Ukraine

Ukraine is a photographic project by contemporary artist and photographer Sergey Bratkov that unfolds as a visual journey through his native country, offering a direct and at times absurdist portrait of a culture situated between tradition, Soviet legacy, and the accelerated influx of modern consumerism. Created using a panoramic camera, the series explores heterogeneous spaces - rural seaside resorts, urban industrial sites, monuments, and leisure parks - observing both landscapes and the people who inhabit them. The images combine a documentary attentiveness with a conceptual distance, informed by influences from surrealism and conceptualism, while engaging in dialogue with contemporary practices of landscape and large-scale photography. The series has been presented in various institutional contexts, notably as part of the exhibition Looking for Humanity, in Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg (2023). The book Ukraine, released in 2010, features the full series.

56 photos, dimensions variable

Selected works

Exhibition view, Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg (2023)