We invite you to the opening of the audiovisual installation by artist Dasha Podoltseva and sound artist Oleksiy Shmurak, ‘The Museum of Forgetting: Dnipro’, which will take place on 25 March at 6.30 pm at the Artsvit Gallery. The exhibition will run until 23 May 2026.
“The Museum of Forgetting” is a series of projects combining research with artistic expression. It focuses on forgetting as a counterform of memory: the repression of traumatic experiences, the conscious ‘purification’ 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, yet both 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 changing. During the full-scale war, these processes have intensified further — due to the destruction caused by shelling and large-scale migration. In this context, the exhibition poses the question: what is the city’s memory and the memory of it? How do personal stories intertwine with the histories of buildings, the waterfront, shopping centres, cinemas, nurseries, offices and parks? And how can one sense the pace and scale of these changes?
The installation in Dnipro is based on stories gathered through an open online survey of the city’s residents and visitors. Participants were asked to answer two questions: what they would like to forget, and what, on the contrary, they would like to preserve. Within the exhibition space, these testimonies are presented in various media: video, sound, archival materials, images, sculptures and an interactive object that allows visitors to add their own story to the ‘machinery of forgetting’.
WHEN: 25 March 2026, at 18:30
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Krutohirnyy Uzviz 21a. Entrance through the glass doors from Uspenska Square
ENTRANCE IS FREE
Dasha Podoltseva is an artist and graphic designer. She explores themes such as public space, urban paradoxes, infrastructural absurdity, repurposing, recycling and ‘temporary inconveniences’. She creates site-specific installations and graphic works, curates exhibitions, runs workshops and teaches.
Oleksiy Shmurak is a composer, sound artist and lecturer. He works in contemporary classical and experimental music, visual art, composes music for films and theatre productions, and performs as a performer.
The project is being implemented as part of the RIBBON International “KEY WORK: Art Grants” program in partnership with the Jam Factory Art Center.
