“Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty” - the Nordic, Baltic and Ukrainian contemporary art exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine opened to the public on the March 19, 2016. It was one the largest contemporary art exhibitions from the North Eastern regions of Europe in Ukraine in 2010s. The exhibition was organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and the embassies of the Nordic and Baltic States in Ukraine, curated by Solvita Krese.

This exhibition re-evaluated the notion of identity, emphasizing its diverse aspects and welcomed the exploration of national, political, territorial, social and gender issues through the prism of identity, having previously assumed that artists are sharp-sighted interpreters of context and commentators of situation, able to discover and sketch out the network of changes in today’s maps of the world faster than anyone else, and are not afraid to take a look behind the curtain of uncertainty, in which traumas of the past and vagueness of the future are woven together.

Photos: Mats Adelman, Maksim Belousov, Ēriks Božis, Ane Hjort Guttu, Flo Kasearu, Tellervo Kalleinen, Kostyantyn Striletsʹ