Body of the Empire

In the artist talk taking place in the context of the group exhibition FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL, on view until February 23 at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Ukrainian artist Kateryna Lisovenko will talk about her artistic practice, starting with her work Body of the Empire (2023). Her research focuses on power and ideology and the transition from the Soviet Union to today, with topics ranging from dominance by the art academy to right-wing violence, religious oppression, and harassment.

Her work included in the exhibition FREEFILMERS MARIUPOL is an attempt to view landscape as a body. War shows very clearly that the state is a body and can be attacked by another state body. War turns every meter of territory into living and dead flesh, every meter becomes a pain.

Moderation: Anastasiia Diachenko, Office Ukraine Innsbruck & Ivana Marjanović, Kunstraum Innsbruck

The event is organized by Kunstraum Innsbruck in cooperation with Office Ukraine Innsbruck.

Kateryna Lisovenko is a Ukrainian artist who works mainly with drawing and painting, but also with performance. In her artworks, she addresses the topic of violence caused by political, religious and ideological oppression. Lisovenko was born in 1989 in Kyiv and currently lives and works in Vienna.