a sustainable contribution to the cultural participation and emancipation of Ukrainian art and society. It also gives a significant contribution to the cultural dialogue between East and West, and between national identity and international challenge. Recent events have included personal exhibitions by Jeff Wall, Gary Hume, Olafur Eliasson, Candice Breitz, Damian Ortega, Sergey Bratkov, Subodh Gupta, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, and others. The art centre has founded Prizes to support national and international young artists up to 35. The PinchukArtCentre represented Ukraine in 2007 and 2009 at the Venice Biennale organizing the official Ukrainian Pavilion as well as with Future Generation Art Prize@Venice exhibitions in 2011 and 2013 as part of the Collateral events of the Venice Biennale.

For more information, please visit pinchukartcentre.org

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PinchukArtCentre

1/3-2, "А" Block,

Velyka Vasylkivska/Baseyna str.,

Kyiv, Ukraine 01004

tel.: +38 (044) 590/08/58

e-mail: [email protected]

Opening hours:

Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00

Closed Monday

Admission is free.