Alex Bykov: March Must Go On - lecture at Gallery VI PER
Gallery VI warmly invites you to a lecture and discussion that will take place on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 19:00. The event is a complementary program of the exhibition Before the Future.
Alex Bykov will present the story of activist movements in Ukraine within an urban context. Through these examples, he will illustrate the ability of Ukrainians to consolidate and act together in crisis situations. Joint actions of Ukrainians take many forms: joint marches; joint dialogues that shape the vision of our future; unification of physical and intellectual work for mutual protection and care; unity for the common good. Ukraine is a strong example of collective responsibility for its future. The presentation will be based on the project “March On," which was realized as part of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023.
Alex Bykov is an architect who examines the legacy of Ukrainian urbanism in the second half of the 20th century. His main research method involves photography, preservation, and systematization of rare archival materials, as well as conducting interviews with authors and participants of projects. One of the main representative approaches that Alex employs in his work are exhibition projects. He exhibits and curates both his own artistic and research projects, as well as projects by other architects and artists. Among the most significant of these is a cycle dedicated to Soviet modernism in Ukraine, which began in 2015 with the exhibition Superstructure. Another area of his work includes publishing projects. Alex Bykov is a co-author of the book Soviet Modernism, Brutalism, Postmodernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955–1991 (in collaboration with Ievgeniia Gubkina; Osnovy Publishing and DOM Publishers, 2019) and Orthodox Chic (in collaboration with Oleksandr Burlaka and Sasha Kurmaz; Osnovy Publishing, 2020). He was also the curator and editor of the issue Architecture. Community. Time of the journal 5.6 (Viktor Marushchenko School of Photography, 2018), dedicated to the theme of uncontrolled urban development in Ukraine. Alex Bykov serves as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at VUT Brno, where he led a studio and a course on architectural photography. Recently, he was, among other things, a co-curator of the exhibition Retrotopia in Berlin (2022–2023) and participated in the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023.
Alex Bykov will present the story of activist movements in Ukraine within an urban context. Through these examples, he will illustrate the ability of Ukrainians to consolidate and act together in crisis situations. Joint actions of Ukrainians take many forms: joint marches; joint dialogues that shape the vision of our future; unification of physical and intellectual work for mutual protection and care; unity for the common good. Ukraine is a strong example of collective responsibility for its future. The presentation will be based on the project “March On," which was realized as part of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023.
Alex Bykov is an architect who examines the legacy of Ukrainian urbanism in the second half of the 20th century. His main research method involves photography, preservation, and systematization of rare archival materials, as well as conducting interviews with authors and participants of projects. One of the main representative approaches that Alex employs in his work are exhibition projects. He exhibits and curates both his own artistic and research projects, as well as projects by other architects and artists. Among the most significant of these is a cycle dedicated to Soviet modernism in Ukraine, which began in 2015 with the exhibition Superstructure. Another area of his work includes publishing projects. Alex Bykov is a co-author of the book Soviet Modernism, Brutalism, Postmodernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955–1991 (in collaboration with Ievgeniia Gubkina; Osnovy Publishing and DOM Publishers, 2019) and Orthodox Chic (in collaboration with Oleksandr Burlaka and Sasha Kurmaz; Osnovy Publishing, 2020). He was also the curator and editor of the issue Architecture. Community. Time of the journal 5.6 (Viktor Marushchenko School of Photography, 2018), dedicated to the theme of uncontrolled urban development in Ukraine. Alex Bykov serves as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at VUT Brno, where he led a studio and a course on architectural photography. Recently, he was, among other things, a co-curator of the exhibition Retrotopia in Berlin (2022–2023) and participated in the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023.
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