UAScenography, operating under the NGO “Theatrical Spaces,” has become an official participant in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2027 in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions section.
The curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion — Anna Dukhovychna and Liliia Voloshyna (Danileiko) — are currently in the active phase of developing a project that combines scenographic practice, curatorial reflection, and a research-based approach.
The theme of PQ’27 — “Absences and Silences as Spaces of Potential for New Scenographic Futures” — takes on a particular resonance for Ukraine. In the context of the full-scale war, silence and absence are no longer emptiness, but spaces of accumulated experience, suppressed voices, and unrecorded histories.
The Ukrainian Pavilion will address what has long existed “within” — without the possibility of being seen or heard — and which today seeks to take on spatial, visual, and scenographic form.
The future pavilion will explore scenography as a tool for revealing “blank spots” — historical, cultural, and artistic — and as a space of potential for new scenographic thinking.
Anna Dukhovychna, artist and scenographer at the Ivan Franko National Theatre, is shaping the visual and spatial language of the pavilion, while the research foundation of the project is being developed by Liliia Voloshyna, theatre scholar and researcher of Ukrainian scenography, and lecturer at the Department of Theatre Studies at the I. Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television.
Together, they aim to create a multidimensional space in which absence transforms into presence, silence into expression, and scenography into a form of freedom — one that is only just emerging and manifesting itself in the name of freedom. More details to come!
For now, we are preparing for our first trip to Prague from April 11–17, where we will finalize ideas, refine the project, strengthen collaboration, and attend the symposium “Performing Exhibitions, Curating Scenographies” (Prague), taking place April 13–16, 2026.
We are grateful to the Culture Moves Europe mobility grant for supporting our participation in the symposium, which is an important step toward the creation of the Ukrainian Pavilion.