Kyiv Biennale 2025
Vertical Horizon

With the exhibition entitled Vertical Horizon, the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz will become part of the international Kyiv Biennial from November 2025, as the Biennial celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The Linz exhibition, curated by Serge Klymko (UKR) and Sarah Jonas (AT), is based on the notion of land and landscape as a poetic and political agency, alongside its technological perception and exploitation, and the influence of warfare on the land and its visual and artistic representations. Highlighting the shift from the geopolitics of the (earth’s) surface to the political geology of the vertical, it will trace the evolution of landscape as the visual basis of territorial or nation-state identity. This trajectory runs from the marking of borders and possessions to the technologically armed extractivist observation of the earth’s depths by both national and transnational agents of power. The exhibition venue, Linz — once home to the Hermann Göring Werke and thus deeply implicated in the Nazi“s regime Second World War armaments industry — provides a significant space of resonance for this exploration of the verticals of power, the traces of violence, and the potential for their artistic subversion. 
 

Vertical Horizon presents works by Ukrainian artists in dialogue with international positions. Simultaneous exhibition projects will take place in cities including Warsaw, Dnipro, Antwerp and Kyiv.

Curators: Serge Klymko, Sarah Jonas

This exhibition is a collaboration between Lentos, the Kyiv Biennial, and tranzit​.at.

Funded by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).