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until 25.10. | #4826ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from Thursday, 02. October 2025 the Group exhibition “Treibende Kräfte” by the artists Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridnyi, Dana Kavelina, Olha Marusyn, Olga Gaidash and Eugene Shimalsky.
The title Treibende Kräfte implies in German both a self-determined, dynamic forward movement as well as being driven by forces beyond one’s control. The conflict between these states characterizes a currently prevailing mood that has also manifested itself in many artistic works in recent years. The exhibition features sculptures, photographs, videos, and paintings from the years 2011-2025, most of which are being shown in Berlin for the first time. Two of the artists live in Ukraine, while all the others have been in exile in Germany since 2022. While some works refer specifically to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, others focus on longer-term, sometimes international social and political developments.
The exhibition accompanies the international conference (Un)Safe Plurality: Ukraine and Beyond, held at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, on September 30–October 1 in cooperation with the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Both events conclude the project (Un)Disciplined: Pluralising Ukrainian Studies – Understanding the War in Ukraine (UNDIPUS, 2022–2026), conducted at the Universities of Greifswald, Giessen, and Regensburg.
Opening: Thursday, 02. October 2025, 7 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 02. October– Saturday, 25. October 2025
Title image caption: Courtesy Laura Mars Gallery.
Group exhibition Treibende Kräfte – Laura Mars Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien | ART at Berlin
