Exhibition “Displaced Seascape”

Kunsthaus AG92

July 30 – September 27, 2025

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The exhibition, curated by Daria Prydybailo, extends Sofiia Holubeva’s long-term project 40x30x20, which traces the transformations of the Odesa landscape during the full-scale invasion. Presented at Kunsthaus AG 92 in July, the show brought together drawings, ceramics, a mural, and, for the first time, paintings arranged as floor-based installations, marking a striking shift from the wall to the ground.

Sand brought from Odesa served as both material and memory, binding the works produced annually between 2022 and 2025 into a single continuum of observation. Each series reflects subtle yet profound changes on the city’s beaches - from the haunting emptiness and overgrowth of 2022 to the quiet, uneasy gestures of repair and reconstruction in 2025, challenging the expectation that Ukrainian artists should depict only suffering.

Complementing the works, Holubeva created a mural of a flood that engulfs the corridor space, where alien algae and reeds - washed ashore after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam - emerge as metaphors of both displacement and belonging.

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