Dispatches is a postcard project organized by M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) for the Kyiv Biennial 2023. For the “distributed” format of this edition of the biennial, taking place at venues across Ukraine and the European Union, M HKA invited twelve artists to each produce a postcard design that can be found at all the venues of the biennial and beyond. It is a modest call to send dispatches from the front line of one's own.

How can a country at war address political, social, cultural, and societal issues? Today the experience of artists and cultural workers in Ukraine is profoundly marked by war trauma, displacement, lack of access to basic resources, and, in many cases, direct involvement in armed resistance or the experience of life under military occupation. This poses existential challenges for the future of art and cultural production in Ukraine. Instead of abandoning the project...

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