On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27th
In collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute, the ensemble of Yuriy Gurzhy and Mariana Sadovska explores the Babyn Yar massacre in their performance as an artistic engagement with historical sites of horror and remembrance.
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In the deeply incised Babyn Yar valley, located within the territory of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered within 48 hours in 1941.
The duo develops a repertoire of original compositions, traditional songs, and musical settings of Jewish-Ukrainian poetry from various eras. Hasidic nigunim glide into Ukrainian folk melodies, the sounds of a village wedding transform into incantations, and the drones of Sadovska's keyboard intertwine with Gurzhy's electric guitar lines, fragmented beats, and sampled echoes of the past.
The duo's music becomes a vibrant navigation system through a labyrinth of identities, where memory is a living entity—sometimes uncomfortable, often demanding, always indispensable. What does remembering mean when war returns, when yesterday explodes in today? Together, they search for possible answers.
- Spatial concept: Anna Mesniankina
Dates
January 2026
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