SPECTERS OF PEACE

ARTIST TALK with Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei and curator Borys Filonenko

March 4, 2026

Borys Filonenko. Photo: Polina Polikarpova

In this conversation, artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk will be in dialogue with Ukrainian curator and cultural critic Borys Filonenko, discussing the creative processes and ideas behind Pedagogies of War, a project centred on the conflict in Ukraine and the debates it has generated locally. Drawing on their direct experience of the war, the artists offer audiences a grounded perspective, revealing how their understanding of concepts such as pacifism and militarism has evolved. Using their film work as a starting point, the session will examine the challenges of representing military and political violence in a context saturated with images and information, as well as the ways in which art can question the narratives that risk trivialising war.

DATE & TIME

March 4, 2026

5 PM

LOCATION

Auditorium, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

REGISTRATION

Through this link

ACCESS

Free. Prior registration required

RECOMMENDED AGE

All ages

LANGUAGE

English with simultaneous translation into Spanish

ABOUT BORYS FILONENKO

Borys Filonenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine) is an art critic, curator, teacher, and editor-in-chief of ist publishing. He co-curated Ukraine’s national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale (2023). He holds an MA in philosophy from Karazin Kharkiv National University. He is the author of several books including Louvre. Volodymyr Kostyrko. Yevhen Ravskyi and The Culture Under Pressure. Selected Texts. He also co-authored the graphic novel Near Mint with artists Danylo Shtangeyev and Anton Reznik, as well as the comic strip Recounting Kharkiv, with Danylo Shtangeyev. Lives and works in Lviv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv.