The Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is under threat
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The Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is again under threat of collapse. If the project does not take place, then Ukraine will lose an important opportunity to convey its voice to the international artistic community concentrated in one place in a short time. The community is influential and sometimes skeptical. It is something like a speech during the UN General Assembly in its category.
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It is not even worth explaining why this is a serious puncture against the background of scholastic interest in the Russian war in Ukraine, as well as what threatens this cooling.
So why is the Ukrainian national pavilion in Venice under threat? Because the Ministry of Culture traditionally has neither the ability nor influence in the Government to implement this project.
For example, not enough funds are allocated each time, and those allocated are allocated too late and with such procedures that they cannot be used. This year, everything is more acute than usual, because we have neither money nor a functioning Ministry of Culture.
But in general, all this has been going on for 22 or 23 years.
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Since the biennale takes place once every 2 years, each minister holds a maximum of one “Venetian crisis” and with relief passes it on to his successor, who discovers all the magical aspects of this process anew. However, the project is national and from the point of view of Venice itself represents its state, so it is impossible to implement it without the Government represented by the Ministry of Culture.
Since all this mess has been repeated incessantly for more than twenty years, it has an objective systemic cause. I think this is the sequence:
1) lack of understanding of modern culture in general by the Ukrainian cultural bureaucracy;
2) lack of skills to work on international platforms in the Ukrainian Government until 2014;
3) the weakness of the Minister of Culture in the system of the Ukrainian Government during Ukrainian independence;
4) the catastrophic operational state of the Ministry of Culture, which only increased throughout this period.
That is, even if Ukraine manages to save the pavilion in Venice in 2024, we risk seeing the same problems in 2026. And this is the most optimistic version of the development of events.
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