As part of our guest exhibition at our federal chancellery in Stockholm, we invite you to a joint lunch and digital lecture on train history with the Ukrainian writer and curator Borys Filonenko.
Friday, February 21 at 12.00–13.00 you are welcome to bring your lunch box and have lunch with Konstfrämjandet on Swedenborgsgatan. Together we take part in a digital presentation by Borys Filonenko, art critic and curator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, which moves from the Soviet Union of the 1930s to today's war-torn Ukraine.
In this presentation, we will hear stories from a time when the train primarily was an instrument for deportation and the extraction of resources from Ukraine to Moscow, but we are also brought into the present and the history of how the railway became a crucial infrastructure for a country at war. Through artistic and literary practices, Filonenko highlights the role of the train in the struggle for an independent Ukraine, in light of the ongoing war.
The presentation is about 40 minutes long and is given in English.
Borys Filonenko is a Ukrainian writer, curator and lecturer in art and architecture at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. The presentation that we will take part in at Konstfrämjandet on February 21, 2025 was given by Filonenko for the first time as part of the full-day seminar New Nature during the Almedalsveckan on June 26, 2024. The seminar was organized by Konstfrämjandet Gotland, Gotland Art Museum and Gotlandståget in collaboration with the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators and Uppsala University, and formed part of the preparatory work for the exhibition I DIN TID on Gotland in the autumn 2024.
Practical information
If you want to participate in the lunch conversation, just bring your lunch box and show up, no pre-registration is required. The office has a microwave, kettle, cutlery, plates and glasses to borrow. We offer coffee!
Read more about Borys Filonenko here.
Read more about I DIN TID here.