Protest/Architecture

On 24 October, the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity together with the German Architectural Museum in Frankfurt with the support of the Goethe-Institut and in partnership with the Museum of the History of Kyiv opens the exhibition "Protest / Architecture. Barricades and Camps: The world and Ukraine". The exhibition is dedicated to the anniversaries of the Ukrainian Maidans - the 20th anniversary of the Orange Revolution and the 11th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity.

At the exhibition, the authors of the project analysed and compared various architectural protest manifestations: the barricades of the 1848 revolution in Western Europe and the Maidan protest area of 2013-2014 in Kyiv, tent cities during the Arab Spring, laser light projections of demonstrators in Hong Kong in 2019, etc.

Tiny tree houses, large shelters, round huts, tourist tents, wooden towers, makeshift checkpoints, fortress-like barricades - all this architecture, diverse in its functions and unique in its form, was born out of protests in different parts of the world.

The exhibition project aims to explore the architecture of non-violent protests since the late nineteenth century, to analyse how architectural forms that emerged during long-term protests help protesters achieve their goals. The Ukrainian format of the exhibition, developed by the Maidan Museum, will show the specifics of our largest protests.

The exhibition will show how the protesters interacted with the urban space of the Ukrainian capital and how self-organisation formats and the structure of protests in the early twenty-first century were interconnected. After all, the experience of the Orange Revolution of 2004 allowed the Euromaidan protests of 2013 to be launched quickly and in a structured manner, thanks to the imitation of spatial and organisational solutions and the use of practical skills. The Orange Revolution, in turn, built on the successful experience of the 1990 Revolution on Granite.
 

Opening: 24.10.2024, 5 pm