Hollow Earth, Kyiv Biennial at Kunstraum Memphis, Linz

The Linz iteration of the Kyiv Biennial features two exhibitions at Lentos Kunstmuseum and and Kunstraum Memphis. This collaborative project presents works by Ukrainian artists in dialogue with international positions, reflecting on the war in Ukraine, its humanitarian, ecological, and political consequences, and global extractivist policies.



Opening 11.11.2025 8:00 pm


Hollow Earth, Kunstraum Memphis 12.11.25 – 05.12.25 Untere Donaulände 12, AT-4020 Linz

Curators: Jakob Dietrich, Serge Klymko
Artists: Anatoly Belov, Dana Kavelina, Lada Nakonechna, Viktoria Pidust, Vova Vorotniov


Hollow Earth exhibition at Kunstraum Memphis expands on the themes explored at the Lentos. For an agrarian country on the frontline, the landscape takes on a special meaning – it becomes a stage on which the traditional “circle of life” accelerates to an enormous, distorting pace. In this exhibition, the artists will confront the new visual and physical landscape of war, to navigate a reality in which the human body and its habitat exist in a state of profound fragility. The works operate at the perceptive intersection of warfare, technology, and the organic world.

Form is now questioned – war deforms both the material and the immaterial, memory and perception. Like an object with a powerful gravitational pull, war can warp time and space. Titled Hollow Earth, the exhibition draws its central anxiety from a film by Dana Kavelina: the fear that the land itself will be utterly dismantled, leaving only “dead” earth stripped of soil, minerals, and life.

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