The works on display shed light on forms of historiography by centering a single motif: Tetiana Yablonska's Khlib [Eng.: "Bread/Grain"]. The diploma work emerged from a research project employing both photographic and cultural-theoretical approaches. It involved collaboration with scholars and artists. The work began with a critical analysis of the painting and its history, whose relevance in Ukraine remains undiminished even amid the politics of decommunization. The research included several trips to Ukraine—among them Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Letava, the village where Yablonska created Khlib—from which the works shown emerged. Khlibis omnipresent, caught in a loop of continuous repetitions, revealing the fractured and ambivalent presence of a Soviet past. Registered herein are its countless reproductions and tracesas well as its seemingly traceless manifestations: private and collective dreams, textbooks, theatrical re-enactments, forgotten museum collections, and public records.
The assembled photographic material has been organized into a new spatial formation and restaged based on a photograph taken in the office in the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The project poses the question of how political narratives are constructed, transformed, and sustained through visual cultural techniques, while simultaneously creating its own perspective.
The project is conceptualised by Anastasiia Batishcheva in collaboration Julia Rybalka and Paul Stadler.
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Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
Akademiestraße 2
80799
Munich
February 5–10, 2026
Opening hours:
Fri–Tue 2–8 p.m.
Sat–Sun 12–8 p.m.
+ by appointment
Opening:
Thu, February 5, 6 p.m.
Diploma ceremony:
Thursday, February 5, 6 p.m., foyer of the new building. The exhibition is open from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., last admission at 10 p.m.
Guided tours of the diploma exhibition:
Fr, February 6, 5 p.m.
Sat, February 7, and Sun, February 8, 2 p.m. (German and English).