Gardens of Dreamsat the M17 Contemporary Art Center
Organised by: M17 Contemporary Art CenterPartners: Art Support Fund, Adamovskiy Foundation
Current project
From 25 July, 2024
Tuesday – Sunday: 11 am – 8 pm
About the Exhibition
On 25 July 2024, the Gardens of Dreams exhibition project was open at the M17 CAC featuring international and Ukrainian artists.
The exhibition includes artworks by Cao Fei, Refik Anadol, Aljoscha, Anatoly Gankevich, Megumi Ohata, Wolfgang Stiller, and Anna Myronova.
The project focuses on the study of imaginary worlds, views on the coexistence of humans with artificial intelligence, expanding the horizons of synthetic biology, virtuality and reality, as well as a metaphor for the temple of the future, which is being built today and is not solely constructed by humans.
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People have long turned to gardens, both real and imaginary, in search of refuge from the frenzy of reality: from the sacred space of the Garden of Eden, a stronghold of unconditional love, joy, and the quintessence of high dreams, to the philosophers’ gardens. The latters have long served as a model and a source for meticulous self-improvement and self-development, a holy place for peace and enlightenment: these associations have been preserved in the public domain for centuries.
Where will the imagination bring a human being in search of paradise? Which seeds of today will form the garden of tomorrow? Will the dark shadows of the lush beauty of the garden of dreams bring good or evil?
Rapid technological development and the evolution of artificial intelligence call into question whether the human race will retain its superiority. Moreover, the uncertainty shrouds the trajectory of human development and questions their current position, as the starting point of departure to the future. The imperfection of peoples’ physical embodiment is that regardless of being creators like God, they remain dual and helpless to find immortality. Subject to the physical perishability of the body, they seek eternal life in artificial worlds.
However, unlike advanced artificial forms of existence, it is primordially mankind that is endowed with the ability to dream and behave in an irrational way. Through their aspirations, people invent ways to form alternative realities and act as both creators and destructors in the constant pursuit of the highest good and everlasting life.
In fantasy and imagination, new dimensions are envisaged and born. Despite the utopia of paradise and their own dual nature, mortals, by virtue of their faith, continue searching.
The exhibition is supported by Art Support Fund and Adamovskiy Foundation.The opening of the exhibition at the M17 CAC is scheduled for 25 July 2024 at 6:30 p.m.Admission to the opening is free by prior registration. Registration is available here.You are kindly invited!
Artists of the project
Artists participating in the exhibition
Cao FeiOz, 2022
Video installation
218x124 сm, 190x108 сm
Refik AnadolMachine Hallucinations: Hubble Dreams-A, 2021
Video installation based on artificial intelligence, 200x120 cm
Megumi OhataMujina & Haori, 2021-2023
Silicone, foam, аrtificial skin, pigment, thread, 50x180x110 cm
AljoschaParadise Engineering, 2024
Installation, acrylic glass, metal
Anatoly GankevichNight color 1, 2019
Canvas, oil200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichNight color 2, 2019
Canvas, oil200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichNight in Paradise 1, 2021
Canvas, oil
180x300 cm
Anatoly GankevichNight in Paradise 2 , 2019
Canvas, oil
180x250 cm
Anatoly GankevichNight in Paradise, 2024
Installation
Anatoly GankevichSummer 2, 2021
Canvas, oil
200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichSeroburomalin, 2021
Canvas, oil
200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichPortal, 2023
Photo collage
130x200 cm
Anatoly GankevichSpring 1, 2021
Canvas, oil
200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichSpring 2, 2021
Canvas, oil
200x150 cm
Anatoly GankevichWinter 2, 2021
Canvas, oil
200x300 cm
Anatoly GankevichSpring, 2022
Photo collage using a landscape map, 200x300 cm
Anatoly GankevichNight shadows, 2024
Video12,41 minutes
Wolfgang StillerMatchstick men, 2013
Polyurethane, woodHeight - 165 cm
Anna MyronovaWhere the silence is born, 2024
Paper, pencilSeries of six drawings
Organizer and partners
Location of the exhibition