Lviv. The Center Porokhova Vezha

Metropolis. Past Utopias of Future

23.10.2018 – 20.01.2019

The project Metropolis. Past Utopias of Future, curated by Pavlo Gudimov, will be represented at the
recently established Center Porokhova Vezha (Powdered Tower). The main subject of the exhibition will be views of the past visionaries on future.

Exhibition Lviv The Center Porokhova Vezha

The project Metropolis. Past Utopias of Future, curated by Pavlo Gudimov, will be represented at the recently established Center Porokhova Vezha (Powdered Tower). The main subject of the exhibition will be views of the past visionaries on future. The postwar projects of Khreshchatyk street and Kyiv reconstructions, displayed in the dialogue with the engravings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, will make up the separate section of the exposition. The exhibition had been already presented at Book Arsenal 2018 in Kyiv where it has become the object of the public interest. Now the project team has the intention to share the ideas of the past visionaries in Lviv. The artworks, presented within the exhibition, embody the views of the artists in the fields of architecture, inventions, film and illustrations.

Organisers: Lviv Regional Organisation of the Union of Architects and Pavlo Gudimov Art Center Ya Gallery

Project team:
Curator and author of the idea — Pavlo Gudimov

Project Commissioner — Bohdan Hoi

Text author — Anna Oryshchenko

Editors — Iryna Troskot, Polina Baitsym

Designers — Sasha Bychenko, Kateryna Sivachenko, Oleh Mochalkin, Olha Hordiienko

Projects coordinators — Yurii Horpynych, Andrew Onyshchenko, Anna Gudimova, Iryna Derevliana, Tetiana Dzhyhil, Anna Pavlova, Yuliia Shemchuk

Photographers — Maksym Bilousov, Olena Kavkun

Advisers — Borys Yerofalov, Semen Shyrochyn, Bohdan Cherkes, Bohdan Posatskyi, Sofiia Diak

Partners — National Sanctuary Sophia of Kyiv, The Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine, Transcarpathian Regional Yosyp Bokshai Art Museum

With participation of ICIF, Factum Arte, MK2 Productions, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Fondation Le Corbusier, Deutsche Kinemathek, The State Central Film Museum (Moscow), Lviv Regional Council, The Department of Architecture and Urban Development of Lviv Regional State Administration, The Department of Architecture and Urban Development of Lviv City Council, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Center of Urban History of East Central Europe.

Acknowledgements: Liudmyla Zubko, Andrii Chernikhov, Halyna Voitsekhivska, Hlib Yukhymets, Andrii Bilous, Yuliia Bohdanova, Olena Nikitenko, Anrii Khir and Oksana Sinkevych.

The project is realised with the support of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

The exhibition is open from the 23rd of October, 2018 till the 20th of January, 2019, daily, except Mondays, 12:00–18:30. The course of lecture will start on the 8th of November (World Urbanism Day).

Location: Lviv, Pidvalna street, 4.